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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 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