Friday, November 29, 2024

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

Screenshot from the 1942 movie Pardon My Sarong showing Nan Wynn, dressed as a hula dancer, singing and dancing with others dressed as island inhabitants.
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

Friday, November 22, 2024

It’s a Big Wide Wonderful Playlist

Screenshot of a video from 1966 showing a close up of Roy Haynes drumming.
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 

Friday, November 15, 2024

I Hope Gabriel Likes My Playlist

Screenshot from the 1941 Soundie "Jack, You're Playing the Game" showing the four Delta Rhythm Boys in suits and hats singing with smiles in front of the sign for the Café Pom Pom on a brick wall.
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



Friday, November 08, 2024

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 


Friday, November 01, 2024

New Worried Playlist Blues

Screenshot from the movie The Harder They Come showing a close up of Jimmy Cliff wearing a yellow corduroy beret as he watches on in a recording studio.
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 

Friday, October 25, 2024

I’m Gonna Wash That Playlist Right Outa My Hair

Screenshot from the movie South Pacific where Mitzi Gaynor's character is washing her hair outside on the beach with a cover-up made from a towel and a military belt.
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

Friday, October 18, 2024

I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with My Playlist

The Mills Brothers and Dean Martin all in black suits with bow ties singing, smiling, and swaying whlie they sing.
Any excuse to enjoy Dean and The Mills Brothers.

Coffeetime, October 18, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Ritual] / Exhibit A / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / 2.11.57
Chet Baker / In New York / Hotel 49 / Riverside / 9.58
Dorothy Carless / Heart and Soul / Columbia / Abbey Road, London 10.25.38 / piano = Billy Mayerl; song by Hoagy Carmichael & Frank Loesser
Cats & the Fiddle / If I Dream of You / Bluebird / 1.20.41 / first session with Tiny Grimes 
Sarah Vaughan / The Lonely Hours / Solitude / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / These Foolish Things / Imperial / LA spring 1956
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Nancy with the Laughing Face / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 / Jimmy Rowles on celeste!
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Serenity / Riverside / 1.61
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blue Harlem / Atlantic / 12.29.47 / George Kelly on celeste!
Cleo Brown / You’re a Heavenly Thing / Decca / 3.12.35
Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40
Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Good Man Blues / DeLuxe / 6.15.50

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Man at Work / Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’ / Cadet / live at The Village Vanguard 1966
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / Gnid / Prestige / 11.30.56
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Jumpin’ at Gleason’s / Atlantic / 3.16.49 / overdubbed audience applause
(The Three) Boswell Sisters / My Future Just Passed / Okeh / 10.3.30
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / V-Disc 33A [Victor] / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / Manhattan Serenade / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / LA 1956
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Big Top / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Mildred Bailey / I Don’t Want to Miss Mississippi / RCA Victor / 2.20.46 / with the Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Beverly Peer b
Dean Martin / I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with Your Love Letters / Capitol / Hollywood 4.10.50 / with Paul Weston & his Dixie Eight
Nat King Cole / Smile! / Day In, Day Out / Capitol / Hollywood 11.20.61 
The Trumpeteers / Packing Up / Score / WCAO Studios, Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song
The Hytones / Bigger and Better / A-Bet / 1967