First, thanks, big thanks, to Leigh Cochran for filling in for me last week on Thanksgiving and to Yves Dehnel for helping her do that.
Here's today's playlist, kittycats:
Coffeetime, December 1, 2005
bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love
set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin' Up Up Up / Asiatic Raes (aka Lotus Blossom) / Blue Note / 11.6.60 /
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Takes Charge / If This Isn't Love / Riverside / 4.12.59 /
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cuddle Up, Huddle Up / Bluebird / 1.21.41
The Pickens Sisters / Samanco / radio transcription WOR Dedication of the Fifty Kilowatt Transmitter / Carnegie Hall 3.4.35 / celebrating when NYC increased its power output to fifty thousand watts
Leslie "Jiver" "Hutch" Hutchinson / Let There Be Love / mid-40s
Etta James / Lover Man / Chess / Chicago 9.65
set 2
Bill Evans / New Conversations / Reflections in D / WB / 1.26, 28, 30 & 2.13-16.78 /
Milt Jackson / Bags Meets Wes / Stairway to the Stars / Riverside / 12.18, 19.61
Russell's Procope's Big Six / Opera in Blue / HRS / fall 1946
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / That's Where the South Begins / Brunswick / 9.27.34 / vocal = Louis Prima
Fred Astaire / You're Easy to Dance With / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Paramount / Hollywood spring 1942 / accompanied by "Male Octet"
The Nightingales / Baby, Don't Do It & I'm With You / Stax / early 70s
set 3
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / And What If I Don't / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Bobby Timmons / Easy Does It / Pretty Memory / Riverside / 3.13.61 /
Clyde Hart's Hot Seven / Shoot the Arrow to Me Cupid / Savoy / 12.19.44 / vocal = Joe Gregory /
Una Mae Carlisle [beware pop-ups with this link!] / The Rest of My Life / Joe Davis / 10.20.44
Loumell Morgan / Ol' Man River / Apollo / 8.9.46
Mel Torme with The Meltones / Back in Town / Hit the Road to Dreamland / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59
set 4
Lucky Thompson / Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Volume 2 [Tricotism] / NR #2 / ABC-Paramount / 12.12.56
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Hermosa Summer / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54 /
Johnny Mandel / soundtrack to I Want to Live / End Title / MGM / Hollywood 1958
Joe Turner / Low Down Dog / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #52 / with Pete Johnson on piano, Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman emcee
Otis Rush / All Your Love / Cobra / Chicago 1958
Pilita / This is Pilita / Special People / Astor / Australia mid-60s / thanks to Belly Bongo LP Sharity
The Soul Stirrers / I'm Gonna Build On That Shore & How Far Am I from Canann? / Specialty / 3.1.51
last soul song
The Sweet Inspirations / What the World Needs Now is Love / You Really Didn't Mean It / Atlantic / 1968
