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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 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!

NY Standard – Episode 135 – Lush & Lovely – Thanksgiving 2015

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This week’s show is dedicated to the most beautiful music you’ve ever heard.  Long, lush lines of music…

It is built to set & forget so you can press play & go about your day as you cook, bake, clean or entertain.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 126 – Back To Basics…Mostly

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This week’s episode is a return to form – after a month of fun & games with this show.  I appreciate you indulging me with this over the last bit, but with the end of summer comes the end of fun & games…right? 🙂

Anyway, do enjoy this tour de force of swing, standards & Sondheim.

NY Standard – Episode 112 – B.B.’s Blues

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As you may know by the time you read this that B.B. King passed away Thursday evening in Las Vegas around 9:40pm local time on May 14th, 2015.  A combination of a small bout of insomnia & a desire to deliver a fresh show in partial tribute to this legend, I decided to work overnight to put that together.

The first or so hour is all B.B. King.  The second hour is music that would have inspired B.B & almost any blues musician.

I hope you enjoy this small detour & devotion to a master.

May the Mississippi keep flowing…

The playlist is as follows:

 

 

 

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 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 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!