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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 143 – Swing & Things

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This week’s show is a good old fashioned romp of jazz, standards & more.  If you need to be warmed up, this is a great place to start!

Enjoy!

 

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…

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 114 – Swingin’ Summertime & The Man Who Got Away

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This week’s show is again a pretty strong, barnstormer of a show.

That said, it also includes a tribute to Jeff Buckley – as he passed 18 years ago yesterday, May 29th.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 109 – Late Night Blues & Broadway Show Stoppers

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This week’s show was recorded at 2am Friday night into Saturday morning.  It has a loose & mellow feel to it.  You’ll hear some blues, some up-tempo numbers & some stunning Broadway show stoppers.  You’ll even hear some 3am New York City sirens…

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 93 – Happy 2015 – Let The Sun Shine In

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This is my first new show in about 4 weeks.  The Christmas show was a smash as was the Thanksgiving show – and thank you for listening!

This week – since it’s still somewhat the holiday season until Monday January 5th – I decided to put up a new show that is true to the core of the show…but, with some nuance.

To me, any New Year is about rebirth, renewal & new beginnings.  We get these everyday in the form of sunrise & sunshine.  So, I have an around-the-world view of sunrise & sunshine in this show.  The acts included in that set are below but they are all over the map from Cream to Stevie Wonder.

Happy New Year, everyone!  May 2015 be as prosperous for you in every sense of the word as possible!

ENJOY!

  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Miles Davis
  • Rory Gallagher
  • The Beatles
  • The 5th Dimension
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Donovan
  • B.B. King
  • Cream
  • The Divine Comedy
  • Mark Lanegan
  • Duran Duran
  • U2
  • Helen Merrill
  • Glen Miller
  • Les Paul
  • Nat King Cole
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Bud Powell
  • Charlie Parker
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Benny Goodman
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bing Crosby
  • Al Jolson
  • Bobby Darin

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!