Friday, January 09, 2015

When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Playlist


Coffeetime, January 2, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus [alt take] / Blue Note / 4.9.61
J.J. Johnson / The Playboy Jazz All Stars [volume 1] / Joey, Joey, Joey / Columbia / 1.31.57
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Broadway Bell-hops / Hello Bluebird / Harmony / 10.8.26 
Percy Mayfield / Strange Things Happening / Specialty / Hollywood 1950 
Julie London / All Through the Night / All Through the Night / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large / The Thrill Is Gone / HMV [unissued] / Copenhagen 1.14-15.60
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / LA 8.1.56
Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Elsa / Riverside / 2.27.61
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Merry Macs / By-U, By-O (The Lou’siana Lullaby) / Decca / Hollywood 9.12.41 
The Griffin Brothers featuring Margie Day / The Clock Song (Let Your Pendulum Swing) / Dot / 1952 
Mr. Google Eyes (Joseph August ) / Love Me / Columbia / 12.1.49 / Billy Ford & his Musical V-8s 

set 3
Harry Edison / Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / Blues for Bill Basie / Verve / Hollywood 3.5.57
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Dark Eyes / RCA Victor / 4.6.50
Maxine Sullivan / Behavin’ Myself for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace and His Orchestra
The Sultans / You Captured My Heart / Jubilee / 1951 
Mel Tormé / The Blues / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Oscar Moore / Kiss Me Again / Tampa / LA 1954
John Graas / Jazz Studio 3 / Mulliganesque / Decca / Hollywood winter 12.16.54 
John Kirby & his Orchestra / I Give You My Word / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940
Mae West / Willie of the Valley / soundtrack to Universal Pictures movie My Little Chickadee / Hollywood 1940
Betty Hall Jones / Frustration, Frustration / Combo / LA 1951
Peggy Lee / Sugar ’n‘ Spice / I Don’t Wanna Leave You Now / Capitol / 10.62 / with orchestra conducted by Benny Carter
Selah Jubilee Singers / Traveling Shoes / Decca / 4.28.39

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / Check Yourself / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1963