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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Blues My Naughty Playlist Gives to Me
Coffeetime, March 23, 2006
bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60
set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet [5066] / Hank's Prank / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Scratch / 3.13.56
Shep Fields & His New Music / American Patrol / radio transcription / 1943-44
Boswell Sisters & Rudy Valleé / If Love Came Wrapped in Cellophane / radio transcription of Rudy Valleé's The Fleischman Hour / 1.24.35
The Ravens / Everything But You / Okeh / 8.8.51
Dinah Washington / The Late, Late Show / I Don't Hurt Anymore / Mercury (Wing) / LA 8.3.54 / with Hal Mooney & his Orch
set 2
Joe Wilder / Wilder 'n' Wilder / Mad About the Boy / Savoy / 1.19.56
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / But Beautiful / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Art Tatum / Tenderly / radio transcription / live, Basin Street, NYC 10.55
Teddy Hill & his Orch / Uptown Rhapsody / Victor / 4.1.36
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Junkman / Columbia? / 2.2.34 / vocal = Mildred Bailey
Tiny Bradshaw / Walkin' the Chalk Line / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Teach Me Tonight / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64
set 3
Johnny Hodges / Blues-a-Plenty / Reelin' and Rockin' [CD bonus alt take] / Verve / 4.5.58
Hal Singer / Hot Rod / Savoy / 10.27.55
The Mills Brothers / Julius Caesar / Decca / 7.19.38
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Let's Just Pretend / Victor / 8.9.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford, 78 A-side features Frank Sinatra singing I'll Be Seeing You
Big Mama Thornton / Walking Blues / Peacock / 1954
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Look Down that Lonesome Road / Dawn / 1956 / with the Mat Mathews Quintet
set 4
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / Contemporary / 4.21.58
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / What'll I Do [CD bonus track] / World Pacific / LA 11.29.56
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Ding Dong / Savoy / 6.28.49
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don't Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (with Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
T-Bone Walker / News for You Baby / Imperial / LA 12.51
Nancy Wilson / How Glad I Am / The Grass is Greener / Capitol / Hollywood 8.64
The Soul Stirrers / Jesus Done Just What He Said / Specialty / Hollywood 3.1.51 / without overdubs
last soul song
Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / Be Yourself / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1 &2.70