Playlist Makes You Human

Dancing makes you human… and the tops!

Coffeetime, April 17, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Desert Sands / Riverside / 10.16.57
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / Roc and Troll / New Jazz / 5.18.57
The Washingtonians [Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra] / Jubilee Stomp / Brunswick / 3.21.28
Vaughn De Leath / Baby Your Mother (Like She Babied You) / Victor / 8.12.27 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Bye Bye Baby Blues / Specialty / Hollywood early 1950
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Easy Living / Prestige / 9.16.61

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

set 2
Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Barfly / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60
Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson / The Great Kai & J.J. / Georgia on My Mind / Impulse! / 11.8.60 
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Perfect / Okeh / 10.21.27
Brunswick Concert Orchestra [Victor Young & his Orchestra] / Star Dust / Brunswick [unissued] / 5.25.31 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Maxine Sullivan / I Carry the Torch for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace & his Orchestra
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Well Oh Well / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Heart & Soul / Wiggin’ / Contemporary / LA 4.24.62
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary / This Love of Mine / Time / 2.12.60
Illinois Jacquet & his Orchestra / Hot Rod / RCA Victor / 5.22.50
The 4 Vagabonds / Slow and Easy / Bluebird / Chicago 12.17.41 
Toni Harper & Herb Jeffries / You’re Too Tall and I’m Too Small / Columbia / LA 5.49 / with Jerry Gray & his Orchestra; celeste
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Stella Performance / Riverside / LA 7.3.57

Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Baseball Theme / Fantasy / San Francisco 5.26.64

Peggy Lee / It’s All Over Now / Capitol / Hollywood 7.23.46 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
B.B. King / Bye Bye Baby / RPM / mid-1950s
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Love Makes You Human / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

I Need a Playlist

Big pearls, big microphone for Nellie.

Coffeetime, April 10, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Wake Up! / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Julia [CD only] / Riverside / 11.17.59
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Minor Meeting / Time / 3.23.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Baltimore Bounce / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Sunny Side Up / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew; celeste!
Jack McVea & his All Stars / It Never Should Have Been This Way / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

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

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Teddy Bunn / Guitar in High / Blue Note / 3.28.40
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ll Never Be the Same / Brunswick / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Nellie Lutcher & Nat King Cole / Can I Come in for a Second / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970

set 3
Cedar Walton / Cedar! / My Ship / Prestige / 7.10.67

Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 

The Tadd Dameron Sextet / Our Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / What Do You Know About Love? / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / vocal = Ida James
Golden Gate Quartet / Dipsy Doodle / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 1.24.38
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b

Una Mae Carlisle / I Like It, ’Cause I Love It / Beacon / 5.23.44
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Time’s Winding Up / Columbia / 4.18.41

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

Jeanne, letting us all know that anything goes for her, especially feathers. Poor birds.

Coffeetime, April 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Leila’s Blues / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Art Taylor / AT’s Delight / Move / Blue Note / 8.6.60
Russell Procope’s Big Six / Four Wheel Drive / HRS / late 1946
Annette Hanshaw / Sweetheart Darlin’ / Banner / 6.3.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / We Can’t Agree / Decca / LA 11.24.47 / Jordan as & voc, Aaron Izenhall t, Eddie Johnson ts, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book / The Man I Love / Verve / Hollywood 1.5.59 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Lester Young / I Can’t Get Started / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
Lil Green / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Victor / Chicago 7.31.46
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
The Vocaleers / Be True / Red Robin / 1953
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / Free Flow / Blue Note / 10.10.69
Hank Mobley / Workout / Greasin’ Easy / Blue Note / 3.26.61
Don Byas / Free and Easy / Savoy / 7.28.44 / celeste!
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’m Lost / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.44 / vocal = Dick Gray
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Fallout / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / When You’re Smiling / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Just You, Just Me / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Francis Collinson
Peggy Lee / ’Tain’t So, Honey, ’Tain’t So / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I Know / King [Federal] / 1961
The Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Earl Gaines / Three Wishes for a Fool / DeLuxe / 5.5.67

It’s So Peaceful in the Playlist

Digging the gold miniskirts and the red pocket square!

Coffeetime, March 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Giantis / Blue Note / 8.14.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Omicron / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 8.47
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Good Evenin’ / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / Did I Remember / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Prelude to a Kiss / Savoy / 1.19.56
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Sea Breeze / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Boo Hoo / radio broadcast / 1938 / vocal = The Mullen Sisters
Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.45
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Oo-Wee / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All About Us / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Prestige / 8.65
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
John Kirby & his Orchestra / There I Go / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Have You Met Miss Jones? & I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin’ with Sandy Mosse / I’m Old Fashioned / Argo / Chicago 1959
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Four / Contemporary / LA 12.10.58
Stan Getz / Strike Up the Band / Roost / 3.1.51
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tonight I’m Alone / Exclusive / LA 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Dixieaires / You Better Run / Sunrise / 12.47

last soulful song
Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Motown / Detroit 1968

Waiting at the End of the Playlist

Dorothy, you lucky gal.

Coffeetime, March 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Hank’s Tune / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55 
Benny Goodman Quartet / Dinah / Victor / Hollywood 8.26.36
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / There’s a Wah Wah Gal in Agua Caliente / Columbia / 5.24.30 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Baby! I Can’t Forget You / Specialty / Hollywood 11.17.48
Clora Bryant / ...Gal with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Mode / Hollywood 5.57

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

set 2
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
The Big Three / Appetite Blues / Delta / Chicago 5.4.39

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Allen Eager Quartette / Vot’s Dot / Savoy / 3.22.46 
The Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / Victor / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Yours Alone / Mercury / live at Joe Pasternak’s house, Hollywood 3.24.58
Delta Rhythm Boys / A One Sided Affair / Decca / Hollywood Wednesday 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer / On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen / Decca / Hollywood 4.15.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / In My Savior’s Care / Nashboro / Nashville 1952 

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972
Ann Sexton & The Masters Of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy Seven] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971

I’ve Got a Playlistful of Dreams

Music is always better with a library and a spiral staircase… and Yves.

Coffeetime, March 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Sweet-Cakes / Riverside / 12.58
Pepper Adams / The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams / Seein’ Red / Savoy / 11.19.57
Trummy Young’s Big Seven / Johnson Rock / HRS / 9.3.46
Billy Cotton & his Band / Crazy Weather / Regal Zonophone / London 12.20.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / Double-Trouble Blues / Savoy / 9.12.44
Helen Carr / … Why Do I Love You / Lonely Street / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61
John Coltrane / Ballads / Too Young to Go Steady / Impulse! / 12.21.61
Stephane Grappelli / Slow en ré majeur (I’ll Be Around) / Barclay [unissued] / Paris 2.14 56
Larry Adler / Medley: Red Sails in the Sunset; I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again / Rex / London 10.35 / with Fred Hartley’s Orchestra
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace “Saxie” Dowell
Gene Autry & Smiley Burnette / Ridin’ Down the Canyon / Perfect / 10.18.35
Georges Guétary / Caballero / Pathé / Paris 1943 / with orchestra arranged & conducted by Marius Coste
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Ruben / RPM / LA 1956

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Stop and Listen / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Teddy Charles / Tentet / Green Blues / Atlantic / 1.11.56
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Stealin’ Trash / Savoy / 12.18.46
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Eddy Howard; with celeste!
The Charioteers / The Gaucho Serenade / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / No Love, No Nothin’ / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Carioca / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56 
King Cole Trio / Easy Listening Blues; I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Yves Montand / Faubourg Saint-Martin / Odeon / France 1955 / with orchestra conducted by Bob Castella
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / LA 1967
The Trumpeteers / Somehow / King / 1.24.50

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Where I’m Coming From / If You Really Love Me / Tamla / 1971
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972 (partial)

Playlists Are Like Street Cars

Jorge has an open invitation on Coffeetime.

Coffeetime, February 27, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Nat Adderley / That’s Right! / Chordnation / Riverside / fall 1960 
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hankerin’ / Blue Note / 2.6.55 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Co-Op / Emarcy / 1.3.55 
Cline’s Collegians / Chicadore Stomp / Brunswick / 11.29
Sophie Tucker / Oh! You Have No Idea / Okeh / 4.16.28 / Ted Shapiro p
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / If You Ever Had the Blues / Aladdin / LA 8.15.49
Carmen McRae / Torchy! / My Future Just Passed / Decca / 12.55 

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor Sax / Where or When / Urania / 1954 / arranged by Jimmy Hamilton; Lucky Thompson ts, Jimmy Hamilton cl, Billy Taylor p, Sidney Gross g, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform a Tribute to Clifford Brown / Once in A While / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Helen Louise & Frank Ferera / On the Beach in Waikiki / Victor / 10.11.15 / guitar duet https://www.historylink.org/File/9201
Eddie South & his International Orchestra / No More Blues / Victor / Chicago 5.3.33 
Trixie Smith / My Daddy Rocks Me / Decca / 5.26.38 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Rock It for Me / Columbia / 1940 / vocal = Joe Thomas
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / Who Cares / Decca / 2.57

set 3
Paul Quinichette / Basie Reunion / The Blues I Like to Hear / Prestige / 9.5.58 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / You Turned the Tables on Me / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea / Oh How I Miss You Tonight / Combo / LA 1957
Jimmy Joy & his Orchestra / Thank Your Stars / 1.40 / Varsity / vocal = Art London aka Art Lund
The Beavers / I’d Rather Be Wrong Than Blue / Coral / 1950
Jackie Paris / Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin / Fun to Be Fooled / Time / 2.23.60 

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi Fi / Topsy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56 
Bud Shank / Bud Shank Quartet featuring Claude Williamson / All of You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.56 
Rosetta Howard / Men Are Like Street Cars / Decca /6.14.39 / with the Harlem Blues Serenaders 
Mildred Bailey / The Love I Long For / V-Disc / 1944 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Chove Chuva / Philips / Brazil 1963 
Harmonizing Four / I Love to Call His Name / Vee Jay / 1959

last soulful song
The Emotions / Somebody New / Twin Stacks Records / Chicago 1968