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This week’s show is a light-hearted affair to celebrate the gorgeous weather here in NYC.
Enjoy!
NY Standard – Episode 138 – 7 Minutes In Heaven
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This show is all about songs – jazz & standards – that are all at least 7 minutes long & no longer than 7:59.
While this was intended to be an “easy” show to produce & record – which it was – it also comes in just under 3 hours. That’s what happens when you play twenty 7 minute songs, I s’pose!
ENJOY!
- John Coltrane
- The Quintet
- Sunday In The Park With George
- Mel Tormé
- Nat “King” Cole
- Lester Young & Oscar Peterson Trio
- Grant Green
- Jimmy Smith
- Wes Montgomery
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Johnny Hartman
- Cannonball Adderley
- Sonny Rollins
- Duke Ellington
- Big Joe Turner
- John Coltrane & The Red Garland Trio
- Dexter Gordon
- Yusef Lateef
- Thelonious Monk
- Charles Mingus
- John Coltrane
- Woody Herman
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!
- Charles Mingus
- Dexter Gordon
- Cannonball Adderley
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Buddy Rich
- Gene Krupa
- The Andrews Sisters
- Glenn Miller
- Frank Sinatra
- Chet Baker
- Nat “King” Cole
- Duke Ellington
- Bing Crosby
- The Bethlehem Records Cast of ‘Porgy & Bess.’
- Dinah Washington
- The Dorsey Brothers
- Grant Green
- Jimmy Smith
- The Beastie Boys
- Johnny Hartman
- Bobby Darin
NY Standard – Episode 120 – Standards & Standbys
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This week’s show is a whirlwind series of songs that cuts across most of the music that you’ve come to expect here. Also, I include one of my favorite stories about RCA Studios & the recording of “Sweeney Club.”
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Arthur Prysock
- Count Basie
- Benny Goodman
- Fletcher Henderson
- Ornette Coleman
- Charlie Parker
- “Big” John Patton
- Jimmy Smith
- Thelonious Monk
- Ray Bryant
- Nina Simone
- Johnny Hartman
- The Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Sweeney Todd”
- Billie Holiday
- Mel Tormé
- Quincy Jones
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Billy Eckstine
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat “King” Cole
NY Standard – Episode 113 – Summertime And The Living Is…
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It’s an ironic title, considering I didn’t play any of the many versions of Summertime that I own.
But, with Memorial Day Weekend upon us here in the States, it is the unofficial kickoff of Summertime…
This week’s show is all up-tempo music dedicated to making you feel good! Perfect for a BBQ, block party or a top-down drive around town!
Enjoy!
- Peter Nero
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Quincy Jones
- La Playa Sextet
- The Andrews Sisters
- Anita O’Day
- Johnny Hartman
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Art Tatum
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Duke Ellington
- Dexter Gordon
- Ella & Louis
- Fats Waller
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Fletcher Henderson
- Frank Sinatra
- Bobby Darin
- Nat “King” Cole
- Lester Young
- Mel Tormé
- Peter Nero
- Jimmy Smith
- Big John Patton
- Lionel Hampton
- Les Paul
- Sheena Easton
- Nina Simone
- Shirley Horn
NY Standard – Episode 110 – Ella, Big Joe & Mo…
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This week’s show starts off with a 3-track salute to one of the godfathers of blues, jazz & rock in Big Joe Turner – you’ll even hear a solid quotation from Fletcher Henderson in one of “Big Joe’s” numbers.
The rest of the show is a solid smattering of standard, bop & jazz – plus a ‘Broadway Bit’ that includes a young Jerry Orbach.
Enjoy!
- Big Joe Turner
- Fletcher Henderson
- Bessie Smith
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong
- Billy Eckstine
- Duke Ellington
- Arthur Prysock
- Benny Goodman
- Bud Powell
- Charles Mingus
- Charlie Parker & Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Jerry Orbach in ‘The Fantastiks’
- Mark Eitzel
- The Original Broadway Cast of ‘Company’
- The Revival Broadway Cast of ‘Guys & Dolls.’
- Nat King Cole
- Johnny Hartman
- Tony Bennett
- The Ben Webster Quintet
- Joe Cuba
- Jimmy Smith
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!
- Mel Tormé
- Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle
- John Coltrane
- Lester Young
- Ann Hampton Callaway
- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Michael Feinstein
- George Gershwin
- “Porgy & Bess”
- The Broadway Cast of The Secret Garden
- A Chorus Line
- The Broadway Cast of Company
- The Andrews Sisters
- Shirley Horn
- Helen Merrill
- Grant Green
- Jimmy Smith
- Miles Davis
- Jonah Jones
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