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With the ways of the world of late, I decided to bring a show of mellow to you.
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 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 121 – Cool & Blue
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Given this weekend’s heat, I can’t think of a better way to cool down than some great tunes, a dip in the water & a great cocktail.
This show provides the first former, you’re on your own for the latter two.
Enjoy!
- Charlie Parker
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Billy Eckstine
- June Christy
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Miles Davis
- Original Broadway Cast of ‘West Side Story.’
- Abbey Lincoln
- Helen Merrill
- Nina Simone
- Big Joe Turner
- Billie Holiday
- Duke Ellington
- Fletcher Henderson
- Grant Green
- John Coltrane
- Johnny Hartman
- Les Paul
- Louis Armstrong
- Nat “King” Cole
- Sidney Bechet
- Thelonious Monk
- Elvis Presley
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 115 – Late Spring Bounce
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This week’s show is a perfect set of numbers to chill out by the pool with or or grab a beer in the backyard. Just perfect.
Enjoy!
- Shirley Horn
- Paul Chambers
- Lester Young Sextet
- Kenny Dorham
- Sarah Vaughan
- Art Tatum
- Sinéad O’Connor
- Ann Hampton Callaway
- Billie Holiday
- Dinah Washington
- Johnny Hartman
- The Nat “King” Cole Trio
- Billy Eckstine
- Fats Waller
- Charlie Parker
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach
- Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Fletcher Henderson
- Helen Merrill
NY Standard – Episode 113 – Summertime And The Living Is…
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It’s an ironic title, considering I didn’t play any of the many versions of Summertime that I own.
But, with Memorial Day Weekend upon us here in the States, it is the unofficial kickoff of Summertime…
This week’s show is all up-tempo music dedicated to making you feel good! Perfect for a BBQ, block party or a top-down drive around town!
Enjoy!
- Peter Nero
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Quincy Jones
- La Playa Sextet
- The Andrews Sisters
- Anita O’Day
- Johnny Hartman
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Art Tatum
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Duke Ellington
- Dexter Gordon
- Ella & Louis
- Fats Waller
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Fletcher Henderson
- Frank Sinatra
- Bobby Darin
- Nat “King” Cole
- Lester Young
- Mel Tormé
- Peter Nero
- Jimmy Smith
- Big John Patton
- Lionel Hampton
- Les Paul
- Sheena Easton
- Nina Simone
- Shirley Horn
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:
- B.B. King
- B.B. King & Bobby Bland
- T-Bone Walker
- Anita O’Day
- Bessie Smith
- Fletcher Henderson
- Louis Armstrong
- Sidney Bechet
- Big Joe Turner
- Willie “The Lion” Smith
- The Nat King Cole Trio
- Wes Montgomery
- Freddie Roach
- Johnny Hartman
- Yusef Lateef
- Jimmy Rushing
- Duke Ellington
- Charles Mingus
- Billie Holiday
- Bobby Womack
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
NY Standard – Episode 110 – Ella, Big Joe & Mo…
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This week’s show starts off with a 3-track salute to one of the godfathers of blues, jazz & rock in Big Joe Turner – you’ll even hear a solid quotation from Fletcher Henderson in one of “Big Joe’s” numbers.
The rest of the show is a solid smattering of standard, bop & jazz – plus a ‘Broadway Bit’ that includes a young Jerry Orbach.
Enjoy!
- Big Joe Turner
- Fletcher Henderson
- Bessie Smith
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong
- Billy Eckstine
- Duke Ellington
- Arthur Prysock
- Benny Goodman
- Bud Powell
- Charles Mingus
- Charlie Parker & Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Jerry Orbach in ‘The Fantastiks’
- Mark Eitzel
- The Original Broadway Cast of ‘Company’
- The Revival Broadway Cast of ‘Guys & Dolls.’
- Nat King Cole
- Johnny Hartman
- Tony Bennett
- The Ben Webster Quintet
- Joe Cuba
- Jimmy Smith