Friday, October 07, 2016

I'm No Playlist

Really now, who is?

Coffeetime, October 7, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Wonderful, Wonderful / Blue Note / 9.22.57
Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Bo-Till / Blue Note / 3.3.57
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Sunday in the Park / Decca / 3.22.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44 / with emcee Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / No Booze Blooze / Prestige / 6.30.64
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Whiteman Stomp / Victor / 8.11.27
Mae West / I’m No Angel / from Paramount movie I’m No Angel / Hollywood 7.33 / dialogue with Cary Grant
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / I Know Your Wig Is Gone / Black & White / LA 9.13.47
Louis Armstrong / Blueberry Hill / Decca / 9.6.49 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & chorus

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Esther’s Melody / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Howard McGhee / Dilated Pupils / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / I Had to Live and Learn / Decca / 3.2.39
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Art Pepper / Begin the Beguine [alt take] / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ the Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / It’s the Talk of the Town / Modern / LA 3.46
Sammy Davis, Jr. / Hey There / Decca / 6.7.54 / with Sy Oliver & orchestra 
The Gate City Singers / I Thank You Jesus / Tru-Sound / 4.7.62 

last soulful song
Eddie Floyd / Can We Talk This Over / Stax [unissued] / mid-1960s