I Ain’t Your Playlist, Mr. Fly Rooster

He makes a pretty cowboy.

Coffeetime, February 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / True Blue / Prestige / 6.30.64
Kenny Dorham / K.D.’s Cab Ride (Echo of Spring) / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces, New Sounds / Brownie Speaks / Blue Note / 6.9.53
California Ramblers / Broken Idol / Edison / 8.1.29 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / As Time Goes By / Victor / 7.25.31
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Any Old Place with Me / Exclusive / Hollywood 12.47
George Shearing & Dakota Staton / In the Night / The Thrill is Gone / Capitol / LA 1957

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / My Ship / Blue Note / 10.18.62 -- remember
Cannonball Adderley / Takes Charge / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Riverside / 4.12.59
Ike Quebec / It Might as Well Be Spring / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Martha Copeland / I Ain’t Your Hen, Mr. Fly Rooster / Columbia / 8.28.28
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Saturday Night / broadcast / Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1.15.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / So Many Beautiful Men (So Little Time) / EmArcy / 4.21.55

set 3
Blue Mitchell / Blue’s Moods / Sweet Pumpkin / Riverside / 8.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Willow Weep for Me / Riverside / 3.10.59
James Moody / Bootsie / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / I Don’t Care Who Knows It / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Skip Nelson
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unissued] / c. 1950 
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Vivo Sohando / Verve / 3.63 / vocal = Joao Gilberto

set 4
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Thunderbird / Savoy / 10.11.55
Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / La Violetera / Somerset / 1960
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Holiday Flight / Savoy / LA 3.4.52
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / The Fuehrer’s Got the Jitters / AFRS Jubilee #6 / c. 12.42
T-Bone Walker / You Don’t Know What You’re Doing / Atlantic / LA 12.27.57 / vocal = R.S. Rankin (T-Bone’s nephew)
Rick Nelson / Everlovin’ / Imperial / LA 7.20.61
The Southern Sons / Lift Every Voice and Sing / Bluebird / 10.22.42

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Make Me Belong to You / Atlantic / 1965

Playlistesque

Al helping Monia with his hat!

Coffeetime, February 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard / Happy Times / Impulse! / 7.2.62
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Selections from Lerner and Loewe’s...My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Paint Your Wagon / On the Street Where You Live / Vik / 3.13.57 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Pastoral / Decca / 4.18.33
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Take a Good Look at Mine / Victor / Chicago 1.14.29 / vocal = Harold Stokes
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / G.I. Jive / Decca / 3.15.44 / Jordan as & voc, Eddie Roane t, Arnold Thomas p, Al Morgan b, Wilmore “Slick” Jones d
Don Elliott with Irma Curry / Love Is a Necessary Evil / No Spring This Year / Columbia / 1.62 

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

set 2
Barney Wilen / Jazz sur Seine [soundtrack] / Nuages / Fontana / Paris 2.13, 14.58
Mile Davis / Blue Moods / Easy Living / Debut / 7.9.55
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Someone to Watch Over Me / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Humoresque / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41
Al Bowlly / Judy / Decca / London 8.21.34 / Monia Litter p, Al Bowlly g & voc 
Bernard Hilda y su Orquesta / Quisiera Saber… (I Love You for Sentimental Reasons) / Columbia / Barcelona 8.12.47
The Five Royales / They Don’t Know / Vee Jay [Home of the Blues] / 1961

set 3
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / A Little 3/4 for God & Co. / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Sweet Sucker / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Geraldo & his Orchestra / All Through the Day / Parlophone / London 7.24.46 / vocal = Sally Douglas
James Quintet / Bewildered / Coral / 1949 

set 4
Charlie Byrd / Byrd in the Wind / Swing ’59 / Riverside / 1959 
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / Stan Still / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You Nat / This Will Make You Laugh / Surrey / Burbank 4.65
King Cole Swingsters / Sentimental Blue / Keystone / Hollywood 7.22.40 / vocal = Maxine Johnson; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Harlem Stars (Big Mama Thornton) / Bad Luck Got My Man / E&W Records / Houston 1950
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Believe in You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan
Fairfield Four / Heaven in My View / Dot / 10.54

last soulful song
Al Green / Call Me / Have You Been Making Out OK? / Hi / Memphis 1972

Kangaroo Playlist

Your geometry is perfect, Bobby.

Coffeetime, February 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / A Shade of Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug’s Minor B’OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Sepia Jazz / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Heartaches / Victor / 1.19.31 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio: Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Mason, & Max Ceppo
Laurel Watson / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Septette
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing at All / Ill Wind / Verve / LA 8.14.56

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

set 2 Wes Montgomery / Full House / I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.59
Teddy Wilson & his Trio / Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Columbia / 1959
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / It’s Murder / Decca / Chicago 10.27.35
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Little Sylvia / Ain’t Gonna Do It / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow
Bobby Darin / medley: This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Just in Time / live, Ed Sullivan Show 1962

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / T’Ain’t No Use / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Lem Winchester / Winchester Special / Down Fuzz / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Many Dreams Ago / Bluebird / 9.28.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / Vootnay on the Votnay / Exclusive / LA circa 06.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Charles Aznavour / Sings his Love Songs in English / Don’t Say a Word [Aprés L’amour] / Reprise / 1965 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Chet Baker / Big Band / V-Line / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
Peggy Lee / That Old Gang of Mine / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Buddy Greco / Let’s Love! / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Epic / 9.61
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
The Valentines / Breakaway / Sound Stage 7 / 1970

You Keep Coming Back Like a Playlist

Handsome Georgie Auld photographed by the amazing William Gottlieb.

Coffeetime, January 30, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Together! / Le Roi / Atlantic / 2.2.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World / The Opener / Blue Note / live, Birdland 7.61 
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Mahogany Hall Stomp / Okeh / 3.5.39 
Philip Lewis & the Rhythm Maniacs (Arthur Lally) / My Kinda Love / Decca / London 6.20.29 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Marvin Johnson & his Orchestra / Mercy Mercy / G&G / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Joe Lewis g
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss “D” / I’ll Close My Eyes / EmArcy / 12.6.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra; with celeste! 

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Today and Now / Don’t Love Me / Impulse! / 9.9.62 
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / You Keep Coming Back Like a Song / Prestige / 5.24.57 
Sonny Stitt / New York Jazz / Body and Soul / Verve / 9.14.56 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan / Columbia / London 1933
Walter Fuller / Closer to My Heart / Kicks / LA 1954 / with the Club Royale Band, Fuller t 
Doris Day & Frank Sinatra / Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk / Columbia / LA 5.6.49 / with The Ken Lane Singers & orchestra arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Let There Be Love / Reprise / LA 2.61 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich 

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Here ’Tis / A Foggy Day / Blue Note / 1.23.61 
Horace Parlan / Up & Down / Fugee / Blue Note / 6.18.61 
Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers / The Flat Foot Floogie / Decca / 6.10.38
Mal Hallett & his Orchestra / The Life of the Party / Decca / 2.26.37 / vocal = Teddy Grace
Mel Tormé / It's a Blue World / It's a Blue World / Bethlehem / LA 8.55 

set 4
Joanne Grauer / Joanne Grauer Trio / Dancing Nitely / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 
Georgie Auld / Good Enough to Keep / A Smooth One / Top Rank / Hollywood 9.5.59 
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Little Esther & Mel Walker / Ring-a-Ding Doo / Federal / 11.8.51
Tom Jones / Along Came Jones / I’ve Got a Heart / Decca / London 1964
The Soul Stirrers / It Won’t Be Very Long [alt take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.22.52

last soulful song
Margie Joseph / One More Chance / Volt / Memphis 1969
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963

You’re the Playlist in My Coffee

Barbara: a beautiful, talented woman with a guitar.

Coffeetime, January 23, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Locomotion / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Lee Morgan / Leeway / Nakatini Suite / Blue Note / 4.28.60
Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down / Columbia / 2.17.28 / Harry Goldfield (aka Goldie) t & voc
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Orchestra / They Raided the Joint / Continental / 9.45
Sarah Vaughan / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.54

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / LA 7.31.56
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Porgy / Capitol / 2.63
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Quartette / An Orange Grove in California / Brunswick / 1934
Cleo Brown / The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow / Decca / 3.12.35
The Ink Spots / That Cat Is High / Decca / 3.25.38 
Buddy Clark / A Dreamer’s Holiday / Columbia / 9.6.49 / with The Girl Friends; orchestra conducted by Ted Dale
Pee Wee Crayton / Do Unto Others / Imperial / New Orleans 4.29.54

set 3
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Rakin’ and Scrapin / Prestige / 12.23.68
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Ma – He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me / Riverside / 5.9.60
Morris Lane / Down the Lane / Savoy / 1.24.47
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / That Old Gang of Mine / Decca / 10.4.39 / vocal = Perry Como
4 Deep Tones / Just in Case You Change Your Mind / Coral / 1951 
Johnny Hartman / All of Me / I Could Make You Care / Bethlehem / 11.56

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Yardbird Suite / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Donna Lee / Atlantic / 6.14.55
Noel Coward / I’m Old Fashioned / HMV / London 7.6.43
King Cole Trio / You’re the Cream in My Coffee / radio transcription, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time, NBC Network, AFRS edition / Cincinnati 12.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ann Cole / Brand New House / Sir / 1960
Golden Gate Quartet / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lynn / (Daddy Hot Stuff) You’re Too Hot to Hold / Atlantic / 1972
Ruby Johnson / I'm Hooked / Neb’s / Washington DC 1964

A Winter’s Playlist

More like kitties and a tiple, amirite?

Coffeetime, January 16, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Tarriff / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Blue Lights / Prestige / 5.19.54
Jack Winn & his Dallas Dandies aka Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang / Loved One [2nd take] (aka I Like That) / Melotone / 6.6.30
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor / 4.10.29 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Blue Moon / Victor / 11.20.34 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Cats & the Fiddle / Part of Me / RCA Victor / 10.17.41 
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Laura / Contemporary / 12.4.56 / duet with Kessel g & Red Mitchell b
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49
The Three Keys / I’ve Found a New Baby / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
T-Bone Walker / Life is Too Short / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Louis Jordan / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Green Dolphin Street / Riverside / 3.10.59
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Geraldo & his Orchestra / I’m Old Fashioned / Parlophone / London 3.20.43 / vocal = Beryl Davis
Mills Brothers / After You / Decca / 5.29.47 
Frank Sinatra / The Moon Was Yellow / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.58

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Cheerful Little Earful / Contemporary / 10.15.56
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Swing Man / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Sammy Yates
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
The Trumpeteers / Handwriting on the Wall / Score / Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / Wake Up Everybody / live, Soul Train / 1975

Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Playlist in B Flat

I like this guitar, too, Frank.

Coffeetime, January 9, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis [alt take] / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.21.61
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Here’s a Little Package / Bluebird [unissued] / 6.23.32 / vocal = Chris Fletcher
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Ain’t Got No Blues Today / Capitol / 9.11.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Strong Man / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Paul Smith / Paul Smith Quartet / All for You / Skylark / Hollywood 11.13.53 / celeste!
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / I Had the Craziest Dream / New Jazz / 11.13.59
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky [alt take] / Brunswick [unissued] / 2.19.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Sonny Clark / Sonny’s Crib / News for Lulu / Blue Note / 10.9.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fool Am I / Okeh / 3.12.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile Again / Savoy / 10.12.50
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Beaux Arts / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Sonny Boy / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Kay Starr / So Tired / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.48
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Só Danço Samba / A&M / Hollywood 1967
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / Ruler of My Heart / Minit / 1963
The Sapphires / Your True Love / Swan / 1963