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If you like lush & lovely melodies & vocals, this show is for you!

This is a tip of the cap to autumn…indeed!

Enjoy!

• Duke Ellington
• Clifford Brown
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nat “King” Cole
• Marvin Gaye
• Dinah Washington
• Billie Holiday
• Johnny Hartman
• Bobby Darin
• Bill Evans
• Bill Eckstine
• Bing Crosby
• Carmen McRae
• Charlie Parker
• Frank Sinatra
• Oscar Peterson
• Coleman Hawkins
• Ray Charles
• Patsy Cline
• Helen Merrill
• Sammy Davis, Jr,
• Sarah Vaughan

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This week’s show is a mostly back-to-basics show dedicated to the width & breadth of the American songbook.

Plus…a sincere hat-tip to Lou Reed at the beginning & end of the show.

Enjoy!

• The Velvet Underground
• Abbey Lincoln
• Mandy Patinkin
• Billy Eckstine
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dinah Shore
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Lester Young
• Charlie Parker
• John Coltrane
• Cannonball Adderley
• Johnny Hartman
• Bobby Darin
• Count Basie
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Lou Reed

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This week’s show is all mostly mellow music. I wanted to mimic the change in season accordingly.

Enjoy!

• Billy Eckstine
• Frank Sinatra
• Grant Green
• Miles Davis Quintet
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dinah Washington
• Ray Charles
• Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Johnny Hartman
• Thelonious Monk
• Art Blakey
• Sarah Vaughan
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown
• Duke Ellington
• Glenn Miller & His Orchestra

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This week’s show is all about vocals!  Mostly uptempo, but some genius ballads, too.  It is also short & sweet…coming in at just over an hour.

Enjoy!

• Anita O’Day
• Ann Hampton Callaway
• Bessie Smith
• Big Joe Turner
• Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing
• Ray Charles
• Johnny Hartman
• Frank Sinatra
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Billie Holiday
• Helen Merrill
• Billy Eckstine
• Nat “King” Cole
• Bing Crosby
• Louis Armstrong
• George Shearing

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This week’s show – and I will be curious to listen to this one down the line someday – is all about freedom.  All of these songs represent freedom to me.

It’s a long show, but it’s a good show.  It touches on nearly every piece of music that represents freedom to me.

That place I chase between my ears when I need to disappear…

Enjoy!

• Future Islands
• Karen Dalton
• Fairport Convention
• Nina Simone
• Jeff Buckley
• Kate Bush
• Tool
• The Afghan Whigs
• Hüsker Dü
• U2
• Ramsey Lewis
• John Coltrane
• Cee Lo Green
• Fugazi
• Helmet
• Quicksand
• Ministry
• Radiohead
• Villagers
• Blind Willie Johnson
• Freddie King
• Ben Harper
• Patty Larkin
• Antony & The Johnsons
• Chris Whitley
• Bruce Springsteen
• Damien Rice
• Winter Hours
• Hothouse Flowers
• Mandy Moore
• Nick Drake
• Grant Green
• Clifford Brown
• Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
• Bee Gees
• The Clash
• Jawbox
• Daughter
• The Wonder Stuff
• Irma Thomas
• Walter Jackson
• The Spinners
• Stevie Wonder
• Rory Gallagher
• Afro-Celt Sound System
• Davy Spillane
• Peter Gabriel
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Beatles
• Tool

 

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This week’s show is a mellow mood brought to you by the changing seasons.

Each song has either “Autumn” or “Fall” in the title.  I enjoyed making this show for you & I hope you enjoy it, too!

• Arthur Prysock
• Errol Garner
• Billie Holiday
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Kenny Dorham
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Nat “King” Cole
• Woody Herman
• Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
• Dinah Washington
• Louis Armstrong
• Patsy Cline
• Helen Merrill
• Les Paul
• The Ink Spots
• Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
• Chet Baker
• Bobby Darin

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This week’s show is a mostly uptempo affair with some great swinging tunes & a few lovely ballads.

Enjoy!

• Big Joe Turner
• Count Basie
• Jimmy Rushing
• Nat “King” Cole
• Mel Tormé
• Louis Prima
• Lee Wiley
• Billy Eckstine
• Johnny Hartman
• Glenn Miller
• Quincy Jones
• Grant Green
• Thelonious Monk
• Billie Holiday
• Michael Feinstein
• Van Morrison

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This week’s show is a return to form with a little bit of something for everyone.

Enjoy!

• Lou Rawls
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Shirley Horn
• Mel Tormé
• Gil Melle
• Kenny Dorham
• Charlie Parker
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis Quintet
• The Nat “King” Cole Trio
• Johnny Hartman
• Wes Montgomery
• Grant Green

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This week’s show is something of a memorial to the 15th Anniversary of 9/11.  But, only somewhat.

I don’t love watching the news around this time of year.  I saw the footage – all of it – once.  I don’t need to see it again.

But, this music sets the mood, my mood.  Especially closing with Nick Drake’s entire album “Pink Moon.”  It was the last bit of beauty I listened to before being jarred awake by my mother-in-law telling us to wake up & switch on the television.

The lines of the last song of this record resonate.

From The Morning – Nick Drake

A day once dawned, and it was beautiful
A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around.

So look see the days
The endless coloured ways
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.

And now we rise
We are everywhere
And now we rise from the ground
See she flies
And she is everywhere
See she flies all around

So look see the sights
The endless summer nights
And go play the game that you learnt
From the morning.

• Kenny Dorham
• Frank Sinatra
• Bobby Darin
• Duke Ellington
• Mel Tormé
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Miles Davis Quintet
• George Shearing
• Marvin Gaye
• Nat “King” Cole
• Lara Downes
• Billie Holiday
• Sarah Vaughan
• Dinah Washington
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Nick Drake Playing The Entirety of His Album “Pink Moon”

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This week’s show is dedicated to Rudy Van Gelder. While I feature some 20 cuts that RVG recorded, it literally scratches the surface of his impact & import to music production & engineering.

RVG died on Thursday, August 25th 2016.

Thank you, Rudy!

This show also includes the entirety of the original “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane to close the show.

Enjoy!

• Gil Mellé
• Miles Davis Quintet
• John Coltrane
• Paul Chambers
• Grant Green
• Jimmy Smith
• “Big” John Patton
• Yusef Lateef
• Sonny Rollins
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• John Coltrane