Thursday, May 05, 2005

Playful little earful playlist…

Coffeetime, May 5, 2005 (050505!)

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville

set 1
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / The Quota / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
John Coltrane / / Time Was / Prestige / 5.31.57 / here’s a Coltrane discography
Gene Krupa’s Swing Band / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music / RCA Victor / Chicago 2.29.36
Ray Noble & his Band / One Morning in May / HMV / approx 1934 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Golden Gate Quartet / Stewball / radio transcription, Groves Show / early 40s
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Bounce the Ball (Do Da Dittle Um Day) / Decca / 3.31.40
Ella Fitzgerald / A Sunday Kind of Love / Decca / early 50s

set 2
Tal Farlow / Tal / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Verve / 6.5.56
Ben Webster / The Jeep is Jumping / My Romance / Metronome Studios, Copenhagen 9.21.65
Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52
Slim Gaillard / Slim’s Riff / Savoy? / LA 1946/7
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Put it There (Shag Nasty) / RCA Victor / Chicago 7.11.28
The Ravens / Always / National / 12.48 / check out Marv Golberg’s R&B Notebooks article & discography on The Ravens
Doris Day / soundtrack to film Young Man With a Horn / Would I Love You / Columbia / Hollywood 12.22.50 / with Harry James & his Orch
Freddy Albeck / score to Dutch musical Heerlijk Duurt Het Langst (loosely = deliciously lasts longest) / Een Vrouw Zoals Jij (A Woman Such as You) / Philips / Amsterdam 1965 / duet with Conny Stuart

set 3
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Blues in the Jungle / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cross Town / Crown / 1960
The Bebop Boys / Fool’s Fancy (aka Wail) / Savoy / 8.23.46 / find info in this Bud Powell discogrpaphy
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orch / I’m Beboppin’, Too / RCA Victor / 12.29.48
Ann Cole / Got My Mojo Working / Baton / 1957 / with The Suburbans, here’s another site listing Ann Cole singles in addition to the site I pointed to in the 4.21.05 Coffeetime playlist
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I’m Glad There is You / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee on trumpet

set 4
Russ Freeman / Quartet / An Afternoon at Home / Pacific Jazz / 11.6.56
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1: The Quintets / Prime Rib / Contemporary / LA 7.2.54
King Cole Trio / Blues and Swing / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 1948 / get yer Aladdin matrix numbers
Little Esther / Looking for a Man / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51/ with Earl Warren & his Orch; here’s The Little Esther Story
Bobby Darin / Toot Toot Tootsie/Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / possibly from The Judy Garland Show, 11.30.63
The Swan Silvertones / Jesus is a Friend of Mine / Vee-Jay / 1959 / you can see a picture of it here!

last soul song
Lulu / New Routes / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atco / Muscle Shoals 10.10.69