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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