Thursday, August 18, 2005

Learning to love you is easy...

Coffeetime, August 18, 2005

bed

Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / Wake Up / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Phil Woods, et al / Four Altos / Staggers / Prestige / 2.9.57
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Memories of You / Decca / 40s (?) / featuring Sonny Dunham on trumpet
Whispering Jack Smith / Sunshine / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 3.2.28 / with Joe Brannelly on guitar, unknown band
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / Sweethearts on Parade / Decca / 5.1.40
King Porter / Charlie the Boogie Man / Imperial / LA 12.19(?).47 / vocal = ensemble
Inez Jones / Have You Met Inez Jones / Since I Fell for You / Riverside / Berkeley 3.27.57

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Piano Interpretations / Blue Note / 8.1.51 / celeste opening or just the high, high keys?
Clifford Brown /[bonus track on CD Memorial Album] / Brownie Eyes / with Gigi Gryce on both alto sax and flute / 6.9.53
Tiny Grimes & his Highlanders / That Old Black Magic / Atlantic / 12.29.47
Rico's Creole Band de la Coupole (sous la Direction de Moïses Simons) / Les Trois Coups (Los Tres Golpes) / Gramophone / Paris approx 11, 12.31
Dorothy Lamour / from Paramount film Moon Over Burma / Moon Over Burma / 1940
Johnny Otis & his Orch / It Ain't the Beauty / Savoy / 3.19.51 / vocal = George Washington
Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland / from the first episode of The Judy Garland Show on CBS / You're So Right for Me / 6.24.63 (aired on 12.8.63)

set 3
Stan Getz / Getz Á Go Go / Summertime / Verve / Café á Go Go, Greenwich Village 8.19.64
Charlie Parker / At Storyville / Now's the Time / transcript from WHDH broadcast / Storyville, Boston, 9.22.53 / announcer = John McLellan
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood approx 1944
The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / 4.14-5.9.50
Bobby Parker / Blues Get Off My Shoulder / Vee-Jay / 1958

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Prohibido / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris /C'est Si Bon / Specialty / LA 1.24.58
Lou Preager & his Band / It Jumps Like Mad / Vocalion (?) / live recording at The Locarno Ballroom, Streatham, London 1940s
T.J. Fowler & his Band / Red Hot Blues / National / Detroit 1949 / vocal = ensemble
Irma Thomas / Hip Shaking Mama / live at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4.76 / with Tommy Ridgely's Band
Ricky Nelson / I Wanna be Loved / Imperial /LA 10.20.59
The Helen Robinson Youth Choir / Sit Down Children / Specialty / 7.15.59 / with Jeanette Robinson Jones on lead vocal

last soul song
The Dells / Learning to Love You Was Easy (It's So Hard Trying to Get Over You) / Cadet / 1974 / from single, but also appears on LP The Mighty Mighty Dells