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NY Standard – Episode 133 – In A Sentimental Mood

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With the sun leaving us alone a few more hours than Spring or Summer this weekend, I decided to do a show that saluted the more thoughtful autumn.  Ballads to be sure, but a few mid-tempo numbers too…

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NY Standard – Episode 128 – Mellow & Melancholy

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This week’s show is all about the ballad – the most meaningful songs ever written.

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NY Standard – Episode 108 – All Around The Town

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This week’s show is kind of just a perfect sampler of what this show is all about – standards.  There’s jazz, cabaret, big band, bebop, & Broadway.  One this is certain: it all swings – and like the title says, ‘All Around The Town.’

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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.

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  • 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