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This is an episode dedicated to my folks…they’d have been together 56 years today.

• Mel Tormé
• Duke Ellington
• Nat “King” Cole
• Count Basie & His Orchestra
• Quincy Jones
• Grant Green
• Big John Patton
• Louis Armstrong
• Johnny Hartman
• George Gershwin
• John Denver
• Jeff Buckley
• Laura Nyro
• The 5th Dimension
• Frank Sinatra
• “Big” Joe Turner
• Bill Haley & His Comets
• Bobby Freeman
• Chuck Berry
• Anita O’Day
• Ella Fitzgerald
• The Afghan Whigs
• The Clancy Brothers
• Benny Goodman
• Bon Iver

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I wasn’t sure I was even going to do a show today, but this day 20 years ago changed everyone’s lives – Americans, for sure, but almost all of the rest of the world, too.

May there be peace soon…in our time.

• Duke Ellington
• Mel Tormé
• Nina Simone
• Duke Ellington
• Louis Prima
• Gene Krupa
• Lee Wiley
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Duke Ellington
• Laura Nyro
• Lara Downes
• Woody Herman
• Johnny Hartman
• Nat “King” Cole
• Nick Drake
• …And You Will Know Us…
• Lou Reed
• The Ramones
• U2
• Sinead O’Connor
• Billy Joel
• West Side Story
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Billy Bragg & Wilco
• Ellis Paul
• Elvis Costello
• Bruce Springsteen
• Eddie Vedder & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Frank Sinatra

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This week’s show is a short treatise…but it’s a fun treatise!

ENJOY!

• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Helen Merrill
• Billie Holiday
• Anita O’Day
• Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Eliington
• Charlie Parker
• Les Paul
• Johnny Hartman
• Quincy Jones
• Nat “King” Cole
• U2
• Original Cast of ‘West Side Story’
• Clockhammer

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This week’s show is a tight & lively set…but, with a definite vibe for your summer occasions!

ENJOY!

• Frank Sinatra
• Nat “King” Cole
• Tony Bennett
• Big John Patton
• Arthur Prysock
• Johnny Hartman
• Amy Winehouse
• Count Basie
• Art Blakey
• Miles Davis
• John Coltrane & the Red Garland Trio
• Thelonious Monk Quartet
• Charles Mingus
• Aretha Franklin

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This week’s show is all aglow with the fireworks of the American songbook…and most of it being dedicated to America & the promise that we can be. I do also include one Canadian act who’s best know for some about women of the American persuasion!

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

• The Staples Singers w/ the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
• Duke Ellington
• Matt Glaser & Jacqueline Schwab
• Woody Herman
• The Guess Who
• Grand Funk Railroad
• Hamilton
• 1776
• George Gershwin
• Bessie Smith
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nat “King” Cole
• West Side Story
• 1776
• Hamilton
• John Phillips Sousa
• George Gershwin
• Bruce Springsteen
• Don McLean
• Neil Young
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Frank Sinatra
• Willie Nelson
• Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir
• Jay Unger, Paul Roebling & David McCullogh

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This week’s show is a tribute to, well, Summer…and summertime…and hot weather…and sunshine, really! It’s a mix of tunes from the 1920s to the 1990s, believe it or not! One of the songs even came out last year!

If you like to groove, this episode is for YOU!!

• Lovin’ Spoonful
• Beastie Boys
• Jimmy Smith
• Quincy Jones
• Grant Green
• Nat “King” Cole
• Johnny Hartman
• Black Pumas
• Charles Bradley
• Parliament
• Louis Armstrong
• Fletcher Henderson
• Sidney Bechet
• Jamiroquai
• Texas
• CSNY
• Marvin Gaye
• Stevie Wonder
• Curtis Mayfield
• John Coltrane

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This week’s episode is a blend of a tribute to a very unique album that came out 30 years ago this weekend…as well as a dose of Sinatra, Cole, Hartman & more.

ENJOY!

• Temple of the Dog
• Bobby Darin
• Nat “King” Cole
• Mel Tormé
• Frank Sinatra
• Johnny Hartman
• Jimmy Smith
• Quincy Jones
• Big John Patton
• James Taylor
• Carole King
• Laura Nyro
• Temple of the Dog

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This week’s episode is light, lively & funny…if I am being honest…one of my funnier episodes. Spring is in the air…and maybe that air is finally filled with infectious tunes!

ENJOY!

• June Christy
• Tony Bennett
• Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
• Billy Eckstine
• Oscar Peterson
• Leonard Bernstein & the New York Philharmonic
• Johnny Hartman
• Art Tatum
• Nat “King” Cole
• Keely Smith
• Kenny Dorham
• George Winston
• Count Basie
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Ann Hampton Callaway
• The Four Freshman
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Jean-Pierre Rampal
• Johnny Cash
• Bill Morrissey
• Christy Moore
• Buffalo Springfield
• Oscar Peterson

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This week’s show is a mostly uptempo & light affair with a bittersweet conclusion…

ENJOY!

• Count Basie
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach
• Les Paul
• Bud Powell
• Paul Chambers
• Quincy Jones
• Fats Waller
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Anita O’Day
• Helen Merrill
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Charles Mingus
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing
• Mel Tormé
• Glenn Miller
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Johnny Hartman
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• George Shearing

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Welcome to my mostly-annual St. Patrick’s Day show! This year, I’ve got some new tunes, some classic tunes…and a lot of jigs, reels & pipes!

ENJOY!

• Clannad
• Iarla O Lionaird
• Bing Crosby
• Imelda May
• The Chieftains
• Luke Kelly
• Bill Whelan’s Riverdance
• Kane O’Rourke
• The Chieftains
• Emma Langford
• Villagers
• Glen Hansard
• Declan O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• The Pogues
• Mary Black
• Billy Clifford
• Terry Teahan
• Seosamh Mac An Iomaire
• Seamus Beagley & Mary Black
• Megon McDonough
• Kate Bush
• Eileen Ivers
• The Bothy Band
• Davy Spillane
• Stephen James Smith
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire
• Planxty
• Horslips
• Glen Hansard
• Van Morrison
• Hothouse Flowers
• Fiachna O Braonain
• Kane O’Rourke
• Afro Celt Sound System
• Sibal Ni Chasaide
• The Gloaming
• Joe Chester
• Arrivalists
• Alana Henderson
• Ed Sheeran
• Glen Hansard & Friends