She Knows Her Playlists

You bug me, baby… in a good way!

Coffeetime, November 25, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Groovin’ with Golson / The Stroller / New Jazz / 8.28.59
Max Roach / Parisian Sketches / Nica / Mercury / Paris 3.2.60
The Happiness Boys / She Knows Her Onions / Victor / 8.26.26 / with Dave Kaplan on piano
Dinah Washington / Pacific Coast Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
June Christy / June’s Got Rhythm / Easy Living / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1958

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / Like Someone in Love / Verve /LA 10.16.57
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Andy Alona’s Novelty Four / Paahana / Columbia / 1.14.29
Red Perkins & his Dixie Ramblers / My Baby Knows How / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 5.5.31
The Three Sharps and A Flat / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Decca / 1.18.39
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / I Want a Little Girl / Modern [unissued] / LA 1947

set 3
Bennie Green / Walking Down / But Not for Me / Prestige / 5.29.56
Kenny Burrell / How About You / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Camille Howard / Schubert’s Serenade Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
The Mills Brothers with Ella Fitzgerald / Dedicated to You / Decca 2.3.37
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / But Not Mine / Columbia / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / Autumn in Rome / Epic / 1964

set 4
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / For Hi-Fi Bugs / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / I Never Knew / Coral / LA 1957
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Dinner for One / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
King Cole Trio / When You Walked Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.4.47
Jackie De Shannon / For You / Don’t Dream of Anybody But Me / Imperial / LA 1967
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Jesus Is Making Up My Dying Bed / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Carla Thomas / Do Boys Keep Diaries / Stax [unissued] / Memphis c. 1962

Happiness is Just a Playlist Called Joe

Joe was a babe; Joe had a Babe!

Coffeetime, November 18, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Kenny Dorham / K.D.’s Cab Ride (Echo of Spring) / Blue Note / 1.30.55
J.C. Higginbotham’s Big Eight / Dutch Treat / HRS (Hot Record Society) / 12.21.45
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six / No Better for Ya / HRS / 2.15.46
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Happiness Is a Just a Thing Called Joe / Riverside / 10.28.57

set 2
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Sweetness / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.29.56
Hoagy Carmichel & his Orchestra / Sing It Way Down Low / Victor / 9.1.32
Bing Crosby / You Are My Sunshine / Decca / LA 7.8.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Blues for Sale / Savoy / LA 4.21.47
Bob Mitchell / Red Beans & Rice / Derby / LA 1950

set 3
Sonny Stitt / I Remember Bird / Jeepers Creepers / Catalyst / Hollywood 1977
Gene Ammons / Happiness Is a Just Thing Called Joe / Chess / Chicago 5.3.51
Frank Culley Orchestra / Ready for Action / Lenox / c. 1948–49
The Dixiaires / Sharp Mama (Don’t You Leave Me Flat) / Continental / late-1940s
Billie Holiday / You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart / Decca / 9.30.49 / duet with Louis Armstrong
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To / The Beautiful Land / RCA / 1965

set 4
Bud Shank, Shorty Rogers / Fluted Columns / Pacific Jazz [World Pacific] / Hollywood 5.2.55
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Frankie & Johnny / Contemporary / LA 8.26, 27.57
Mildred Bailey / You and Your Love / Vocalion / 6.27.39 / with John Kirby’s Orchestra
Dean Martin / Dean Martin Sings / I Feel Like a Feather in a Breeze / Capitol / Hollywood 11.20.52
Dixieaires / Buckle My Shoe / Spirituals / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Brother, Can You Spare a Playlist (2016 Style)

Those soulful Art eyes say, “Call now!”

Coffeetime, November 11, 2016, Angelynn Grant – Fundraiser Show

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transciption / 10.28.43
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Chubby Newsome / Where’s The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Hildegarde / I’m Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Columbia / Hollywood 7.27.42
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

The Playlist’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out

Penny for your thoughts, handsome Bobby…

Coffeetime, November 4, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Woody’n You / Riverside / 2.25.58
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Caravan / Mercury / 11.10.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night at Birdland, volume 2 / If I Had You / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54
Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers / I’ve Found a New Baby / HRS / 8.31.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
The 5 Red Caps / The Boogie Beat’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out / Joe Davis / 5.45
Doris Day / Day By Day / I Remember You / Columbia / LA 1956 / with Paul Weston & His Music From Hollywood

set 2
Julian Priester / Keep Swingin’ / Once in a While / Riverside / 1.11.60
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / My Ship / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Joe Roland / Creed Taylor Presents: Know Your Jazz Vol 1 / Laura / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Mary Lou Williams – Don Byas Quartet / Lullaby of the Leaves / Vogue / Paris 12.2.53
Lil Green / I’m Wasting My Time on You / Bluebird / Chicago 1.21.42
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy / 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis Band
Mel Tormé / Lullaby of the Leaves / Capitol / 4.3.50 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra and the Dave Lambert Octet

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Prophet Jennings / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Hey Chico / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Golden Gate Quartet / Grove Show Intro; Polly Wolly Doodle / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not a Care in the World / Columbia [unissued] / 12.11.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Yves Montand / Paris / Le Chevalier de Paris / Columbia / 1964

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA 9.58
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Mar-Dros / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Call of the Wild / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Pennies from Heaven / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62
Solomon Burke / I Said I Was Sorry / Atlantic / 1963
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / That’s Enough / Specialty / Hollywood 1.20.56

last soulful song
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell / Mornin’ Glory / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1968