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This week’s show is a return to form with some new music to this show on the end.

You’ll hear the traditional NYS canon, but also a good few tunes involving David Rosser – recently departed guitarist for The Afghan Whigs, The Gutter Twins & The Twilight Singers to close the show.

Enjoy!

• Charles Mingus
• Booker T. & The MG’s
• Jimmy Smith
• Grant Green
• Big Joe Turner
• Billy Eckstine
• Jimmy Rushing
• Nat “King” Cole
• Marvin Gaye
• Duke Ellington
• Benny Goodman
• Johnny Hartman
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Glenn Miller
• Bobby Darin
• The Twilight Singers
• The Afghan Whigs
• The Twilight Singers
• David Rosser

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This week’s show is special.  The first half is standard-issue.  Jazz.  As it should be.

The second half is dedicated to the music of Chris Cornell.  As I wish it shouldn’t be.

Thank you for the music, man.

• Shirley Horn
• Charlie Parker & Dizzie Gillespie
• Johnny Hartman
• Billie Holiday
• Lara Downes
• Billy Eckstine
• Nat “King” Cole
• Chris Cornell
• Soundgarden (7 songs)
• Chris Cornell (3 songs)

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This week’s show is dedicated to both Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, as they both would’ve had birthdays last week.  Ella would’ve been 100 & Duke would’ve been 117!

This is by no means an exhaustive review of their works.  But, it is the highlights of the work I’ve come to know & love over the 30 years I’ve been listening to them both.

Enjoy!

 

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This week’s show is a tribute to Trane – John Coltrane.  Trane died 50 years ago this year & there’s a new documentary about the man that I saw with two friends last weekend.  That screening inspired this show.

I bring you one song – my favorite song – from each one of his first 8 records plus the show opens with Coltrane playing with Johnny Hartman followed by one hit of his own composition but performed with the Miles Davis Quintet.

Enjoy!

“They Say It’s Wonderful” – with Johnny Hartman
“Trane’s Blues” – The Miles Davis Quintet
“While My Lady Sleeps”
Blue Train
Slow Dance
Russian Lullaby
“Giant Steps”
“I’ll Wait & Pray”
“My Favorite Things”
“Olé”

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This week’s show is a tip of the cap to April & its attendant showers which should be some flowers in due course.

There’s also a Basie block near the end that I think you’d dig.

Enjoy!

• The Nat King Cole Trio
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Coleman Hawkins
• Arthur Prysock
• Mel Tormé
• Billie Holiday
• Billy Eckstine
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach
• Count Basie
• Benny Goodman
• Charlie Christian
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Grant Green
• Bobby Darin
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

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This week’s show has a shot of blues at the front as a hat-tip to the recently departed Chuck Berry.  Then, the rest of the show is business as usual…with an appearance from a friend in Liv Monaghan.

Enjoy!

• Big Joe Turner
• Chuck Berry
• Muddy Waters
• Howlin’ Wolf
• John Lee Hooker
• Freddie King
• Nina Simone
• Chick Webb
• Nat “King” Cole
• Mel Tormé
• Rachel Portman
• Liv Monaghan
• Billie Holiday
• Johnny Hartman
• Ella Fitzgerald w/ Louis Armstrong
• Ella Fitzgerald w/ Louis Jordan

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This year’s St. Patrick’s Day show is a shorter affair than the last several years, but it’s a wonderful representation of the state of music in Ireland today.

Enjoy!

• Bing Crosby
• Imelda May
• The Chieftains
• The Corrs
• Bill Whelan’s Riverdance
• Afro-Celt Sound System
• The Dubliners
• Luke Kelly w/ Al O’Donnell
• The Chieftains
• Celia Ní Fhátharta
• Mairead Ni Oistin
• Johnny Mháirtín Learaí Mac Donnchadha
• Tommy Healy
• Paddy Kiloran
• The Chieftains
• Seamus Beagley & Mary Black
• Mary Black
• Kate Bush
• Sean Leahy
• The Chieftains
• Colm Mac Con Iomaire
• Megan McDonough
• The Pogues
• Shooglenifty
• Eileen Ivers
• Davy Spillane
• The Bothy Band
• Glen Hansard & Friends
• Alana Henderson
• Ed Sheeran

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This week’s show is not a blues show…per se.  It is a show dedicated to jazz songs with blue or blues in the title.  It’s a fun, tight little show.

• Big Joe Turner
• Anita O’Day
• June Christy
• Louis Armstrong
• Miles Davis
• The Nat “King” Cole Trio
• Oscar Peterson Trio
• Wes Montgomery
• Johnny Hartman
• Shirley Horn
• Sidney Bechet
• Sonny Rollins
• The Ink Spots
• Declan O’Rourke – Featuring John Prine & the Milk Spots
• Declan O’Rourke

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This week’s show is a lovely stroll around all the core music that makes this music amazing!

Enjoy!

• Glenn Miller
• Grant Green
• Jimmy Smith
• Bud Powell
• Count Basie
• Mel Tormé
• Anita O’Day
• Johnny Hartman
• Billy Eckstine
• Nat “King” Cole
• Dinah Washington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Frank Sinatra
• Helen Merrill
• Billie Holiday

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This week’s show is largely ladies – except for Nat & Johnny, because I’ve not done a show in a few weeks & they’ve earned their place here, too.

So, if you like lady singers & players, this show is worth an hour of your time.

Enjoy!

• The Andrews Sisters
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Bessie Smith
• Nina Simone
• Dinah Shore
• Carmen McRae
• Dinah Washington
• Billie Holiday
• Nat “King” Cole
• Johnny Hartman
• k.d. lang
• Jody Watley
• Helen Merrill
• June Christy
• Abbey Lincoln
• Nancy Wilson
• Holly Cole Trio