Takin' It to the Playlist

Coffeetime, May 25, 2006

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

set 1
Chet Baker / In Milan / Lady Bird / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / The High Priest [cd bonus track] / Riverside / live, Birdland, NYC 6.16.63
Les Brown & his Orch / Frenesi / radio transcription / Hollywood (?) 1956-57
Art Tatum / Just One of Those Things / radio transcription / live, Oliva Patio's Lounge, Washington 10.56
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / What a Girl! What a Night! / Victor / Chicago 11.20.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
The Andrew Sisters / Saturday Night / radio transcription / 1945
Clora Bryant / …Gal with a Horn / Little Girl Blue / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / At the Village Vanguard / I Wanted for You / Blue Note / Village Vanguard 3.16.97
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / That's All / Norgran / 11.1.55
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Arab Dance / Columbia / 6.17.47
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / I Need Lovin' / Victor / 2.3.31
Kay Starr / Comes A-Long A-Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1952
Ray Charles / At Newport / Talkin' 'Bout You / Atlantic / Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI 7.5.58 / with the Raylettes

set 3
Jack McDuff & Gene Ammons / Brother Jack Meets the Boss / Watch Out / Prestige / 1.23.62
B.B. King / Ain't That Just Like a Woman / RPM / late 50s
Billy Eckstine & his Orch / I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good / 10.28.41 / backup vocals = The Three Varieties
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / My Song / Modern / Hollywood 1952 / vocal = Mari Jones
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Mariposa / RCA / 1960s

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / I'm Also a Person / GNP / LA 7.57
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris / Under Paris Skies / Specialty / Hollywood mid-50s
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Sittin' In / Commodore / 11.10.38/ plus a smidge of Stardust (technical difficulties!)
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Railroad Song / radio transcription / 1941
Mildred Bailey / The Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio / There'll Be Some Changes Made / radio transcription / early 40s (1943?)
Ricky Nelson / Songs By Ricky / That's All / Imperial / LA 6.9.59
The Sensational Nightingales / You Know Not the Hour / Peacock / 2.74

last soul song
Taylor Hicks / Takin' It to the Streets / yes, I have no shame!

On the Playlist Where You Love

Coffeetime, May 18, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61

set 1
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Junka / Blue Note / 3.29.59
Frank Strozier & Booker Little / Fantastic Frank Strozier / A Starling Theme / Vee Jay / 2.2.60
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Mo Mo / Musicraft / 6.14.46
The Piccadilly Players / Hitting the Ceiling / Edison / 6.27.29
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / The Blues Done Got Me and Gone / Queen / 1946
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Gloomy Sunday / Riverside / 10.27-30.59

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.59
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Reminiscing / Verve / 12.17.57
Charlie Ventura / Charlie Ventura Concert / If I Had You / Decca / Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, Calif 1949
Peggy Lee & Woody Herman / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along, Go Away! / radio transcription/ Hollywood? summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch and Eddie Bracken
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Houston Jump / Swingtime (Supreme) / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / The Piccolino / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin' But the Truth! / On the Street Where You Live / Prestige / 12.13.66
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / Easy Does It / Verve / LA 12.15, 16.62
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Caravan / Exclusive / LA 1945
The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
The Smoothies aka Babs & her Brothers (Charlie Ryan, Arlene "Babs" Johnson, & Little Ryan) / Playmates / Bluebird / 1.5.40
Little Willie John / Fever / King / Cincinnati 3.1.56

set 4
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Joe Newman / The Midgets / Living Dangerously / RCA / 7.13.56
Hank Penny & his Radio Cowboys / Cowboy's Swing / Conqueror / Columbia, South Carolina 11.9.38
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / 11.3.47
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch
Otis Rush / Three Times a Fool / Cobra / Chicago late 50s
The Southern Sons / I Love the Lord / Trumpet / Cedars of Lebanon Club, Jackson, Mississippi 12.4.51

last soul song
Loleatta Holloway / Casanova / Aware / Atlanta 1975

Polka Dots & Playlists

Coffeetime, May 11, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1983 // George Van Eps / Legends: Solo Guitar Performances / The Man I Love / Concord

set 1
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Stupendous-Lee / Prestige / 5.19.54
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Stop and Listen / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62
Frank Rosolino / Swing… Not Spring! / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Savoy / Detroit 9.52
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Mendelssohn's Spring Song / Bluebird / 2.18.37
The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones & Earnest Hare) / Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me / Columbia / 8.24.27
Cootie Williams & his Orch / I May Be Easy, But I'm No Fool / Capitol / 7.5.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / I'll Never Be the Same / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Red Garland / Soul Junction / I've Got It Bad / Prestige / 11.15.57
Wes Montgomery / Full House / Born to Be Blue [not on original LP] / Riverside / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley
The Sidney Bechet Blue Note Quartet / Bechet's Steady Rider / Blue Note / 3.27.40
Edith Johnson / Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues / Richmond, Indiana 9.7.29
Geraldo & his Orch / Do I Worry? / HMV / London 1940s / vocal = Dorothy Carless & George Evans
Gene Kelly (and children) / soundtrack to American in Paris / I Got Rhythm / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 10.18.50

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / Mode to John / Blue Note / 12.1.67
Hal McKusick / Hal McKusick Quartet (East Coast Jazz Series No. 8) / By-Ian / Bethlehem / 2.17.55
Lucky Thompson's All Stars / Why Not / Excelsior / LA 9.45
Benny Goodman Trio / All My Life / Bluebird / Chicago 4.27.36 / vocal = Helen Ward
The Charioteers / With Every Breath I Take / radio transcription / 1942
Buddy Greco / At Mister Kelly's / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.54.55

set 4
Sandy Mosse / "Relaxin" with … Sandy Mosse / Birks Works / Argo / Chicago 9.5.58
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Spring Cleaning / Victor / 3.18.37
Stan Kenton & his Orch / I'm Going Mad for a Pad / Capitol / Hollywood 5.20.44 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Aretha Franklin / Soul '69 / Gentle on My Mind / Atlantic / 1969
The Bullock Brothers / A Real Good Soldier / Silver Cross / Boston late 1960s

last soul song
Otis Leavill / I Need You / Dakar / 1970

Playlist I Need You

Coffeetime, May 4, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Jimmy Cleveland & his Orch / Cleveland Style / Posterity / EmArcy / 12.13.57
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Echoes of Harlem / transcription / live at the Cotton Club 1938
Cass Hagan & his Park Central Hotel Orch / The Varsity Drag / Columbia / 9.2.27 / vocal = Franklyn Baur, Lewis James, & Elliot Shaw
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Sentimental & Melancholy / Brunswick / 2.18.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Rosemary Clooney / Love / Someone to Watch Over Me / Reprise / Hollywood 1961 / orch arranged & conducted by Nelson Riddle

set 2
Shelly Manne & his Man / Shelly Manne & his Man Play "Checkmate" / The Isolated Pawn / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61
Teddy Wilson / Soft Pedal [10" EP] / Honeysuckle Rose / Columbia / 6.29.50 / with Arvell Shaw (b), J.C.Heard (d)
Oscar Aleman / Nobody's Sweetheart / transcription? / Copenhagen 12.38
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / I'm Coming, Virginia / Okeh / 5.13.27
Bing Crosby / I'm Thru with Love / Brunswick / Hollywood 6.12.31
Peggy Lee / Slumming on Park Avenue / radio transcription / Hollywood 1952 / with Sonny Burke Orch, duet vocal with Jeff Chandler
Jesse Powell / Can't Help Myself (parts 1 & 2) / Jubilee / 1956

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / They Can't Take That Away from Me [cd bonus track] / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / Savannah / Impulse! / 4.25.62
Red Callender Trio / Red Light / Black & White / LA 6.46
The Dinning Sisters / I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? / Capitol / 1947
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Round Midnight / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Satin Doll / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson / Coffee Pot / Blue Note / 9.24.54
Camille Howard / How Long Can I Go on Like This? / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.22.49
Wilson Picket / I'm Sorry About That / Atlantic / 1967
Sammy Davis Jr / At the Cocoanut Grove / Once in a Lifetime and In the Still of the Night / Reprise / Ambassador Hotel, LA 12.14.62 / with The Dick Stabile Orchestra
The Soul Stirrers / Wonderful / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.56

last soul song
The Artistics / Girl I Need You / Brunswick / 1973