A Playlist for Judy

Coffeetime, July 28, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / At the Village Vanguard / Blue Note / Village Vanguard 3.16.97

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird (alternate take) / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays / The Nearness of You / Roost / 12.15.55
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang / At the Jazz Band Ball / Okeh / 10.5.27
Al Bowlly / Judy / Decca / London 8.21.34 / with Al Bowlly on guitar
Count Basie & his Orch / Exactly Like You / Decca / 3.26.37 / vocal = Jimmy Rushing
The Four Vagabonds / The Freckle Song / Apollo / 3.26.47
Margie Anderson / The Blues / Come Rain or Come Shine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / late 50s, early 60s

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Yesterdays / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
Erskine Butterfield / Blackberry Jam / Beacon / 6.20.56
Benny Goodman Quartet / The Man I Love / Victor? / Hollywood 6.30.57
The Charioteers / Ridin' Around in the Rain / radio transcription / 1942
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Smile / Hollywood 1964 / Reprise

set 3
Harry Ferruolo / A Family of Friends (featuring Gustav Csik Trio) / Sweet Margie / Ferruolo Production / Budapest, Hungary November 2001
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, volume 2 / Time After Time / Blue Note / 9.24.54
Fats Navarro / Nostalgia /Fats Blows / Savoy / 12.5.47
Anita O'Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48
The Striders / Cool Saturday Night / Apollo / 3.20.50
Mel Tormé / It's a Blue World / It's a Blue World / Bethlehem / LA 1955

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Paying the Dues Blues / Contemporary / LA 2.9.57
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Just for Judie / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior [Capitol] / LA 3.1.43
Tiny Kennedy / Blues Disease / Trumpet / Memphis 9.25.52
Dinah Washington / Dinah '62 / Destination Moon / Roulette / 1962
Elvis Presley / We're Gonna Move / RCA Victor / 1956

last soul song
Frank Howard / Judy / Excello / 1967

He's the Playlist I Love

Coffeetime, July 21, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars - Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Gene Krupa / The Gene Krupa Trio at JATP / Idaho / Mercury / Hollywood 1.28.46
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards / soundtrack The Hollywood Revue Of 1929 / Singin' in the Rain / Columbia / LA 5.28.29
The Four Buddies / You Left Me Blue / Savoy / 3.3.53
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Through a Long and Sleepless Night / Prestige / 3.30.61

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Cabin in the Sky / GNP / 6.27.56
Doc Cheatham & his Trio / Doc's Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 1.21.50
Benny Carter & his Orch / AFRS Jubilee 136 radio broadcast / One O'Clock (theme) and Sunday / radio transcription / Hollywood c. 5.44 / Sunday arranged by Benny Carter; Master of Ceremonies = Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Peggy Lee / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose to Carry My Blues Away / radio transcription/ Hollywood? summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch
Gene McDaniels / Tower of Strength / Liberty / LA summer 1961 / with the Johnny Mann Singers

set 3
Sergio Mendes / Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things / So What's New / Atlantic / LA 1968
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith /Blue Bash! / Kenny's Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Charlie Parker / Groovin' High / radio transcription / live at Storyville, Boston 9.22.53 / Paul Desmond interviews CP
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Cabin in the Cotton / Brunswick / 4.28.32 / vocal = Billy Banks
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / Night and Day / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Herbie Mann / Brazil's Super Hits / Consolacao [from Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann] / Atlantic / Rio de Janeiro 1968 / featuring Baden Powell
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / Summer Night / Contemporary / 9.13.55
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Rose Room / transcription / live, Cotton Club 5.15.38
King Cole Trio / Wildroot Cream Oil Presents King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio broadcast / For Sentimental Reasons / radio transcription / Chicago 3.1.47
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / At Sundown / Savoy / 10.18.46 / with Ellis Larkins Orch
Little Milton / Moanin for You Girl / Checker [unissued] / 4.67
Golden Gate Quartet / NBC Thesaurus radio broadcast / Show Me the Way / radio transcription / fall 1941

last soul song
Mary Wells / Mary Wells Sings My Guy / He's the One I Love / Motown / Detroit 1964

Salt Water Playlist

Coffeetime, July 14, 2006

bed
The 3 Sounds / Feelin' Good / Blue Note / 6.28.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, volume 1 / Chant [CD only track] / Blue Note / 11.11.60
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / A Smooth One / Prestige / 5.25.59
Count Basie & his Orch / Time Out / Decca / 8.9.37
Geraldo & his Orch / You Couldn't Be Cuter / HMV / London 8.9.38 / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / There'll Be No Days Like That / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Let's Begin / Verve / LA 1.7.63

set 2
Milt Jackon & Ray Charles / Soul Brothers / How Long Blues / Atlantic / 9.12.57
Jimmy Jones' Big Eight / A Woman's Got a Right to Change Her Mind / HRS / 1.10.46
Les Hite & his Orch / That's the Luck / Bluebird / 3.6.41
[The Four] Ink Spots / radio show The Home Cookin' Boys from Up Harlem Way, on NBC affiliate, WFIL Philadelphia / No Wonder (+ Theme) / transcription / Philadelphia 7.12.39
Les Brown & his Orch / CBS radio show / Salt Water Cowboy / transcription / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York 9.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
Johnny Otis Band / In the Dark / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / vocal = Three Tons Of Joy (Marie Adams with sisters Sadie and
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette / The Lady is a Tramp /Bethlehem / 1.56

set 3
Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Boa / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60 hifi:
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith /Blue Bash! / Kenny's Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Eddie Davis & Quintet / Athlete's Foot / Haven / 5.46 / with guitarist Bill DeArango
The Three Peppers / Delilah (With a Capital D) / Gotham / Philadelphia 12.1.49
Slim Gaillard / Buck Dance Rhythm / Rex / LA 1945
Frank Sinatra / Sinatra Sings… of Love and Things! / Love Looks So Well on You / Capitol / Hollywood 5.8.59

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 1956 /
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / My Melancholy Baby / Verve /LA 10.16.57
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Scandinavian Shuffle / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Fats Waller / Oh Susannah (Dust Off that old Pianna) / Bluebird / 3.6.35
Ivory Joe Hunter / Boogin' in the Rain / 4 Star / San Francisco 1.46
The Rovers / Why Oh Why / Capitol / late 50s
Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / Clap Yo' Hands / Roulette / Hollywood 1959 / orch arranged & conducted by Buddy Baker
Stars of Harmony / There are Some Things / Supreme (later bought by Swing Time) / 5.49

last soul song
King Floyd / I'm Gonna Fall in Love with You / Chimneyville / 1975

Your Playlist is Your Friend

Coffeetime, June 7, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Bup A Loup / Blue Note / 10.4.59
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / Two Tees / Riverside / 10.30.59
Chick Webb & his Orch / Liza / Brunswick / 3.5.38
The Chocolate Dandies / Cherry / Okeh / 9.29.28 / vocal = George Thomas
Whistling Jack Smith / Funny Face / Bluebird / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.19.28
Mills Brothers / Shine / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.16.32 / with Bing Crosby
T-Bone Walker / Travelin' Blues / Imperial / LA 4.5.50
Dinah Washington / You Don't Know What Love Is / EmArcy / 3.15.55

set 2
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / It Could Happen to You / Fantasy / 1957
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / My Funny Valentine / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / Don't Cry / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58
Kubanisches Orchester Rimac / Minha Palhoça / Telefunken / Berlin 10.23.37 / vocal = Bibi Miranda
Artie Shaw & his Orch / Take Your Shoes Off, Baby / Bluebird / Chicago 10.30.41 / vocal = Hot Lips Page
Jack McVea Combo / Oh, How the Geese Did Fly! / Combo [unissued] / LA mid-50s / vocal = JM & Christine Chatman (pianist, vocalist, and wife of Memphis Slim)
Danny Kaye / For Children / The Walrus & the Carpenter / Decca / LA
James Shaw aka The Mighty Hannibal / My Kinda Girl / King / LA 1963

set 3
Lee Morgan / Candy / Candy / Blue Note / 2.2.58
Harold Vick & his Orch / The Caribbean Suite / Beguine / RCA Victor / 1967
Melody Masters / Don't You Ever Mind Them? / Apollo / 1947
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in HiFi / If You Were No One [It's You or No One] / HiFi / LA 1959
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over / Contemporary / LA 11.2.59
Johnny Mercer / Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Otis Clay / Got to Find a Way / One-derful! / Chicago 1967
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / Just a Little Lovin' / Atlantic / Memphis 1968
Pilgrim Travelers / Your Mother is Your Friend / Specialty / 1.25.52

last soul song
Archie Bell & the Drells / There's Gonna Be a Showdown / Mama Didn't Teach Me That Way / Atlantic / Houston 10.24.68