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NY Standard – Episode 99 – My Funny Valentine – Still & Always

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This episode is dedicated to Jennifer Rose Mullin – “Isn’t that the most beautiful name in the world?”

All of these songs – in some form or fashion – bring me to her.

Hope they bring you to the loves of your life, too!

Enjoy!

  • Chet Baker
  • Ellis Paul
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
  • Clifford Brown
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Nat King Cole
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • American Music Club
  • James Vincent McMorrow
  • Bread
  • Bobby Darin
  • Bonnie Raitt
  • The BoDeans
  • Bruce Robison
  • Zach Williams
  • Nick Drake
  • Mark Eitzel
  • Otis Redding
  • The Twilight Singers
  • U2
  • Damien Rice
  • Luka Bloom
  • Martin Sexton
  • The Lumineers
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • The Twilight Singers
  • Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle
  • Etta James
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Nat King Cole
  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  • Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
  • The Commodores
  • Walter Jackson
  • Roberta Flack
  • Maxwell
  • Joe Cocker
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Neil Young
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Pippin
  • Guys & Dolls
  • Bernadette Peters
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. & Paula Wayne
  • Elvis Costello
  • Maria McKee
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Nat King Cole
  • Helen Merrill
  • Olivia Newton-John
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Pal Joey
  • Aaron Zigman

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 96 – Deep Cuts, B-Sides & Broadway

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This week’s show is brought to you by deep cuts & b-sides.  In an effort to shake the playlist up a bit, I decided to find some of the artists that I always bring you & deliver some of their deeper cuts.

I also bring you some five songs from the Original London Cast Recording of “Les Miserables!”

Enjoy!

  • James P. Johnson
  • Mason Dixon Orchestra w/ Frankie Trumbauer
  • Ahmad Jamal
  • Benny Goodman
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Chick Webb
  • Betty Carter & Ray Bryant
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Duke Ellington
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
  • Original London Cast Recording of Les Miserables
  • Charles Mingus
  • Charlie Parker
  • Bud Powell
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Count Basie
  • Bobby Darin
  • Dinah Washington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Cannonball Adderly
  • Nat King Cole

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 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 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 91 – Thanksgiving (and a dash of Christmas)!

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You want 3+ hours of gorgeous luscious music?  You’ve got it!

This is the 2014 Thanksgiving episode.  It’s dedicated to lush, beautiful music that is fitting for cooking & baking the day before Thanksgiving, while you eat your meal or as you relax throughout this long, holiday weekend.

It’s rare that I play what some might consider “background” music.  But, to me, listening to these luscious melodies is a joy.  So, enjoy!

Here are this week’s artists:

  • The Andrews Sisters
  • Anita O’Day
  • Annie Lennox
  • Ann Hampton Calloway
  • Art Tatum
  • Arthur Prysock
  • Benny Goodman
  • Bernadette Peters
  • Bill Evans
  • Billie Holiday
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bobby Darin
  • Carmen McRae
  • Charles Mingus
  • Chet Baker
  • Clifford Brown
  • Count Basie
  • Dinah Shore
  • Dinah Washington
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Frank Sinatra
  • George Shearing
  • Glenn Miller
  • Helen Merrill
  • Jimmy Dorsey & Tommy Dorsey
  • Jimmy Rushing
  • John Coltrane
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Lester Young
  • Nat King Cole
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Tony Bennett
  • Vince Guaraldi
  • Frank Sinatra

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.

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!