Friday, August 31, 2007

All this Playlist and Big Ripe Tomato



Coffeetime, August 31, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Zellmar's Delight [CD bonus track] / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Art Taylor / Taylor's Wailers / Cubano Chant / Prestige / 2.25.57
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / I Get a Kick Out of You / RCA Victor / 1.4.50
Russ Morgan & his Orch / Hurry Home / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Russ Morgan
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / All this Beef and Big Ripe Tomatoes / Capitol / Kansas City 7.14.51
Nancy Wilson / (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am / People / Capitol / LA 1964

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Sergio Mendes / Cannonball's Bossa Nova [Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars] / O Amor Em Paz / Riverside / 12.7.62
Count Basie & his Orch / E=MC2 [aka Atomic Basie] / Lil' Darlin' / Roulette / 1957
Oscar Aleman / Stardust / Odeon / Buenos Aires 10.26.44
Ella Logan / Pardon My Southern Accent / radio transcription, Fleischmann's Yeast Hour / 4.4.35
Ciro Rimac's Rumba-Orchester / Cachita / Telefunken / Berlin 10.23.37 / vocal = Ciro Rimac
Roy Brown / Rock-A-Bye Baby / DeLuxe [unissued] / Cincinnati 9.27.51
Sonny Curtis / Love is All Around (Mary Tyler Moore Show theme) / LA 1970

set 3
Kenny Drew / The Kenny Drew Trio / Blues for Nica / Riverside / 9.20, 26.56
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / Summertime / Imperial / 7.10.56
Paul Gayten & his Orch / Back Trackin' aka Dr Daddy-O / Regal / 8.49
Three Peppers [Roy Branker, Bob Bell, Walter Williams] / Swinging at the Cotton Club / soundtrack A Lady Takes A Chance starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur / Hollywood 1943
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Bob White / RCA Victor / LA 9.6.37 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Lionel Robinson / I Can't Go On Without You / Gotham / 6.49

set 4
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Blue Skies / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / I'll Know / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater, San Francisco 12.4.54
Benny Carter & his Orch /Just a Mood / Vocalion / London 4.36 / Benny Carter on clarinet
Billie Holiday & her Orch / Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Vocalion / 9.13.37
James Brown / Live at the Apollo / I'll Go Crazy [CD bonus track] / King / 10.24.62
Nancy Sinatra / Sugar Town / Reprise / LA 1966
Charming Bells / Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb / 1949

last soul song
Blondie / Hunter / The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game / Chrysalis / 1982


Friday, August 24, 2007

Don't Dream of Any Playlist But Me

Coffeetime, August 24, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase /Minor Mode / Riverside / 11.18.59
Red Garland / Red Alone / These Foolish Things / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60
Andre Previn / Let's Get Away from It All! / Reprise: Let's Get Away from It All! / Decca / 1951
Harry James & his Orch / Stardust / transcription / mid-1940s
Helen Kane /Don't Be Like That / Victor / 12.20.28 / with Leonard Joy & his Orch
Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington / If It's the Last Thing I Do / Roulette /7.5.62

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor / Where or When / Urania / 1954
Benny Carter & his Orch / Further Definitions / Body & Soul / Impulse! / 11.13, 15.61
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Poor Butterfly (I'll Never Be the Same) / Columbia / 6.10.31
King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / LA 3.6.44
The Ray-O-Vacs / Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle / Decca / 9.50
Robert Morse / original cast score to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / I Believe in You / RCA Victor / 1961

set 3
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / Koolbongo [Cool Bongos] / Riverside / 7.20.59
Henry Mancini / soundtrack to Hatari! / Night Side / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1962
Melvin "Sax" Gill / Mel's Jump / Gotham / Philadelphia 2.49
Figari and Troise / Double Chaser / transcription / Buenos Aires 11.26.46
Chuck Foster & his Orch / These Things You Left Me / radio transcription / Hollywood 1940 / vocal = Dolores Brandon
The Four Blues / Vegetable Song / Apollo / Philadelphia 12.17.47
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Skylark / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Down Among the Sheltering Palms / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59
Band [Hoagy Carmichael] / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Georgia on My Mind / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56
John Kirby & his Orch / Crossroads / Victor / 11.43
Louis Jordan / Hurry Home / Aladdin / 4.54
Bobby King / Thanks Mr. Postman / King / Cincinnati 1961
Jackie De Shannon / For You / Don't Dream of Anybody But Me / Imperial / LA 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Gospel Train / transcription / live Carnegie Hall 12.24.39

last soulful song
The Zombies / This Old Heart of Mine / BBC broadcast / live London 10.10.67

Friday, August 17, 2007

My Playlist is Something Else

Coffeetime, August 17, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Krafty / Bethlehem /10.11.57
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Our Waltz /Prestige / 4.10.62
Harry Carney's Big Eight / Shadowy Sands (alternate take) / HRS [Mosaic - thank you, Lou] / 3.18.46
George Olsen & his Orch / Who / Victor / 11.6.25 / vocal = Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Jack Fulton
The Charioteers / Stardust / transcription / 1942
Dakota Staton / Softly / Old Folks / Capitol / LA 2.60 / with Benny Carter & his Orch

set 2
Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Dinky's Mood / Prestige / 5.25.59
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Stardust / Commodore / 11.10.38
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / From the Blue / transcription / mid-1940s
Teddy Hill & his Orch / When the Robin Sings His Song Again / Oriole / 2.26.35
Ben Selvin & his Orch / Sweet and Low Down/That Certain Feeling / Columbia / 1.11.26
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along Without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Peggy Lee / Beside the Zeiderze/Half as Much / transcription (radio show) / Hollywood 1952 / Sonny Burke & his Orch
Little Milton / My Baby's Something Else / Checker / 7.65

set 3
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / Requiem / Blue Note / 9.21.61
Cal Tjader / Latin Kick / Tropicana / Fantasy / LA 11.56
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Rhythm Cocktail / Specialty / 12.22.45
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Let's Get Away from It All / Okeh / 3.19.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day
The 4 Vagabonds / Kentucky Babe / Apollo / 11.13.46 / their first session for Apollo
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / What Are You Afraid Of? / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Henry Mancini / More Music from Peter Gunn / Goofin' at the Coffee House / RCA Victor / Hollywood spring 1959
Frank Wess / Trombones & Flute / You'll Do / Savoy / 7.18.56
Dinah Washington / Mellow Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Big Mama Thornton / Hound Dog / Peacock / 1953
Nelson Gonçalves / Normalista / RCA Victor / 1950s-early 60s
Delta Rhythm Boys / Ezekial Saw De Wheel / 1941

last soul song
Willie Tee / Thank You John / Atlantic / 1965

Friday, August 10, 2007

I Didn't Know What Playlist It Was

Coffeetime, August 10, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Dark Eyes / Riverside /1.31.58
Lionel Hampton & his Sextette / Chasin' with Chase / Vocalion / Chicago 4.8.41
Sam Lanin Orch / Don't Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 6.11.28
The Big Three / I Feel Like Steppin' Out / Columbia / Chicago 2.18.49
Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / Midnight Sun / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson-arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 9.15.64
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / You are too Beautiful /Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Tuma / EmArcy / 1.4.55
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Oh Why, Oh Why / radio transcription / 5.17.39 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra / soundtrack to Anchors Aweigh / I Begged Her / MGM / Hollywood 6.13.44
Cootie Williams & his Savoy Ballroom Orch / Blue Sunday / RCA Victor [unissued] / 5.15.57 / Wini Brown

set 3
Mel Rhyne / Organ-izing / Shoo, Shoo Baby / Jazzland / 3.31.60
Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Indianola / live at the Royal Roost 4.23.49
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle Dee Bop Bop / Decca / 1939
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orch
Buddy Greco / Hang You Hat at Mister Kelly's / The Nearness of You / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Barney Kessel / Kessel Plays Standards / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Contemporary / LA 9.12.55
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley / Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Strings / Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Around a Pug-nosed Dream) / EmArcy / 10.27, 28.55
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Loved One (first take) / Vocalion / 6.6.30
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Thanks for the Memory / Victor / 12.2.37
King Cole Trio / Beautiful Moons Ago / Excelsior/Capitol / LA 3.1.43
James Brown /Just Me and You, Darling / King / LA 9.29.60 / flip of I Love You, Yes I Do
The Sallie Martin Singers / Oh What a Time / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 12.15.50

last soul song
Minnie Riperton / Perfect Angel / The Edge of a Dream / Epic / 1974

Friday, August 03, 2007

My Life is My Playslist



Coffeetime, August 3, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Lex / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Dingbat Blues / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62
Benny Carter & his Orch / Forever Blues / Capitol / 12.12.45
Gus Arnheim & his Orch / Back in Your Own Backyard / Okeh / LA 4.14.28 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Fred Astaire / soundtrack from film Swing Time / Never Gonna Dance / Brunswick / 7.26.36 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Jack McVea's Orch / You Can't Come Back Home / Modern / 1950
Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / Prisoner of Love / Argo / 6.27, 29.62

set 2
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] /3.29.56
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Friends, vol 1 / I Cover the Waterfront / Contemporary / LA 2.11.56
Jimmy Forrest / Begin the Beguine / United / 2.3.53
Frankie Newton Quintet / Daybreak Blues / Blue Note / 4.7.39
Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Hoagy Carmichael / The Hoagy Carmichael Show radio show /Down T'Uncle Bill's / transcription / LA 11.19.44
Johnny Mercer / My Sugar is So Refined / Capitol / LA 5.26.46 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orch
Betty Everett / You're No Good / Hands Off / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 3
Willie Bobo / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Bobo's Beat] / Crisis / Roulete / 1962
Henry Mancini / soundtrack to The Party / Wiggy / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Out of Nowhere / Savoy / 4.18.50
Lester Young / Saxobebop / Clef /
The Merry Macs / The Hut-Sut Song / Decca / 1941
The Marshall Brothers / My Life is My Life / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11/ Opus de Funk / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59 /
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / Melrose and Sam / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Andy Iona & The Islanders / Summer Time Girl / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1939 / vocal = Hilo Trio
Little Willie John / All Around the World / King / 6.27.55
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Equinox / Wave / A&M / LA 1967
Carolina Kings of Harmony / There's a Narrow Path to Heaven / Trumpet / Raleigh, NC 4.10.53

last soul song
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / 1972