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Episode 204 – Somber Saturday Soliloquies

June 23, 2018 By NYStandard

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This week’s show is soft…somber, even.  I use the word ‘somber’ probably 40 times in the show, alone.  The music is somber, because I am too.

There’s little else better in this world than a warm & wonderful ballad.  This show features some of the best ballads ever made.

Enjoy!

  • Grant Green
  • Bill Evans
  • Duke Ellington
  • Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Bessie Smith
  • George Shearing
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
  • The Ink Spots
  • Duke Ellington
  • Carmen McRae
  • Billie Holiday
  • The Ben Webster Quintet
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Nina Simone
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Nat “King” Cole
  • Helen Merrill
  • Sammy Davis Jr. & Paula Wayne from the Original Cast Album of ‘Golden Boy’
  • Selections from ‘Pal Joey’
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • “Big” Joe Turner
  • David Gray
  • Kate Bush
  • Johnny Nash
  • Hothouse Flowers

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