Ten Thousand Playlists

You sparkle, Alice.

Coffeetime, July 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ron Jefferson / Love Lifted Me / Little One / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.27.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Just Coolin’] / M&M / Blue Note / 3.8.59 / Hank Mobley ts, Lee Morgan t, Bobby Timmons p, Jymie Merritt b, Blakey d
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson [10”] / On the Scene / Blue Note / 4.7.52 
The Devonshire Restaurant Dance Band [Bert Firman] / Sax Appeal / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 5.26.27
Victor Young & his Orchestra / ’Way Back Home / Decca / 1935 / vocal = Milton Watson
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / It’s a Hit / Specialty / LA 12.20.47 / vocal = Camille Howard
Pat Moran / The Pat Moran Quartet / A Sunday Kind of Love / Bethlehem / Hollywood 5.56 / vocal = Bev Kelly; Moran p, John Doling b, Johnny Whited d; cover design = Leichman & Seide

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

set 2
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / Willow Weep for Me / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Clark Terry / Top and Bottom Brass / A Sunday Kind of Love / Riverside / 2.59 
Bill Evans / Waltz for Debby / Some Other Time / Riverside / live, Village Vanguard 6.25.61 
Chet Baker / The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker / Moon Love / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 10.3.53 
Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams / Tampa Twirl / Victor / 4.7.30 
Floyd Dixon & His Brown Buddies / You Need Me Now / Supreme / LA 1949 / Dixon p & voc, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Bixie Crawford / I’m Still in Love with You / United / Chicago 2.12.53 / Joe Newman t, Ernie Wilkins as, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis ts, Charlie Fowlkes bs, Gene Ramey b, Gus Johnson d, unknown p 
Dean Martin / Ten Thousand Bedrooms / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / from the MGM movie by the same name, Dean’s first movie without Jerry

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff / Do It Now! / Summer Samba (Samba de Verao) / Atlantic / 12.15.66 
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out! / Our Miss Brooks / Blue Note / 5.27.63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppin%27_Out!
Willie Smith Six / Windjammer / Sunset / LA 11.5.45 / Smith as, Buddy Childers t, Vido Musso ts, Andre Previn p, Eddie Safranski b, Lee Young d
Alice Faye / There’s a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / Hollywood 1937 / orchestra directed by Cy Feuer; recorded for the 20th Century Fox movie “Wake Up and Live” 
The Four Knights / Cry / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Don Nelson / The Wind / Gone with the Wind / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Nelson voc & recorder, Jimmy Rowles celeste, Leroy Vinnegar b, Stan Levey d

set 4
Googie [Leon] René / Romesville! / Cool It at the Coliseum / Class / LA 1959 
Russ Garcia / Wigville / Livin’ It Up / Bethlehem / 1955 https://www.discogs.com/release/3749234-srsltid=AfmBOopbtQGRHXKAnF0Q2o3AFAkJxSmE0RaDxhW0MpLPMmkX3HT5y-4T
Herb Ellis / Three Guitars in Bossa Nova Time / Sweet Dreams / Epic / LA 1963 
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time [alt] / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Fools Rush In / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Anita O’Day & Billy May / Swing Rodgers and Hart / I Could Write a Book / Verve / Hollywood 6.8.60 / Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey tp, Ed Kusby, Murray McEachern, Tommy Pederson, Bill Schaefer tb, Wilbur Schwartz, Ted Nash as, Justin Gordon, Fred Fallensby ts, Chuck Gentry bs, Joe Castro p, Al Hendrickson g, Ralph Pena b, Irv Cottler d
The Royal Sons Quintet / Journey’s End / Apollo / Fries Auditorium, Winston-Salem Teachers College, NC 8.51 / aka The 5 Royales

last soulful song
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Show Me the Way to Go / Brunswick / 1968

I’ve Got a Playlist Filled with Love (For You Dear)

He’s so dreamy. That’s all.

Coffeetime, June 26, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Luminescence / Prestige / 4.20.67
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / On a Little Street in Singapore / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Sugar Is Back in Town / Decca [unissued] / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 6.2.29
Bert Firman’s Dance Orchestra / Together, We Two / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex, England 3.8.28 / vocal = Rudy Starita (vib, d)
Don Byas & Las Estrellas de “Ritmo & Melodia” / Janine / Gramophone / Barcelona 10.11.47 / vocal = Louie Williams
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Love, Look Away / Riverside / 10.59 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Lucky to Be Me / Riverside / 12.15.58 / piano solo
Bill Hardman / Jackie’s Pal / It Could Happen to You / Prestige / 8.31.56
Milt Bernhardt / Modern Brass / London in July / RCA Victor / 3.4.55
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Flapperette / Victor / 1.7.27
Lofner-Harris St. Francis Hotel Orchestra / I Got the Ritz (From the One I Love) / Victor / San Francisco 10.13.31 / vocal = Phil Harris
Al (Stomp) Russell Trio / Down the Road a Piece / DeLuxe / early 1946 
Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry, Baby (With a Gal Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / You Got Me (Where You Want Me) / Duke / 1958

set 3
Donald Byrd / Chant / You’re Next / Blue Note [unissued] / 4.17.61
Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quartette / Mean to Me / King / 6.14.58
Ben Webster Sextet / Randle’s Island / EmArcy / LA 12.27.51
Major Glen Miller & The Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / I’ve Got a Heart Filled with Love (For You Dear) / V-Disc #381A / 5.13.44 / with vocal = Sgt. Johnny Desmond & The Crew Chiefs
The Ravens / I’ll Be Back / EmArcy / 12.52
Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Baby, Baby All the Time / Regent / 1947 / vocal = Buddy Stewart

set 4
Conte & Pete Candoli / The Brothers Candoli / Fascinating Rhythm / Dot / LA 5.57 
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / All or Nothing at All / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.55
Dave Brubeck / Trolley Song / Fantasy / San Francisco 1954 
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / with celeste!
Ricky Nelson / Songs By Ricky / That’s All / Imperial / LA 6.9.59
The Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965

Makin’ Faces at the Playlist in the Moon

!!! Live, not lip-synch’d !!!

Coffeetime, June 19, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Bop / Cranky Spanky / Columbia / 12.56
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 3.7.57
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Daahoud (alt take) / EmArcy / 8.54
Savoy Bearcats / Hot Notes / Victor / 10.11.26 
Rube Bloom & His Bayou Boys / Mysterious Mose / Columbia / 4.9.30 / vocal = Roy Evans 
Four Tones & Eddie Beal Trio / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Bluebird / 10.10.41 
Ethel Ennis / Once Again… / One Man Woman / RCA Victor / 1964

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

set 2
Les Spann / Gemini / There Is No Greater Love / Jazzland / 12.8.60
Clark Terry / Duke with a Difference / Mood Indigo / Jazzland / 9.6.57 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / Body & Soul / Warwick / 1959 / Osborne g, Tommy Flanagan p, Tommy Potter b, Jo Jones d
Larry Adler / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / London 6.3.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
The Boswell Sisters / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Brunswick / 8.17.31 / with The New Yorkers (with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey)
Billie Holiday / As Time Goes By (take 2) / Commodore / 4.1.44 / with Eddie Heywood & his Orchestra
Osie Johnson & his Orchestra / A Bit of the Blues / All I Want Is My Clothes / RCA Victor / 1956 / vocal = Osie Johnson

set 3
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Tamra / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
John Wright / South Side Soul / Sin Corner / Prestige / 8.30.60 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Secret Love / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / 8.18.38
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / My Fantasy / Victor / 1940 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock and Count Basie / I’m Lost / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Imagination / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Hal McKusick / Cross Section – Saxes / The Last Day of Fall / Decca / 4.7.58 / McKusick as, Dick Hafer & Frank Socolow ts, Jay Cameron bari, Bill Evans p, Paul Chambers b, Connie Kay d
Oscar Moore / Presenting Oscar Moore / To a Wild Rose / Omegatape / LA 12.12, 14.56 / Oscar Moore rhythm guitar with overdubbed solo guitar, Leroy Vinnegar b
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Clary / Hooray for Love / Love Is a Simple Thing / Epic / 1956
The Wright Brothers Gospel Singers / Gospel Train / Okeh / Texas 1940

last soulful song
Maurice & the Radiants / You’ve Been Cheating / live, The !!!! Beat / Dallas 1966

When My Little Playlist Met Your Little Pekinese

I love Bobby Van even if Tommy Rall doesn’t!

Coffeetime, June 12, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / Karioka / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / Thadrack / Blue Note / 2.2.57
Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, IN 2.11.29
Al Bowlly / When My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese / HMV / London 5.10.33 / duet with Frances Day, with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / When I Meander in the Meadow / RCA Victor [unissued] / 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes / Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Dinah Washington / Crazy He Calls Me / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / with Clifford Brown All Stars

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Rainy Night / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Paul Desmond / Imagination / RCA Victor [unissued] / 3.15.62
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips – Buddy Rich Trio / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Clef / 12.14.52
Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / V-Disc 536A / Hollywood 8.13.45
Don Redman & his Orchestra / The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring / Victor / 3.23.39 / Eddie Williams voc & ts
The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade (When I’m Rollin’ My Last Cigarette) / Okeh / 7.7.41 
T-Bone Walker & his Band / The Hustle Is On / Imperial / LA 4.5.50
Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, & Tommy Rall / From this Moment On / MGM / Hollywood 6.18.53 / from film “Kiss Me Kate”

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Backlash / On the Que-Tee / Atlantic / 10.19.66
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Alpha / Savoy / 11.1.55
Julian Dash / Goin’ Along / Mello-Roll / 12.50
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Knows / transcription / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Savannah Churchill / That's My Affair / Victor / 12.51 / with The Striders
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Thou Swell / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / S’Wonderful / Savoy / LA 4.18.50
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & celeste!, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Larks / I Live True to You / Apollo / 2.18.52
Vikki Carr / It Must Be Him / Alfie / Liberty / LA 1967
The Soul Stirrers / He’ll Make a Way / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soulful song
Gladys Knight & the Pips / Neither One of Us / Soul / 12.72

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

Doris, s’wonderful when you sing… or act!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Freddie Redd / San Francisco Suite / Minor Interlude / Riverside / 10.2.57
Sydney Kyte & his Piccadilly Hotel Band / Me / Regal / 1931 / vocal = The Three Ginx
Mel Walker / Sunset to Dawn / Savoy / LA 8.12.50 / with Johnny Otis 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
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / What Is There to Say / Riverside / 6.57
The 3 Sounds / Feelin’ Good / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 6.28.60
Django Reinhardt et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / Django’s Dream (Rêverie) / Vogue / Paris 1950
Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44
The Ramblers / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Want a Tall Skinny Papa / Decca / 2.18.42 / vocal = Sister Rosetta Tharpe & ensemble
Inez Jones / Have You Met Inez Jones? / Happy / Riverside / Berkeley 5.27.57 / with Oscar Moore g
Yves Montand / Yves Montand Sings / Tournesol / Decca / 1951

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Stanley Turrentine with The 3 Sounds / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Oz – The Wizard / Savoy / 3.30.55
Allen Eager / All Night All Frantic / Savoy / 7.15.47
Golden Gate Quartet / Shoo Shoo Baby / AFRS Jubilee radio broadcast / c. 1943
Doris Day & Buddy Clark / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48

Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / O Grande Amor / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = João Gilberto

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Be Deedle Dee Do / Contemporary / LA 8.58
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Sweet Lorraine / Bethlehem / 3.55 
King Cole Trio / Monday Again / Capitol [unissued] / 12.29.47 / NKC p, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b

Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Pretty Eyed Baby / RCA Victor / 1947 

Little Milton / Blues ’n’ Soul / Hard Luck Blues / Stax / Memphis 1974
Golden Gate Quartet / NBC Thesaurus radio broadcast / Show Me the Way / radio transcription / fall 1941

last soulful song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

In the Playlist of Forget-Me-Nots

Such a gentleman, Fred… averting your eyes from Cyd’s undies.

Coffeetime, May 22, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / Sevens / Bethlehem / 4.2.60 
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / Stablemates / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Juan Tizol & his Orchestra / Keb-Lah / Keynote / LA 4.2.46
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.25.34 / vocal = Fred Latham
Charles Brown & Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / I Want to Fool Around with You / Aladdin / LA 12.18.53
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / I’ll String Along with You / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All the Way / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Cocktails for Two [unissued track] / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Stan Getz / Groovin’ High / Body and Soul / Crown [Modern] / Civic Auditorium, Pasadena 6.23.47
Joe Venuti / Laura / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular) / with guest Jack Benny
Bandanna Girls [Mozelle France &  Mae Hopkins] / Baby Would You Dare / Decca / 1.24.39
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Dinner for Two / In the Garden of Forget-Me-Nots /RCA Camden / 1956 / vocal = Russ McIntyre
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Good Man / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Blue Bash / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Cal Tjader / A Night at the Blackhawk / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Fantasy /San Francisco winter 1959  cover design by Ed Renfro 
Lucky Thompson’s All Stars / Why Not / Exclusive / LA 9.45
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy [unissued] / LA 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Dancing in the Dark / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Bobby Scott / Bobby Scott and Two Horns / Myrt / ABC-Paramount / 10.56
Jimmy Rowles / Let’s Get Acquainted with Jazz / Tea for Two / Tampa /LA 1957
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Colette / Perfidia / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Capitol / Hollywood 7.25.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Old Man River / Signature / 1961
The Jubalaires / Sampson and Delilah / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lee Jones & the Sounds of Soul [The Masqueraders] / Poor Boy’s Dream / La Beat [unissued] / Detroit 1967

A Favor for a Girl (With a Love Sick Playlist)

I like your suit and ruffled blouse, Mabel!

Coffeetime, May 15, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / A Caddy for Daddy / 3rd Time Around / Blue Note / 12.18.65
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / The Back Beat / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Glen Island Hop / radio broadcast / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Blue Eyes / HMV / London 5.11.28 / vocal = Paul England
The Four Aces / Cherie / Trilon / 7.47 
Martha Davis / Martha Davis and Spouse / Blue Turning Gray Over You / ABC-Paramount / 1958 

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 9.15.64
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Sonny Stitt / Burnin’ / Lover Man / Argo / Chicago 1960
Georgia White / Trouble in Mind / Decca / Chicago 5.12.36 / with Les Paul
Mabel Scott / Good Lookin’ Fella / Exclusive / LA 1947
Ella Fitzgerald with the Mills Brothers / I Gotta Have My Baby Back / Decca / 1949
Dean Martin / You Can’t Love ’Em All / You Can’t Love ’Em All / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 3
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Brill’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Johnny Costa / Introducing… Johnny Costa / Manhattan / Savoy / 2.26.55
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Just Let Me Look at You / HMV / London 8.9.38 / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / I’m Thru with Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Howard Roberts / Color Him Funky / Days of Wine and Roses / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12, 13.63 
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Seismograph / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Jump for Me / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54
​​Steve Gibson & the Original Red Caps / Shame / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.1.51
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / The Sound of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Love Is a Simple Thing / RCA Victor / 1954 / vocal = Joe Mooney & the Doodlers [Sally Sweetland & Lillian Clark]
The Royal Sons Quintet (The 5 Royales) / Come Over Here / Apollo / 1952

last soulful song
Brenda Holloway / A Favor for a Girl (With a Love Sick Heart) / Tamla / Detroit 1964

Major Lance / Hey Little Girl / Okeh / 8.14.63