I Hope Gabriel Likes My Playlist

Hanging with the Delta Rhythm Boys at the Café Pom Pom!

Coffeetime, November 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1 
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / ’S Make It / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / For Regulars Only / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Gene Krupa’s Band / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music / Victor / Chicago 2.29.36 
Andy Aiona’s Novelty Four / Keko / Columbia / Hollywood 1.14.29
Jack Jackson / Make Those People Sway / HMV / London 9.18.33 / vocal trio including Jackson
Betty Hall Jones / This Joint’s Too Hip for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49 
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Lost Love / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / I’m Old Fashioned / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Flip Phillips / But Beautiful / Mercury / LA 12.5.49
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Body and Soul / Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Alix Combelle & his Swing Band / Fast, Slow, Medium Tempo.  / Swing / Paris 2.20.40
Bon Bon & his Buddies / Seeing You Did Me No Good / Decca / 1.12.42
Mildred Bailey / Funiculi-Funicula / Mildred Bailey Show radio transcription / 1.12.45 / with Paul Baron Orchestra
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Me Love / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / They All Laughed / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / On the Street Where You Live / Prestige / 12.13.66
Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Out of Nowhere / Prestige / 3.5.57
Wardell Gray / Blue Gray / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
The Ravens / Time Takes Care of Everything / Columbia / 10.19.50 
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / The Secretary Song (Bibidi Bot Bot) / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Cy Coleman / Cy Coleman Sings Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Columbia / 1974

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / They Say It’s Wonderful / EmArcy / 11.4.59
Bobby Jaspar / Up in Quincy’s Room / Vogue / Paris 11.3.52
Delta Rhythm Boys / What Would It Take / Decca / Hollywood 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Alright, Okay, You Win / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
Little Milton / I’m Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

The Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / 1977

Fundraising: Put Some Money in the Playlist

If Milton says we’re gonna make it, then I guess we are!

Coffeetime, November 8, 2024, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
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
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
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, transcription / 10.28.43
Lil Green / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

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
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / live / LA 1958
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

Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45 

New Worried Playlist Blues

And the Oscar goes to… best rebel song AND yellow beret.

Coffeetime, November 1, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with The Horace Silver Quintet / Cookin’ at the Continental / Blue Note / 1.31.59
JJR Monterose / JR Monterose / Bobbie Pin / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / Someday Sweetheart / Vocalion / 10.22.31
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Alone in the Rain / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders (lead) & Carleton A. Coon 
Jack McVea / New Worried Life Blues / Rhythm / San Francisco 1945 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Dinah Washington / Dinah! / Ill Wind / EmArcy / 11.12.55 

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

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 2.2.57
Jerome Richardson / Roamin’ with Richardson / Warm Valley / New Jazz / 10.21.59
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Somebody Loves Me / Perfect / 8.27.24
Ivory Joe Hunter / You’re Always Looking for More / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
B.B. King / Mean Ole Frisco / Kent / 1959

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Inception / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Duke Jordan / Les Liasons Dangereuse / No Problem #3 / Charlie Parker Records / 1.12.62
Hadda Brooks / Brook’s Boogie / Okeh / 12.12.52
The Three Keys / Wah-Dee-Dah / Brunswick / 9.21.32
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / duet = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / The Boy Next Door / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Swingin’ on a Star / Liberty / Hollywood 11.55 / Enevoldsen ts, Marty Paich p, Larry Bunker vb, Red Mitchell b, Don Heath d 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / A Romantic Guy/ Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 2.18-19.58
Lester Young Trio / I’ve Found a New Baby / Clef / LA spring 1946
Bing Crosby / Whose Dream Are You? / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Jimmy Cliff / The Harder They Come, soundtrack / The Harder They Come / Island / Kingston, Jamaica 1972
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.21.41

last soulful song

Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore / Atlantic / Memphis 1968 

I’m Gonna Wash That Playlist Right Outa My Hair

Rest in peace, Mitzi! Love the outfit, love outdoor showers.

Coffeetime, October 25, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams / 10 to 4 at the 5-Spot / The Long Two/Four / Riverside / live, Five Spot Café 4.15.58
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Hank’s Shout / Savoy / 11.5.56
Annette Hanshaw / You’ll Always Be the Same Sweetheart / Banner / 9.12.32 / celeste!
T-Bone Walker / I Got a Break, Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
Betty Roché / Singin’ & Swingin’ / When I Fall in Love / Prestige / 6.3.60

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

set 2
Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / c. 7.58
Nat Adderley / That’s Nat / I Married an Angel / Savoy / 7.26.55
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Bailando En Una Estrella (Swingin’ on a Star) / Odeon / Buenos Aires 3.12.45 
Alphonso Trent & his Orchestra / Nightmare / Gennet / Richmond, Indiana 12.5.28
Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders / C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E / Victor / 6.27.28
Doc Pomus / Blues in the Red / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with Tab Smith’s Septette 
Mitzi Gaynor / South Pacific (Soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie) / I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958 / with the Ken Darby Singers

set 3
Jerome Richardson / Midnight Oil / Caravan / New Jazz / 10.10.58
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / I Didn’t Know About You / Everest / 1960
The Striders / Five O’Clock Blues/ Apollo / 3.20.50
Dick Haymes / Louise / CBS radio show, The Carnation Contented Hour (AFRS Melody Hour #326) / Hollywood 7.23.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / I Won’t Tell a Soul (I Love You) / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / Quintet / Loaded with Bass / Tampa / LA 1955 / Marty Paich accordion!
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / All the Things You Are / Verve / LA 1959 
Jack Sheldon / The Trumpet of Jack Sheldon / Rosetta / Reprise / Hollywood 5.61 / Sheldon t, Marty Paich organ!, Joe Mondragon b, John Markham d
Jo Stafford / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Capitol / Hollywood 3.28.46
Joe Mooney / Meet Me at No Special Place / Brunswick / 4.21.47
Little Milton [Campbell] / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63
Alphabetical Four / I Don’t Care Where They Bury My Body / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Love Grows Bitter / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with My Playlist

Any excuse to enjoy Dean and The Mills Brothers.

Coffeetime, October 18, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Ritual] / Exhibit A / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / 2.11.57
Chet Baker / In New York / Hotel 49 / Riverside / 9.58
Dorothy Carless / Heart and Soul / Columbia / Abbey Road, London 10.25.38 / piano = Billy Mayerl; song by Hoagy Carmichael & Frank Loesser
Cats & the Fiddle / If I Dream of You / Bluebird / 1.20.41 / first session with Tiny Grimes 
Sarah Vaughan / The Lonely Hours / Solitude / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / These Foolish Things / Imperial / LA spring 1956
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Nancy with the Laughing Face / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 / Jimmy Rowles on celeste!
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Serenity / Riverside / 1.61
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blue Harlem / Atlantic / 12.29.47 / George Kelly on celeste!
Cleo Brown / You’re a Heavenly Thing / Decca / 3.12.35
Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40
Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Good Man Blues / DeLuxe / 6.15.50

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Man at Work / Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’ / Cadet / live at The Village Vanguard 1966
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / Gnid / Prestige / 11.30.56
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Jumpin’ at Gleason’s / Atlantic / 3.16.49 / overdubbed audience applause
(The Three) Boswell Sisters / My Future Just Passed / Okeh / 10.3.30
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / V-Disc 33A [Victor] / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / Manhattan Serenade / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / LA 1956
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Big Top / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Mildred Bailey / I Don’t Want to Miss Mississippi / RCA Victor / 2.20.46 / with the Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Beverly Peer b
Dean Martin / I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with Your Love Letters / Capitol / Hollywood 4.10.50 / with Paul Weston & his Dixie Eight
Nat King Cole / Smile! / Day In, Day Out / Capitol / Hollywood 11.20.61 
The Trumpeteers / Packing Up / Score / WCAO Studios, Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song
The Hytones / Bigger and Better / A-Bet / 1967

Looking at the World Thru Rose Coloured Playlist

Mr. Jordan – don’t scold us, play for us!

Coffeetime, October 11, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / Exhibit A / Prestige / 2.25.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / The One That Got Away / RCA Victor / 1.10.46
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Reaching for Someone / Okeh / 5.22.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Pompton Turnpike / Decca / 9.30.40 / Jordan as, Courtney Williams t, Kenneth Hollon ts, Arnold Thomas p, Charlie Drayton b, Walter Martin d
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Skylark / EmArcy / Hollywood 4.21.55

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / In Person / Goodbye / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / These Foolish Things / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Stéphane Grappelli / Dans la vie / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / My Pet / Victor / 4.22.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Put It Away / Vocalion / 12.14.39 / vocal = Willie Smith
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Signature / 1961
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Looking at the World Thru Rose Coloured Glasses / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62

set 3
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / My Groove Your Move / Blue Note / 11.13.60
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Blues In / Aladdin / Hollywood 12.28.56
Tadd Dameron’s Band / Anthropology / live, Royal Roost 1948
Billy Bissett & his Orchestra / Never in a Million Years / HMV / Mayfair Hotel, London 6.14.37 / duet with Alice Mann
Melody Masters / Subway Cutie / Apollo / 1947
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Skylark / Pacific Jazz / Forum Theatre, LA 9.13.56

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Autumn Leaves [alt take] / RCA Victor / 3.15.62
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Knee Deep / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Mae West / Pardon Me for Loving and Running / CBS radio broadcast (possible) / 1947 / Josef Cherniavsky & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee / I Should Care / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / The Meaning of a Sad Song / DeLuxe / 1969
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Swing Down Chariot / radio broadcast, Carnation Milk show on WDIA / Memphis 12.16.49

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads / Monkey Time ’69 / Volt / Memphis 1969

Osculate Me, Playlist

Fred setting the pace.

Coffeetime, October 4, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / [Cool Struttin’] Royal Flush / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.5.58
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Some Clark Bars / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.29.59
Billy Cotton & his Band / What a Diff’rence a Day Made / Regal Zonophone / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Jack McVea & his All Stars  / Lonesome Blues / Black & White / LA 1946 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / There’s No You / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Lucky Thompson / A Sunkissed Rose / Swing / Paris 3.29.56 
Joe Venuti / Autumn Leaves / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Lester Young Trio / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2: master) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946 
Gloria Swanson / Gotta Feelin’ for You / soundtrack: MGM movie The Hollywood Revue of 1929 / Hollywood 1929 / with the MGM Studio Chorus
Etta Jones / Osculate Me, Daddy / Victor / 6.11.46 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra 
King Odom Four / Lover Come Back to Me / Derby / 1.50 
Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Give Her a Kiss / RCA / 1955

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Prophet Jennings / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Chet Baker / Chet / ’Tis Autumn / Riverside / 1.19.59 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Hard Tack / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945 / Johnny & Oscar Moore [latter with solo] g, Charles Brown p, Eddie Williams b
Una Mae Carlisle / Beautiful Eyes / Victor / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra 
The Ravens / Mahzel (Means Good Luck) / National / 4.47 / their debut on National 
Fred Astaire / A Foggy Day / Verve / Hollywood 12.52 / Oscar Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d, with Flip Phillips ts

set 4
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside  10.6.59
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / You Go to My Head / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58
Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / The Jumping Jack / RCA Victor / 5.12.50 / Billy Valentine p & vocal, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Philly Joe Jones d (!) 
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / A Wonderful Day Like Today / RCA / 1965
Highway QC’s / I’ll Trust His Words / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Hal Frazier / No Man Is an Island / She’s Good to Me [Paul Williams & Roger Nichols] / VMC / Hollywood 1969
Mary Wells / He’s a Lover / 20th Century Fox Records / 6.65