ONLY THE GOOD STUFF: IRA'S BLEND 60

MUSIC THAT CHANGED THINGS: IRA's BLEND 59

JAZZ STANDARDS -Lionel, Nat, Nina & More: Blend #58

SMOOTH (MOSTLY) BLUES: IRA'S BLEND 57

TRUE BLEND II - WORLD, JAZZ, SOUL...:IRA'S BLEND 56

TRUE BLEND #1 - IRA'S BLEND #55

JAZZ & BLUES - NEW AND OLD AND DIVERSE: BLEND #54

NOLA JAZZ & A BIT OF SWING: IRA'S BLEND 53

BLUES OLD AND NEW - IRA'S BLEND #52

JAZZ STANDARDS, SOME NOLA & ODD BITS - BLEND 51

BLUES FAVES WITH EXTRAS - IRA'S BLEND 50

GIRLS AND GIRL GROUPS - BLEND #49

IRA’S BLEND #47: BROC/TROC/VIDE-GRENIER FINDS

IRA’S BLEND #47: BROC/TROC/VIDE-GRENIER FINDS

Broadcast 18-9-2016

Host/Engineer: Ira

For: ex-patradio.fr

Listen to archived show on Mixcloud HERE

Norah Jones – Sunrise

Norah Jones – In the Morning

Norah Jones – Don’t Miss You at All

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Joni Mitchell – Coyote

Joni Mitchell – Amelia

Joni Mitchell – Black Crow

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Elvis Presley – That’s All Right

Elvis Presley – Blue Moon of Kentucky

Elvis Presley – Good Rockin’ Tonight

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Genesis – Living Forever

Genesis – Domino: Part 1 – In the Glow of the Night, Part 2 – The Last Domino

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ZZ Top – My Head’s in Mississippi

ZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide

ZZ Top - LaGrange

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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana – In Bloom

Nirvana - Lithium

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Etta James – At Last

Louis Armstrong – A Kiss to Build a Dream On

Sarah Vaughan – My Funny Valentine

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Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes – Fever

Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes – This Time It’s for Real

Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes – Snatching It Back

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Youn Sun Nah – Jockey Full of Bourbon

Lisa Simone – Autumn Leaves

IRA'S STUPID STUFF AND ARETHA - MID SEPTEMBER 2016

1. Researchers looking in places with high incidences of traffic congestion have found magnetite in peoples' brains, not the natural type but the stuff that comes out of car exhausts. The natural type is found in the plaques in the brain that often accompany Alzheimer's Disease. So car exhausts may cause...

Shit!

2. My Granny could run the 100 yard dash in 9 seconds flat. Uber is a ride-sharing service. Which of these statements is true? Did you answer NOTA (None Of The Above)? Good for you. Because Nana might have been quick, but she wasn't fast. And every Uber driver travels from the mall to the grocery store to the burbs and back again and back again and back again every day and is just looking to share the cost...

3. Continuing on a car theme...Headline: Paris Police Thwart Car Bombing
A car parked in a No Parking Zone near Notre Dame Cathedral, hazard flashers flashing, without license plates, sat for two hours before the police investigated. They found that the car had seven gas canisters inside, one empty. There was no detonation device. If they'd only let the car alone for another day or two, maybe a meteorite would have hit the car and exploded the canisters.

4. Profs teaching a course entitled "Medical Humanities in the Digital Age" said that they were not going to debate the causes of global warming and that those who wished to do so should not take the course. Internet breaks. It's getting hotter. It's hotter this year than last and hotter last year than the year before. If you don't believe that the 'pause' in warming is a hoax, you don't believe math. The trend line is undeniable.

The course in question is about the effect of that undeniable heating and not its cause. Would it make sense for profs in a paleo-archeology class to suggest that persons who believe that Earth was created 6,000 years ago might not benefit from the course? You betcha! Every point of contention is not debatable in every context.

5. Apple paid an effective tax rate of 0.005% on its European profits. So, after a three-year investigation by the EU, Apple got hit with a 13,000,000,000 euro back tax bill. CEO Cook calls the ruling 'political crap'. IMHO, the definition of crap is the deal that Apple made with the Irish government. I couldn't make that deal. You couldn't make that deal. Nobody that we know could make that deal. Put on your Man Pants, Apple. Get taxed like the rest of us.

6. Geneticists have determined that human hands probably evolved from the tail fins of fish. Maybe not stupid, but interesting. Don't you think?

Carole King was honored at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She was blown away when Aretha sat at the piano to play and sing RESPECT. So were Barack and Michelle and everybody in the audience and everybody who has seen the video. Neat stuff.

IRA'S BLEND #46: JAZZ VOCAL STANDARDS

IRA’S BLEND #46: JAZZ VOCAL STANDARDS

Broadcast 14-9-2016

Host/Engineer: Ira

For: ex-patradio.fr

Listen to archived show on Mixcloud HERE

Diana Krall – Dream a Little Dream of Me

Arthur Prysock – I’m Through with Love

Chet Baker & Kenny Burrell – You’re Mine You

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Natalie Cole – Ask a Woman Who Knows

Dianne Schuur – The Very Thought of You

Helen Merrill – Born to Be Blue

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Jeri Southern – If I Had You

Gladys Knight – Since I Fell for You

Michael Buble – Too Close for Comfort

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Anita O’Day – Crazy He Calls Me

Cassandra Wilson – I’m Old Fashioned

Brian Blade – Brother

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Queen Latifah – I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl

Morgana King – Bill

Tony Bennett w/ Bill Charlap – I Get Along Without You Very Well

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Chaka Khan – Lullaby of Birdland

Aaron Neville – Cry Me a River

Dorothy Dandridge – Stay With It

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Billie Holiday – God Bless the Child

Rosemary Clooney – Deed I Do

Teddi King – A Cottage for Sale

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Shirley Horn – Fever

Dianne Reeves – Oh Lady Be Good

Johnny Hartman - Unforgettable

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Betty Carter – You Go to My Head

Blossom Dearie – Someone to Watch Over Me

Bill Henderson – At Long Last Love

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Fred Astaire – Steppin’ Out with My Baby

Jimmy Rushing – Every Day I Have the Blues

Buddy Greco – The Party’s Over

IRA'S BLEND #45: MP3 SHUFFLE (PLAYLIST)

IRA’S BLEND #45: MP3 SHUFFLE

Broadcast 11-9-2016

Host/Engineer: Ira

For: ex-patradio.fr

Listen to archived show on Mixcloud HERE

Joni Mitchell – River

Bruce Springsteen – Blinded by the Light

James Gang – Funk #49

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Aretha Franklin – Respect

Traffic – 40,000 Headmen

Joni Mitchell – Let the Wind Carry Me

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James Taylor – Shed a Little Light

Jack Bruce – As You Said

Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now

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Allman Brothers Band – Stormy Monday

Van Morrison – Moondance

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama

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Paul Thorn – Everybody Looks Good

James Taylor – River

James Gang - Asshtonpark

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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

Jefferson Airplane – Watch Her Ride

Little Feat – Oh, Atlanta

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Little Feat – Walkin’ All Night

Neil Young – Old Man

Allman Brothers Band – Hot ‘Lanta

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Jack Bruce – Rope Ladder to the Moon

Bruce Hornsby and The Range – Wild Frontier

Robin Trower – Confessin’ Midnight

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Jefferson Airplane – Young Girl Sunday Blues

Dave Matthews – What Would You Say

Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away