Playlist of My Dreams

Coffeetime, June 24, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Quintet / I Love You (take 2) / Debut / 12.5.53
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Boy / Sonny Boy / Prestige / 12.7.56
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Adios / radio transcription / 1947
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Strut Miss Lizzie / Brunswick / 6.6.30 / vocal = Dale Robertson
Pee Wee Crayton / When It Rains It Pours / Imperial / New Orleans 11.5.51/ with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / You Taught Me How to Cry / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
John Coltrane / Stardust / Stardust / Prestige / 7.11.58
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Poor You / Prestige / 1.24.63
Charlie Venturo Sextette / I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You / Sunset / LA 3.1.45
Art Karle & his Boys / Lights Out / Vocalion / 1.13.36 / vocal = Chick Bullock
Bixie Crawford / Maybe Some Rainy Day / King / LA 1949 / with Buddy Banks Sextet, composed by William "Frosty" Pyles (on guitar)
"Billy Soul" / My Darling Honey Baby / King / 1963

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Me 'n' You / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Girl of My Dreams / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Hollerin’ & Screamin’ / Savoy / 12.18.46
Harry James & his Orch / I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Four Vagabonds / (That Gang that Sang) Heart of of My Life / Apollo / 7.47
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / To Be with You / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Kinda Blues / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58
Red Norvo / I’m Yours / Savoy / LA 4.13.51
Louis Prima & his Hotcha Trio / Dinah / Bluebird / 9.28.33
Annisteen Allen / She Lost her Re-bop / Queen / 1946
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Doralice / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = Joao Gilberto
Rising Stars / Moses / Cava-Tone / San Francisco 1949

last soul song
Jerry Butler / Just Because I Really Love You / Mercury / 1968

Me and the Playlist in the Moon

Coffeetime, June 10, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / In New York / Planet Earth / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 1.12 & 14.62
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Here and Now / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Riffin’ / Victor / Chicago 5.23.36
Al Bowlly / Guilty / HMV / London 11.14.31 / with the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Hot Lips Page / Evil Man’s Blues / Bluebird / 12.10.40
Amos Milburn / I’m Gonna Leave You / Aladdin / LA 11.19.47
Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62
Jon Eardley / In Hollywood / Indian Spring / New Jazz / LA 12.25.54
Howard Jacobs & his Golden Tone Saxophone & Orchestra for Dancing / Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Columbia / London 1938
Bing Crosby / Pretending / Decca / Hollywood 5.15.46 / with the Les Paul Trio
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Your Daddy’s Doggin’ Around / King / Cincinnati 7.6.51 / vocal = Connee Allen
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Girl from Ipanema / Atlantic / 1966

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Taru] / Get Yourself Together / Blue Note / 2.15.68
Wes Montgomery / Fusion! / Baubles, Bangles and Beads / Riverside / 4.19.63
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Shad Roe / EmArcy / 1.30.52
Jack Jenney / I Walk Alone / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39 / vocal = Meredith Blake; arranged by Hugo Winterhalter
Larks / Little Side Car / Apollo / 1951
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Say It Isn’t So / Signature / 1961

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / A Cool Day / Jubilee / LA 1958
Barney Kessel / Solo / Alfie / Concord / 1981
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.28
Ella Mae Morse / Invitation to the Blues / V-Disc 325B / Hollywood summer 1944 / with Freddie Slack & his Orch
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To / Look at that Face / RCA / 1965
Afro Quintette / Working for My Jesus / Savoy / autumn 1954

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Ooh-La-Dee-Dah / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

A Little Playlist, A Little Kiss

Coffeetime, June 3, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug's Minor B'OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / On a Clear Day / Prestige / 3.23.67
Erskine Butterfield / Light-House / Davis / 6.14.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / It's Only a Paper Moon / Vogue / Paris 12.21.49
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Mean to Me / Decca / London 5.31.29 / vocal = Phil Arnold
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Cuttin' Out / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / vocal = Annie Laurie
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Capitol / LA 7.57 / with orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle and conducted by Frank Sinatra (check out the cover designs)

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Hal Schaefer / Ten Shades of Blue / Bye Bye Blues / United Artists / 1959
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I Surrender Dear / Capitol / LA 5.21.44
Eddie Lang / A Little Love, A Little Kiss / Okeh / 5.28.27
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
Johnny Otis Band / Call Operator 210 / Mercury / LA 1951 / vocal = Mel Walker
Sammy Davis Jr / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / 1966

set 3
Matthew Gee / Jazz by Gee / Kingston Lounge / Riverside / 7.19.56
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Maria / Capitol / LA 9.62
Wardell Gray / Jackie / Prestige / LA 1.21.52
Dorothy Lamour / Sweet Potato Piper / from soundtrack to movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
The Ravens / Someday / National / 9.49
Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short at Town Hall / (I Love You) Samantha / Atlantic / live at Town Hall 5.19.68

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing (Vol. 3) / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Room 608 / EmArcy / Stockholm 4.29.58
George Van Eps / Kay's Fantasy / Jump / 6.13.49
Fats Waller / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Victor / 8.17.34
Jim Bryant / soundtrack to West Side Story / Something’s Coming / Columbia / Hollywood 1961
Chita Rivera & Carol Lawrence / Broadway score to West Side Story / A Boy Like That; I Have a Love /  Columbia / 1957
The Five Trumpets / My Chains Fell Off / Gotham / 1950

last soul song
Gil Scott-Heron / From South Africa To South Carolina / A Lovely Day / Arista / Silver Springs, Maryland summer 1975