Playlist Gavotte

I like it, Una Mae!

Coffeetime, June 14, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Under Paris Skies / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Jazz Messengers!!!!! / I Hear a Rhapsody / Impuse! / 6.14.61
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Montparnasse Jump / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Durium Dance Band [Roy Fox & his Band] / Just Humming Along / Durium / London 5.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Charlie Singleton & his Band / Please Don’t Leave Me Here to Cry / Lee / 1951 / vocal = Jake Vaughn
Nancy Wilson / The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson / All Night Long / Capitol / Hollywood 6.29.60

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / I Forgot to Remember / Prestige / 9.15.64
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / Ruby, My Dear / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / McGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / After You’ve Gone (take 2) / radio, Associated Transcription No. 60 / 8.7.39
Una Mae Carlisle / I Would Do Anything for You / Vocalion / London 5.20.38
Ivory Joe Hunter / I Like It / King / Cincinnati 12.5.47
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Wives and Lovers / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cross Town / Crown / 1960
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Wall to Wall / Riverside / 3.11.63
Ray Linn’s Hollywood Swing Stars / Blop Blah / Atomic / Hollywood 11.45
Golden Gate Quartet / Ol’ Man River / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Don’t Fall Asleep / Bluebird / 3.3.40 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Teach Me Tonight / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / Ascot Gavotte / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56
Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Burt Bacharach & Dusty Springfield / A House Is Not a Home / TV broadcast / Hollywood 6.70
Golden Gate Quartet / My Time Done Come / Okeh [unissued] / 3.25.42

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / How Big Is Big / Bell / 1970

When I Dream of Playlist

Just in time…I play Bobby!

Coffeetime, June 7, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Couldn’t It Be You? / Vik [unissued] / 3.13.57
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Hank’s Tune / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55
Fred Hartley & his Music / Little Old Lady / broadcast / London 9.11.38 / vocal = Gracie Fields
Camille Howard / I Ain’t Got the Spirit / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50
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
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / But Beautiful / Prestige / 12.13.66
Dupree Bolton / Laura / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
Gene Ammons / When I Dream of You / Prestige / 10.28.50
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Blue Orchids / HMV / 11.6.39 / vocal = Denny Dennis
Hadda Brooks / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Modern / LA 1947
Paul Gayten / Ooh La La / Regal / New Orleans 1950
The Fascinators / Come to Paradise / Capitol / 1959

set 3
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Cherry / Impulse! / 11.15.61
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Buck Jumpin’ / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Mills Brothers / Sweet Adeline / Decca / 1.24.39
Anita O’Day / Memories of You / Capitol [unissued?] / Hollywood 1.18.45 / with Lowell Martin & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / Night and Day / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Ginza / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life Is a Many Splendored Gig / No One Will Room With Me / Roulette / 6.3, 4.57
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Ensemble / Little Old Lady [alt take] / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 12.22.53
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.28.44
The Charioteers / Ride, Red, Ride / transcription / 1942
Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / I Wanna Be Around / Capitol / Hollywood 1965
The Chosen Gospel Singers / What a Wonderful Sight / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Daryl Hall & John Oates / Alone Too Long / RCA 1975

I’ll Gladly Make the Same Playlist Again

Eubie and Noble, dapper & joyful, from 1923!

Coffeetime, May 31, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Tribute to Brownie / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Clifford Brown / Chez Moi / Vogue / Paris 10.10.53
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo [take 2] / Brunswick / 4.18.29
Bix Beiderbecke & his Orchestra / I Don’t Mind Walking in the Rain (When I’m Walking in the Rain with You) / Victor / 9.8.30 / vocal = Wesley Vaughn
Tina Dixon / Blow Mr. Be Bop / King / 1949 / with Gene Nero Sextet
Chris Connor / Chris / A Good Man Is a Seldom Thing / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / The Night We Called It a Day / Atlantic / 1.15.59
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Trouble Is a Man / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Wishing and Waiting / Vogue / Paris 4.15.50
Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / Jumpy Nerves / Bluebird / 4.26.39
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra / Kansas City Kitty / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 10.9.29
Georgie Auld with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires / Manhattan / On the Alamo / Coral / 1953
Helen Humes / ’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do / Bill Bailey / Contemporary / LA 2.10.59

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / Groove Waltz / Impulse! / 3.4.63
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Harry’s Last Stand / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Bumps Myers Sextet / Memphis Hop / Selective / LA spring 1949
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Then I Shan’t Love You Anymore / Bluebird / 12.21.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Basin Street Boys / Near to You / Exclusive / Hollywood late 1946 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra
David Allyn / Chinero / Atomic / Hollywood early 1946 / with Frank Davenport & his Orchestra

set 4
Lennie Neihaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Thou Swell / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Crazy Rhythm / Riverside / 3.7.57
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43
Dean Martin / I’ll Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again / Capitol / Hollywood 8.12.54
Southern Sons / Rock in a Weary Land / Trumpet / Jackson, MS 3.53

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / Come Closer to Me / Volt / Memphis 4.27.66

Painting the Playlist with Sunshine

Stand back, Diz… Helen’s got your number!

Coffeetime, May 24, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Jamph / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
Hank Mobley / Monday Night at Birdland / There Will Never Be Another You / Roost / 5.10.55
Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, IN 2.11.29
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Painting the Clouds with Sunshine / Decca / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 12.31.29 / vocal = Lou Abelardo
Helen Humes / Be-Baba-Leba / Philo / LA 8.45 / with Bill Doggett Octet
Kay Starr / Leave Me a Memory or Two / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1948

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me (long version) / Blue Note / 9.25.60
Shelly Manne / “The Three” & “The Two” / Everything Happens to Me / Contemporary / LA 9.14.54
Bernie Leighton  / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / EmArcy / 8.9.46
Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen  / West End Blues / Victor / 9.28.39
Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey / Toothache Blues, Part 1 / Okeh / 10.17.28
Chuck Willis / Charged with Cheating / Okeh / 1.26.56

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Nostrand and Fulton / Blue Note / 12.27.62
Cy Coleman / Playboy’s Penthouse / Tennis Bum’s Blues / Everest / 1960
The Emmett Berry Five / Byas’d Opinions / National / 8.31.44
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / The Hour of Parting / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
The Four Vagabonds / Oh My Achin’ Heart / Apollo / 3.24.47
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / What’s New / Capitol / Hollywood 4.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58
Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz / Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi / Too Close for Comfort / Verve / LA 12.12.57
Connee Boswell / Blueberry Hill / Brunswick / 8.22.40 / with Harry Sosnik & his Orchestra
The Melodians / You Have Caught Me / Treasure Isle / Kingston,  Jamaica 1967
Golden West Singers / Jesus Is Everywhere / Ajax / San Francisco 1949

last soulful song
Brenda Holloway / ’Til Johnny Comes / Tamla [unissued] / 1967

When a Woman Loves a Playlist

Ladies and other gentlepeople: the stunning Abbey Lincoln!

Coffeetime, May 17, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Omicron / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Tadd Dameron / Fontainebleau / Delirium / Prestige / 3.9.56
Kansas City Stompers / Shanghai Honeymoon (Beneath the Desert Moon) / Brunswick / Chicago 7.2.29
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Ya Comin’ Up Tonight, Huh? / Victor / Chicago 1.14.29 / vocal = Harold Stokes with Wynken, Blynken, & Nod
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / No Sale / Decca / 6.26.46
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / When a Woman Loves a Man / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / Memories of You / Imperial / 7.10.56
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Mule / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / [45 rpm EP] / Prelude to a Kiss / Roost / Stockholm 3.23, 24.51
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Three Little Words / Brunswick / 4.6.34
Meredith Willson & the NBC Orchestra / various songs from The Wizard of Oz / NBC radio program, Maxwell House Good News / Hollywood 6.29.39 / with Robert Young as MC
The Gazelles / Honest / Gotham / Philadelphia 1955

set 3
Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Frankie and Johnny / New Jazz / 5.3.60
Buddy Collette / Hunt and Peck / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Sax Gill / Crisco Jump / Gotham [unissued] / 1950
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Sentimental Journey / broadcast / 10.2.44 / vocal = Doris  Day
The Four Blues / Jitterbug Sadie / Decca / 12.4.40
Billy Eckstine & his Orchestra / In a Sentimental Mood / National / LA 4.21.47

set 4
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Resonant Emotions / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56
George Barnes & Carl Kress / Guitars Anyone? Why Not Start at the Top? / Satin Doll / Carney / 1963
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Page Cavanaugh Trio
Danny Kaye / The Babbitt and the Bromide / Columbia / 1941
Chords / Love, Oh Love / Atlantic [unissued] / 2.23.55
Dixie-aires / Loose the Man / Exclusive / summer 1948

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / I Can't See Myself Leaving You / Atlantic / 1968

I Guess I'm a Playlist

Ethel making Pearl smile: perfection!

Coffeetime, May 10, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Howard Rumsey / Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars Host Charlie Persip’s Jazz Statesmen / The Champ / Liberty / Hollywood 2.14 & 24.57
Lee Morgan / Candy / Personality / Blue Note / 2.2.58
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Takin’ My Time / Bluebird / 1.21.41
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / I’m Grateful to You / Bluebird / 6.3.36 / vocal = Jack Butler
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Mailman’s Sack / King / Cincinnati 2.27.52
Doris Day / Day by Night / Moonglow / Columbia / Hollywood 11.11.57 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Naima / Atlantic / 4.1.59
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Geraldine / Riverside / 2.27.57
Les Paul Trio / Moonglow / V-Disc 572B / Hollywood summer 1945
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Froggy Bottom / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.11.29
Boswell Sisters / It’s the Girl / Brunswick / 7.8.31 / with Dorsey Brother’s Orchestra
Johnny Mercer / I’m Gonna See My Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 10.4.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / Umbrella Man / Dee Gee [Regent] / Chicago 7.18.52
Flamingos / Cross Over the Bridge / Chance / 1954 / with Red Holloway’s Orchestra

set 3
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / Here’s That Rainy Day / Prestige / live at The Five Spot 10.13.66
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / 9:20 Special / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Charlie Parker / Half Nelson / Savoy / live Royal Roost 2.26.49 / announcer = Symphony Sid
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Loch Lomond / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
Memphis Slim & the House Rockers / I Guess I’m a Fool / Premium / 1950 

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Scandinavian Shuffle / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Argentia / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Louisiana / Columbia / 1940
Connee Boswell / I Cover the Waterfront / Brunswick / LA 6.10.33 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Personality / Roulette / 1964
Highway QCs / Jesus Is Waiting / I Wonder Have You / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1960

last soulful song
O’Jays / Time to Get Down / Philadelphia International / Philadelphia 1973

Mama Put Your Playlist On

Ethel is a pretty name for a pretty woman who sings pretty.

Coffeetime, May 3, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank / Fit for a Hanker / Blue Note [1560] / 4.21.57
Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / Caracas / Blue Note / 8.21.54
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / HRS / 6.3.46
Lupino Lane / cast recording of The Golden Toy / An Elephant Never Forgets / Decca / London 1934 / orchestra conducted by Henry Hall
5 Red Caps / Mama Put Your Britches On / Beacon / LA 8.24.43
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / At Sundown / Savoy / 1947

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / Heavy Soul / The Man I Love  / Blue Note / 11.26.61
Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / Tenderly / King / Cincinnati 4.11.55
Joe Venuti Orchestra / Tea for Two / radio transcription / 12.26-28.34
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Really Blue / Victor / 10.7.30
Ethel Waters / My Special Friend Is Back in Town / Columbia / 9.18.26
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Boo-Wah, Boo-Wah / Okeh / 8.5.40
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Bee / Duke [unissued] / Houston 2.55

set 3
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / Blue Hymn / Prestige / 1.3.58
Ink Spots / Ev’ry Night About This Time / Decca / 6.23.42
Dicky Wells’ Big Seven / We’re Through / HRS / 3.21.46 / vocal = Sarah Vaughan
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Tenderly / Bethlehem / 1956 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres & Sweets / Mean to Me / Norgran / LA 11.1.55
Mary Lou Williams / Humoresque / Victor / 10.7.46
Peggy Lee / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Kentucky Babe / Varsity / 12.47
“Tennessee” Ernie Ford / One Suit / Capitol / Hollywood 1957
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Didn’t It Rain / Varsity / 12.47

last soulful song
William Bell / Quittin’ Time / Stax [unissued] / Memphis mid-60s