Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit Bag

Coffeetime, May 24, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60 

Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53 

Buster Bailey & his Chocolate Dandies / Call of the Delta / Vocalion / 12.28.34 

Russ Columbo / I See Two Lovers / Brunswick [unissued] / LA 8.31.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra 

Little Esther [Phillips] / Cherry Wine / Federal / Cincinnati 3.11.53

Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / How Can You Face Me / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 2

Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Serenity / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 

Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy / 9.29.55 

George Van Eps / Once in a While / Jump / Hollywood 6.19.49 

Sophie Tucker / I’m the Last of the Red Hot Mamas / Victor / Hollywood 3.25.29

Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / Cincinnati 12.20.45

Seymour Rechtzeit & Sam Medoff / Surrey Mit a Fringe afn Top; Oy, S’iz a Sheyne Fremorgn / radio broadcast, WEVD / 1948

Earl Gaines / Little Boy Blue / Starday-King [unissued] / Cincinnati late-1960s

set 3

Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Stuffy / Blue Note / 10.20.61 

Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Ornithology / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58

J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / Coastin’ with J.C. / Apollo / 5.48

The Five Red Caps / Gabriel’s Band / Beacon / 10.44 

Ella Mae Morse / Mr. Five By Five / radio broadcast, Command Performance #40 / Hollywood 11.3.42 

Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / The Way You Look Tonight / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Frank Rosolino / Swing Not Spring / Sweet and Lovely / Savoy / Detroit 9.52 

Bob Crosby & his V-Disc Bobcats / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (And Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil!) / Navy V-Disc #260-A / 4.3.45

Viola Watkins / It Must Be Love / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952

The Pilgrim Travelers / I’m Going Through [take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soulful song

Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Hush Little Baby / Atco / 1964

Old Fashioned Playlist

Coffeetime, May 17, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out / Blue Note / 2.9.58 

Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Philly Mignon / Blue Note / 12.27.62 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Savage / radio transcription / mid-1940s

Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26

Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Move Your Hand Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Lonely Woman / Impulse! / 9.18.63 

set 2

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Velvet Moon / Prestige / 5.18.60 

Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Ballad to the East / Savoy / 7.9.57 

Barney Kessel / The Man I Love / Rex / 6.7.45

Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Miss Liza / Odeon / Paris 5.3.32 

Het Ramblers Quintet aka The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Zuiderzee Blues / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 11.15.38

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / The Peanut Vendor / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Nat King Cole / A Mis Amigos / Fantastico / Capitol / Rio de Janeiro 1959

set 3

Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Time’s Up / Time / 1.19.60 

Kenny Clarke / Detroit Jazz Men / You Turned the Tables on Me / Savoy / 5.9.56 

Max Roach / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49 

The Mills Brothers / The Song Is Ended / Decca / 6.13.38 / with Louis Armstrong

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Just a Gigolo / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Stumpy Brown

Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve 9.27.66 

set 4

Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Old Fashioned Love / Contemporary / LA 6.11.57 

Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Bugle Blues / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57

Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Oopy Doo / EmArcy / 12.19.51 

Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Harris / Camelot [movie soundtrack] / What Do the Simple Folk Do? / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 1967

The Gospel Harmonettes / Camp Meeting / Now I’m Ready / Vee Jay / 1963 

last soul song

Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965 

Grant Avenue Playlist

Coffeetime, May 3, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57 

Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / The Goof and I / Capitol / Hollywood 3.14.56  

Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Collegiate / Edison Diamond Disc / 6.23.25  

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Three Little Words / Victor / 8.20.30 / vocal = The Rhythm Boys: Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Girl Fifteen / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / vocal = Floyd Dixon & Mari Jones

Dinah Washington / My Song / Mercury / Chicago summer 1952 / with Jimmy Cobb Orchestra

set 2

Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 

Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Savoy / 12.17.59 

Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #1: Night and Day / I Can’t Get Started / Clef / 3.25.52 

Freddy Johnson & Lex Van Spall & their Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me (take 2) / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 11.29.34 / vocal = Rosie Poindexter

Bing Crosby & the Rhythmaires / Love Is So Terrific / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time #63 / Hollywood 3.31.48 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 

Ann Cole / I'm Waiting for You / Baton / 1956 

set 3

Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / You’ve Changed / Prestige / 1.31.68 

Manny Albam & his Orchestra / More Double Exposure / Rio Rita; I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / RCA Victor / 1961

Red Prysock & his Orchestra / Rock 'n' Roll / Happy Feet / Mercury / 3.26.54 

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Blue Boogie / transcription / 1945

Harry James & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Night / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 

The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 

Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4

Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Grant Avenue Suite / Fantasy / San Francisco 1958

Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3 / Who Cares / Offbeat / 9.60 

Eddie Bush & his Society Islanders / Nami Waimea / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s

Conrad Johnson & his Orchestra / Howling on Dowling / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 

Tom Jones / Tom Jones Live! At The Talk of the Town / Land of a Thousand Dances / Parrot / London 1967 

The Soul Stirrers / The Lord Laid his Hands on Me / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Spend a Little Time / Atlantic / Chicago 1963 / with the Dells

Spiritus Playlist

Coffeetime, April 26, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / Spiritus Parkus / New Jazz / 3.13.62 

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Just in Time / Prestige / 5.8.65 

King Cole Trio / Three Little Words / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Close Shave / Victor / 7.25.41

The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Any Time’s the Time to Fall in Love / HMV / London 6.20.30 / vocal = Jack Plant, directed by Ray Noble

Wynonie Harris / Rebecca’s Blues / Apollo / LA fall 1945 

Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / Born to Blow the Blues / Fantasy / 1.57 

set 2

Horace Parlan / Speakin' My Piece / Oh So Blue / Blue Note / 7.14.60 

Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Minor Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58 

Larry Adler & his Orchestra / Solitude / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35

Horse Collar Williams Orchestra / You Ain’t Nothin’ Daddy / Chicago [label] / early 1945 / vocal = Etta Jones

Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell / radio broadcast / Apollo Theater c. 1952

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / Say Si Si / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Abbe Lane

set 3

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Bob’s Blues / Prestige Moodsville / 8.23.60 

Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Gershwin’s Prelude #2 excerpt / Verve / 4.12.65 

Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Linda Flor / Blue Note / 10.5.62 

Teddy Edwards / R.B.’s Wig / Rex / 7.47

The Four Vagabonds / When the Old Gang’s Back on the Corner / Mercury / 2.46

Mary Ann McCall / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Discovery / LA 12.27.48 / with Phil Moore & his Orchestra 

Dean Martin / I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.28.50 / from Paramount movie My Friend Irma Goes West

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Knee Deep / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Oscar Pettiford / The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two / Somewhere /  ABC-Paramount / 8.30.57

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; I Won’t Tell a Soul; Nightmare theme / radio broadcast / live, Carnegie Hall 12.2.38 / vocal = Helen Forrest

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Those Lonely, Lonely Nights / RPM / LA 1955

The Trumpeteers / Trials Get Harder / Gotham? / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song

Mary Wells / He’s a Lover / 20th Century / 6.65

Got to Get My Hands on a Playlist Before I'm Too Old

Coffeetime, April 12, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Beauteous / Blue Note / 10.21.56 

John Coltrane / [7105] / Time Was / Prestige / 5.31.57 

Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Wild Fire / soundtrack from Columbia Pictures film Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra, Film Vodvil - series 1, no. 2 / 6.43  

Little Jack Little / I'm In the Mood for Love / Columbia / 6.28.35

Annisteen Allen / I Don’t Want No Substitute / King / 5.25.53 

Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Please Be Kind / Vee Jay / 1964

set 2

John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57 

Lennie Tristano / Yesterdays / Capitol / 3.14.49 

Rex Stewart’s Big Four / Madeleine (alt take) / HRS [unissued] / 7.47 

Eddie South / Black Gypsy / Swing / Paris 1938

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / I’ve Got the World on a String / Columbia / 2.15.33 / vocal = Ivie Anderson

Charles Trenet / Boum! / soundtrack film La Route Enchantée / Paris 1938

Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron

Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3

John Coltrane / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / Birdland, 10.8.63 

Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / I’ll Remember April / Roost / 8.53

James Moody's Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chino Pozo

Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / I’m So Right Tonight / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Betty Bennett

The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 

Mel Tormé / Swingin’ on the Moon [Verve’s Choice! The Best of…] / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / LA 8.3.60 

set 4

Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / ‘Round About Midnight / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Coop de Graas / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 

Fats Waller / African Ripples / Victor / 11.16.34 or Bluebird / 3.11.35 

Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 

Ethel Waters / Shades of Blue / I Shoulda Quit When I Was Ahead / Remington [Continental] / 4.19.46 / with JC Heard & his Orchestra

Ann Richards / The Many Moods of Ann Richards / I’m Late / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

The Sons of the South / Didn’t It Rain Children / Nashboro / Nashville 1954

last soulful song

The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

I Talk to the Playlist

Coffeetime, April 5, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Clifford Brown / More Study in Brown / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 2.17.56 

Ray Draper / A Tuba Jazz / I Talk to the Trees / Jubilee / 11.58 

The Piccadilly Players / Blue Grass / Columbia / London 1.11.29 / vocal = Barrie Oliver

King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45

The “5” Royales / All Righty! / Apollo / 1952 / with Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson & his Orchestra

Chris Connor / Blame It on My Youth / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

set 2

Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61 

Kenny Clarke / I Married an Angel / Savoy / 1.30.56 

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Song of India [concert version] / Columbia / 4.25.29 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Lovie Joe / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Mabel Robinson

Kay Starr / Frying Pan / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars

The Ravens / I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with Your Love Letters / National / 3.50 

Billy “The Kid” Emerson / You Never Miss Your Water / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957  

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65

Charlie Parker & his All Stars / How High the Moon / radio broadcast , WJZ / Birdland 3.31.51

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Through with Love / Musicraft / 7.18.46 / with George Treadwell & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Long, Lean and Lanky / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Joe Derise / Bethlehem’s Best / My Romance / Bethlehem / 3.10.55

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57 

Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / All the Things You Are / Tampa  / 2.20.57 

Morris Lane / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Coral / 1952

Bing Crosby / I Surrender Dear / Victor / Hollywood 3.2.31

Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone

The Southern Sons / Live So God Can Use You / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soulful song

Barbara Mills / Try / Hickory Records / Nashville 1966

My Playlist Waits (O Meu Playlist Espera)

Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Where You At? / Blue Note / 7.8.60 

Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 10.25.54 

Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / The Stroller / Blue Note / 8.21.54 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Wabash Blues / Victor / Kansas City, Missouri 12.13.27 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon 

Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I Can’t Go for You / Decca / 3.12.40 / vocal = Red Richards 

Mari Jones / It Just Wasn’t True / Modern / Hollywood c. 1953 / with Johnny Moore’s Blazers 

set 2

Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Serenade in Blue / Epic / 1956

Duke Jordan / Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet / Sultry Eve / Signal S / 10.10.55 

Lee Konitz / Duet for Saxophone and Guitar / Prestige / 3.13.51 

Art Tatum Trio / Exactly Like You / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36

Broadway Bell-Hops / There Ain’t No Land Like Dixieland to Me / Harmony / 9.29.27  

Chris Connor / Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Rock On! / Mercury / 1.3.57 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) / Blue Note / 9.13.67 

Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Ko-Ko / Argo / Chicago 1960

Charlie Parker / The Jazz Scene / The Bird / Clef / Carnegie Hall 12.47 

The Mills Brothers / Darling Nelly Gray / Decca / 4.7.37 / with Louis Armstrong 

Maxine Sullivan / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / 8.28-30.55 

set 4

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / The Floater / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 

Stan Levey / West Coasting / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54 

King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47

Mae West / They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk / Brunswick / 1933

Little Milton [Campbell] / Spring / Checker / Chicago 2.69

Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Decca / 2.21.41

last soul song

Leon Haywood / It’s Got to Be Mellow / Decca / 1968