Playlisty Little Thingy

Ray Abrams/Jimmy Shirley sax battle! We all win!

Coffeetime, August 18, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / St. Louis Blues / Verve / 2.17.59
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / A Night in Tunisia / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Swingy Little Thingy; Too Many Tears / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Naggin’ Woman Blues / Black & White / LA 8.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Do You Know Why? / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Love, I’ve Found You / Vee-Jay / 7.21.61
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / I Cover the Waterfront / Bethlehem / 3.17 & 18.55
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / I Can’t Get Started / Atlantic / 6.14.55
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Move Over / Victor / 10.7.41
Eddie Lang / April Kisses / Okeh / 4.1.27
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / It All Comes Back to Me Now / 1.28.41 / vocal = Perry Como
Chuck Willis / I Feel So Bad / Okeh / 9.17.53
Connie Francis / Where the Boys Are / MGM / Hollywood 1960

set 3
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Blue Ammons  / Prestige / 6.16.60
Art Farmer / Meet the Jazztet / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60
Ray Abrams & his Sextet / Sandy / Sittin’ In With / 1948
Basin Street Boys / Ain’t Got No Loot / Exclusive / Hollywood late 1946 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra
Ella Mae Morse / Buzz Me / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #155 / Hollywood 11.5.45 / with Sam Donahue Orch & Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / It Never Entered My Mind / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / RCA / 6.19.61
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Bernie’s Tune / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59
Benny Goodman / The Benny Goodman Trio Plays for the Fletcher Henderson Fund / After You’ve Gone / Columbia / live, WNEW 4.1.51
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior [Capitol] / LA 3.1.43
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of ’66 / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Reprise / 12.66
Soul Stirrers / I’m So Glad (Trouble Don’t Last Always) / Specialty / Hollywood 2.16.55

last soulful song
The Impressions / We’re a Winner / ABC-Paramount / Chicago 1967

(Love Is) The Tender Playlist

Gorgeous video, gorgeous song, gorgeous Esther!

Coffeetime, August 11, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Everywhere / Blue Note / 3.3.57
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Star Eyes / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Duke Ellington & his Orchesstra / Creole Rhapsody, parts 1 & 2 / Brunswick / 1.20.31
Fred Astaire / The Half of It, Dearie, Blues / Columbia / London 4.20.26 / with George Gerswhin on piano
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / The Be-Bop Bounce / United Artist / spring 1946
June Christy & the Kentones / Make Love to Me / radio transcription / LA 12.13.45

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Clifford Brown / Easy Living / Blue Note / 8.28.53
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / McGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Redheads / Brown Sugar / Perfect / c. 9.26
Mildred Bailey / Summertime / radio broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show (aka Music Till Midnight) / 10.20.44 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Debbie Reynolds / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / MGM / Hollywood 1955

set 3
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / I Was Doing Allright / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Les Spann / Gemini / Stockholm Sweetnin’ / Jazzland / 12.16.60
James Moody’s Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chano Pozo
The Dinning Sisters / Do You Love Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1946
Charlie Shavers Quintet / She’s Funny That Way / Vogue / 1945

set 4
Webster Young / For Lady / The Lady / Prestige / 6.14.57
Chico Hamilton / Jazz Swings Broadway / Show Me / World Pacific / LA 8.12.57
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Royal Jokers / She’s All Mine / Atco / 7.9.56
Esther Phillips / Fever / Atlantic / 1966
The Zion Travelers / I Want to Go to Heaven and Rest / Dooto / LA 1962

last soulful song
Pat Lundy / Prove It / DeLuxe / 1969

Time on My Hands (Playlist in My Arms)

Who you kidding? That girl would look at either of you guys!

Coffeetime, August 4, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One By One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Originally / Lil’ T / Columbia / 6.25.56
Shep Fields & his New Music / Skylark / radio transcription / early 1940s
Meyer Davis & his Orchestra / Keep Young and Beautiful / Columbia / 11.23.33 / vocal = Charlotte Murray
The Flamingos / Someday, Someway / Chance / Chicago 1.28.53
Margie Anderson / The Blues / Come Rain or Come Shine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / 1959

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

set 2
Jimmy Heath / Really Big! / Mona’s Mood / Riverside / 6.28.60
Kenny Burrell / If You Could See Me Now / Blue Note / live, Five Spot Café 8.26.59
Chet Baker / Chet / Time on My Hands (You in My Arms) / Riverside / 12.30.58
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Cecilia Mia / Decca / Paris 6.27.33 / “Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s”
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol / Hollywood 5.26.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Snaggle Tooth Ruth / King / Cincinnati 9.28.50

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / Kelly Roll / Verve / 3.19.64
John Lewis & Svend Asmussen / European Encounter / Valeria / Stockholm 7.2 & 3.62
Fats Navarro / The Fabulous Fats Navarro, vol 2 / Symphonette / Blue Note / 9.13.48
Delta Rhythm Boys / Conversation at Midnight / radio transcription / 1941
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Skylark / Okeh / 11.25.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Skylark / Capitol / Hollywood 4.56

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding & Al Cohn / The Brothers / The Red Door / Prestige / 9.8.52
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Atco / 1961
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Girl from Ipanema / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet with Jobim
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Alexander O’Neal / Hearsay / Never Knew Love Like This / Tabu / 1987 / duet with Cherrelle

Does Your Playlist Beat for Me

Bird watches Hawk!

Coffeetime, July 21, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane / Mating Call / Super Jet / Prestige / 11.30.56
Miles Davis / ’Round About Midnight / Tadd’s Delight / Columbia / 6.5.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble / Three Little Words / Keynote / 5.24.44
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Frank Haywood / Now or Never / Apollo [unissued] / 2.27.46 / with Monroe Tucker & his All Stars
Helen Humes / ’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do / Stardust / Contemporary / LA 2.10.59

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

set 2
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Straight Life / Riverside / 7.1.58
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / Lost Canyon / Columbia / LA 8.15.56
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / The Very Thought of You / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
Art Tatum Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Comet / 5.1.44
Ruth Etting / Home / Romeo / Hollywood 12.11.31
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys / Lil Liza Jane / Columbia / Hollywood 7.24.41/ vocal = Tommy Duncan
Bobby “Blue” Bland / No Blow, No Show / Duke / Houston 1952

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / Walk On By / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Good Bait / Philips / 4.25.63
Tadd Dameron / The Tadd Dameron Band / Good Bait / Jazzland / live, Royal Roost 1948
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Does Your Heart Beat for Me (theme); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby / radio transcription / 1938
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Baby, Baby All the Time / Regent / 1949 / vocal = Buddy Stewart

set 4
Art Pepper / Summertime / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / C’est la vie / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44
Slim & Slam / Sweet Safronia / Vocalion / 11.9.38
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé's California Suite / They Go to San Diego / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich
The Hightower Brothers / He’s a Warrior (Battleax) / Nashboro [unreleased] / early 1960s

last soulful song
The Festivals / You’ve Got the Makings of a Lover / Smash / 1967

That's My Play-Play-Playlist

…and handsome, too!

Coffeetime, July 14, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Rumproller / Desert Moonlight / Blue Note / 4.21.65
Max Roach / The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley / Just One of Those Things / Debut / 4.21.53
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Slow Freight / Vocalion / 1.30.40
Waring’s Pennsylvanians / The Little White House (At the End of Honeymoon Lane) / Victor / 10.29.26 / vocal = Tom Waring
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chicken-Shackers / Tell Me How Long Has the Train Been Gone / Aladdin / LA 1.4.50
Buddy Collette / Detour Ahead / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962 / vocal = Irene Kral

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

set 2
Buddy Collette / Laura / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Miles Davis / Seven Steps to Heaven / I Fall in Love Too Easily / Columbia / Hollywood 4.16-17.63
Stéphane Grappelli / Dans la vie / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56
Queen’s Dance Orchestra / Drifting Along with the Tide / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 2.13.22
The Happiness Boys / That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness / Victor / 2.23.27
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Les Blue Stars / Octuor / La légende du pays des oiseaux (Lullaby of Birdland) / Barclay / Paris 11.54

set 3
Harold Mabern / Workin’ & Wailin’ / Blues for Phineas / Prestige / 6.30.69
Wardell Gray / The Squirrel / Bob Andrews Archive (personal recording) [Xanadu] / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52
Connee Boswell / Under a Blanket of Blue / Brunswick / LA 6.10.33 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Savannah Churchill & The Four Tunes / The Best of Friends / Columbia / 12.48
Clyde McPhatter / May I Sing for You? / These Foolish Things / Mercury Wing / 1962

set 4
Bobby Scott / Bobby Scott and Two Horns / Theme III / ABC-Paramount / 10.56
Art Tatum Trio / I Know That You Know / Comet / 5.1.44
King Cole Trio / I’m Through with Love / radio broadcast / live, Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.21.46
Brenda & the Tabulations / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Top and Bottom Records / 1970
The Pilgrim Travelers / After While / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Hollywood 8.2.55

last soulful song
Tom Jones / A-Tom-ic Jones / In a Woman’s Eyes / Decca [Parrot] / London 1966

Playlist of the Infidels

Daydreaming with Brenda

Coffeetime, July 7, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / 9.29.57
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (1560) / Dance of the Infidels / Blue Note / 4.21.57
Benny Goodman Sextet / Gone with What Draft / Columbia / 1.15.41
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / You Ought to See Sally on Sunday / HMV / London / 12.20.35 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Honeysuckle Rose / Decca / 10.14.39
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / What Do You See in Her? / Capitol / LA 1957

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

set 2
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.16.58
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Flute in “D” / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I’m in the Mood for Love / Clef / 7.5.50
Frankie Newton Quintet / Daybreak Blues / Blue Note / 4.7.39
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Everything Happens to Me / radio broadcast, Kraft Music Hall / Hollywood 5.1.41
Annie Laurie / Baby What’s New? / Regal / 9.49
Nat “King” Cole / Just One of Those Things / The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1957

set 3
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 9.25.60
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Blue Samba / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Erskine Butterfield / Saturday Night Twist / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Mildred Bailey / Summertime / Majestic / 12.30.45
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / You Didn’t Want My Love / RPM / LA 1951
Matt Dennis / Give Her a Kiss [She Dances Overhead] / This Funny World / RCA / 1955

set 4
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Jordu / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Zan / Contemporary / LA 4.17.56
Jones-Smith, Incorporated [aka Count Basie’s Blue Five] / Lady Be Good / Vocalion [Columbia] / Chicago 10.9.36
Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis L’Auteur / Le Piano de la Plage / Pathé-Marconi / Paris 1959
Dinah Washington / The Late, Late Show [Tops in Pops] / I Don’t Hurt Anymore / Mercury (Wing) / LA 8.3.54 / with Hal Mooney & his Orchestra
Highway QC’s / Every Man, Woman and Child / Vee Jay / Chicago 5.22.55

last soulful song
Brenda & the Tabulations / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Top and Bottom Records / 1970

Cover Me up with Sunshine (And Feather My Playlist with Love)

Johnny Griffin & Kenny Clarke go Italian

Coffeetime, June 30, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / Karioka / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2: A Blowing Session / Ball Bearing / Blue Note / 4.6.57
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / A Mellow Bit of Rhythm / Decca / 7.26.37
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Cover Me up with Sunshine (And Feather My Nest with Love) / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal = Frank Bessinger
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Houston Jump / Swingtime (Supreme) / LA 1947
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / God Bless the Child / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

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

set 2
Sonny Stitt / Burnin’ / Easy Living / Argo / Chicago 1960
Mal Waldron / The Quest / Duquility / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna [alt take 2] / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
“King” Bennie Nawahi / Black Boy Blues / 1929
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol / Robins and Roses / Bluebird / 4.24.36
Marl Young & his Orchestra / Sail On Boogie / Rhumboogie / Chicago possibly May 1945 / featuring T-Bone Walker vocal & guitar
Big Maybelle / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Savoy / 3.16.59
Unknown Chorus / Walt Disney Presents Swamp Fox / Johnny Tremain / Disneyland / Hollywood 1959

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / Spring Is Here / New Jazz  / 8.19.60
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Quartet / Hot Sausage / Riverside / 2.58
Jimmy Forrest / Night Train / United / 7.12.51
John Kirby & his Orchestra / As the Tide Was Flowing In / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Ravens / Tea for Two / National [unissued] / c. 1949
Al Hibbler / Duke Ellington Presents Al Hibbler / You Don’t Love Me No More / RCA Victor / 7.10.46

set 4
Cal Tjader / Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / The Man that Got Away / Fantasy / San Francisco 1961
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Room 608 / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58
Fats Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / You’re Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 9.14.56 / with Willie Smith on alto
Peters Sisters / The Terrific Peters Sisters / Who Stole the Jam / Columbia / 1961
Echoes of Zion / Keep Still / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Just the Other Day / A-Bet / Nashville 1968