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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 148 – Mellow Things

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With the ways of the world of late, I decided to bring a show of mellow to you.

Enjoy!

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 142 – Mood Music

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This week’s show is all about the mood & tranquility.  This music has always done this…and this playlist is built for that, for the most part.

If you need some help working through things, give this show a listen.

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!

NY Standard – Episode 128 – Mellow & Melancholy

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This week’s show is all about the ballad – the most meaningful songs ever written.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 107 – Tormé, Lady Day & Sondheim

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This week’s show is dedicated to three primary talents:

1) Mel Tormé

2) Billie Holiday – who would have turned 100 on 4/7/15

3) Sondheim’s ‘Sunday In The Park With George’

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 101 – Short, Sweet & Glenn Miller

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This week’s episode is short & sweet – the last 10 or so episodes have all been 3 – 5 hours long.  Well, that’s too long…

I decided to keep this one nice & tight.  It also had a tribute to Glenn Miller herein, as he would have been 111 this year!

Enjoy!

  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Bill Evans
  • Betty Carter & Ray Bryant
  • Nat King Cole
  • Arthur Prysock
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Anita O’Day
  • Bing Crosby
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bud Powell
  • Count Basie
  • Charles Mingus
  • Glenn Miller
  • Grant Green
  • Jimmy Smith
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • John Coltrane
  • The Dorsey Brothers
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Pippin
  • Les Misérables
  • Once
  • A Chorus Line
  • Ramsey Lewis
  • Sarah Vaughan

NY Standard – Episode 95 – Basie Boys & More

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This week’s show is a true return to form from swing to bop & more.

Enjoy!

  • Lester Young
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Wes Montgomery
  • Big John Patton
  • Sidney Bechet
  • Charlie Parker
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Nat King Cole
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Paul Chambers
  • Dinah Shore
  • Bill Evans
  • John Coltrane
  • Mel Torme
  • Jimmy Rushing
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Count Basie
  • Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • The Dorsey Brothers
  • Duke Ellington
  • Johnny Hodges
  • Louis Prima
  • Gene Krupa

NY Standard – Episode 91 – Thanksgiving (and a dash of Christmas)!

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You want 3+ hours of gorgeous luscious music?  You’ve got it!

This is the 2014 Thanksgiving episode.  It’s dedicated to lush, beautiful music that is fitting for cooking & baking the day before Thanksgiving, while you eat your meal or as you relax throughout this long, holiday weekend.

It’s rare that I play what some might consider “background” music.  But, to me, listening to these luscious melodies is a joy.  So, enjoy!

Here are this week’s artists:

  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Anita O’Day
  • Annie Lennox
  • Ann Hampton Calloway
  • Art Tatum
  • Arthur Prysock
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bernadette Peters
  • Bill Evans
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bobby Darin
  • Carmen McRae
  • Charles Mingus
  • Chet Baker
  • Clifford Brown
  • Count Basie
  • Dinah Shore
  • Dinah Washington
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Frank Sinatra
  • George Shearing
  • Glenn Miller
  • Helen Merrill
  • Jimmy Dorsey & Tommy Dorsey
  • Jimmy Rushing
  • John Coltrane
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Lester Young
  • Nat King Cole
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Tony Bennett
  • Vince Guaraldi
  • Frank Sinatra