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

Just Like a Playlist Out of the Sky

Dakota and her happy beehive.

Coffeetime, September 4, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Sweet Sakeena / Bethlehem / 10.11.57
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / To To Blues / Parlophone / 9.10.31 / Jimmy Dorsey cl & bari, Joe Venuti vln, Lennie Hayton p & celeste!, Eddie Lang g, Paul Graselli d 
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / I Kiss Your Hand, Madame / HMV / London 1.14.31 / vocal = Sam Browne
Camille Howard / I’m Blue / Specialty / Hollywood 3.1.50
Dakota Staton / Dynamic! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Capitol / 1958

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

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58
Lee Morgan / Candy / All the Way / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Easy to Love / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Cliff [Ukelele Ike] Edwards / Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky / Columbia / 6.5.28
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / The Moon Got in My Eyes / Vocalion / 6.29.37
5 Red Caps / I Learned a Lesson I’ll Never Forget / Beacon / 1944
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Superstitious Woman / Modern / LA 1948

set 3
Leo Parker / Let Me Tell You ’Bout It / Blue Leo / Blue Note / 9.9.61
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / Requiem / Blue Note / 9.21.61
Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson & his Buffalo Bearcats / Hold Him Joe / King / 8.45
Savannah Churchill / Is It Too Late / Manor / 7.47 / with the Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists]
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.13.51 
Joe Mooney / The Happiness of Joe Mooney / When Sunny Gets Blue / Columbia / LA 1965

set 4
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Ensemble / Pro Defunctus / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 12.22.53
Lee Konitz / Indian Summer / Prestige / 3.13.51
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Garden Delights / Blue Note / 3.20.55
King Cole Trio / It Only Happens Once / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jesse Belvin / Confusin’ Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52
Tom Jones / Live in Las Vegas / Help Yourself / Parrot / Las Vegas 1969
Savannah Churchill / The Devil Sat Down and Cried /Arco (Manor) / 6.50 / with possibly the Striders

last soulful song
Patterson Twins / I Need Your Love / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1976

Violets for Your Playlist

Please tell us a story, Matt.

Coffeetime, August 28, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Miss Hazel / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / The Outlaw / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Golden Gate Orchestra aka California Ramblers / Glad Rag Doll / Edison / 12.26.28
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Fine and Dandy / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Rhythmsters Trio
Bing Crosby / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Decca / LA 11.9.34 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra
Martha Davis / The Be-Bop Bounce / Urban / early 1946
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / He Was Too Good to Me / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane / Violets for Your Furs / Prestige / 5.31.57
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Young and Foolish / Riverside / 12.15.58
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44
The Four Blackbirds / Louisville Lady / Vocalion [unissued] / 1934
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Straighten Up and Fly Right / Regis / 1944
Rosemary Clooney & Bob Hope / Protection / RCA Victor / Hollywood 3.25.59 / with the Gus Levene Orchestra

set 3
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / The Thang / Prestige / 12.17.63
Bobby Timmons / The Compositions Of Horace Silver / Home Cookin’ / Riverside / 6.18.62 
Tadd Dameron Sextet / Lady Bird / Blue Note / 9.13.48
Billie Holiday / The Same Old Story / Okeh / 9.12.39
Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard Transcription / 1948
Matt Dennis / Violets for Your Furs / TV broadcast, The Rosemary Clooney Show / Hollywood 6.1.57

set 4
Shelly Manne & His Men / Swinging Sounds / Bea’s Flat / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Cinnamon / Savoy / LA 8.25.54
Shorty Rogers & his Orchestra / The Wild One / Chino / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.14.53 / Shorty Rogers, Conrad Gozzo, Maynard Ferguson, Tom Reeves, Ray Leen t, John Graas frh, Paul Sarmento tuba, Jimmy Knepper & Harry Betts tb, Bob Enevoldsen v-tb, Bud Shank, Herb Geller as, Bill Holman & Bill Perkins ts, Jimmy Giuffre & Bob Cooper bs, Russ Freeman p, Joe Mondragon b, Shelly Manne d
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Little Milton / Little Milton Sings the Big Blues / Feel So Bad / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66 / Little Milton g & voc, Sonny Thompson p, Phil Upchurch g, Roosevelt Williams b, Maurice White d
Jubalaires / He Understands, He’ll Say “Well Done” / Standard Transcription / 1948

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Young, Gifted and Black / April Fools & Rock Steady / Atlantic / 1972