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This show is made up of the kind of music that gives you license to stay under the covers a while longer.
That soft feeling…it’s in here.
Enjoy!
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!
- Anita O’Day
- Billy Eckstine
- Bud Powell
- Charlie Parker
- Charles Mingus
- Charlie Christian
- Benny Goodman
- Gene Krupa
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Chick Webb
- Count Basie
- Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
- Coleman Hawkins
- Lionel Hampton
- Louis Armstrong
- Billie Holiday
- McCoy Tyner
- Lara Downes
- Mel Tormé
- Johnny Hartman
- Nancy Wilson
- Frank Sinatra
- Nat “King” Cole
- George Shearing
- Jonah Jones
- Fletcher Henderson
- Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
- Miles Davis
- Grant Green
- Wes Montgomery
- Sarah Vaughan & Clifford Brown
- Clifford Brown
NY Standard – Episode 142 – Mood Music
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This week’s show is all about the mood & tranquility. This music has always done this…and this playlist is built for that, for the most part.
If you need some help working through things, give this show a listen.
Enjoy!
- Frank Sinatra
- Bobby Darin
- Helen Merrill
- Anita O’Day
- Billy Eckstine
- Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
- Interference f/ Fergus O’Farrell
- Duke Ellington
- Count Basie
- Dave Brubeck w/ Jimmy Rushing
- Johnny Hartman
- Nat “King” Cole
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Dinah Washington
- Dinah Shore
- Arthur Prysock
- Clifford Brown
- Coleman Hawkins
- Bill Evans
- Bing Crosby
- Glenn Miller
- Bobby Darin
- Carmen McRae
- Benny Goodman
NY Standard – Episode 141 – Swing & Simmer
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This week’s show is a true return to form. Some blues, some ballads, some barn burners.
Enjoy!
- Art Tatum
- Nat “King” Cole
- Nina Simone
- Johnny Hartman
- Lara Downes
- Billie Holiday
- Count Basie
- Billy Eckstine
- Cannonball Adderley
- Ramsey Lewis
- Ray Charles
- Oscar Peterson
- Nancy Wilson
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Ella Fitzgerald
- The Ink Spots
- Marvin Gaye
- Frank Sinatra
- Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer
- Bobby Darin
- Shirley Horn
- Helen Merrill
- Sonny Rollins
- John Coltrane
- Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
- Benny Goodman
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.
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Anita O’Day
- Ann Hampton Callaway
- Art Tatum
- Big Joe Turner
- Bessie Smith
- Billie Holiday
- Lara Downes
- Nina Simone
- Duke Ellington
- Count Basie
- Billy Eckstine
- Bobby Darin
- Lionel Hampton
- Wes Montgomery
- Big John Patton
- Grant Green
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
- Frank Sinatra
- Nat King Cole
- Booker T. & The MG’s
- Johnny Hartman
- Marilyn Monroe
- Quincy Jones
- Colm Wilkinson from the original London Cast of ‘Les Miserables.’
- Songs from the original Broadway Cast of ‘Company.’
- Mel Tormé
- Oscar Peterson w/ Nelson Riddle
- Ramsey Lewis
- Ray Charles
- Thelonious Monk
- Sarah Vaughan
- Tony Bennett
- Woody Herman
NY Standard – Episode 123 – Lively Licks
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This week’s show is an attempt to swing things up & cool things down. It’s a hot playlist & a cool setlist.
Enjoy!
- Benny Goodman
- Count Basie
- Quincy Jones
- Billy Eckstine
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Duke Ellington
- Big Joe Turner
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Bud Powell
- Charlie Parker
- Paul Chambers
- Grant Green
- Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Fletcher Henderson
- Nat “King” Cole
- Helen Merrill
- Frank Sinatra
- Johnny Hartman
NY Standard – Episode 120 – Standards & Standbys
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This week’s show is a whirlwind series of songs that cuts across most of the music that you’ve come to expect here. Also, I include one of my favorite stories about RCA Studios & the recording of “Sweeney Club.”
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Arthur Prysock
- Count Basie
- Benny Goodman
- Fletcher Henderson
- Ornette Coleman
- Charlie Parker
- “Big” John Patton
- Jimmy Smith
- Thelonious Monk
- Ray Bryant
- Nina Simone
- Johnny Hartman
- The Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Sweeney Todd”
- Billie Holiday
- Mel Tormé
- Quincy Jones
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Billy Eckstine
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat “King” Cole
NY Standard – Episode 117 – Groove & Fruit.
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This week’s show is all about ‘groove.’ There’s also a bit of commentary & a tribute to close the show.
Enjoy!
- Big John Patton
- Oscar Peterson Trio
- Grant Green
- Booker T. & the MG’s
- Bessie Smith
- Big Joe Turner
- Billie Holiday
- Billy Eckstine
- Bing Crosby with Les Paul
- Duke Ellington
- Dave Brubeck
- Dave Brubeck w/ Jimmy Rushing
- Dexter Gordon
- George Gershwin
- Count Basie
- Count Basie & Joe Williams
- Johnny Hartman
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat “King” Cole
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Billie Holiday.
I am also including this interview about Dave Brubeck’s experience with race & his service in the military.
NY Standard – Episode 116 – Sir Duke, Yeats & Gallagher
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This week’s show is a meandering uptempo jaunt with slivers of happiness from loads of different artists – including a celebration of W.B. Yeats & Rory Gallagher – both of whom mark anniversaries this weekend.
Enjoy!
- Stevie Wonder
- Count Basie
- Glen Miller & His Orchestra
- Louis Armstrong
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Benny Goodman
- Jimmy Dorsey & Tommy Dorsey
- Quincy Jones
- Ramsey Lewis
- Rory Gallagher
- Grant Green
- Nat “King” Cole
- Johnny Hartman
- Coleman Hawkins
- John Coltrane
- Dinah Washington
- Sarah Vaughan
- Frank Sinatra
NY Standard – Episode 111 – Big Band Bonanza
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This week’s show is a tip of the cap to Big Band – thus the name, “Big Band Bonanza!”
You’ll hear the usual suspects plus folks you might be surprised to hear, too.
Enjoy!
- Arthur Prysock
- The Andrews Sisters
- Nat King Cole
- Chick Webb
- Fletcher Henderson
- Benny Goodman
- Bing Crosby
- Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer
- Bobby Darin
- Billy Eckstine
- Count Basie
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
- Helen Merrill
- Dinah Washington
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Frank Sinatra
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Glenn Miller
- Johnny Hartman
- Jimmy Rushing
- Gene Krupa