(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 

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