The Blues My Playlist Gave to Me

Fats and hats!

Coffeetime, June 13, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Little Chico / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / Blow Me Down / RCA Victor / 12.4.46
Whispering Jack Smith / Blue Skies / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 / Smith p & voc
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Dream Lucky Blues / Mercury / Kansas City summer 1945 / Lee p & voc, Ben Curtis b, Sam “Baby” Lovett d
Dakota Staton / Ballads and the Blues / Come Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Afraid of Love / Prestige / 1967
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra / The Blues My Baby Gave to Me / Victor / 1.13.39
Fats Waller / Fats Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, broadcast / 3.11.35
Gus Arnheim & his Ambassador Hotel Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Okeh / LA 4.14.28 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / It’s the Natural Thing to Do / Vocalion / 6.29.37
Johnny Otis Orchestra / Good Boogdi Googie / Excelsior / Hollywood fall 1945 / vocal = George Washington
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Old Man River / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 / RIP Al Foster d
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / Everest / LA 7.60
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / O.H. Blues / Mercury / 8.8.51
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / On the Island of Catalina / Decca / 10.5.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Aces / Put Your Cards on the Table / Trilon / Oakland late 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Some Like It Hot / Contemporary / LA 3.59
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Poly-Doodle / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
The Chocolate Dandies / That’s How I Feel Today / Okeh / 9.18.29
King Cole Trio / I Love to Make Love to You [aka Any Old Time] / V-Disc #455 (Army), #235 (Navy) / LA 2.27.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Al Jackson & his Band / Cloudy Weather Blues / Capitol / 1.49 / vocal = Dick Cole
Peggy Lee / I Could Write a Book / Capitol / Hollywood 2.5.63 
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / My Lord is Coming Back / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
The Marvellos / We Go Together / Loma / 1966

Just Another Playlist Wasted Away

Una Mae: a lovely and talented Coffeetime favorite.

Coffeetime, June 6, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Whistle Stop / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hippy / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Slow Burn / MGM / 1.9.47
The Rhythmic Eight / Just Another Day Wasted Away / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 2.6.28
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Okeh / 5.8.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Floyd Dixon / Pleasure Days / Aladdin / Houston c. 1949 / Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Bill Ellis ts, Sammy Benskin g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / All My Tomorrows / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / ZT's Blues / More Than You Know / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Warm Winds / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Sea Breeze / Verve / 12.17.57
Django’s Music / Tears / Swing / Paris 3.22.40
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / You’re Lucky to Me / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Big Three / I Feel Like Steppin’ Out / Columbia / Chicago 2.18.49
Dean Martin / French Style / C’est Magnifique / Reprise / Hollywood 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Matador / Blue Note / 5.20.65
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 7.14.67
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / radio broadcast AFRS Jubilee #91 / Hollywood c. 6.44 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA Victor / 1954

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Ruby / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 / Collette fl, Ernie Freeman on celeste!
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Val’s Pal / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Valve in Head / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.22.54
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio transcription, WEMP / The Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Gente / A&M / LA 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / A Look Away from Heaven / radio broadcast NBC Thesaurus #979 / 1941

last soulful song
Mary Wells / Stop Takin’ Me for Granted / 20th Century Fox /1964

George Benson / Turn Your Love Around / Warner Brothers / 1981

The Playlist (Keeps a Knockin’)

Stunning, as always: Miss Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, May 30, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Chi-Chi / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / The Cattin’ Toddler / New Jazz / 1.31.58 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Oh Lady Be Good! / Decca / 2.4.39 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Nocturne / Decca / 4.18.33 
Abe Lyman & his Orchestra / Singing a Happy Song / Brunswick / 1.17.35 / vocal = Phil Neely
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / The Masquerade Is Over / Capitol / 6.61 

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

set 2
Buddy DeFranco / In a Mellow Mood / Laura / Norgan / LA 8.10.54 / DeFranco cl, Sonny Clark p, Gene [Eugene “Senator”] Wright b and Bobby White d
The Kenny Clarke – Francy Boland Big Band / Now Hear Our Meanin’ / I’m Scared of Girls When They’re Good Looking / Columbia / Cologne 1.25–26.63 / Sahib Shihab bari 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / Late Evening / Prestige / 2.21.61 / Buddy Tate cl 
Lyda Roberti / College Rhythm / Columbia / 1934 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Eddie South & his Orchestra / Just an Old Banjo / ARC Test [unissued] / 11.23.34 
Faye Adams / The Hammer (Keeps a Knockin’) / Herald / 1956
Jean Paul Mauric / Sur le Chemin de Las Vegas / Festival Victory / Paris 1962 / avec Alan Gate et Son Orchestre

set 3
Larry Young / Young Blues / A Midnight Angel / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Forrest Fire / Dexter’s Deck / New Jazz / 8.9.60 
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Carl’s Blues / Dootone / LA 1955 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Lang-Worth Transcription / 12.21.43 / vocal = Dorothy Claire
The Pied Pipers / Ok’l Baby Dok’l / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Mills Brothers / You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Columbia / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / The More I See You / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / [Time Further Out] / Slow and Easy (aka Lawless Mike) / Columbia [unissued] / 5.25.61 / Brubeck p, Paul Desmond as, Eugene Wright b, Joe Morello d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Stella By Starlight / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 / Candoli t, Claude Williamson p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d
Peggy Lee / Trav’llin’ Light / Capitol Transcription / LA 4.4.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Inga Swenson, Johnny Laverty, John Reardon, Franca Baldwin, Suzanne Bernard, & Virginia Martin / New Faces of ’56 / Girls ’n’ Girls ’n’ Girls / RCA Victor / 1956 
The Coleman Brothers / Walls of Jericho / Coleman / 1951 

last soulful song
Darrow Fletcher / No Limit / Crossover [unissued] / 1978

After Hours on Playlist Street

Mel charming Peggy with humor.

Coffeetime, May 23, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Stix Trix / Riverside / 2.25.58
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Mumba Neua / Prestige / 9.15.64
Harry Carney’s Big Eight / Jamaica Rumble / HRS / 3.18.46
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep! / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio; with celeste! 
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I Just Thought of You / Freedom / Houston c. 6.49
Sarah Vaughan / I’m Glad There Is You / EmArcy / 12.16.54

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

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / I Surrender Dear / Atlantic / 11.20.56 / with celeste!
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / After Hours on Dream Street / HRS / 11.5.45
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Bakiff / Victor / Hollywood 6.5.41
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Harry Barris, Al Rinker
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Joe (Everyday) Williams / Blow Mr. Low / Savoy / Chicago 1.23.53 / with Red Saunders & his Orchestra 

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Ray Charles Presents / Tin Tin Deo / Atlantic / 1959
Joe Newman / Soft Swingin’ Jazz / Scotty / Coral / 1.15.58
Howard McGhee / Turnip Blood / Dial / 12.3.47
The Mills Brothers / What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasing You)? / Decca / 2.20.35
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 1944
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / Welcome to the Club / Verve / London 7.19.61 / with Wally Stott & his Orchestra

set 4
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper / Sidewinder / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Up in Quincy’s Room / ABC-Paramount / 1956
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four Brothers / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / No One Else Could Be / King / 6.28.51 / vocal = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
Etta James / You Got It / Cadet / Muscle Shoals 8.68
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39

last soulful song
Nate Evans / Main Squeeze / Twinight / Chicago 1972
The Mark-Keys / My Sweet Baby / TCB / Chicago 1967

Have a Little Playlist on Me

Come on, Bozzies.

Coffeetime, May 16, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / This is New / It’s You or No One / Riverside / 3.28.57
Art Pepper / Smack Up / Smack Up / Contemporary / 10.24-25.60
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Close to Five / Decca / 3.16.39
Anson Weeks & his Orchestra / Have a Little Dream on Me / Brunswick / San Francisco 8.26.34 / vocal = Kay St. Germaine & Ben Gage
Dinah Washington / My Lovin’ Papa / Apollo / LA 12.10-13.45
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Dear Ann / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / (Coffee in the Morning) Kisses in the Night / Bluebird / Chicago 12.12.33 / vocal = Jim Holstein
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / I’m My Own Grandpaw / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Little Milton / Somebody Told Me / Sun / Memphis 7.28.53

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Sonnymoon for Two / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Miles Davis / Little Willie Leaps / Savoy / 8.14.47
Boswell Sisters / Sleep, Come On and Take Me / Brunswick / 8.6.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Moments in the Moonlight / Victor / 2.26.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Shadow of Your Smile / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / The Fruit / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Bud Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Surf Pipers / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59 / Shank as, Billy Bean g, Gary Peacock b, Chuck Flores d 
King Cole Trio / Sunday / radio transcription King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio / Hollywood 3.6.48
Larry Darnell / Lost My Baby / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band
Bobby Darin / Oh! Look at Me Now / You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) / Capitol / LA 7.27.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Nashboro / Nashville 1951-52

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

Playlist in Calico

I’d never ever pass you by, Cary.

Coffeetime, May 2, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Yusef Lateef / Other Sounds / Minor Mood / New Jazz / 10.11.57 
Sonny Rollins / Saxophone Colossus / St. Thomas / Prestige / 6.22.56 sus
Six Jumping Jacks / Say Mister! Have You Met Rosie’s Sister? / Brunswick / 3.9.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks & ensemble 
Luke Jones & His Five Joes / Going Down Slow / Atlas / 1946 / vocal = George “The Blues Man” Vann 
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / Nobody’s Heart / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

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

set 2
Duke Jordan / East and West of Jazz / Yes, He’s Gone / Charlie Parker Records / 2.13.62 
Coleman Hawkins / Night Hawk / Night Hawk / Prestige Swingville / 12.30.60 
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Egyptian Fantasy / Victor / 1.8.41 
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / A Little Bit Independent / radio transcription / 1948
Alton Redd & his Low Down Blues Band / But She’s Not for Me / Black & White [unissued] / 1945
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Oops! / Decca / LA 11.23.51 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / Kenny’s Theme / Prestige / 4.7.64 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Red’s Good Groove / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Coleman Hawkins & his 52nd Street All Stars / Spotlite / RCA Victor / 2.27.46 
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Victor / 3.4.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / I Remember Clifford / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 4
Dave Pell / Love Story / Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.20.56 
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Gal in Calico / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / Spring Is Here / Prestige / 2.18.55 
King Cole Trio / For Once in Your Life / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.2.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / Prison Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 12.16.47
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Pass Me By / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / His Eye Is on the Sparrow / Decca / 3.21.44 

last soulful song
Kiki Dee / I Dig You Baby / World Pacific / LA 1966

Playlist Saving Time (There Ought to Be)

Coffeetime, April 25, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59
Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / It’s Alright with Me / Savoy / 8.25.59
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Blue Danube / Victor / 3.10.37
Mike Speciale & his Orchestra / Caressing You / Edison / 1.3.29
Ivory Joe Hunter / Blues at Sunrise / Exclusive / LA 1945 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Lover Man / Atlantic / 5.23.58

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

set 2
Grant Green / Green Street / ‘Round About Midnight / Blue Note / 1.1.61
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Epic / 7.2.56 
Emilio Caceres Trio / What’s the Use? / Victor / 11.5.37
Sam Ku West Harmony Boys [Sam Kulua West] / Sunkist Hawaii / Victor / Oakland 3.26.28
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / You’re in the Army Now / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Pee Wee Crayton / My Idea About You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Goin’ Home / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Red Norvo / Red Plays the Blues / Sunrise Blues / RCA Victor / LA 1.18.57
Pat Flowers & his Rhythm / Original Blues / Majestic / 8.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / You’ve Got to Eat Your Spinach, Baby / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Charioteers / Dinah / radio broadcast / 1942
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / I Wish I Knew / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large / In the Night / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14, 15.60
Blossom Dearie / Jazz Sweet / Moonlight Saving Time (There Ought to Be) / Barclay / Paris 1955
Ernie Felice / Cocktail Time / Shake Down the Stars / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / Oh Me! Oh My! / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”) & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Things Ain’t Like They Used to Went / Bethlehem / 1.60
Golden Gate Quartet / Found a Wonderful Savior / Bluebird / Charlotte 8.4.37

last soulful song
Honey & the Bees / Help Me (Get Over My Used to Be Lover) / Josie / Philadelphia 1970
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968