Episode 56:: Swing-a-Long

When the weather outside turns frightful, it's time for tunes that are delightful, and since you've no (better) place to go, on-with-the-show, on-with-the-show, on-with-the-show.

Great vocalist of the Swing era, both during and after.

Audio

Playlist

1. Andrews Sisters - Eight to the Bar
2. Doris Day & Les Brown Orchestra - I Ain't Hep to that Step
3. Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars - Heebie Jeebies
4. Nat King Cole trio - Candy
5. Bing Crosby - Your Socks Don't Match
6. Bing Crosby - Deep in the Heart of Texas
7. Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge - Let Me Off Uptown
8. Count Basie - Exactly Like You
9. Carmen McRae - Exactly Like You
10. Carmen McRae - Nice Work if You can Get It
11. Dinah Washington - I Could Write a Book
12. Ella Fitzgerald - Goody, Goody
13. Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra - The Japanese Sandman
14. Ella Fitzgerald - Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
15. Ella Fitzgerald - Lullaby of Birdland
16. Ella Fitzgerald - Ich Fuhle Mich Crazy

::WSRP:: No, You're driving Me crazy.

Episode 55:: A Dash of Something New

While it may be too late to pull a "Best of 2009" episode, I'm not letting that stop me from a quick focus on "new," or at least recent, jazz releases.

Audio

Playlist

1. Marcus Strickland - Scatter Heart - Idiosyncracies
2. Marty Ehrlich - Rites Rhythm - Things Have Got to Change
3. Joe Lock - Bright Side Up - For the Love of You
4. Tineke Postma - The Eye of the Mind - The Traveler
5. Terence Blanchard - H.U.G's - Choices
6. Eldar - Black Jack - Virtue
7. Steve Blanco - Black Dogs - Piano Warrior
8. Donald Bailey - Blues it - Blue Prints of Jazz, vol.3

::WSRP:: New Tricks from an Old Dog

Episode 54:: Indie Wedding Cast-offs

One of the coolest parts of planning a wedding is making up huge lists of music you might like to incorporate into your special day. If you happen to like things outside the mainstream, this has the dual benefit of giving you a platform to share your favorites with people who may not already know of them. Conveniently, this is the same premise of this webradioblog.

The worst part, then, of picking music for a wedding, is whittling down the number of options to only a small handful, and ultimately one "first dance" tune. That this must be done as a team (at least, until they invent same-self marriage) further complicates the issue - though probably for the better.

And what to do with all those other cool songs that just weren't quite right for the wedding itself? Just let them rot in one person's iTunes refuse bin? Not when you have your own webradioblog.

Save the planet - recycle your audio.

Audio

Playlist

1. Erin McKeown - Santa Cruz - Hundreds of Lions
2. OK Go - Gigantic - Dig for Fire (Tribute to the Pixies)
3. Cat Power - Sea of Love - The Cover Record
4. Bob Sneider - 40 Dogs (Like Romeo & Juliette) - Lovely Creatures
5. John Doe & Kathleen Edwards - The Golden State - FUV Live 12
6. Iron & Wine - Cinder and Smoke - Our Endless Numbered Days
7. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Birds and Ships - Mermaid Avenue
8. The Avett Brothers - January Wedding - I and Love and You
9. The White Stripes - We are Going to be Friends - White Blood Cells
10. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World - Stranger than Fiction soundtrack
11. One Eskimo - Kandi - s/t
12. Ray LaMontagne - You are the Best Thing - Gossip in the Grain
13. Ray LaMontagne - You are the Best Thing - FUV Live 12
14. Sufjan Stevens - To be Alone with You - Music from the O.C.
15. Paul Tiernan - How to Say Goodbye - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist soundtrack

::WSRP:: sorry ladies, now it's Mr. WSRP.