Playlist: Will Duchon's Portfolio
Welcome to my portfolio. Here you will find full-length editions of four programs I produce and host:
The Night Cafe: jazz vocals from artists of today and yesterday
Words & Music: A unique program of poetry and reflective music of all types and genres.
Musical Moments: This segment focuses on sublime moments within a piece of music. It is educational and engaging.
Featured
Wistful
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 59:37
Jazz vocals for the wistful heart.
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- Wistful
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Blossom Dearie, Melissa Stylianou, Charlie Haden, Jo Stafford, Deb Rasmussen, Jose James, Laila Biali, Marvin Gaye, The Real Group, Shirley Horn, Sinne Eeg, Frank Sinatra
The Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:02:23
Classic Bacharach songs performed by jazz artists of today and yesterday.
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- The Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Carol Duboc, Denise Donatelli, Etta James, Hilary Kole, McCoy Tyner, Trinjtje Oosterhuis, The 5th Dimension
Songs of Michel Legrand
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:03:27
International artists share the lush music of Michel Legrand.
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- Songs of Michel Legrand
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Natalie Dessay, Nicki Parrott, Ray Charles, Nancy LaMott, Sinne Eeg, Sue Raney, Helene Sagara, Hilary Kole, Tierney Sutton, Bill Evans
I Like a Gershwin Tune
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:00:00
Gershwin songs sung and played by great jazz artists.
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- I Like a Gershwin Tune
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Abbey Lincoln, Art Tatum, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Joan Morris, William Bolcom, Linda Ronstadt, Nellie McKay, The Real Group, Sarah Vaughan, Susannah McCorkle, June Christy, Joe Williams, Shirley Horn
with a special cameo appearance by H.William Stine, host of "Turntable For One" and "'Round Midnight Jazz".
Time After Time
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:01:33
Songs about the passage of time.
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- Time After Time
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Mary Stallings, Susie Arioli, Frank Sinatra, Nancy LaMott, Eva Cassidy, Jeri Southern, Terri Cerritto, Carmen McRae, Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Jeanette Lindstrom
Road to the Sun
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:00:28
Solar jazz songs for the spring.
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- Road to the Sun
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Karrin Allyson, Nina Simone, Rigmor Gustafsson, Sarah Edmonds, Sharon Isbin, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Tatiana Eva-Marie, Dianne Reeves, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, JaLaLa, Jo Stafford, Avalon Jazz Band
Paying It Forward
From Will Duchon | 57:53
Tributes to jazz legends by today's jazz vocalists.
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- Paying It Forward
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Kandace Springs, Michelle Lordi, Tony Bennett, Linda Ronstadt, Anita O'Day, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dinah Washington, Gregory Porter, Stephanie Nakasian, Jose James
Like a Lover
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 57:51
Tracks from some new recordings, and some surprises.
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- Like a Lover
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Angela O'Neill, Carol Sloane, CeCe Gable, Charlie Haden, Shirley Horn, Camille Bertault, Jo Stafford, Fay Victor, Jen Chapin, Liz Terrell,
Young At Heart
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 53:15
Songs inspired by childhood and children.
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- Young At Heart
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- Will Duchon
Featuring Judy Collins, Katharine McPhee, Katie Birtill, Maria Freidman, Melissa Errico, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Emilie Claire-Barlow, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Porter, Holly Yarbrough
Pastoral (EDITED )
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 55:48
Poetry about music's impact upon life.
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- Pastoral (EDITED )
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- Will Duchon
POETRY:
The Ebony Chickering by Dorianne Laux
Chet Baker Told Me So by George Wallace
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
Buckdancer's Choice by James L. Dickey
Pastoral by Janet Krauss
MUSIC by an unknown pianist, Orquestra Anacaona, Chet Baker, Karl Bohm, Vienna Philharmonic, Sam McGee, Jack Rose
The Lovers of The Poor
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 56:34
Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.
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- The Lovers of The Poor
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- Will Duchon
POETRY:
RIOT by Gwendolyn Brooks
THE LOVERS OF THE POOR by Gwendolyn Brooks
MOB by Keith S. Wilson
anti-immigration by Evie Shockley
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS by Wendell Berry
MUSIC BY Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Abbey Lincoln, John Coltrane, Joslin Grove Choral Society, Common, Gregory Porter, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Paulina Reza, David Garza, Crooked Still
Perfect Pitch (EDITED)
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 01:00:03
Musical themes ranging from intimate expressions of love, the power of spirituals, to musical dogs.
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- Perfect Pitch (EDITED)
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- Will Duchon
POETRY BY: Tracy K. Smith, Liesel Mueller,Sandra Beasley, Peter Pereira, Paul Zimmer
MUSIC BY: Eva Cassidy, The Geeche Gullah Ring Shouters, Pascal Roge, Cat Stevens, Barry Manilow, Maurizio Pollini, Artur Rubinstein, The Beatles, Barbara Bonney, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Radu Lupu.
Brahms
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 01:04:24
A celebration of Johannes Brahms with poetry and his music. (In celebration of his birthday, May 7)
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- Brahms
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- Will Duchon
POETRY:
FUTILE SERENADE by Marcia Menter
MY NIGHT WITH BRAHMS by Marcia Menter
TWO RHAPSODIES FOR PIANO, Op. 79 by Marcia Menter
TRAGIC OVERTURE, Op. 81 by Marcia Menter
ROMANTICS by Lisel Mueller
MUSIC BY Johannes Brahms
A Moment in Schumann's Piano Quartet, Op. 47
From Will Duchon | Part of the Musical Moments series | 07:54
The closing strains of the third movement of Schumann's Piano Quartet express introspection.
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- A Moment in Schumann's Piano Quartet, Op. 47
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- Will Duchon
The closing strains of the third movement of Schumann's Piano Quartet express introspection.
A Moment from Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5
From Will Duchon | Part of the Musical Moments series | 10:20
A moment of transformation from the Passacaglia movement of Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1938).
A moment of transformation from the Passacaglia movement of Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1938).
Eclogue
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 59:24
Music as metaphor and subject.
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- Eclogue
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- Will Duchon
POETRY:
ELEGY by Anne Stevenson
THE EXACT CHANGE by Joel Brouwer
ROMANCING DEBUSSY by Maureen Seaton
BACH AND THE SENTRY by Ivor Gurney
ECLOGUE by Rob Stuart
MUSIC BY Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Frederic Chopin, J.S. Bach, Gerald Finzi
Expecting Spring
From Will Duchon | Part of the The Night Cafe series | 01:00:48
Songs about looking forward to spring during the bleak midwinter.
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- Expecting Spring
- From
- Will Duchon
Featuring Astrud Gilberto, Al Jarreau, Frank Sinatra, Jane Monheit, Nancy LaMott, Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, Sinne Eeg, Song Yi Jeon, Vinicius Gomes, Avalon Jazz Band, Tony Bennett, Bill Evans
Music Lessons
From Will Duchon | Part of the Words & Music series | 02:00:42
Experiences of childhood music lessons and teachers in many dimensions.
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- Music Lessons
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- Will Duchon
Poetry by: Mary Oliver, Diane Wakoski, James Cole, William Matthews, David Tucker
Music by Anna Larsen, Artur Rubinstein, Carol Rosenberger, Claudia Arrau,Nicol de Brun, Peter Serkin, Simone Dinnerstein, Thelonious Monk, Andre Watts, Martha Argerich