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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.’

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 106 – Swingin’ Spring & Holidays

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This week’s episode is spring-like, because it is finally somewhat spring-like here in the Northeast.

So, there’s that.  But, I also bring you a special version of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ blending the Original London Cast album with one of my favorite bands in The Afghan Whigs doing a few covers, too.

Whatever it is you’re celebrating – in my case, just being alive & the wide-scale availability of chocolate! – I wish you nothing but well.

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 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 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 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 92 – Christmas 2014

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This year’s Christmas show clocks in at well over 4 hours – and I couldn’t be happier about that!

If you love Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald or nearly any form of traditional Christmas music, you’ll enjoy this show.

Here’s the list of the other artist’s featured on this year’s show:

  • Perry Como
  • Bing Crosby
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Andy Williams
  • Doris Day
  • Vince Guaraldi
  • Ashley MacIssac
  • Declan Masterson
  • The Night Heron Consort
  • Altan
  • Cormac Breatnach
  • Aine Minogue
  • Loreena McKennitt
  • Anuna
  • George Winston
  • Burl Ives
  • Mel Torme
  • Bobby Helms
  • Brenda Lee
  • Bessie Smith
  • Otis Redding
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison
  • Roy Orbison
  • Elvis Presley
  • U2
  • Lisa Hannigan
  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Kate Bush
  • John Gorka
  • Gene Autry
  • The Boston Pops as conducted by Arthur Fiedler
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Nat King Cole
  • Julie Andrews
  • The Robert Shaw Chorale
  • Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Leontyne Price
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • Judy Garland
  • Guy Lombardo

See what I mean?  4 and 1/2 hours!

I wish you all an AMAZING holiday season & a WONDERFUL New Year!

Enjoy!

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.