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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 136 – Happy & Merry 2015

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This year’s Christmas show is unique & yet, a lot of it is the same.  You can still hear the entire original Nat King Cole Christmas record – long since out of print – in its entirety here.  You can also hear some lovely singer/songwriters do their takes on more modern winter songs & a few of my choice Irish traditional Christmas music, too.

But, as it is, week-in week-out, this show is mostly dedicated to traditional Christmas music from my childhood.

I love them all & I hope you do, too.

May you ALL have a Happy & Merry season!

NY Standard – Episode 135 – Lush & Lovely – Thanksgiving 2015

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This week’s show is dedicated to the most beautiful music you’ve ever heard.  Long, lush lines of music…

It is built to set & forget so you can press play & go about your day as you cook, bake, clean or entertain.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 122 – All ‘Round The Town

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This week’s show is a solid selection of the best of our favorite music plus a dedication to a friend’s son – who’s shipping off to the service in about week.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 111 – Big Band Bonanza

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This week’s show is a tip of the cap to Big Band – thus the name, “Big Band Bonanza!”

You’ll hear the usual suspects plus folks you might be surprised to hear, too.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 103 – Ode To Eireann

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This week’s show is another special one for me & for Jennifer.

Ireland has meant so much to us both over the years – her trip when she was a little girl & our trips together through the years.

So, this year’s show is a reflection of that emotion.  It’s long, but it’s beautiful – just like its inspiration.

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 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 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 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!