March 17 playlist, baby. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Coffeetime, March 17, 2005

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Sam Jones / The Chant / Four / Riverside /1.13, 26.61
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / All or Nothing at All / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Hot Lips Page & his O / Skull Duggery / Victor? / 4.27.38
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines / Weather Bird / Okeh / Chicago 5.5.28
The Savoy Orpheans / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy Hotel, London {Hayes, Middlesex} 8.12.27 / voc = The Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce, with Carroll Gibbons on piano {we love Carroll Gibbons}
Basin Street Boys / Ain’t Got No Loot / Exclusive / LA 1947 / perhaps Lucky Thompson & his O {we love Lucky Thompson}
Helen Humes / You Played on My Piano / LA 1.14.52 / with Gerald Wiggins O
Bing Crosby / Shillelaghs and Shamrocks / The Donovans / Decca / 1956 / with Jeff Alexander Chorus and Victor Young O

set 2
Bill Evans / Danny Boy / Riverside / 4.10.62
The Woody Herman Herd / I’ll Never Be the Same / Capitol / early 50s
Adrian Rollini & his Tap Room Gang / Jazz-O’ Jazz / RCA / 6.14.35 / voc = Jeanne Burns with spoken intro by Putney Dandridge and Adrian Rollini
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Sing, Sing, Sing / Pathé Marconi / Paris 10.15.36 / voc = ensemble
Doris Day / film soundtrack “Love Me or Leave Me” / Everybody Loves My Baby / Columbia / 1955
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Hoje quem paga sou Eu / RCA / 50s, 60s? {the LP is clearly from the late 60s/early 70s}

set 3
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Frank Foster Quartet / Fat Shoes / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Rhythm Cocktail / Juke Box / 12.22.45
King Cole Trio / Don’t Cry, Cry Baby / live Hollywood 1944 / voc = Nat King Cole
Artie Shaw & his O / Ghost of a Chance / Musicraft / Hollywood 11.16.45 / voc = Hal Stevens
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Reminiscing / Prestige / 3.2 - 6.8.56

set 4
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Tenors Head On / Just Friends / Pacific Jazz / 10.29.56
Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Sextet / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood late 1.52
Edgar Blanchard & the Gondoliers / Bopsody in Blue / Ric / New Orleans spring 1959
Will Bradley-Ray McKinley O / Love Me a Little Little / Columbia / 1941 / voc = Lynn Gardner
Mercy Baby [Jimmy Mullens] / Country Baby [Don’t Lie to Me] / Ric / New Orleans 1957 / {I know, I know, two Rics almost in a row…}
Peggy Lee / Raindrops / Let’s Get Lost in Now / Capitol / May 1971 / {I have an LP copy that was made issued by Creative Products as a promo for some drug; on the back it reads: “Placidyl…when sleep is a part of the therapy”}
The Stars of Virginia / All These Things to Me / Chalice / Memphis c. 1965

last soul song
The Rude Boys aka The Wailing Wailers aka Bob Marley & the Wailers / I'm Still Waiting / Studio One / 1964 / accompanied by The Soul Brothers