Monday, October 31, 2005

The latest Coffeetime is now online. BOO!

Hey all. Happy Halloween. Last thursday's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime archive.

Hope you have a candy-licious good time today.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

(Take Me to) the Playlist!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2005

bed
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still & Beef Blues Stew / Blue Note / 3.12.56 & 8.26.59

John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Sonny Rollins / A Night at the Village Vanguard / Old Devil Moon / Blue Note / 11.3.57
Al Bowlly / Adeline / Imperial / London 10.30 / with Jay Wilbur & his Band
Mildred Bailey / More Than Ever / Columbia / Hollywood 2.10.38 / with Red Norvo & his Orch
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Lavender Coffin / King / 1949?
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader / Time for 2 / It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

set 2
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Left Alone / Bethlehem / 11.57
Johnny Smith / [Moonlight in Vermont] / Lullaby of Birdland [cd bonus] / Roost / 8.53
Art Tatum / She's Funny That Way / V-Disc / LA 1945/46
Mezz Mezzrow & his Orch / Sendin' the Vipers / Victor / 5.7.34
Fred Astaire / soundtrack from film Swing Time / Never Gonna Dance / Brunswick / 7.26.36 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Johnny Mercer / Glow Worm / Capitol / Hollywood 1949 / with the Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & his Orch
Billy "The Kid" Emerson / The Whip, part 2 / M-Pac! / Chicago 1963

set 3
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / Jug Handle / Prestige / 1.3.58
King Porter & his Orch / Russell Street Hustle / King / Detroit 1948
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / The Bouncing Ball / Victor / 2.16.34 / featuring Frank Trumbauer
The Spirits of Rhythm / From Monday On / Decca / 9.11.34
Bill Johnson & Musical Notes / Let's Be Sweethearts Again / RCA / 1947
Amos Milburn / Sorrowful Heart / Aladdin / 6.30.53

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Mean to Me / Contemporary / 3.18-19.57
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Mood for Mendes / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57
Sunshine Boys / Gonna Get Tight / Okeh / Dallas 3.13.41
B.B. King / Mean Ole Frisco / Kent / 1960
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
The Zion Travelers / Two Little Fishes / Dootone / LA 1956

last soul song
The Mad Lads / Did My Baby Call / Volt / Memphis 1972

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Take a tip, get this week's show online

Hey, yep, this week's show is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

I hope it keeps you warm, along with a hot cup of coffee and a handful of candy corn and candy pumpkins. Mmmmm.

Update: this show is no longer available at the archive. If you want to hear it, email me.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

The Soft Land of Playlist

Coffeetime, October 20, 2005

bed
Wes Montgomery / A New Dynamic Sound / Riverside / 10.5, 6.59

set 1
Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / Safari / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Theory of Art / A Night at Tony's / Bluebird / 4.2.57
Joe Marsala and his Orch / Romance / Black & White / 1945
Helen Kane / from film Young Men of Manhattan / I've Got "It," But It Don't Do Me No Good / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.30
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The Green Grass Grows All Around / Decca / Chicago 11.22.41
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Sweet Lorraine / radio transcription [Capitol] / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / Mountain Greenery / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orch

set 2
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Blues for Del / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Strictly Occidental / Rama / 1.9, 10.57 & 2.5, 7.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Tree of Hope / RCA / 10.16.41
The Dorsey Brothers Orch / Stay on the Right Side of the Road / Brunswick (?) / 3.14.33 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra / Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow / CBS broadcast dress rehearsal for Songs by Sinatra radio show / 10.31.45 / with the Pied Pipers and orch arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / The Soft Land of Make Believe & Knowbody Knows / Bethlehem / 1959

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Fried Pies / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Fats Navarro-Tadd Dameron Septet / Tadd Walk / live at the Royal Roost / 8, 9.48
Thelma Cooper / Let's Try Again / Gotham / 1949
Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / The Night Before Judgement Day / Savoy / 5.15.45 /
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Rénuncia / Som Livre / 1950s? early 60s?

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Early Bird / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Howard Roberts / All-Time Great Instrumental Hits / Autumn Leaves / Capitol / 1966
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' Uptown / Bluebird / 3.20.34
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers / soundtrack to film The Barkleys of Broadway / Bouncin' the Blues / Hollywood / 8.13.48 / no vocals, just tap dancing
Maxine Sullivan / Restless / radio transcription? Apollo? / 1948 / with Larry Johnson & his Orch
Sammy Davis Jr / The Goin's Great / The Goin's Great / Reprise / LA 1969
The Original Gospel Harmonettes / Deliver Me / Specialty / Hollywood 7.24.52 / with Dorothy Love Coates on lead

last soul song
William Bell / Crying All by Myself / Stax / 7.65

Monday, October 17, 2005

The archive has been revived! It's ALIVE!

Oh, sorry -- with Halloween coming on, I just had to channel Doc Frankenstein. Anyhoo, I renewed the domain name for the Coffeetime Archive and all is well with clicking those links. Whew!

Also I bought the name coffeetimeblog.org which will point to this very page you're reading. I've gone domain name crazy!

Oops! Coffeetimearchive.org link down for a day or two

So sorry, I forgot to renew the domain name coffeetimearchive.org. So it will be down for a day or so. I'll put up a post here when it's live again.

Boy, is my face red...

Sunday, October 16, 2005

This week's show online now, warm from the oven

Hi,this week's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime Archive. All cuddly and cozy like. Makes me want a cuppa joe.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Playlist Dynamite!

Coffeetime, October 13, 2005

bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Kenny Dorham / 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia / Mexico City [alternate cd bonus take] / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Trio / Lady Bird / King [Bethlehem] / 2.2, 3.56
Clark Terry Sextet / More (Theme from Mondo Cane) / Blues Fr'ell / Cameo / 1962
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Rug Cutter's Swing / Decca / 9.25.34
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orch, conducted by Francis Collinson
Ivory Joe Hunter / S.P. Blues / MGM / 10.21.49
Sarah Vaughn / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.16, 18.1954

set 2
Wilbur Harden & John Coltrane / Tanganyika Strut / Once in a While / Savoy / 5.13.58
Willie Dixon / Willie's Blues / Go Easy / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / The Way I Feel Today / Victor / 11.6.29 / vocal = Don Redman
Chick Daniels & his Royal Hawaiians / Buckin' Horse Hula / Brunswick / Honolulu fall 1935 / with 1920 Olympian Pua Kealoha
Ella Mae Morse / Tennessee Saturday Night / Capitol / 1952
Otis Rush / My Baby is a Good 'Un / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Ike Turner & Willie Dixon in the band

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / First Bass Line / New Jazz / 8.19.60
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Earmon Jr. / Blue Note / 4.9.61
The Four Vagabonds / That Old Gang of Mine / Apollo / 7.47
Kay Starr / A Woman Always Understands / Standard transcription / circa 1946 / with Buzz Adlam Orch
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / Someone to Watch Over Me / World Pacific / LA 2.28.55

set 4
Stan Getz / Getz Age / These Foolish Things / Roost / 12.19.52 /
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Bossa Nova Petite / Capitol / 2.20, 21, 22.63
Skip Martin / soundtrack The Music from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer / Summer Mood / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1959
Howard McGhee Sextet / High Wind in Hollywood / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
The Three Keys / Anything for You / Brunswick / 12.12.32
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / I Must Know / Capitol / Hollywood 10.29.65 / an amazing Peggy Lee disc- and videography
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soul song
Carolyn Franklin / Baby Dynamite! / I Don't Want to Lose You / RCA / 1969 / produced by Jimmy Radcliffe

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Saturday, October 08, 2005

Wahoo! the latest show is online...

Yes, indeedy-doody, this week's episode of Coffeetime is now online at the archive.

Found a nice new site dedicated to old movies, ModernTimes.com and they have a still from one of my favorite movies, His Kind of Woman. Blogger's being a bad boy today and won't let me post the photo, sigh. So take a clicky trip over there and get all weak in the knees over Robert Mitchum or Jane Russell (depending upon what floats your tugboat).

Thursday, October 06, 2005

A playlist, comin' down on YOU!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2005

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

set 1
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Shoutin' on a Riff / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Fidel / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Cootie Williams & his Orch / Unidentified Instrumental / soundtrack from film "Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra" / mid 1944 / with tap dancing by the Douglas Brothers
Little Jack Little / A Dew Dewey Day / radio transcription (?) / 1940
Annisteen Allen / Lies, Lies, Lies / Federal / 1.5.51
Anita O'Day / Cool Heat / It Had to be You / Verve / Hollywood 4.59

set 2
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / The Bad and the Beautiful / Mercury / 1959
Barry Harris / Preminado / I Should Care / Riverside / 12.21.60, 1.19.61
Mary Lou Williams - Don Byas Quartet / Why / Vogue / Paris 12.2.53
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Gene Austin / Git Along, Ramble On / radio transcription from the Joe Penner Show / 1938 /
Hadda Brooks / Romance in the Dark / Modern / 1947
Preston Love & his Orch / Twilight Blues / Federal (?) / Cincinnati 5.16.51 / vocal = Charles Maxwell
Nat King Cole / Love is the Thing / When Sunny Gets Blue / Capitol / Hollywood 12.19, 28.56 / arranged & conducted by Gordon Jenkins

set 3
Quincy Jones & Orch / soundtrack to film They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / Blues for Mister Tibbs / UA / Hollywood 1970
Henry Mancini & Orch / soundtrack to film The Party / Party Poop / RCA / Hollywood 1968 / with Jimmy Rowles, on piano (wink wink)
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Wham-a-Lam / King / 11.28.49
Trixie Smith / My Unusual Man / Decca / 5.26.37
Artie Shaw & his Orch / I Got the Sun in the Morning / Musicraft / Hollywood 4.30.46 / vocal = The Mel-Tones
Billy Eckstine / Once More with Feeling / Stormy Weather / Roulette / LA 1960 / arranged & conducted by Billy May

set 4
George Shearing & the Montgomery Brothers / No Hard Feelings / Jazzland / LA 10.9 & 10.61
Shorty Rogers / [The Playboy Jazz All Stars double LP compilation] / Play, Boy! / RCA / Hollywood 7.15.57
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Saving Myself for You / radio transcription / 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
Roy Brown / New Rebecca / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 4.19.50
Cilla Black / Is it Love? / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Capitol / 1965
Swan Silvertones / Singing in My Soul / Where Shall I Go / Vee Jay / 1960

last soul song
Debbie Taylor / Comin' Down On You / Second to None / Today / 1972

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Hear ye, hear ye: fresh show now online

Well, folks, it's that time of the week when a new Coffeetime is posted up on the Coffeetime Archive for your listening pleasure.

As last week, I'm linking each show to the exact playlist postingg here on the blog. But, new this week: the end of the low-bandwidth streams. I haven't heard from any dial-up listeners in a long time (since my mom now has broadband), so I've removed the low-bandwidth streaming option. However, if you want that option back, just holler! The Coffeetime Archive crew aims to please. All one of us.

update: this show is no longer online; email me if you want to hear it