Don’t Let that Playlist Get Away

Lovely June in January

Coffeetime, January 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Hidden Channel / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / Let’s Get Down / Prestige / 12.17.63
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / The Prophet / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.31.56
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Dinah / Victor / 1.28.26
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
June Christy / Love Turns Winter into Spring / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.57 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Serves Me Right / Riverside / 10.28.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Room with Skies / Ricordi / 1961
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53 / quotes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Tea for Two
Jesse Crawford / Dinah / Victor / 2.26.26 / Wurlitzer pipe organ
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Bonnie Lake & her Beaus / Thirteen Black Cats / 1.5.56 / Decca / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra
BB King [BB “Blues Boy” King & his Orchestra / Did You Ever Love a Woman / RPM / 1956
Chuck Willis / Search My Heart / Okeh [unissued alt take] / 4.15.55

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / So Do It! / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Cascades / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Mills Brothers / Tiger Rag / Brunswick / 11.5.31
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / radio transcription, WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, emcee = Bob Bach
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / You Are Too Beautiful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Honeysuckle Rose / Impulse! / 11.13.61
Phil Harris & Orchestra / One-zy Two-zy / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45 / duet with 3 year-old Alice Faye Harris
Barrie Sisters [Barry Sisters] / Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Guitars a là Lee / Sweet Happy Life / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.66 
The Zion Travelers / Jesus Said / Dootone / 1962

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Oogum Boogum / The Oogum Boogum Song / Double Shot / LA 1967

I’m the Playlist Who Loves You

This cover – photo, typography, the works – is outstanding. Who was the designer?

Coffeetime, January 10, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Way Down / Liza / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.5.62 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Rhodesian Rhapsody / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Louis Smith / Smithville / Bakin’ / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.30.58 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Duke’s Mixture / Columbia / 3.26.41
Tom Clines & his Music / Somebody Mighty Like You / Brunswick / 7.10.29 / vocal = Chester Gaylord
Floyd Dixon / Pretty Baby / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.6.49 / vocal = Sonnie Parker; Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d
Blossom Dearie / My Gentleman Friend / Someone to Watch Over Me / Verve / 5.21 & 22.59 

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio / Ballad Medley: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I Don't Know Why (I Just Do); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Can't Get Started; Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Just a Ballad for My Baby / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
The Red Heads (aka Red Nichols & the Five Pennies) / Here or There / Pathé Actuelle / 1.18.27 / vocal = Frank Gould
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Albinia Jones / I Have a Way of Lovin’ / Decca / 1.48 
Eddie Bo / Roll ’Em Back / Ace [unissued] / 1956

set 3
Lou Donaldson / The Natural Soul / People Will Say We’re in Love / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.9.62 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Passionova / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea & his Band / Flying (All the Way) Home / Rhythm Records [unissued] / San Francisco 1944 
Art Kassel & His Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra / I’ll Be Around / radio transcription / 1944 / vocal = Gloria Hart
Chris Powell & The Five Blue Flames / My Love Has Gone / Columbia / 5.51
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Jenny / Coral / 1.22.62 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / The Chinook That Melted My Heart / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d 
Una Mae Carlisle / I’m the One Who Loves You / Victor / 10.3.41 / Charlie Shavers t, William Bailey cl, Russell Procope ts, Billy Kyle p, John Kirby b, O’Neil Spencer d 
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / We’re Living Humble / Decca / 5.23.46 

last soulful song
Orthea Barnes / Your Picture on the Wall / Mickay’s Records / 1962

Hello, Mister Playlist

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 20, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal) / Fantasy / LA 1965 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess 

Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

bed
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / Chicago 10.66 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters 
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 1957
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965

bed
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70 

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.46 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 13, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55  

Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes / Jazzville / Legend / Dawn / 6.56 / Rouse ts, Watkins fh, Gildo Mahones p, Paul West b, Art Taylor d

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters 

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”) 
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b 

King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970

(Don’t Wait ’Til) The Playlist Before Christmas

Coffeetime, December 6, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tommy Potter / Tommy Potter’s Hard Funk / Reets and I / East-West / Stockholm 9.10.56 
Johnny Coles / The Warm Sound / If I Should Lose You / Epic / 4.61 / Coles tp, Kenny Drew p, Peck Morrison b, Charles Persip d
Bunny Berigan & his Orchestra / Trees / Victor / 12.23.37 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Winter Weather / Bluebird / 12.26.41 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / Moonlight in Vermont / Columbia / 4.10.56 / with Paul Weston & his Music 

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / Night Lights / Philips / fall 1962 
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / 10.15.57 
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Count Every Star / Blue Note / 12.23.61 
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Tomorrow / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt
Sammy Kaye (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) / (Don’t Wait ’Til) The Night Before Christmas / Victor / 11.11.38 / vocal = The Three Barons
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio 
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill

set 3
Bill Smith / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Teddy Wilson / I Got Rhythm / Blues for Daryl / Verve / Chicago 3.5.56 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Cookbook / But Beautiful / Prestige / 6.20.58 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Happy / Decca / 11.2.37 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / radio broadcast, Christmas Jubilee, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 1945
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Frank Wess / You’ll Do / Savoy / 7.18.56 
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir”
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Merry Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho! / Christmas Is / Capitol / Hollywood 7.17.67

I Wish I Knew the Name (Of the Playlist in My Dreams)

Would you believe the lovely Nan is casting her gaze Lou Costello’s way?

Coffeetime, November 29, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Sam’'s Tune / Pacific Jazz / 1.14.57 
Buddy Collette / Now and Then / Andre / Legend Record Co. / Hollywood 1973 / Collette as, Al Aarons t, Grover Mitchell tb, Al Viola g, Red Callender b, Frank Chavez d
Art Shackelford Sextette / Play Fiddle Play / Modern / Hollywood 12.47
The Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra / Persian Rug / Okeh / 2.14.28
Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra / Wake Up, Chillun! Wake Up / Vocalion / Chicago 4.27.29 / vocal = ensemble
Jimmy Witherspoon / Daddy Pinocchio / Modern / Hollywood 1952 / with Al “Cake” Wichard Sextette 
Ann Richards & Stan Kenton / Two Much! / I Was the Last One to Know / Capitol / Hollywood 1961

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / The Green Leaves of Summer / Ill Wind / Contemporary / LA 2.17.64 
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / It’s the Talk of the Town / Norgran [unissued] / Hollywood 11.1.55 
Oscar Peterson / Prelude to a Kiss / Clef / LA early 12.52 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
Randolph McCurtain’s College Ramblers / Low Down Brown / Okeh / Dallas 9.25
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Goodnight, Irene / Regal / 10.50 / vocal = The Coleman Brothers 
Herbie Fields & his Orchestra / I Wish I Knew the Name (Of the Girl in My Dreams) / Victor / 11.5.47 / vocal = Fields
Emery Deutsch & his Orchestra / Joseph! Joseph! / Brunswick / 3.15.38 / vocal = Nan Wynn [Marsha Vatz] 
Lula Reed & Her Little Teeners / Your Love Keeps A-Workin’ on Me / Federal / 1962 / with Sonny Thompson & his Orchestra

set 3
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Easin’ on Down / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Booker Ervin / Tex Book Tenor / Lynn’s Tune / Blue Note / 6.24.68 
Al “Cake” Wichard Sextette / Cake Jumps / Modern / Hollywood 12.47 
Frank Sinatra / Autumn in New York / Columbia / 1948 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Ebonaires / The Old Folks at Home / Modern / Hollywood 12.47
Bobby Short / On the East Side / Moanin’ in the Mornin’ / Atlantic / 1960

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.56
Oscar Pettiford / Basically Duke / Swing Until the Girls Come Home / Bethlehem / 12.17.54 
Betty Roché / Trouble Trouble / V-Disc 595A / 1945 / with Dave Matthews & his V-Disc Night Owls 
King Cole Trio / By the River St. Marie / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Jack Cassidy & Mardi Bayne / Babes in Arms, Cast Recording / I Wish I Were in Love Again / Columbia Masterworks / 1951
The Coleman Brothers / Low Down the Chariot / Decca / 3.21.44 

last soulful song
Dee Edwards / (I Can) Deal with That / De-To / Detroit 1977

It’s a Big Wide Wonderful Playlist

Ka-knock in peace, Roy.

Coffeetime, November 22, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Under Paris Skies / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Kenny Dorham / 2 Horns, 2 Rhythm / Lotus Blossom / Riverside / 11.13.57
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Autumn Nocturne / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Nobody But You / Okeh / 5.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / It’s Been a Long, Long Time / King / 6.28.51 / duet = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Verve / LA 1.8.57

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

set 2
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Autumn Nocturne / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford – Volume 2 / Scorpio / Bethlehem / 8.12.55
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Rainbow Mist / Apollo / 2.22.44
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Rainbow Dreams / Parlophone / 3.29.28
William Sisters (Dorothy & Hannah) / Sam, The Accordion Man / Victor / 12.18.26 / with Wayne Allen p
Sunshine Boys / Gonna Get Tight / Okeh / Dallas 3.13.41 / vocal = Slim Herbert
[Leo] “Snub” Mosley & Orchestra / Blues at High Noon / Rondo / 2.11.42 / vocal = Gordon Magey
Peggy Lee / It’s a Big Wide Wonderful World / Capitol / Hollywood 2.7.63 / with Jack Sheldon t 

set 3
Dizzy Reece / Star Bright / The Rake / Blue Note / 11.19.59
Kenny Burrell / Introducing Kenny Burrell / Delilah / Blue Note / 5.30.56
The Ink Spots / Your Feet’s Too Big / Victor / 1.4.35
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Away from It All / Okeh / 3.19.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, vol 1 / Isn’t It a Lovely Day / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band / Tickle Toe / Mercury / 5.59
Pete Terrace / The Pete Terrace Quintet / Oh Lady Be Good / Fantasy / San Francisco 1966
Fats Waller / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Victor / 6.11.37
Etta Jones / Blow Top Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra
Mabel Mercer / Mabel Mercer Sings / Hello, My Lover, Goodbye / Decca / 1964
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Shake Rattle and Roll / RCA Victor  / Hollywood 2.23.63
Soul Stirrers / Be with Me Jesus / Specialty / Chicago 2.16.55

last soulful song
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds / The New Religion / I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying / Atco / 1967

Baby Washington / I Can’t Wait to See My Baby’s Face / Sue / 1963