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This week’s show is a light-hearted affair to celebrate the gorgeous weather here in NYC.
Enjoy!
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 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 91 – Thanksgiving (and a dash of Christmas)!
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You want 3+ hours of gorgeous luscious music? You’ve got it!
This is the 2014 Thanksgiving episode. It’s dedicated to lush, beautiful music that is fitting for cooking & baking the day before Thanksgiving, while you eat your meal or as you relax throughout this long, holiday weekend.
It’s rare that I play what some might consider “background” music. But, to me, listening to these luscious melodies is a joy. So, enjoy!
Here are this week’s artists:
- The Andrews Sisters
- Anita O’Day
- Annie Lennox
- Ann Hampton Calloway
- Art Tatum
- Arthur Prysock
- Benny Goodman
- Bernadette Peters
- Bill Evans
- Billie Holiday
- Billy Eckstine
- Bing Crosby
- Bobby Darin
- Carmen McRae
- Charles Mingus
- Chet Baker
- Clifford Brown
- Count Basie
- Dinah Shore
- Dinah Washington
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Frank Sinatra
- George Shearing
- Glenn Miller
- Helen Merrill
- Jimmy Dorsey & Tommy Dorsey
- Jimmy Rushing
- John Coltrane
- Johnny Hartman
- Lester Young
- Nat King Cole
- Sarah Vaughan
- Thelonious Monk
- Tony Bennett
- Vince Guaraldi
- Frank Sinatra