The Gold Standard

Andrew Dowd

Sunday 8PM-10PM

The Gold Standard has always been devoted to jazz from the middle to later part of the 20th century - with a focus on rare and vintage vinyl. I exclusively use recordings from my personal collection of nearly 3000 jazz LPs, 300 jazz CDs, and extensive digital music library. An essential part of The Gold Standard is that I include historical information on each recording, as well as anecdotes and stories. I also sometimes include actualities intermixed with the jazz - for example classic stand-up comedy, Ken Nordine, and other oddities.

  • April 07, 2024

    • April 07, 2024

      The Gold Standard

      • Ralph Burns "Terrisita" [Free Forms by Ralph Burns]
      • Norman Granz' JATP "I Can't Get Started" [JATP The Rarest Concerts]

    • December 31, 2023

      • Nancy Wilson "What Are you Doing New Years Eve?" [Yesterday's Love Songs Tomorrow's Blues]
      • Lester Young "I Got Rhythm" [Jazz At The Philharmonic Carnegie Hall 1946]
      • Louis Armstrong "On The Sunny Side of the Street" [Jazz At The Philharmonic 1947]
      • Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis "Twos and Fews" [Blue Note Records First Session]
      • Machito and his Orchestra "Vaya Nina; Hall of the Mambo King" [Mucho Macho]
      • Jimmy Smith "It's Only a Paper Moon" [Live at Smalls Paradise]
      • Louis Prima and Keeley Smith "Too Marvellous For Words" [Live at The Sahara]
      • Ken Nordine "What Time Is It?" [The Best of Word Jazz]
      • Willis Jackson "Jackson's Action" [Jackson's Action]
      • Maynard Ferguson and his Orchestra "Oleo" [A Message From Birdland]
      • Oscar Peterson Trio + One "Roundelay, Mumbles" [Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clark Terry]
      • The Rat Pack "Dialogue" [Live at The Sands]
      • Wes Montgomery with The Wynton Kelly Trio "4 on 6" [Smokin' At The Half Note]
      • Frank Sinatra with Count Basie Orchestra "Fly Me To The Moon" [Sinatra at The Sands]
      • Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington and his Orchestra "Mack The Knife" [Ella and Duke at The Cote D'Azur]
      • Ken Nordine "Clock" [Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure's Twink]
      • Cannonball Adderley Quintet "Walk Tall!" [Country Preacher - Live from Operation Breadbasket]
      • Jazz Crusaders "Eleanor Rigby" [Lighthouse '68]
      • Isaac Hayes "Monologue; Never Can Say Goodbye" [Live at the Sierra Tahoe]
      • Chuck Mangione "Monologue by Dizzy Gillespie" [Tarantella - Live at the Americana Hotel Rochester New York]
      • Bobby McFerrin "'Round Midnight" [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to 'Round Midnight]

    • December 18, 2023

      The Gold Standard

      • Tony Fruscella "I'll Be Seeing You" [Tony Fruscella]
      • Slide Hampton "Sister Salvation" [Sister Salvation]
      • Ruth Brown "I Hope We Meet" [Miss Rhythm]
      • Herbie Mann "Bagdad; Asia Minor" [Herbie Mann Afro Jazz Sextet + 4 Trumpets]
      • Jack Wilson Quartet "Blues We Use" [Jack Wilson Quartet Featuring Roy Ayers]
      • Sergio Mendes and Brazil '65 "Noa Noa" [In Person at El Matador]
      • Roberta Flack "Tryin' Times" [Les McCann Presents Roberta Flack]
      • Champion Jack Dupree and King Curtis "Get With It" [Blues at Montreux]
      • Wilson Pickett "Engine #9" [The Best of Wilson Pickett]
      • Wilson Pickett "Funky Broadway" [The Best of Wilson Pickett]
      • Aretha Franklin "Today I Sing The Blues" [Soul '69]
      • Eddie Harris "Free At Last" [Silver Cycles]
      • Les McCann "Home Again" [Live At Montreux (Featuring Roland Kirk)]
      • Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway "Where Is The Love" [Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway]
      • Passport Featuring Klaus Doldinger "Tarantula" [Looking Thru]
      • The Spinners "I'll Be There" [The Spinners]
      • Rashaan Roland Kirk "Blacknuss" [Blacknuss]
      • Billy Cobham "Quadrant 4" [Spectrum]
      • Charles Mingus "Remember Rockefeller at Attica" [Changes One]
      • Jean-Luc Ponty "Nostalgic Lady" [Enigmatic Ocean]
      • Manhattan Transfer "Java Jive; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square" [The Best of Manhattan Transfer]
      • Modern Jazz Quartet "England's Carol" [The Last Concert - Live at Philharmonic Hall]

    • November 19, 2023

      The Gold Standard 11/19/2023

      • Ray Charles "Someday" [Blues + Jazz]
      • Ray Charles "The Sun's Gonna Shine Again" [Blues + Jazz]
      • Erroll Garner "The Way You Look Tonight" [Atlantic Jazz - Piano]
      • Mary Lou Williams "In The Purple Grotto" [Atlantic Jazz - Piano]
      • Ray Charles "Hard Times" [Atlantic Jazz - Singers]
      • Chris Connor "My Heart Is So Full of You" [I Miss You So]
      • Mabel Mercer "From This Moment On" [The Art of Mabel Mercer]
      • Shorty Rogers "Blues Way Up There" [Way Up There]
      • Milt Jackson & Ray Charles "Cosmic Ray" [Soul Brothers]
      • Woody Herman "Four Brothers" [Woody Herman's Big New Herd at The Monterey Jazz Festival]
      • Dick Katz "Timonium" [Piano & Pen]
      • David Fathead Newman "Cousin Slim" [Straight Ahead]
      • Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band "Charon's Ferry" [Jazz Is Universal]
      • Mose Allison "Wild Man On The Loose; No Trouble Livin'" [Wild Man On The Loose]
      • Rufus Harley "A Tribute To Courage" [A Tribute To Courage]
      • Hubert Laws "Bloodshot" [Flute By-Laws]
      • John Coltrane "Equinox" [The Heavyweight Champion]
      • Elvin Jones "Elvin Elpus" [And Then Again]
      • Shirley Scott "Soul Song" [Soul Song]
      • Junior Mance "I Believe To My Soul" [I Believe To My Soul]

    • October 22, 2023

      The Gold Standard

      • Duke Ellington and his Orchestra "The Perfume Suite" [Carnegie Hall, December 19, 1944]
      • Thelonious Monk "Ruby, My Dear" [The Best of Thelonious Monk on Blue Note]
      • Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman "Telegraph" [Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman]
      • Eddie Davis Trio+ Joe Newman "Farouk" [Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman]
      • Cal Tjader Sextet "Doxy" [Concert by the Sea]
      • Brother Jack McDuff Quartet "S'Okay" [Recorded Live! in Concert Around the World]
      • Wayne Shorter "Infant Eyes" [Seek No Evil]
      • Lalo Schifrin "The Joint (from the film "Once a Thief")" [Once a Thief and other Themes]
      • Dexter Gordon "Some Other Spring" [Blues A La Suisse - Live at 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival]
      • Dave Grusin and the GRP All Stars "Friends and Strangers" [Dave Grusin and the GRP All Stars Live in Japan]
      • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Second Thoughts" [Live at Kimball's ]
      • Carla Bley "More Brahms" [Sextet]
      • Don Pullen "Silence = Death" [Song Everlasting]
      • Chet Baker "I Fall In Love Too Easily" [The Best of Chet Baker Sings]
      • Sonny Rollins "Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo' Bye)" [The Sound of Sonny]

    • October 08, 2023

      The Gold Standard 10/8/2023

      • Billy Taylor Trio "The London House" [The Billy Taylor Trio at the London House]
      • Phil Woods, Gene Quill "The Stanley Stomper" [Bird Feathers]
      • Lou Levy Trio "How About You" [A Most Musical Fella]
      • Jimmy Smith "What's New" [Cool Blues (Live)]
      • Bill Holman "Shadrack" [Bill Holman's Great Big Band]
      • Lena Horne "Maybe" [Lena Horne at The Sands]
      • Jackie McLean "Isle of Java" [Jackie's Bag]
      • David Fathead Newman "Batista's Groove" [Straight Ahead]
      • John Lewis "Hopeful Encounter" [Essence - John Lewis Plays the Compositions and Arrangements of Gary McFarland]
      • Clark Terry "Ode to a Flugelhorn" [What'd He Say?]
      • Charles Earland "Kharma" [Kharma (Live at Montreux)]
      • Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff "Jimmy's Groove" [On The Blue Side]
      • Bobby Watson and Horizon "In Case You Missed It" [Post - Motown Bop]
      • Mulgrew Miller "Broad Street" [Time and Again]
      • Robert Glasper "One For 'Grew" [In My Element]
      • Joey DeFrancesco & Papa John DeFrancesco "Slammin' At Slim's" [All In The Family]

    • July 16, 2023

      Substitute DJ: Noah Fence

      • Tom Verlaine "Eighty Eights" [Around]
      • Stan Getz "S-h-i-n-e" [West Coast Jazz (Expanded Edition)]
      • Howard Roberts Quartet "Make Me Rainbows" [Out Of Sight (But "In" Sound)]
      • Jack Kerouac "Charlie Parker (with Steve Allen)" [Poetry for the Beat Generation (with Steve Allen)]
      • Archie Shepp "Blues For Brother George Jackson" [Impulse Records: Music, Message and the Moment]
      • Wes Montgomery "Born To Be Blue" [Movin' Wes]
      • George Benson "Thunder Walk" [Giblet Gravy (Expanded Edition)]
      • Kenny Burrell "Wavy Gravy - Remastered" [Midnight Blue (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)]
      • Roland Kirk Quartet "From Bechet, Byas, And Fats" [Rip Rig And Panic / Now Please Don't You Cry Beautiful Edith]
      • Hank Jacobs "East Side" [Introducing Call Me Records]
      • Cal Tjader "Afro-Blue" [Soul Sauce]
      • Lionel Hampton "Hamp's Mambo" [Hamp's Big Band]
      • Dave Pike "Blind Man Blind Man" [Jazz For The Jet Set]
      • Johnny Lytle "The Village Caller" [The Riverside Records Story]
      • Big John Patton "Soul Woman" [Got A Good Thing Goin' On]
      • Grant Green "It Ain't Necessarily So" [The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark]
      • Jeff Parker "Mannerisms" [The Relatives]
      • Jeremy Steig "Howling For Judy" [Look Into The Flower: Trip on Psychedelic Grooves With Blue Note]
      • Jackie McLean "Demon's Dance - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition" [Demon's Dance (Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)]
      • John Coltrane "India - Live At The Village Vanguard, New York/1961" [Impressions]