Strike Up the Playlist

Maxwell and Amos… and the other guys.

Coffeetime, July 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Hank Mobley / [Another Workout] / Out of Joe’s Bag / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Noel Coward / World Weary / HMV / London 9.11.29 / with Carroll Gibbons p
Amos Milburn / Bewildered / Aladdin / Chicago 10.15.48 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, possibly Gene Phillips g
Julie London / Julie Is Her Name / I Should Care / Liberty / Hollywood 8.55 / with ​​Barney Kessel g, Ray Leatherwood b

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

set 2
Tadd Dameron / Fontainebleau / Fontainebleau / Prestige / 3.9.56
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Shadows / Crown / 1960
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Lush Life / French Columbia / 7.31.56
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Stringing the Blues / Columbia / 11.8.26

Ethel Waters / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 / with Ben Selvin’s Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
The Treniers / Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) / Okeh / 7.15.54 / for Willie Mays; with Quincy Jones & orchestra

set 3
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ The Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57

Don Byas / Don’s Idea / Savoy / 7.28.44
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I’m Playing Solitaire / Bluebird / 12.6.38 / vocal = Quentin Jackson
Johnny Otis Quintette / Double Crossing Blues / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / vocal = Little Esther & The Robins
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4

Charlie Persip’s Jazz Statesmen / Double Or Nothin’ / Wildwood / Liberty / LA 2.27.57

Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Mary Lou / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Strike Up the Band / Capitol / Hollywood 4.26.56
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; song written by Bobby Troup
Little Willie John / Inside Information / King / 9.13.63
Etta James / Tell Mama / Cadet / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 8.24.67
The Soul Stirrers / By and By, Part 2 / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
The Fascinations / Such a Fool / Mayfield / Chicago 1968

Always in My Playlist (Forever on My Mind)

Coffeetime, July 4, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / Capuchin Swing / Capuchin Swing / Blue Note / 4.17.60 
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Terrible “T” / Vee-Jay / 2.60 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige Swingville / 2.21.61 
Fred “Sugar” Hall & his Sugar Babies / Is It Possible? (That She Loves Me) / Okeh / 8.19.27 / vocal = Arthur Fields
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Evil Lover Blues / Aladdin [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones; Floyd Dixon p, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Carmen McRae / By Special Request / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / 6.56

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

set 2
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Angel Eyes / Jazzline / 1.12.62 / Pearson solo p
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Imagination / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Violets for Your Furs / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59
Mel Powell / On Piano / There’s a Small Hotel / Capitol / 1948
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / Always in My Heart (Forever on My Mind) / Columbia / London 1933
Ella Logan & Hoagy Carmichael / Two Sleepy People / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.14.38 / with Perry Botkin & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You / Roulette / 1962

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Dearly Beloved / Dearly Beloved / Blue Note / 6.8.61 / Turrentine ts, Shirley Scott org, Roy Brooks d
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Verve / spring 1966 / Evans p, Hall g
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Thad’s Blues / Impulse! / 5.8.62 / Paris g, Hank Jones p, George Duvivier b, Roy Haynes d
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Parker as, Miles Davis t, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Bobby Byrne & his Orchestra / If It Wasn’t for the Moon / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Jimmy DiPalma
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / Karen Lynn / Manor / 8.49 
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / There Goes My Heart [alt take] / Regent / 12.18.47 / with celeste!

set 4
Sam Most / East Coast Jazz/9: I’m Nuts About The Most....Sam / Tea for Two / Bethlehem / 1955 / Sam Most cl, Marty Flax bars, Bill Triglia p, Barry Galbraith g, Burgher Jones b, Bobby Donaldson d
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / Long Ago and Far Away / Mode / 6.57 
Stan Getz / Stan Getz Plays / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / 1953 
Benny Goodman Sextet / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / 3.10.42 / vocal = Peggy Lee; with celeste! 
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; “of all the fools, I break the rules”
Jimmy Ricks / Let Me Down Easy / Fury / 1962
R.H. Harris & his Gospel Paraders / Presenting Gospel Pearls / Somebody / SAR / 1962

last soulful song
Bobby Reed / The Time Is Right for Love / Bell / 1970

Rusty Dusty Playlist

So much talent…

Coffeetime, June 27, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Joe Newman / The Midgets / The Midgets / RCA Victor / 7.8.56
Phil Woods / Woodlore / Woodlore / Prestige / 11.25.55
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / He’s Pulling his Whiskers / Decca / 3.10.38
B.A. Rolfe & his Concert Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Edison / 10.16.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues) / Decca / Chicago 11.15.41 / Jordan as & voc, Eddie Roane t, Arnold Thomas p, Dallas Bartley b, Walter Martin d
Chubby Newsome & her Hip Shakers / Hard Lovin’ Mama (Anytime) / Regal / New Orleans 12.19.49 / with Howard Biggs Orchestra 
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor… Miss Helen Carr / I’m Glad There Is You / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Summertime / Savoy / 10.10.55 / Jordan solo p
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Stardust / Commodore / 11.10.38
Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 1.14.38 / with celeste!
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / It Happened in Monterey / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58
Albert King / The Big Blues / This Funny Feeling / King / 1963

set 3
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Meetin’ Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Subway Grate / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Kenny Clarke / Kenny Clarke / Skoot / Savoy / Hollywood 11.1.54
Louis Prima Orchestra / I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine / radio broadcast, Voice of America / late 1949 / vocal = Keely Smith
The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 2.3.56
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57
Stéphane Grappelli / Taking a Chance on Love / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Rhythm ’Bout Town / Vocalion / 10.25.37 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / LA 1972
Carolina Kings of Harmony / Going On Home to Glory / Trumpet / Raleigh NC 4.10.53

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / To Be True / Bad Luck / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

Playlist of Honey

Orson, you made me love you…

Coffeetime, June 20, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / [Six Pieces of Silver] / Tippin’ / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Melody for C / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Avalon / Bluebird / 10.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Jimmy Rushing / Jimmy’s ’Round the Clock / Excelsior / LA 9.13.45 / with Johnny Otis, his Drums & Orchestra
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57

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

set 2
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Taste of Honey / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / What Is There to Say? / Riverside / 12.15.58
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Orson Welles / You Made Me Love You / CBS radio broadcast, The Orson Welles Almanac / Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wilmington 7.5.44 
Larry Darnell / I’ll Get Along Somehow, Parts One and Two / Regal / 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band, Gayton on celeste!
B.B. King / King of the Blues / I’m King / Crown / Hollywood 10.26.59

set 3
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson / The Spirit of ’67 / Ja-Da / Impulse! / 2.14.67 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite! / Moonglow / Verve / 2.59 
Lester Young / The Sheik of Araby / Aladdin / 12.29.47
Howard McGhee / Dorothy / Dial / 12.3.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Harry Wells & Sy Oliver
The Charioteers / Oooh! Look A-There, Ain’t She Pretty / Columbia / 12.5.47
Joe Derise / Joe Derise Sings / It Might As Well Be Spring / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Hugo Hurwhey / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Norfolk Ferry / Bluebird / 11.6.40
King Cole Trio / I Think You Get What I Mean / Capitol / Hollywood 7.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mabel Mercer / Once in a Blue Moon / Sunday in New York / Atlantic / 1956 / with George Cory, arranger/conductor
Dixie Hummingbirds / Every Knee Surely Must Bow / Apollo / 2.46

last soulful song
Roger Hatcher / I’m Gonna Dedicate My Song to You / Excello / 1968

The Blues My Playlist Gave to Me

Fats and hats!

Coffeetime, June 13, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Little Chico / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / Blow Me Down / RCA Victor / 12.4.46
Whispering Jack Smith / Blue Skies / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 / Smith p & voc
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Dream Lucky Blues / Mercury / Kansas City summer 1945 / Lee p & voc, Ben Curtis b, Sam “Baby” Lovett d
Dakota Staton / Ballads and the Blues / Come Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Afraid of Love / Prestige / 1967
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra / The Blues My Baby Gave to Me / Victor / 1.13.39
Fats Waller / Fats Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, broadcast / 3.11.35
Gus Arnheim & his Ambassador Hotel Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Okeh / LA 4.14.28 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / It’s the Natural Thing to Do / Vocalion / 6.29.37
Johnny Otis Orchestra / Good Boogdi Googie / Excelsior / Hollywood fall 1945 / vocal = George Washington
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Old Man River / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 / RIP Al Foster d
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / Everest / LA 7.60
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / O.H. Blues / Mercury / 8.8.51
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / On the Island of Catalina / Decca / 10.5.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Aces / Put Your Cards on the Table / Trilon / Oakland late 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Some Like It Hot / Contemporary / LA 3.59
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Poly-Doodle / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
The Chocolate Dandies / That’s How I Feel Today / Okeh / 9.18.29
King Cole Trio / I Love to Make Love to You [aka Any Old Time] / V-Disc #455 (Army), #235 (Navy) / LA 2.27.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Al Jackson & his Band / Cloudy Weather Blues / Capitol / 1.49 / vocal = Dick Cole
Peggy Lee / Mink Jazz / I Could Write a Book / Capitol / Hollywood 2.5.63 
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / My Lord is Coming Back / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
The Marvellos / We Go Together / Loma / 1966

Just Another Playlist Wasted Away

Una Mae: a lovely and talented Coffeetime favorite.

Coffeetime, June 6, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Whistle Stop / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hippy / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Slow Burn / MGM / 1.9.47
The Rhythmic Eight / Just Another Day Wasted Away / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 2.6.28
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Okeh / 5.8.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Floyd Dixon / Pleasure Days / Aladdin / Houston c. 1949 / Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Bill Ellis ts, Sammy Benskin g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / All My Tomorrows / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / ZT's Blues / More Than You Know / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Warm Winds / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Sea Breeze / Verve / 12.17.57
Django’s Music / Tears / Swing / Paris 3.22.40
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / You’re Lucky to Me / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Big Three / I Feel Like Steppin’ Out / Columbia / Chicago 2.18.49
Dean Martin / French Style / C’est Magnifique / Reprise / Hollywood 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Matador / Blue Note / 5.20.65
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 7.14.67
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / radio broadcast AFRS Jubilee #91 / Hollywood c. 6.44 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA Victor / 1954

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Ruby / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 / Collette fl, Ernie Freeman on celeste!
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Val’s Pal / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Valve in Head / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.22.54
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio transcription, WEMP / The Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Gente / A&M / LA 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / A Look Away from Heaven / radio broadcast NBC Thesaurus #979 / 1941

last soulful song
Mary Wells / Stop Takin’ Me for Granted / 20th Century Fox /1964

George Benson / Turn Your Love Around / Warner Brothers / 1981

The Playlist (Keeps a Knockin’)

Stunning, as always: Miss Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, May 30, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Chi-Chi / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / The Cattin’ Toddler / New Jazz / 1.31.58 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Oh Lady Be Good! / Decca / 2.4.39 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Nocturne / Decca / 4.18.33 
Abe Lyman & his Orchestra / Singing a Happy Song / Brunswick / 1.17.35 / vocal = Phil Neely
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / The Masquerade Is Over / Capitol / 6.61 

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

set 2
Buddy DeFranco / In a Mellow Mood / Laura / Norgan / LA 8.10.54 / DeFranco cl, Sonny Clark p, Gene [Eugene “Senator”] Wright b and Bobby White d
The Kenny Clarke – Francy Boland Big Band / Now Hear Our Meanin’ / I’m Scared of Girls When They’re Good Looking / Columbia / Cologne 1.25–26.63 / Sahib Shihab bari 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / Late Evening / Prestige / 2.21.61 / Buddy Tate cl 
Lyda Roberti / College Rhythm / Columbia / 1934 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Eddie South & his Orchestra / Just an Old Banjo / ARC Test [unissued] / 11.23.34 
Faye Adams / The Hammer (Keeps a Knockin’) / Herald / 1956
Jean Paul Mauric / Sur le Chemin de Las Vegas / Festival Victory / Paris 1962 / avec Alan Gate et Son Orchestre

set 3
Larry Young / Young Blues / A Midnight Angel / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Forrest Fire / Dexter’s Deck / New Jazz / 8.9.60 
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Carl’s Blues / Dootone / LA 1955 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Lang-Worth Transcription / 12.21.43 / vocal = Dorothy Claire
The Pied Pipers / Ok’l Baby Dok’l / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Mills Brothers / You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Columbia / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / The More I See You / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / [Time Further Out] / Slow and Easy (aka Lawless Mike) / Columbia [unissued] / 5.25.61 / Brubeck p, Paul Desmond as, Eugene Wright b, Joe Morello d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Stella By Starlight / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 / Candoli t, Claude Williamson p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d
Peggy Lee / Trav’llin’ Light / Capitol Transcription / LA 4.4.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Inga Swenson, Johnny Laverty, John Reardon, Franca Baldwin, Suzanne Bernard, & Virginia Martin / New Faces of ’56 / Girls ’n’ Girls ’n’ Girls / RCA Victor / 1956 
The Coleman Brothers / Walls of Jericho / Coleman / 1951 

last soulful song
Darrow Fletcher / No Limit / Crossover [unissued] / 1978