This episode is a mix of a tribute to a friend as well as a tribute to summertime…here in NYC or wherever you may be!

ENJOY!

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This year’s episode is the longest show I’ve ever produced in twelve years of producing this show.

6 hours & 45 minutes of seasonal & holiday favorites! ENJOY!

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With the passing of Tony Bennett, I couldn’t not bring some attention to the man’s music. There were few like him & one of the last of his kind at the same time!

ENJOY!

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This week’s episode is all hot to trot tunes that will keep you attuned to the summertime blues! ENJOY!

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This week’s show is a tip of the cap to Spring…may it finally come to the northeast in terms of weather & into all of our lives in terms of life & love & happiness.

ENJOY!

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This is a unique & special show that I do each year – time permitting & time barely permitted this year! It’s a roster of some of my favorite Irish musicians – both traditional & modern, be they rock, folk or anywhere in between!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Enjoy!

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As of my recording & sharing this, it would have been my dad’s 82nd birthday. This show is not a tribute…I’ve done enough of that these last 3 years! This show is, however, a notation of how I came out the other side of all of this…intact. After all, most of this episode’s music was taught to me by him…

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This year’s Xmas show is, I think, the longest show I’ve ever done. I joked with one friend that since there are twelve days of Christmas, I am offering a half-off coupon for a six hour show.

Happiest of holidays…and ENJOY!!!

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This year’s Thanksgiving episode is not much different to years’ pasts episodes, except for a couple of call-outs for family & friends. But, it is mostly uninterrupted music to cook, entertain, dine or clean by through the early goings of this holiday season. Whatever it is you mark this time of year, take care to make care…for yourself & your loved ones.

ENJOY!!!

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This week’s show feels like the time that exists at the end of summer & beginning of fall…plus some songs from the springtime of my youth that I recorded with 2 special friends!

Enjoy!

• Johnny Hartman
• Count Basie
• Nat “King” Cole
• Count Basie & Joe Williams
• Tierney Sutton
• Amy Rome
• Tierney Sutton
• Amy Rome
• Mel Tormé
• Charlie Parker
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• Benny Goodman
• Count Basie
• Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass & Ray Brown
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Glenn Miller
• Kate Bush
• Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
• Grant Green
• Chet Baker
• Helen Merrill
• Fletcher Henderson
• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

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