Coffeetime, February 23, 2006
bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Moodsville / 5.18.60
set 1
Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Jewel's Tempo / UA / 10.58
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Together! / Le Roi / Atlantic / 2.2.61
Wynton Kelly / New Faces-New Sounds [Piano Interpretations] / There Will Never Be Another You / Blue Note / 8.1.51
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace "Saxie" Dowell
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / How Ya, Baby? / unpublished [Victor?] / 10.7.37
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / Sarah, Sarah / Urban / Hollywood 1947
Toni Harper / Toni / Just A Sittin' and A-Rockin / Verve / 12.29.55
set 2
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / So Sweet My Little Girl / Blue Note / 8.9.62
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Willow Weep for Me / Savoy / 6.26.55
Artie Shaw / In the Still of the Night / Musicraft / LA 6.12.46
The Mills Brothers / How'm I Doin', Hey-Hey / soundtrack to film Twenty Million Sweethearts / 2.34
Wynona Carr / It's Raining Outside / Specialty? 1955?
Lord Flea (Norman Thomas) & His Calypsonians / Dance Craze [originally appeared on Swingin' Calypsos] / Shake Shake Senora / Capitol / 1957 / great webpage on Lord Flea: an awesome amount of info and images plus you can download a long performance clip from the movie Bop Girl Goes Calypso
set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Late Spring / Bethlehem / 10.11.57
Quincy Jones / Bossa Nova / Se E Tarde Me Pardoa (Forgive Me If I'm Late) / Mercury / 9.13.62
JJ Johnson / Trombone By Three / Opus V / Prestige / 5.26.49 / originally issued as a 78
Buddy Johnson & his Orch / Since I Fell for You / radio transcription / Savoy Ballroom fall 1945 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Delta Rhythm Boys / I'm Awfully Strong for You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Lowell Martin's Orch; flip of Hey John (Put Your Glasses On)
Little Milton / Never Too Old / Checker / St Louis 6.20.62 / flip of She Put a Spell on Me
set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / score to film The Proper Time / Happy Pool / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / 10 Saxophones and 2 Basses / Skyliner / Mercury (f:35d) / Hollywood 11.8.61
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / Wizzin' the Wizz / Victor / 4.5.39
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / You Are My Dream / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington / I Used to Love You / Roulette / early 60s
Swan Silvertones / Let's Go To Church Together / Love Lifted Me Up / Vee-Jay / 1964
last soul song
Rose Royce / Ooh Boy / Whitfield Records / 1977