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This week’s show is mostly uptempo with a good amount of back-to-back numbers that really swing…as well as one or two that are more downtempo.

Enjoy!

• Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
• Big Joe Turner
• Billie Holiday
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Billy Eckstine
• Coleman Hawkins
• Lester Young
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Nat “King” Cole
• Benny Goodman
• Louis Prima
• Charlie Christian
• Stevie Wonder
• John Coltrane

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This week’s show is all ballads & one uptempo tune.

The season has changed…and so have I.

Enjoy!

• Miles Davis
• Frank Sinatra
• Duke Ellington
• Oscar Peterson
• Big Joe Turner
• Mandy Patinkin
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Frank Sinatra
• Nat “King” Cole
• Johnny Hartman
• Wes Montgomery
• Gil Melle
• The Hedge Schools
• October Project
• Feist

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This week’s show is cool in that I let myself go a little bit on the microphone.  I did some voices, I told some jokes…and I open the show with Springsteen’s electric version of ‘Born To Run’ & I close the show with an acoustic version of the same.

Hope you enjoy it!

• Bruce Springsteen
• Nat “King” Cole
• Benny Goodman
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Édith Piaf
• Charles Aznavour
• Édith Piaf
• Bernadette Peters
• Frank Sinatra
• Bill Evans
• Big Joe Turner
• Billie Holiday
• Billy Eckstine
• Johnny Hartman
• Mel Tormé
• Charles Mingus
• Grant Green
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Charlie Christian
• Charlie Parker & Ella Fitzgerald
• June Christy
• Helen Merrill
• John Coltrane
• Bruce Springsteen

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• Quincy Jones
• Ramsey Lewis
• Nat “King” Cole
• Willie “The Lion” Smith
• Fletcher Henderson
• Duke Ellington
• Louis Armstrong
• John Coltrane
• Carmen McRae
• Les Paul
• The Ink Spots
• Johnny Hartman
• Nancy Wilson
• Grant Green
• Booker T. & The MG’s
• Beastie Boys
• Quincy Jones

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This week’s show is soft…somber, even.  I use the word ‘somber’ probably 40 times in the show, alone.  The music is somber, because I am too.

There’s little else better in this world than a warm & wonderful ballad.  This show features some of the best ballads ever made.

Enjoy!

• Grant Green
• Bill Evans
• Duke Ellington
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Fletcher Henderson
• Bessie Smith
• George Shearing
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
• The Ink Spots
• Duke Ellington
• Carmen McRae
• Billie Holiday
• The Ben Webster Quintet
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nina Simone
• Frank Sinatra
• Nat “King” Cole
• Helen Merrill
• Sammy Davis Jr. & Paula Wayne from the Original Cast Album of ‘Golden Boy’
• Selections from ‘Pal Joey’
• Mandy Patinkin
• “Big” Joe Turner
• David Gray
• Kate Bush
• Johnny Nash
• Hothouse Flowers

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This week’s show is a special one in that we get to hear the first new John Coltrane material in many, many years…but, I do save that for the end.

The bulk of the show is ‘Sunday’ songs…some sort of Sunday reference in them…with a few exceptions.

I close with the new track from Trane…and the masterpiece recorded the day AFTER this newly-released session was recorded in ‘They Say It’s Wonderful’ from the legendary record “John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman.”

Enjoy!

• Johnny Hartman
• Count Basie
• Oscar Peterson
• Abbey Lincoln
• Grant Green
• Cannonball Adderley
• Billy Eckstine
• Bing Crosby
• Nat “King” Cole
• Ella Fitzgerald
• John Coltrane
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

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This week’s episode is dedicated to this rainy Saturday…blues & ballads take the day.  My heat is on…on May 12th!

Enjoy!

• Amy Rome
• Bill Evans
• The Benson Orchestra of Chicago
• The Ink Spots
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Frank Sinatra
• Bud Powell
• Sarah Vaughan
• Mandy Patinkin
• John Coltrane
• Nat “King” Cole
• “Big” Joe Turner

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This week’s show is quick & lively…with brilliant tunes from amazing artists.

Enjoy!

• Thelonious Monk
• Nat “King” Cole
• Frank Sinatra
• Billie Holiday
• Benny Goodman
• Nancy Wilson
• Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney
• Bob Wills
• Bill Evans
• Wes Montgomery
• Yusef Lateef
• Sonny Rollins
• The Ben Webster Quintet
• Big Joe Turner
• Billy Eckstine
• Count Basie
• Johnny Hartman
• Count Basie & His Orchestra

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This is a VERY special 200th show!

I throw a little of everything in there with cabaret, jazz, Broadway & Standards.  This is a special show…but, it may be my last for a while.  Time & will…will tell.

Thank you for your ears, people.  It means the world to me!

Enjoy!

• Louis Armstrong
• Sidney Bechet
• Fletcher Henderson
• Glenn Miller
• Benny Goodman
• Duke Ellington
• Count Basie
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Miles Davis
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis
• Charles Mingus
• “Big” John Patton
• Grant Green
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Les Paul
• Ann Hampton Callaway
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• George Gershwin
• Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Evita’
• Songs from Les Misérables
• Songs from ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
• Bessie Smith
• Nancy Wilson
• Helen Merrill
• Anita O’Day
• Billie Holiday
• Bernadette Peters
• Bing Crosby
• George Shearing
• Johnny Hartman
• Nat “King” Cole
• Hoagy Carmichael
• Frank Sinatra
• Mandy Patinkin

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This week’s show is a touchstone to Spring & the Spring holidays & the lovely changes that happen this time of year!

In addition to some lovely Spring Swingers, we also have a good handful of songs from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” too.

Enjoy!

• The Andrews Sisters
• Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
• The Pied Pipers
• Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio
• Tony Bennett
• The Nat “King” Cole Trio
• Nat “King” Cole
• Johnny Hartman
• Dinah Shore
• Charlie Parker
• The Nat “King” Cole Trio
• Grant Green
• Billy Eckstine
• Erroll Garner
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Billie Holiday
• Frank Sinatra
• Benny Goodman
• Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
• Selections from Jesus Christ Superstar (including a cover from The Afghan Whigs)
• Chris Cornell