I spent the week wandering through the Turntable For One archives and found this show from Nov. 2019. It certainly made me nostalgic for doing a live show. Sigh… This is how I introduced the playlist back then:
If you ask me – and I’m going to pretend that you have – nothing stirs the heart and lifts our spirits like the men and women who, through practice and persistence, have mastered the art of violence — hey, wait a minute. That’s not what I’m typing! How do I turn off auto-fill? I mean VIOLINS! All of the music this week features a violin or a string section, or a jazz or classical violinist, plus a couple singers who also play violin. All in all, it was a very satisfying auditory discussion of string theory.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE / Aaron Weinstein / “3×3”
- I CONCENTRATE ON YOU / Harry Connick Jr. / “True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter”
- YOU’VE CHANGED / Billie Holiday / “Lady In Satin”
- THAT FACE / Seth MacFarlane / “In Full Swing”
- THEM THERE EYES / Yamit Lemoine / “AIn’t Misbehavin’”
- GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE / Jamie Cullum & Laura Mvula / “Interlude”
- I’VE GOT NO STRINGS / Roz Corral / “Telling Tales”
- MAKE UP YOUR MIND / Andre Previn & Itzhak Perlman / “A Different Kind of Blues”
- PEOPLE WILL SAY WE’RE IN LOVE / Ella Fitzgerald & Gregory Porter / “Someone To Watch over Me”
- DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE FROM ME / (Mystery Vocalist) / Rhonda Fleming / “The Very Best…”
- MENILMONTANT / Avalon Jazz Band / “I Love Paris”
- WHERE DO YOU START? / Shirley Horn / “Here’s To Life”
- CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE / Tony Bennett / “The Art Of Romance”
- SPARKLE AND SHINE / Kat Edmonson / “Old Fashioned Gal”
- THE MOOD I’M IN / Calabria Foti & John Pizzarelli / “Prelude To A Kiss”
- SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY / Nat Cole / “After Midnight”
- HOW HIGH THE MOON / Stephane Grappelli, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stuff Smith / “Jazz Violin Summit”
- SAY IT (OVER & OVER AGAIN) / Kurt Elling / “Dedicated To You”
- WHEN I FALL IN LOVE / Gregory Harrington / “Without You”
- YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL / Kenny Rankin / “The Kenny Rankin album”
- ROUND MIDNIGHT / Linda Ronstadt / “For Sentimental Reasons”
- QUIET LONGING / Don Ellis Big Band / “Tears Of Joy”
- AUTUMN IN NEW YORK / Frank Sinatra / “Come Fly With Me”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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