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NY Standard – Episode 151 – Purple, Blue & Green

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This is a decidedly downturned show…blame my mood, but there’s also some defiance in here.

Purple & blue because of Prince…and green because of Ireland celebrating a special 100th Anniversary.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mAGJDwF4vg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s836K9d3f4Y

NY Standard – Episode 147 – Soft Things

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This show is made up of the kind of music that gives you license to stay under the covers a while longer.

That soft feeling…it’s in here.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 146 – Crisp Things

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This week’s show is all about crisp music.  To me, the springtime is all about crisp & neat & sleek & light.

We even get to hear Sammy Davis, Jr. do impressions of Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Cagney & Cary Grant & more.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 141 – Swing & Simmer

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This week’s show is a true return to form.  Some blues, some ballads, some barn burners.

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NY Standard – Episode 126 – Back To Basics…Mostly

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This week’s episode is a return to form – after a month of fun & games with this show.  I appreciate you indulging me with this over the last bit, but with the end of summer comes the end of fun & games…right? 🙂

Anyway, do enjoy this tour de force of swing, standards & Sondheim.

NY Standard – Episode 118 – Over The Rainbow

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This week’s show is a special one – as next week’s show will be – as this week’s focus is on 3 items: PRIDE, Joni Mitchell & Lara Downes’ Billie Holiday record.

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 115 – Late Spring Bounce

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This week’s show is a perfect set of numbers to chill out by the pool with or or grab a beer in the backyard.  Just perfect.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 113 – Summertime And The Living Is…

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It’s an ironic title, considering I didn’t play any of the many versions of Summertime that I own.

But, with Memorial Day Weekend upon us here in the States, it is the unofficial kickoff of Summertime…

This week’s show is all up-tempo music dedicated to making you feel good!  Perfect for a BBQ, block party or a top-down drive around town!

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 104 – Springtime For…

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This week’s show is short, sweet, tight, tidy & lively.

Since the holidays & through to last week’s epic 5-hour St. Patrick’s show, the shows have all mostly been well over 3 hours.  This week – and I think in ensuing weeks – I am going to aim for a 90 minute show.  I may occasionally go over that, but…

So, this week’s episode is all about Spring.  It is one of my favorite times of year – not too hot, not too cool.  Just right.

Kinda like this week’s show…

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 94 – #JeSuisCharlie

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This week’s show is dedicated to the people who perished in Paris this week & the ideas for which they died – that must live on forever in us all.

In the closing hour or so of this show, I bring you songs & melodies derived with Paris & France & freedom in their hearts.

I close the show with Edit Piaf’s classic “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien.”

Please read the words – with English translation – below.

“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien”

Non, Rien de rien
(No, nothing of nothing)
Non, Je ne regrette rien
(No, I regret nothing)

Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
(Not the good things that have been done to me)
Ni le mal tout ça m’est bien égal
(Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me)

Non, Rien de rien
(No, nothing of nothing)
Non, Je ne regrette rien
(No, I regret nothing)

C’est payé, balayé, oublié
(It’s paid for, swept away, forgotten)
Je me fous du passé
(I don’t care about the past)

Avec mes souvenirs
(With my memories)
J’ai allumé le feu
(I lit the fire)

Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
(My troubles, my pleasures)
Je n’ai plus besoin d’eux
(I don’t need them anymore)

Balayés les amours
(Swept away my past loves)
Avec leurs trémolos
(With their tremors)

Balayés pour toujours
(Swept away for always)
Je repars à zéro
(I start again from zero)

Non, Rien de rien
(No, nothing of nothing)
Non, Je ne regrette rien
(No, I regret nothing)

Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait
(Not the good things that have been done to me)
Ni le mal tout ça m’est bien égal
(Nor the bad things, it’s all the same to me)

Non, Rien de rien
(No, nothing of nothing)
Non, Je ne regrette rien
(No, I regret nothing)

Car ma vie, car mes joies
(Because my life, my joys)
Aujourd’hui, ça commence avec toi
(Today, it begins with you)

The show also features the following artists:

  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Bobby Darin
  • Johnny Mercer
  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Charlie Parker
  • Les Paul
  • Mel Torme
  • Art Tatum
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Billie Holiday
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Glen Miller
  • Nat King Cole
  • Johnny Hartman
  • “Being Alive” from Company
  • ‘Finishing The Hat” from ‘Sunday In The Park With George’
  • Edith Piaf
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Clifford Brown
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Duke Ellington
  • Les Negresses Vertes
  • Ellis Paul
  • Chet Atkins
  • Bud Powell
  • George Gershwin
  • Edith Piaf