Jivin’ with the Playlist

The Deltas get schooled in Halloween and dry bones!

Coffeetime, October 30, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
The Jazz Messengers / Ecaroh / Columbia / 5.4.56
Frank Froeba & his Swing Band / There’ll Be a Great Day in the Morning / Decca / 12.24.35
Annette Hanshaw & Her Sizzlin’ Syncopators / Little White Lies / Clarion / 7.21.30
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Lost in the Night / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 3.45
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Horace Silver / Songs for my Father / Lonely Woman / Blue Note / 10.26.64
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Autumn Leaves [alt take] / RCA Victor / 3.15.62
Fats Waller / Oh Susannah (Dust Off That Old Pianna) / Victor / 3.6.35 / celeste!
Frank Sinatra / That Old Black Magic / radio rehearsal - Songs by Sinatra / 1946
Scat Man Crothers & his Band / I’d Rather Be a Hummingbird / Capitol / Hollywood 1949
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Bump on a Log / King / Cincinnati 2.6.54

set 3
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Cat Walk / Bethlehem / 11.57
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Indian Summer / Columbia / London early 40s / vocal = Cyril Grantham
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Black Magic / AFRS Jubilee #61 / LA 1.17.44 / with Master of Ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Something Sad About a Clown / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Aladdin / LA 12.28.56
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Leave Your Worries Behind / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
King Cole Trio / Jivin’ with the Notes / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 5.40 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / Hollywood 4.39 / lead vocal = Pauline Byrns; with the King Cole Trio: NKC celeste (yay!), Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Toni Harper / Candy Store Blues / Columbia / LA 12.26.47 / feature in the 1949 Columbia movie Make Believe Ballroom
Tom Jones / Close Up / Witch Queen of New Orleans / Parrot / London 1972

Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / 1948

last soulful song
Carolyn Franklin / Baby Dynamite! / I Don’t Want to Lose You / RCA / 1969

Six Bits Playlist

Esther, can I borrow your groovy autumnal turtleneck and sweater combo?’

Coffeetime, October 23, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Scrapple from the Apple / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Joe Newman / At Count Basie’s / The Midgets / Mercury / live, Count Basie’s Lounge 1961
The Jazz Messengers / Deciphering the Message / Columbia [unissued] / 4.4.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / What Wouldn’t I Do for That Man / Okeh / 10.19.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Anita O’Day / Sings the Winners / What’s Your Story, Morning Glory / Verve / LA 4.2.58

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster / Chelsea Bridge / Verve / LA 11.3.59
Curtis Counce / Vol. 1, Landslide / Time After Time / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56
Buddy DeFranco / Closed Session / Ballad Medley: Poor Butterfly; Where Or When; These Foolish Things / Verve / LA 10.30.57
Midge Williams / Lazy Bones / Columbia / Tokyo 12.33
Ray Charles & his Orchestra / I’ll Do Anything but Work / Swingtime / LA 5.26.50
Albert King / The Big Blues / I Walked All Night Long / Bobbin / 1960

set 3
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Six Bits Jones / Blue Note [unissued] / 6.25.62
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Face to Face / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Clef / 10.50
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Remember Me? / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Cats & the Fiddle / If I Dream of You / Bluebird / 1.20.41 / first session with Tiny Grimes
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / It’s the Talk of the Town / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4
Blossom Dearie / Jazz Sweet / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Barclay / Paris 1955
Marty Paich / Jazz for Relaxation / Jump for Me / Tampa / LA 1958
Stéphane Grappelli / The Lady Is a Tramp / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
King Cole Trio / How Does It Feel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Thelma (Dolly) Cooper / Let’s Try Again / Gotham / 1949
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
Sensational Golden Light Quartet of Philadelphia / When I’ve Gone the Last Mile / Apex / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song
Jean Plum / Here I Go Again / Hi / 1976

Got Your Love in My Playlist

Eartha knows the ecstasy of love within reach.

Coffeetime, October 16, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / This Is New / This Is New / Riverside / 3.8.57
Johnny Griffin / The Congregation / It’s You or No One / Blue Note / 10.13.57
James Moody’s Modernists / Oh Henry / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Saboo / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Esther Walker / Ya Gotta Know How to Love / Brunswick / 6.26 / with the Brunswick Studio Orchestra
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hard Lovin’ Blues / Decca / 1.25.40 / vocal = Yack Taylor
Billie Holiday / Music for Torching / Isn’t This a Lovely Day? / Clef / Hollywood 8.25.55

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Wes Montgomery / Fusion! / Somewhere / Riverside / 4.63
Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 1) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946
Charlie Parker Quintet / My Old Flame / Dial / 11.4.47
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Got Your Love in My Heart / Exclusive / LA 4.20.45 / vocal = Herb Jeffries
Eartha Kitt / What is This Thing Called Love? / Disques Swing/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.21.50 / with Doc Cheatham & his Trio
Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / Tatoo Women / National / 1965

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Willis Jackson / Cool “Gator” / The Man I Love / Prestige / 5.25.59
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Skylark / Okeh / 11.25.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Striders / Five O’Clock Blues / Apollo / 3.20.50

The Marquees / I Don’t Want Your Love / Gotham / 2.2.53
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / I Don’t Know Why / Capitol / Hollywood 1957

set 4
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin' with Sandy Mosse / Fools Rush In / Argo / Chicago 1959
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Tenors Head-On / Pick a Dilly / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.56
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Etta James / Etta James Rocks the House / Woke Up this Morning / Argo / live at The New Era Club, Nashville 9.63
Alphabetical Four / He Sees All We Do and Hears All We Say / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song

Leroy Hutson / Don’t It Make You Feel Good / Curtom / Chicago 1976

The Laziest Playlist in Town

Marlene! Teach me how to wear a top hat and tails!

Coffeetime, October 9, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Blue Minor / Blue Note / 1.5.58
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / C.T.A. / Prestige / 3.22.57
The Happiness Boys / She Knows Her Onions / Victor / 8.26.26 / with Dave Kaplan on piano
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Competition Blues / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 1949 / Billy Valentine p & voc, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Jonathan “Papa Jo” Jones d
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Violets for Your Furs / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

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

set 2
Phineas Newborn Jr. / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr. / New Blues / Contemporary / LA 11.21.61
Red Garland / Soul Junction / I’ve Got It Bad / Prestige / 11.15.57
Joe Newman / Jive at Five / More Than You Know / Prestige / 5.4.60
Viola McCoy / Git Goin’ / Cameo / 12.26
Gene Autry / Any Old Time / Gennett / Richmond, Indiana 2.9.31
Bill Hayes & his Band aka Henry Hayes / I’m Just Another Fool / Jade / Houston 1950 / Henry Hayes as, Goree Carter g & voc, Ed Wiley ts, Willie Johnson p, Donald Cooks b, Ben Turner d
Marlene Dietrich / Dietrich in London / The Laziest Gal in Town / Columbia / Queen’s Theatre, London 12.12.64 

set 3
David Fathead Newman / House of David / Little Sister / Atlantic / 1967
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Mambeando / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65 
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / 1280 Stomp / National / 1.2.46
The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47 
Peggy Lee / Ask Anyone Who Knows / radio broadcast / Hollywood 7.27.47 / with Dave Barbour Orchestra, with celeste!; intro with Woody Herman
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Ballad in Blue / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.13.56

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / The Octet #2 / Blue Room / Contemporary / Hollywood 1.11.55
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / Later for the Happenings / Coral / LA 1957 
Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.56 / Dave Pell ts, Don Fagerquist t, Ray Sims tb, Marty Berman bs, Tony Rizzi g, Arnold Ross p, Bob Bates b, Irv Kluger d
King Cole Trio / Ask Anyone Who Knows / NBC radio broadcast, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents King Cole Trio Time, Here’s to Veterans edition / Hollywood 7.5.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, & show guest Woody Herman
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Blue Moon / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
Freddy King / You’ve Got to Love Her with a Feeling / Federal / 8.26.60
The Pilgrim Travelers / When I Join the Jubilee / Specialty / Hollywood 1.19.50

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

Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Coppin’ a Playlist

Aretha can make any hairstyle sparkle!

Coffeetime, September 25, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Dacor / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Little Sonny / Blue Note / 12.8.57
Bob Zurke & his Delta Rhythm Band / Tom Cat of the Keys / Tea for Two / Victor / Chicago 1.18.40 / cover design by Leon and Marjorie Auerbach 
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Medley: You Do Something to Me; I Can’t Give You Anything but Love; With a Song in My Heart / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Fred Scott
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Groovy Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 12.22.45 / vocal = Camille Howard
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / I Didn’t Know About You / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / The Arrival of Kenny Dorham / When Sunny Gets Blue / Jaro International / 1.10.60
Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / Time After Time / Verve / 4.9.59
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / Here’s What I’m Here For / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Dark Eyes / RCA Victor / 4.6.50
John [Jack] Jackson & his Orchestra / Let Bygones Be Bygones / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly / from Al Bowlly website: “Includes patter with Jack Jackson where AB is addressed as George.” 
T-Bone Walker / She’s Going to Ruin Me / Old Swing-Master / Chicago 12.19.45 
Earl Gaines / 24 Hours a Day / DeLuxe / Nashville 1969 / Johnny Jones g

set 3
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Giant Steps / Atlantic / 5.5.59
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Honeydew / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Sonny Stitt / With the New Yorkers / Engos, The Bloos / Roost / 8.30.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Coppin’ a Plea / Okeh / Hollywood 10.14.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Buddies / My Summer’s Gone / Savoy / 1.13.51 
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic / Just a Boy and a Girl in Love / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Strike Up the Band / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford / Little Tenderfoot / ABC-Paramount / 12.11.56
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Wini Brown / (Ya Got My) Brand of Honey / National [unissued take 1] / 2.21.49
Kenneth Nelson & Rita Gardner / Original Off Broadway Cast of The Fantasticks / Soon It’s Gonna Rain / MGM / 6.13.60 / with narrator played by Jerry Orbach
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / What a Fool Believes / TV Broadcast, The Tonight Show / LA 1981  

The Playlist Who Lives on the Hill

Nat knows that the best way to cap off the summer is in your pastel finery at a French café.

Coffeetime, September 18, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / The Spirit-Feel / Atlantic / live, Herndon Stadium, Atlanta 5.28.59
Benny Golson / Groovin’ with Golson / The Stroller / New Jazz / 8.28.59
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Galvanizing / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood early 1945 / with intro by master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / My Extraordinary Gal / Victor / 4.7.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Lionel Robinson / I Can’t Go On Without You / Gotham / 6.49
Julie London / Bethlehem’s Girl Friends / You’re Blasé / Bethlehem / 1955 / celeste!

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Heads Up! / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Blue Note / 11.17.67
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Skylark / Prestige / 10.21.66
John Coltrane / Ballads / I Wish I Knew / Impulse! / 11.13.62
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I’m Shooting High / Pathé Marconi / Paris 5.5.36 / vocal = Adelaide Hall
Johnnie “Geechie” Temple / Fix It Up and Go / Decca / 9.23.40
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I Wish I Knew / radio transcription / live Palladium, Hollywood 8.16.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Mary Is Fine / Peacock / Houston 1.49

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / ZT’s Blues / I Wish I Knew / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Casey’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Sonny Sounds / Prestige / 2.25.52
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 4.19.45
The Five Keys / Too Late / Aladdin / 3.22.51 
Noël Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Sail Away / Columbia / 1956

set 4
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Out of Nowhere / Savoy / 4.18.50
Chico Hamilton / The Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi-Fi / Sleepy Slept Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56
Larry Adler / Ritual Fire Dance / Columbia / London 2.35 / with orchestra conducted by Carroll Gibbons
King Cole Trio / Embraceable You / V-Disc 365B / Hollywood 12.15.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra 
Highway QC’s / Child of God / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
The Pretenders / I Call It Love / Carnival / 1970

I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants in My Playlist)

Must have been heavenly to dance with Fred, cheeks or not.

Coffeetime, September 11, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley / Double Whammy / Blue Note / 11.25.56
Stanley Turrentine / ZT’s Blues / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note / 9.13.61
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Diggin’ Dirt / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood early 1945 / with emcee Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Noël Coward / A Room with a View / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 4.25.28
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Guitar in My Hand / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald / soundtrack to Let No Man Write My Epitaph / September Song / Verve / LA 4.19.60

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / This Here is Bobby Timmons / Lush Life / Riverside / 1.60
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / It Might As Well Be Spring / Prestige / 1.3.58
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / LA 8.1.56
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I Can’t Dance (I Got Ants in My Pants) / Pathé / Paris 4.23.35 / vocal = Joe Hayman (ts, bari)
Fred Astaire / Cheek to Cheek / Brunswick / 6.26.35 / with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
Louis Prima & Orchestra / Dance with a Dolly (With Hole in her Stocking) / radio broadcast, The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands / Long Island 1.15.45
Billy Williams / Billy Williams Quartet / The Gaucho Serenade / MGM / 1956

set 3
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Prestige / 10.21.66
Oscar Pettiford & his Scandinavian Trio / I Succumb to Temptation / Debut / Copenhagen 8.22.59
Howard McGhee Sextet / Howard McGhee & Milt Jackson / Bass C Jam / Savoy [originally Vitacoustic Records] / Chicago 12.47
Helen Humes / This Love of Mine / Discovery / Hollywood 5.9.50 / with Marshall Royal Combo
Dixieaires / Things Got Tough / Gotham / 1948
Bobby Troup & his Trio / That’s All / Liberty / Celebrity Room, Hollywood 1955


set 4
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / Marable Eyes / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Too Close for Comfort / Contemporary / LA 5.13.57
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Anatole of Paris / Decca / Hollywood 12.20.47
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet / Jonah / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
Linda Jones / What Have I Done (to Make You Mad) / Loma / 1967