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NY Standard – Episode 122 – All ‘Round The Town

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This week’s show is a solid selection of the best of our favorite music plus a dedication to a friend’s son – who’s shipping off to the service in about week.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 121 – Cool & Blue

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Given this weekend’s heat,  I can’t think of a better way to cool down than some great tunes, a dip in the water & a great cocktail.

This show provides the first former, you’re on your own for the latter two.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 117 – Groove & Fruit.

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This week’s show is all about ‘groove.’  There’s also a bit of commentary & a tribute to close the show.

Enjoy!

I am also including this interview about Dave Brubeck’s experience with race & his service in the military.

NY Standard – Episode 116 – Sir Duke, Yeats & Gallagher

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This week’s show is a meandering uptempo jaunt with slivers of happiness from loads of different artists – including a celebration of W.B. Yeats & Rory Gallagher – both of whom mark anniversaries this weekend.

Enjoy!

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.’

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 105 – Such Sweet Sunday

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This week’s show is a tour around jazz & Broadway.

We have 3 of the 4 greatest saxophonists ever & 4 numbers from Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder.”

Is there a better way to spend time than listening to these geniuses?

I think not…

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 101 – Short, Sweet & Glenn Miller

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This week’s episode is short & sweet – the last 10 or so episodes have all been 3 – 5 hours long.  Well, that’s too long…

I decided to keep this one nice & tight.  It also had a tribute to Glenn Miller herein, as he would have been 111 this year!

Enjoy!

  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Bill Evans
  • Betty Carter & Ray Bryant
  • Nat King Cole
  • Arthur Prysock
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Anita O’Day
  • Bing Crosby
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bud Powell
  • Count Basie
  • Charles Mingus
  • Glenn Miller
  • Grant Green
  • Jimmy Smith
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • John Coltrane
  • The Dorsey Brothers
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Pippin
  • Les Misérables
  • Once
  • A Chorus Line
  • Ramsey Lewis
  • Sarah Vaughan

NY Standard – Episode 97 – Organ Music, Latin Jazz & West Side Story

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This week’s show is something of a first for me, I bring you more Latin jazz than I ever have before.  With all this cold weather, I needed to spice things up a bit.  That said, we open with a trio of Hammond B-3 organ tunes from three legends of the form.

I also feature the “hits” from ‘West Side Story’ in keeping with the Latin flare…

Enjoy!

  • Big John Patton
  • Jimmy Smith
  • Jimmy McGriff
  • Wes Montgomery
  • Paul Chambers
  • Kenny Dorham
  • Grant Green
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Tito Puente
  • Machito & His Afro-Cubans
  • Celia Cruz
  • Louis Prima
  • Dave Brubeck
  • Quincy Jones
  • The Original Broadway Cast of ‘West Side Story’
  • Clifford Brown
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Jimmy Rushing
  • Nat King Cole
  • Lester Young
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Sidney Bechet
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Woody Herman
  • Mel Torme
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots

NY Standard – Episode 89 – Trane, A Guitar & A Van.

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This week’s episode – as I’d listened back to it before I posted it – may be one of my favorites I’ve ever presented to you. It’s mostly jazz – very little big band, not much real Broadway – but, loaded with great performances – some of them are live, too.

If you listen to this show this week, you’ll hear:

  • Helen Merrill
  • Coltrane doing a 22 minute live version of ‘My Favorite Things’ in a small club in Lower Manhattan in 1965. STUNNING!
  • A tribute to some great jazz guitarists in Les Paul, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green & Chet Atkins.
  • Nat Cole & Johnny Hartman, per usual.
  • Nina Simone
  • Oscar Peterson
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Bill Eckstine
  • Bobby Darin
  • Miles Davis
  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster – The former solo & the duo together, separately.
  • A trio of Chet Baker & Van Morrison songs
  • I close with Van Morrison singing & Chet Baker playing ‘Send In The Clowns’ together.  Also, STUNNING!

Enjoy!