Duante Beddingfield
Host - EquinoxDuante Beddingfield, a Dayton native, has hosted Equinox since 2018; he now records the show from his home in Michigan, where he works as arts and culture reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Previously, he served as jazz writer for both the Dayton Daily News and Dayton City Paper, booked jazz acts for area venues such as Pacchia and Wholly Grounds, and performed regularly around the region as a jazz vocalist; Beddingfield was the final jazz headliner to play Dayton's legendary Gilly's nightclub.
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On July 20, 1966, Ella Fitzgerald recorded an entire album, her final studio session for Verve Records. Whisper Not, named for saxophonist Benny Golson's…
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Another unusual, unique entry in Ella Fitzgerald's extensive recording career, this is likely the sexiest version of "Just a Closer Walk" you'll ever…
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"My fur coat's sold,Oh, Lord, ain't it coldBut I'm not gonna hollerCuz i still got a dollar,And when I get low..."So let's reach way back and talk about…
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My favorite Ella Fitzgerald recording, a spectacular track recorded March 18, 1958 for The Irving Berlin Songbook, then--amazingly--cut from the record!…
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A sizzling take on a major standard, with a knockout big band arrangement by Bill Doggett. That horn sound is MASSIVE. And no wonder - the band included…
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A fun track from 1963's Ella Sings Broadway, this fluffy little number from The Pajama Game is juiced up with a smoky, vamping, almost bebop-style Marty…
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Easily in my top five Ella Fitzgerald recordings, from a little-heard concert in 1953 Japan with a wildly enthusiastic audience and Ella at the peak of…
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1961, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook. Notable also because it includes the seldom-heard opening stanza. This recording is an excellent…
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Ella tackles a bop classic and smooths it out into liquid silk. This sexy take on Dizzy Gillespie's standard, recorded the first weeks of 1961, has Herb…
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A fun little recording from early 1959, originally done for the Gershwin Songbook album but dropped, and released later that year on Get Happy! A bright…