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This week’s episode is a fun romp through some great uptempo numbers – some Latin jazz, some Latin flavored tunes, too.
Enjoy!!!
NY Standard – Episode 133 – In A Sentimental Mood
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With the sun leaving us alone a few more hours than Spring or Summer this weekend, I decided to do a show that saluted the more thoughtful autumn. Ballads to be sure, but a few mid-tempo numbers too…
Enjoy!
- Billie Holiday
- Lara Downes
- John Lee Hooker
- Bessie Smith
- Abbey Lincoln
- Betty Carter & Ray Bryant
- James P. Johnson
- Bill Evans
- George Shearing
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Édith Piaf
- Ella Fitzgerald & The Delta Rhythm Boys
- Frank Sinatra
- The Dorsey Brothers w/ Frank Sinatra
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Johnny Hartman
- Lee Wiley
- Mel Tormé
- Nancy Wilson
- The Nat “King” Cole Trio
- Nina Simone
- Mandy Patinkin
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.
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Anita O’Day
- Ann Hampton Callaway
- Art Tatum
- Big Joe Turner
- Bessie Smith
- Billie Holiday
- Lara Downes
- Nina Simone
- Duke Ellington
- Count Basie
- Billy Eckstine
- Bobby Darin
- Lionel Hampton
- Wes Montgomery
- Big John Patton
- Grant Green
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
- Frank Sinatra
- Nat King Cole
- Booker T. & The MG’s
- Johnny Hartman
- Marilyn Monroe
- Quincy Jones
- Colm Wilkinson from the original London Cast of ‘Les Miserables.’
- Songs from the original Broadway Cast of ‘Company.’
- Mel Tormé
- Oscar Peterson w/ Nelson Riddle
- Ramsey Lewis
- Ray Charles
- Thelonious Monk
- Sarah Vaughan
- Tony Bennett
- Woody Herman
NY Standard – Episode 117 – Groove & Fruit.
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This week’s show is all about ‘groove.’ There’s also a bit of commentary & a tribute to close the show.
Enjoy!
- Big John Patton
- Oscar Peterson Trio
- Grant Green
- Booker T. & the MG’s
- Bessie Smith
- Big Joe Turner
- Billie Holiday
- Billy Eckstine
- Bing Crosby with Les Paul
- Duke Ellington
- Dave Brubeck
- Dave Brubeck w/ Jimmy Rushing
- Dexter Gordon
- George Gershwin
- Count Basie
- Count Basie & Joe Williams
- Johnny Hartman
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat “King” Cole
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Billie Holiday.
I am also including this interview about Dave Brubeck’s experience with race & his service in the military.
NY Standard – Episode 114 – Swingin’ Summertime & The Man Who Got Away
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This week’s show is again a pretty strong, barnstormer of a show.
That said, it also includes a tribute to Jeff Buckley – as he passed 18 years ago yesterday, May 29th.
Enjoy!
- Booker T & The MG’s
- Jonah Jones
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
- Billie Holiday
- Jamie Saft Trio
- Big Joe Turner
- Bessie Smith
- Jeff Buckley
- Louis Prima
- Bobby Darin
- Benny Goodman
- Machinto & His Afro-Cubans
- Quincy Jones
- Charlie Parker
- Johnny Hartman
- Lionel Hampton
- Mel Tormé
- Miles Davis
- Oscar Peterson
- Nat King Cole
- John Coltrane
- Jeff Buckley
NY Standard – Episode 112 – B.B.’s Blues
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As you may know by the time you read this that B.B. King passed away Thursday evening in Las Vegas around 9:40pm local time on May 14th, 2015. A combination of a small bout of insomnia & a desire to deliver a fresh show in partial tribute to this legend, I decided to work overnight to put that together.
The first or so hour is all B.B. King. The second hour is music that would have inspired B.B & almost any blues musician.
I hope you enjoy this small detour & devotion to a master.
May the Mississippi keep flowing…
The playlist is as follows:
- B.B. King
- B.B. King & Bobby Bland
- T-Bone Walker
- Anita O’Day
- Bessie Smith
- Fletcher Henderson
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Big Joe Turner
- Willie “The Lion” Smith
- The Nat King Cole Trio
- Wes Montgomery
- Freddie Roach
- Johnny Hartman
- Yusef Lateef
- Jimmy Rushing
- Duke Ellington
- Charles Mingus
- Billie Holiday
- Bobby Womack
NY Standard – Episode 110 – Ella, Big Joe & Mo…
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This week’s show starts off with a 3-track salute to one of the godfathers of blues, jazz & rock in Big Joe Turner – you’ll even hear a solid quotation from Fletcher Henderson in one of “Big Joe’s” numbers.
The rest of the show is a solid smattering of standard, bop & jazz – plus a ‘Broadway Bit’ that includes a young Jerry Orbach.
Enjoy!
- Big Joe Turner
- Fletcher Henderson
- Bessie Smith
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong
- Billy Eckstine
- Duke Ellington
- Arthur Prysock
- Benny Goodman
- Bud Powell
- Charles Mingus
- Charlie Parker & Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Jerry Orbach in ‘The Fantastiks’
- Mark Eitzel
- The Original Broadway Cast of ‘Company’
- The Revival Broadway Cast of ‘Guys & Dolls.’
- Nat King Cole
- Johnny Hartman
- Tony Bennett
- The Ben Webster Quintet
- Joe Cuba
- Jimmy Smith
NY Standard – Episode 102 – Women Make The World Go ‘Round
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This week’s show is dedicated to the women. It’s all women all the time on this one. The first half of the show is standard issue standards. The second half has some of those, but it’s decidedly different from the first half. You’ll hear some blues, rock, folk, country & more.
To the women!
Enjoy!
- Shirley Horn
- The Fantastiks
- Abbey Lincoln
- Anita O’Day
- The Andrews Sisters
- Nina Simone
- Ann Hampton Calloway
- Annie Lennox
- Bernadette Peters
- Patti LuPone
- Irene Ryan
- Carmen McRae
- Billie Holiday
- Dinah Washington
- Helen Merrill
- Diana Krall
- Dinah Shore
- Nina Simone
- Édith Piaf
- Lee Wiley
- Marilyn Monroe
- June Christy
- Sarah Vaughan
- The Holly Cole Trio
- Sinéad O’Connor
- Bessie Smith
- Etta James
- Irma Thomas
- Gladys Knight
- Dusty Springfield
- Carole King
- Laura Nyro
- Joni Mitchell
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Loretta Lynn
- Patsy Cline
- Dolly Parton
- Emmylou Harris
- Patty Griffin
- Allison Moorer
- Kate Bush
- Sarah McLachlan & Emmylou Harris
- Joss Stone
- Roberta Flack
- Paula Cole
- October Project
- Tori Amos
- Regina Spektor
- Sharon Van Etten
- Norah Jones
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- Jill Scott
- Adele
- Duffy
- k.d. lang
- Sheena Easton
- Olivia Newton-John
- Emeli Sandé
- Ella Fitzgerald
NY Standard – Episode 92 – Christmas 2014
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This year’s Christmas show clocks in at well over 4 hours – and I couldn’t be happier about that!
If you love Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald or nearly any form of traditional Christmas music, you’ll enjoy this show.
Here’s the list of the other artist’s featured on this year’s show:
- Perry Como
- Bing Crosby
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Andy Williams
- Doris Day
- Vince Guaraldi
- Ashley MacIssac
- Declan Masterson
- The Night Heron Consort
- Altan
- Cormac Breatnach
- Aine Minogue
- Loreena McKennitt
- Anuna
- George Winston
- Burl Ives
- Mel Torme
- Bobby Helms
- Brenda Lee
- Bessie Smith
- Otis Redding
- Lyle Lovett
- Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
- Roy Orbison
- Elvis Presley
- U2
- Lisa Hannigan
- Sufjan Stevens
- Kate Bush
- John Gorka
- Gene Autry
- The Boston Pops as conducted by Arthur Fiedler
- Frank Sinatra
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Nat King Cole
- Julie Andrews
- The Robert Shaw Chorale
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Leontyne Price
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- Judy Garland
- Guy Lombardo
See what I mean? 4 and 1/2 hours!
I wish you all an AMAZING holiday season & a WONDERFUL New Year!
Enjoy!