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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 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!
- Peter Nero
- The Nat “King” Cole Trio
- Cal Tjader
- Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins
- Quincy Jones
- Ella Fitzgerald (w/ Quincy Jones)
- Anita O’Day
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Sidney Bechet
- The Andrews Sisters
- The Pied Pipers
- Glenn Miller
- The Ink Spots
- Bing Crosby
- Arthur Prysock
- Billy Eckstine
- Nat “King” Cole
- Lester Young
- Frank Sinatra
- Billie Holiday
- Nancy Wilson
- Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
- Sonny Rollins
- The Hedge Schools
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire
- Andrew Bird
- Mel Torme & The Marty Paich Dek-tette
- Bobby Darin
- John Coltrane & The Red Garland Trio
- Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Benny Goodman
- The Dorsey Brothers
- Johnny Hartman
- Bud Powell
- Lara Downes
- The London Cello Sound
- Cannonball Adderley
- Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle
- Paul Chambers
- Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
- Donald O’Connor
- Gene Kelly
- Patsy Cline
- Sarah Vaughan
- June Christy
- Ray Charles
- Nina Simone
- Music from the Original Broadway Cast of “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn”
- Sheena Easton
- Nat “King” Cole
- Shirley Horn
- Thelonious Monk
- Ramsey Lewis
- “Big” John Patton
- Ben Webster
- Wes Montgomery
- Grant Green
- Mel Torme
- Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown
- Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
- Vince Guaraldi
- Loreena McKennitt
NY Standard – Episode 123 – Lively Licks
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This week’s show is an attempt to swing things up & cool things down. It’s a hot playlist & a cool setlist.
Enjoy!
- Benny Goodman
- Count Basie
- Quincy Jones
- Billy Eckstine
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Duke Ellington
- Big Joe Turner
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Bud Powell
- Charlie Parker
- Paul Chambers
- Grant Green
- Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Fletcher Henderson
- Nat “King” Cole
- Helen Merrill
- Frank Sinatra
- Johnny Hartman
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!
- Arthur Prysock
- The Andrews Sisters
- Nat King Cole
- Chick Webb
- Fletcher Henderson
- Benny Goodman
- Bing Crosby
- Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer
- Bobby Darin
- Billy Eckstine
- Count Basie
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
- Helen Merrill
- Dinah Washington
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Frank Sinatra
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Glenn Miller
- Johnny Hartman
- Jimmy Rushing
- Gene Krupa
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 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