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NY Standard – Episode 115 – Late Spring Bounce

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This week’s show is a perfect set of numbers to chill out by the pool with or or grab a beer in the backyard.  Just perfect.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 114 – Swingin’ Summertime & The Man Who Got Away

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This week’s show is again a pretty strong, barnstormer of a show.

That said, it also includes a tribute to Jeff Buckley – as he passed 18 years ago yesterday, May 29th.

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 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 98 – Bobby Darin, Saxophone Sentric, Once – The Musical

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This is a pretty special show today.  My friends at “Vinyl Me, Please” – the monthly record club to which I belong – inspired me to bring you over an hour of sax music with having selected The Ben Webster Quintet record for vinyl of the month in December.  So, you’ll hear two cuts from that record, but you’ll also hear Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins & more.

Also, we have selections from Once – The Musical.  Some tunes from the movie, too, as well as a special performance from Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova as “The Swell Season” with an 8th Grade choir backing them up on “Falling Slowly.”

But, we start with a special set of music for a special set of people – Ken & Carmen Corrigan.  I just call them Aunt Carmen & Uncle Ken.  February 6th 2015 was their 50th wedding anniversary.  They love Bobby Darin, so I open with him.

Enjoy!

PS: Below you’ll find the clip of the acceptance speech from Glen & Marketa when they won the Oscar for Best Original Song from “Once.”

  • Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer
  • Bobby Darin
  • Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
  • John Coltrane
  • Sonny Rollins
  • The Ben Webster Quintet
  • Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Lester Young
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Charlie Parker
  • Stan Getz
  • Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine
  • Oscar Peterson
  • The Cast From “Once – The Musical”
  • Interference
  • Glen Hansard
  • Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
  • The Swell Season
  • Johnny Hartman
  • The Nat “King” Cole Trio
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan

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 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 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 90 – Whole Lotta Louis

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This week’s show is a little late – thank you ‘technical difficulties!’ – in getting to you.  But, it’s done & it’s pretty damned good!

So, on today’s show you’ll hear loads of “Louis” & plenty more artists like those you see below.

  • Lester Young
  • Charlie Parker
  • Bobby Darin
  • Nat King Cole
  • Mel Torme
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Helen Merrill
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Paul Chambers
  • Bud Powell
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Duke Ellington
  • Count Basie
  • Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  • Art Tatum
  • Sidney Bechet
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Billie Holliday
  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Johnny Hartman
  • John Coltrane
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Harry Connick, Jr.

I will also be doing a special show that you can play with your family & friends for Thanksgiving, too.