Playlist Plaything

Coffeetime, May 25, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Charisma / Somethin’ Cute / Blue Note / 9.29.66  

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugh! / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 

Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Sound Track / Majestic / early 1947

Al Bowlly / I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song / HMV / London 7.5.33 / with Ray Noble & his Orchestra 

Jimmy Witherspoon / That’s Your Red Wagon / Modern / LA 1948 / with Al "Cake" Wichard Sextette 

Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / I’ll String Along with You / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58 

set 2

Sonny Criss / I'll Catch the Sun / Cry Me a River / Prestige / 1.20.69 

The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / Poor Butterfly / Jubilee / 1962

Four French Horns Plus Rhythm / [Folk, Pops 'n Jazz Sampler ] / Come Rain or Come Shine / Elektra / 4.14.57 

Percival Mackey’s Band / I’m Looking for a Boy / Columbia / London 8.19.26 

King Cole Trio / I Lost Control of Myself / Keystone transcription / LA 1.14.39 / vocal = Bonnie Lake

Jesse Price & his Blues Band / I Ain’t Mad at You / Capitol / LA 10.17.46

Peggy Lee / Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee / Yes Indeed! / Capitol / 1.12.61 

set 3

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott / Jaws / Too Close for Comfort / Prestige / 9.12.58 

The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging "Guys and Dolls" / My Time of Day / Columbia / 11.4.59

Lester Young / Crazy over J.Z. / Savoy / 6.28.49 (Or did I play Exercise in Swing by mistake?)

The Boswell Sisters / It Don’t Mean a Thing / Brunswick / 11.22.32 

Earl Warren / Poor Little Plaything / Savoy / 4.18.44 

Anthony Newley / Tony / All by Myself / London / 1961 

set 4

Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Sonar / Contemporary / London 8.19.55 

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / The Swingin' Sound / So Be It / Signature / 1959

Ella Fitzgerald & her Famous Orchestra / That’s All, Brother / Decca / 6.29.39

Ray Charles / At Newport / Talkin’ ’Bout You / Atlantic / Newport Jazz Festival 7.5.58

Golden Gate Quartet / My Time Done Come; Run On / Okeh [My Time was unissued] / 3.25.42

last soulful song

Archie Bell & the Drells / Go for What You Know / Atlantic / Philadelphia 11.1.68

Walkin' the Playlist

Coffeetime, May 18, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Chet Baker / Comin' On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Comin’ On / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 

Jimmy Cleveland & his Orch / Cleveland Style / Jimmie’s Tune / EmArcy / 12.12.57  

Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955 

Carmichael’s Collegians / Walkin’ the Dog / Gennett / 5.5.28 

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / I Only Have Eyes for You / Decca / The Hague 2.4.35 / vocal = Annie de Reuver

Tiny Bradshaw / Walkin’ the Chalk Line / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50 

Betty Roché / Singin' & Swingin' / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 6.3.60 

set 2

Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Don’t Squawk / Atlantic / 6.14.55 

Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / Melba’s Mood / Blue Note / 3.23.58 

Benny Morton & His Orchestra / Tailor Made / Columbia / 2.23.34

The Four Blues / It Takes a Tall Brown Skinned Gal / Apollo / 1948 

Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Jealous Love / King / Cincinnati 1954 

Frankie Laine / Rockin' / So Black and Blue / Columbia / LA 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3

Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Cup Bearers / Philips / 4.25.63

Arnett Cobb / Party Time / Flying Home / Prestige / 5.14.59 

Paul Quinichette / Blow Your Horn (7”) / The Heat’s On / Decca 9.25.53

The Five Jinks / Za Zu Swing / Bluebird / Charlotte Hotel, NC 2.20.37 

 Dizzy Gillespie / [Dizzy Gillespie] / He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped / [Allegro Elite] Prestige / 7.9.46 / vocal = Alice Roberts 

Babe Wallace / Whistlin' at the Chicks / Apollo / 10.46 / with Jerry Jerome Orchestra

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I Fall in Love Too Easily / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4

Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Topsy / Tampa / LA 8.8.55 

Mundell Lowe / Satan in High Heels soundtrack; Blues for a Stripper / Satan in High Heels  / MGM; Charlie Parker Records / LA 1962

Count Basie & his Orchestra / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! / Ain’t That Right / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62 

Little Esther / It’s So Good / Savoy / 2.19.59 

Rick Nelson / The Very Thought of You / Dinah / Decca / LA 1964 

The Bronzemen / Don’t Touch My Garment / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soul song

The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Gotta Let You Go / Uni / LA 1970

My Playlist, My Pony and Me

Coffeetime, May 11, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Earl Zindars Sextet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / Ping Pong Beer / Warwick / spring 1960 

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued CD bonus track] / 1.25.60 

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / In a Sentimental Mood / radio transcription / late 1930s

Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Under the Moon It’s You / Columbia / 7.21.30 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Mason, Mac Ceppos Ballew  

Willie Bryant / Because Your Baby Is on Your Mind / Apollo / 10.46

Dinah Washington / Easy Living / EmArcy / 03.15.55 

set 2

Curtis Amy / Katanga! / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963

Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / Come Rain or Come Shine / Blue Note / 9.1.57 

Trio de Saxophones Alix Combelle / Reflets / Swing / Paris 12.18.40

Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Get Cannibal / Bluebird / 6.23.32 

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Hop on the Skyliner! / Oh! Miss Jaxson / Decca / 7.17.42 / vocal = Peanuts Holland

Ann Cole / I've Got a Little Boy / Baton / 3.59 / with the Suburbans & Orchestra 

set 3

Wes Montgomery / Wes Montgomery Encores / Movin’ Along [alternate take from Movin’ Along] / Riverside / 10.12.60 

Mal Waldron / Impressions / C’est Formidable / New Jazz / 3.20.59 

Roy Brown / Drum Boogie / DeLuxe [unissued] / Cincinnati 6.23.50

Mills Brothers / Georgia on My Mind / Decca / London 7.7.39

Martha Raye / (I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She’s Funny That Way / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / I Married an Angel / Epic / LA 1961

set 4

Urbie Green / [Slidin’ Swing] / Lullaby of Birdland / Vanguard [Jazztone] / 8.17.54  

Milt Hinton / Basses Loaded! / Fump / RCA / 2.1.55

The Big Three / Blue Because of You / Chicago 5.29.51

Dean Martin / Dino Latino / In a Little Spanish Town / Reprise / arranged & conducted by Don Costa / LA 1963

Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson / My Rifle, My Pony and Me / soundtrack Rio Bravo / 1959 

Dixie Hummingbirds / Don’t You Want to Join that Number / Apollo / 1.47

last soul song

Seventh Wonder / Ain’t Nothing Gonna Break Us Up / Abet / Nashville 1974

Marry a Playlist Uglier than You

Coffeetime, May 4, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Luminescence / Prestige / 4.20.67 

Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Mack the Knife / Vee Jay / 9.9.59 

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Voodte / Signature / 12.8.43 

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 

Camille Howard / Try Try Again / Pan-American / LA 1946 / with James Clifford’s JazzGi Orchestra 

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (slow version) / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Lament for Booker / Blue Note / 10.10.62 

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Lullaby of Birdland / Mercury / 1960

Art Van Damme / [Cocktail Capers] / Dark Eyes / Capitol / 12.20.47 [1950] 

Fred Astaire / soundtrack to A Damsel in Distress / Things Are Looking Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.37

Duke of Iron aka Cecil Anderson / Marry a Woman Uglier than You / radio transcription, AFRS Jubilee #9 / Hollywood 1.43 / with introduction by MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 

Phil Harris / [That's What I Like About the South] / St James Infirmary / RCA Victor / 1950 [1958]

set 3

Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / medley: Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today); The Prayer / Impulse! / 4.24-25.62 

Frankie Randall / More of Frankie Randall / Lullaby of Birdland / Roulette / 1965

Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / Bolo Blues / Prestige / 4.18.61 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Blue Interlude / Bluebird / 8.8.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton

The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47 

Jackie Paris / That Paris Mood [Skylark] / Detour Ahead / Coral [Brunswick] / 1954 

set 4

Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Boy Meets Horn / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57

Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / Eard’s Word / Prestige / 1.13.56 / with wacky cover design by Gil Melle 

Kay Starr / Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Let Your Tears Fall Baby / Peacock / Houston 1951 / with Bill Harvey’s Orchestra 

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (fast version) / United Artists / 7.58

The Chosen Gospel Singers / I’m Going Back with Him / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song

The Manhattans / Til You Come Back to Me / Carnival / 1969

ESP (Extrasensory Playlist)

Coffeetime, April 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Booker Little [Max Roach] / Jazz Series, Vol. 8 [Award-Winning Drummer] / Variations on the Scene / Time / 11.4.58 

Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary [Jazz Series, Vol. 8] / A Waltz / Time / 2.11.60 

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & hisOrchestra / Swingin’ on Lenox Avenue / Bluebird / 5.14.39

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Friendly / Columbia / London 5.5.31 / vocal = Sid Buckman

The Four Clefs / V-Day Stomp / Bluebird / Chicago 2.28.45 / lead vocal = Johnny Green

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / It Never Entered My Mind / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Note / 12.16.61 

Matty Matlock & his Jazz Band / Music from Jack Webb’s Pete Kelly’s Blues / Sugar / Columbia / 1955 

Art Tatum / Where or When / V-Disc [unissued] / Hollywood late 1.46

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Do You or Don’t You Love Me / Bluebird / 5.23.36 / vocal = Teddy Lewis

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Run Joe / Decca / Hollywood 1948

Chuck Willis / Baby’s on My Mind / Okeh [unissued] / 6.27.51

set 3

Machito / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz] / Congo Mulence / Roulette / 12.17, 19, 24.57 

Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / ESP (Extrasensory Perception) / Blue Note / 11.24.64 

Terry Gibbs / T & S / Prestige / 3.14.49 

Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #332 / Hollywood 3.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra and introduced by Dick Haymes

Cap-Tans / I’m So Crazy for Love / Dot / 1950 

Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / This Funny World / RCA / 1955

set 4

André Previn / Soundtrack for Two for the Seesaw / Everybody’s Got a Radio / United Artist / Hollywood 1962

Ben Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Soupsville / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59

Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / Skylark / Liberty / LA 9.55

Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol / Hollywood 5.26.46

Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / English Diplomacy / National / 1965 

The Hightower Brothers / Lord I’m Running / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville early 1960s

last soulful song

Al Green / The Belle Album / Loving You / Hi Records / Memphis 1977

Rocks in My Playlist

Coffeetime, April 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / Olive Refractions / Riverside / 8.4 & 5.59 

Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / LA 3.14.56 

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Hello Babe / Signature / 12.21.43 

Ruth Etting / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Banner / 3.29.33

The Basin Street Boys / Jumping at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio  

Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Darn that Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / vocal = Dinah Washington 

set 2

Clifford Brown / Best Coast Jazz / You Go to My Head / EmArcy / LA 8.11.54 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Malinda’s Wedding Day / Bluebird / 7.31.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson

The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Running Wild / Varsity / 12.47

Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / My Ohio Home / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra 

set 3

James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Linda Serene / Riverside / LA 10.11.60 

Cy Coleman / Pianorama / I Got Lost in His Arms / Capitol / 1961

Lennie Tristano / Wow / Capitol / 3.4.49 

Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #7: Jazz Perennial / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 

Tadd Dameron & his Orchestra / Heaven’s Doors Are Open Wide / Capitol / 4.21.49 / vocal = Kay Penton 

The Robins / I’m Through / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 

Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Rocks in My Bed / Atlantic / 1957

set 4

Lennie Neihaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Elbow Room / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 

Pete Brown / Jazz Kaleidoscope / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Bethlehem / 11.16.54 

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Bluebird / 4.8.39 / vocal = Jimmy Mitchelle

Peggy Lee / The Old Master Painter / 11.16.49 / with Mel Tormé & the Mellomen

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Out of this World / Impulse / 9.18.63 

Jubalaires / I Declare the World Is in a Bad Condition / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

There's a Playlist at the Door

Coffeetime, April 6, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Settin’ the Pace / Rise and Shine / Prestige / 3.26.58 

Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / Big Ben / Mode / 7.57 

Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Columbia / London 6.10.38 / vocal = George Melachrino

Harry “Sweets” Edison & his Orchestra / Ain’t Cha Gonna Do It? / radio transcription? / LA 10.45

Larry Darnell  / Don’t Go, Don’t Go / Regal / 1950 / with Paul Gayten’s Band 

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Left Alone / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2

The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Prestige / 10.25.57 

Henry Mancini / Combo! / Dream of You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60

Charlie Mariano / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Bethlehem / 7.11.55 

Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful / Decca / LA 12.17.36 / with Andy Iona & his Islanders

Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 12.12.40

Elmer Christian & his Bar X Cowboys / A Rainy Sunday Night / Globe / Houston early 1946

Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man / Specialty / Hollywood 5.4.50

set 3

Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63 

Hal McKusick / Bird Feathers / Con Alma / Prestige / 12.27.57 

Flip Phillips Hiptet / Swingin’ for Popsie / Signature / 6.45

The Mills Brothers / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Decca / 7.19.38

Sarah Vaughn / Penthouse Serenade / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Teddy Wilson Octet

Nat King Cole / Top Pops / Funny! (Not Much) / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo

set 4

Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Hey Sam / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 

Taft Jordan & The Mob / Louisiana Fairy Tale / Melotone / 2.22.35 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Could I Know? / RCA Victor / LA early 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / There’s a Man at the Door / Columbia / 12.23.47

Harmonizing Four / Come Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song

Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnival / 1968