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NY Standard – Episode 144 – Relationships

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This week’s show is about how songs & artists relate to one another.

This is a fun – yet solemn – show dedicated to a lot of the amazing music I play week-in, week-out.

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 127 – Mellow & Beautiful

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This week’s show is all about mellow, beautiful music.  I do love when the seasons turn…and while it’s a week or two more until autumn is officially here, today was overcast, cool & rainy here in New York.  So, I bring you music of the same mood…

Enjoy!

  • Charles Mingus
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Benny Goodman
  • Chick Webb
  • Billie Holiday
  • Carmen McCrae
  • George Gershwin
  • Lester Young
  • Charlie Parker
  • Duke Ellington
  • Bud Powell
  • Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown
  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  • Bobby Darin
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet w/ Jimmy Rushing
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Nat King Cole

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 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 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