Give Me a Playlist for Tomorrow

Don Barreto knew that lacy ruffles on the end of sleeves would be top fashion in 2026.

Coffeetime, May 8, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / The Fox / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Grasshopper / EmArcy / 9.8.54 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Toy / Riverside / 8.10.60
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Lonely Troubadour / Victor / 8.21.29
Dinah Washington / Chewin’ Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / I Had a Little Sorrow / Capitol / LA 1959 / from the poem The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

set 2
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Dreamsville / Riverside / 10.10.59
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964
Max Roach / The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley / I’m a Fool to Want You / Debut / 4.21.53
Adolph Hofner & his Texans / I’ll Keep My Old Guitar / Bluebird / Blue Bonnet Hotel, San Antonio 10.25.38
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’m Afraid of You / Manor / 1948 
Anita O’Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / They All Laughed / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Jack McDuff / The Honeydripper / Blues and Tonic / Prestige / 2.3.61
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / West Coast Blues / Imperial / LA early 1956
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Crew Cut / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Frank Sinatra / The Song Is You / V-Disc 689A / 2.13.46 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra; introduction by Bob Hope
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 1948
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / In Other Words / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Manne-Hole, volume 1 / Love for Sale / Contemporary / live, Shelly’s Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61

Dick McDonough / Honeysuckle Rose /private recording / late 1934

Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Ojos Verdes / Decca / London 7.15.32
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / Give Me a Kiss for Tomorrow / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Sam Cooke / Encore / Oh, Look at Me Now / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra
Soul Stirrers / Touch the Hem of His Garment / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.56

last soulful song
Honey & the Bees / Help Me (Get Over My Used to Be Lover) / Josie / Philadelphia 1970

She’s Just Another Playlist

Buddy’s excited by his groovy sweater combo.

Coffeetime, May 1, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / 9.29.57
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Hymn to the Orient / Riverside / 12.19.57
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Wang-Wang Blues / Victor / 8.9.20 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Dear Little Café / Decca / London 7.30.29 / vocal = Eddie Grossbart
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Orchestra / Boogin’ in the Basement / Pacific / San Francisco/Oakland 1946
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / What’s New? / Riverside / 1.10.61

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

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / What’s New / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Red Garland / Volume 1 / Prestige Moodsville / Stella by Starlight / 12.11.59 / with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, who sits out on this tune
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Stairway to the Stars / Capitol / LA 3.4.56
Taft Jordan & The Mob / If the Moon Turns Green / Vocalion / 2.21.35
Buck & Bubbles / Breakfast in Harlem / Columbia / London 10.5.36 / Buck p & celeste!, Bubbles voc & d, David Raskin cl
The Three Peppers / Oo-Mommy-O / Gotham / Philadelphia 12.1.49
The Flamingos / You Ain’t Ready / Chance / Chicago 1953 / with Red Holloway’s Orchestra 
Anthony Newley / The Genius of Anthony Newley / She’s Just Another Girl / London / 1966

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Strut / Prestige / 4.10.62
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Driftin’ / Blue Note / 3.28.62
Ivory Joe Hunter / Siesta with Sonny / King / Cincinnati 12.5.47
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest / radio broadcast / 1941 / vocal = Jimmy Brown
The Five Breezes / My Buddy Blues / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40 
Buddy Greco / Hang Your Hat at Mister Kelly’s / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Coral / live at Mister Kelly’s, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / I’m Also a Person / GNP / LA 7.57
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Pick Yourself Up / Tampa / LA 6.15.55 / Harper tb, Bob Enevoldsen ts & v.tb, Don Overburg g, Red Mitchell b, Frank Capp d
Les Paul Trio / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 751B / Hollywood 1947
The Modernaires / Dig-Dig-Dig for Your Dinner / Columbia / 6.14.50 / with Les Brown & his Band of Renown
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / I Know That You Know / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”) & the Page Cavanaugh Trio (Cavanaugh p, Al Viola g, Lloyd Pratt b) & the Ken Lane Singers
Otis Rush / All Your Love (I Miss Loving) / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Willie Dixon 
Flying Clouds of Detroit / Journey to the Sky / JVB / Detroit early 1950s

last soulful song
Jackie Wilson / You Got Me Walking / Brunswick / 1972

Give Me a Playlist

Louie making happy sounds because Pearl’s on the show, too!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Zelma O’Neal / Do Something / Brunswick / 3.29 / with Al Goodman & his Orchestra
Julia Lee / Doubtful Blues / Capitol / LA 6.16.47
Toni Harper / Toni / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / LA 1.3.56 / celeste!

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

set 2
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / You’re Mine You / Blue Note / 3.23.58
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars, Vol. 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Lester Young / She’s Funny That Way / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46
The Rhythmic Eight / Heartbreaking Baby / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1928
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Leo “Snub” Mosley & his Band / Ol’ Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Mabel Scott / Give Me a Man / Exclusive / LA 12.48
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey + Louis Bellson = Happy Sounds / That Certain Feeling / Roulette / 1962 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Look Out! / Minor Chant / Blue Note / 6.18.60
James Moody / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Argo / Chicago 1956 

Howard McGhee / Bass C Jam / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes / Time Out for Tears / Manor / 6.47

The Basin Street Boys / This Is the End of a Dream / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet

Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Just One of Those Things / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Stéphane Grappelli / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
The Ravens / Ol’ Man River / National / 4.24.47
Sammy Davis Jr. / Sammy Davis Jr. Sings What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers / What Kind of Fool Am I / Reprise / LA 7.18.61 / with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette
The Alphabetical Four / Rock My Soul / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / I Think You’ve Got Your Fools Mixed Up / Double Shot / 1967

Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnaval / 1968

Playlist Makes You Human

Dancing makes you human… and the tops!

Coffeetime, April 17, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Desert Sands / Riverside / 10.16.57
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / Roc and Troll / New Jazz / 5.18.57
The Washingtonians [Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra] / Jubilee Stomp / Brunswick / 3.21.28
Vaughn De Leath / Baby Your Mother (Like She Babied You) / Victor / 8.12.27 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Bye Bye Baby Blues / Specialty / Hollywood early 1950
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Easy Living / Prestige / 9.16.61

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

set 2
Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Barfly / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60
Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson / The Great Kai & J.J. / Georgia on My Mind / Impulse! / 11.8.60 
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Perfect / Okeh / 10.21.27
Brunswick Concert Orchestra [Victor Young & his Orchestra] / Star Dust / Brunswick [unissued] / 5.25.31 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Maxine Sullivan / I Carry the Torch for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace & his Orchestra
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Well Oh Well / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Heart & Soul / Wiggin’ / Contemporary / LA 4.24.62
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary / This Love of Mine / Time / 2.12.60
Illinois Jacquet & his Orchestra / Hot Rod / RCA Victor / 5.22.50
The 4 Vagabonds / Slow and Easy / Bluebird / Chicago 12.17.41 
Toni Harper & Herb Jeffries / You’re Too Tall and I’m Too Small / Columbia / LA 5.49 / with Jerry Gray & his Orchestra; celeste
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Stella Performance / Riverside / LA 7.3.57

Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Baseball Theme / Fantasy / San Francisco 5.26.64

Peggy Lee / It’s All Over Now / Capitol / Hollywood 7.23.46 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
B.B. King / Bye Bye Baby / RPM / mid-1950s
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Love Makes You Human / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

I Need a Playlist

Big pearls, big microphone for Nellie.

Coffeetime, April 10, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Wake Up! / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Julia [CD only] / Riverside / 11.17.59
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Minor Meeting / Time / 3.23.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Baltimore Bounce / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Sunny Side Up / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew; celeste!
Jack McVea & his All Stars / It Never Should Have Been This Way / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

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

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Teddy Bunn / Guitar in High / Blue Note / 3.28.40
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ll Never Be the Same / Brunswick / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Nellie Lutcher & Nat King Cole / Can I Come in for a Second / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970

set 3
Cedar Walton / Cedar! / My Ship / Prestige / 7.10.67

Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 

The Tadd Dameron Sextet / Our Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / What Do You Know About Love? / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / vocal = Ida James
Golden Gate Quartet / Dipsy Doodle / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 1.24.38
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b

Una Mae Carlisle / I Like It, ’Cause I Love It / Beacon / 5.23.44
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Time’s Winding Up / Columbia / 4.18.41

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

Jeanne, letting us all know that anything goes for her, especially feathers. Poor birds.

Coffeetime, April 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Leila’s Blues / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Art Taylor / AT’s Delight / Move / Blue Note / 8.6.60
Russell Procope’s Big Six / Four Wheel Drive / HRS / late 1946
Annette Hanshaw / Sweetheart Darlin’ / Banner / 6.3.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / We Can’t Agree / Decca / LA 11.24.47 / Jordan as & voc, Aaron Izenhall t, Eddie Johnson ts, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book / The Man I Love / Verve / Hollywood 1.5.59 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Lester Young / I Can’t Get Started / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
Lil Green / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Victor / Chicago 7.31.46
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
The Vocaleers / Be True / Red Robin / 1953
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / Free Flow / Blue Note / 10.10.69
Hank Mobley / Workout / Greasin’ Easy / Blue Note / 3.26.61
Don Byas / Free and Easy / Savoy / 7.28.44 / celeste!
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’m Lost / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.44 / vocal = Dick Gray
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Fallout / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / When You’re Smiling / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Just You, Just Me / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Francis Collinson
Peggy Lee / ’Tain’t So, Honey, ’Tain’t So / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I Know / King [Federal] / 1961
The Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Earl Gaines / Three Wishes for a Fool / DeLuxe / 5.5.67

It’s So Peaceful in the Playlist

Digging the gold miniskirts and the red pocket square!

Coffeetime, March 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Giantis / Blue Note / 8.14.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Omicron / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 8.47
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Good Evenin’ / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / Did I Remember / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Prelude to a Kiss / Savoy / 1.19.56
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Sea Breeze / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Boo Hoo / radio broadcast / 1938 / vocal = The Mullen Sisters
Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.45
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Oo-Wee / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All About Us / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Prestige / 8.65
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
John Kirby & his Orchestra / There I Go / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Have You Met Miss Jones? & I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin’ with Sandy Mosse / I’m Old Fashioned / Argo / Chicago 1959
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Four / Contemporary / LA 12.10.58
Stan Getz / Strike Up the Band / Roost / 3.1.51
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tonight I’m Alone / Exclusive / LA 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Dixieaires / You Better Run / Sunrise / 12.47

last soulful song
Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Motown / Detroit 1968