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NY Standard – Episode 109 – Late Night Blues & Broadway Show Stoppers

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This week’s show was recorded at 2am Friday night into Saturday morning.  It has a loose & mellow feel to it.  You’ll hear some blues, some up-tempo numbers & some stunning Broadway show stoppers.  You’ll even hear some 3am New York City sirens…

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 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 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 100 – The Standards of Standards

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This week’s show is a special show as it’s the 100th episode of this mostly-weekly musical adventure I bring to you.

This particular episode is all about the basics that got me into this idiom at all.  They’re called “standards” for a reason.

Enjoy!

  • Louis Armstrong
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Chick Webb
  • Bix Beiderbecke
  • Sidney Bechet
  • Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith
  • Glen Miller
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bing Crosby
  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Charlie Parker
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Count Basie
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
  • Nat King Cole
  • Ben Webster
  • Les Paul
  • Tony Bennett
  • Mel Tormé
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Bethlehem Records version of “Porgy & Bess.”
  • Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Evita”
  • Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Sweeney Todd”
  • Original London Cast Recording of “Les Misérables”
  • Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Into The Woods”
  • Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
  • Charles Mingus
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Sinéad O’Connor
  • Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
  • Bobby Darin
  • Erroll Garner
  • Billie Holiday
  • George Shearing
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

 

NY Standard – Episode 96 – Deep Cuts, B-Sides & Broadway

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This week’s show is brought to you by deep cuts & b-sides.  In an effort to shake the playlist up a bit, I decided to find some of the artists that I always bring you & deliver some of their deeper cuts.

I also bring you some five songs from the Original London Cast Recording of “Les Miserables!”

Enjoy!

  • James P. Johnson
  • Mason Dixon Orchestra w/ Frankie Trumbauer
  • Ahmad Jamal
  • Benny Goodman
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Chick Webb
  • Betty Carter & Ray Bryant
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Duke Ellington
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
  • Original London Cast Recording of Les Miserables
  • Charles Mingus
  • Charlie Parker
  • Bud Powell
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Count Basie
  • Bobby Darin
  • Dinah Washington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Nat King Cole

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

NY Standard – Episode 93 – Happy 2015 – Let The Sun Shine In

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This is my first new show in about 4 weeks.  The Christmas show was a smash as was the Thanksgiving show – and thank you for listening!

This week – since it’s still somewhat the holiday season until Monday January 5th – I decided to put up a new show that is true to the core of the show…but, with some nuance.

To me, any New Year is about rebirth, renewal & new beginnings.  We get these everyday in the form of sunrise & sunshine.  So, I have an around-the-world view of sunrise & sunshine in this show.  The acts included in that set are below but they are all over the map from Cream to Stevie Wonder.

Happy New Year, everyone!  May 2015 be as prosperous for you in every sense of the word as possible!

ENJOY!

  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Miles Davis
  • Rory Gallagher
  • The Beatles
  • The 5th Dimension
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Donovan
  • B.B. King
  • Cream
  • The Divine Comedy
  • Mark Lanegan
  • Duran Duran
  • U2
  • Helen Merrill
  • Glen Miller
  • Les Paul
  • Nat King Cole
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Bud Powell
  • Charlie Parker
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Benny Goodman
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bing Crosby
  • Al Jolson
  • Bobby Darin

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