Friday, April 27, 2007

Aren't Playlists Wonderful

Coffeetime, April 27, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Bennie Green Septet / Trombone By Three / Pennies from Heaven / Prestige / 10.5.51
Count Basie & his Orch / The Glory of Love / Decca / 3.26.37
Sophie Tucker / Aren't Women Wonderful / HMV? / London 8.30.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orch
Jesse Belvin / Where's My Girl / Specialty / Hollywood 3.17.55 / with Bumps Blackwell Band and the Laurels
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

set 2
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Day Dreaming / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Ill Wind / 12.8.61
Flip Phillips & his Orch / Swinging With Flip / If I Had You / Clef / LA 3.52
Oscar Aleman / Nobody's Sweetheart / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Zonky / Victor / 2.3.30 / vocal = Dave Wilborn
Geraldo & his Orch / Another Day / HMV (?) / London (?) 1949 / vocal = Archie Lewis
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Johnson and Turner Blues / National / 2.2.45 / vocal = Joe Turner
The Orioles / Shrimp Boats / Jubilee / 1.10.52

set 3
Harold Mabern / Rakin' and Scrapin' / Aon / Prestige / 12.23.68 http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige/7600-cat/a/#pr-7624
Machito & his Orch / Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite: Jazz / Clef [Verve] / 12.21.50 / with Charlie Parker
Jo Stafford / I Wanna Be Loved / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #333 / Hollywood 10.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orch and introduced by Dick Haymes
Savannah Churchill & The Striders / In Spite of Everything You Do / RCA Victor / 12.51 http://www.group-harmony.com/in_spite.htm
Fred Astaire / I Concentrate on You / Clef / LA 12.52


set 4
Howard Roberts / Whatever's Fair! / This is the Life / Capitol / LA 1966
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Blowin' Country / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Fats Waller / A Handful of Keys / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Eight Squares & a Critic [Bud Freeman & his V-Disc Jumpers] / The Latest Thing in Hot Jazz / V-Disc / 10.4.45
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Somebody Loves Me / Columbia / Hollywood 12.04.50
Little Milton / Twenty-Three Hours / Checker / Chicago 11.25.68
Judy Garland / What'll I Do? / TV soundtrack, episode 19 of The Judy Garland Show, 2.2.64 / LA 1.17.64
Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to that Land / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soul song
The Just Brothers / She Broke His Heart / Empire, Garrison, Wand / 1967

Friday, April 20, 2007

I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Playlist

Coffeetime, April 20, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Red Garland's Piano / Prestige / 12.14.56 & 3.22.57 /

set 1
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Love for Sale / Roost / 3.18.57
Willie Lews & his Entertainers / Sweet Sue / Pathé Marconi / Paris / 10.15.36
Seger Ellis / The Song is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Victor / 1927 / with the Tampa Red Artistes
T-Bone Walker / Lonesome Woman Blues / Black & White / LA 11.12.47
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up / Man with a Horn / Verve / LA 12.19.56

set 2
Cal Tjader / Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / Ill Wind / Fanstasy / San Francisco 1961
Kenny Drew / The Kenny Drew Trio / Ruby My Dear / Riverside / 9.20, 26.56
John Kirby & his Orch / Fifis Rhapsody / Victor / 7.25.41
George E. Lee & His Orch / If I Could Be with You / Brunswick / Kansas City circa 11.6.29
Johnny Mercer / Strip Polka / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.42
Gene Autry / A Melody from the Sky / transcription / 1945
Dean Martin / Medley: You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It); It Had to Be You; I'm in Love with You; I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself a Letter) / Capitol [limited issue] / live, Moulin Rouge, Hollywood 5.9.59

set 3
Candido / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Conga Soul] / Dark Eyes / Roulette / circa 1961-62
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Mambeando / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Les Paul / The New Sound! [45 rpm double-EP] / Brazil / Capitol / 1948
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / If That's What You're Thinking, You're Wrong / Decca / 4.21.39
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 12.8.44
Billy Taylor Quartet / I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun [alternate take] / HRS / circa 6.47 / vocal = Billy Taylor

set 4
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Blixed / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Osmosis / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Hadda Brooks / Tootsie Timesie / Modern / 1948
Big Mama Thornton / I Just Can't Help Myself / Peacock [unissued] / LA 1952-53
Shirley Bassey / Who Can I Turn To? / Columbia / 1964
Nightingale Jubilaires / Sorrow Valley / Swing Time / late-40s, early-50s

last soul song
The New Holidays / Maybe So, Maybe No / Soul Hawk [Westbound] / 1969

Friday, April 13, 2007

Give Me the Simple Playlist

Coffeetime, April 13, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60 /

set 1
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller, Volume 3 / Little Messenger / Blue Note / 12.1.57
Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane [Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago] / Stars Fell on Alabama / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish / radio transcription / 1939
Hal Kemp & his Orch / I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Boswell Sisters / Stardust / Brunswick / 5.25.31 / with Victor Young & the Brunswick Orch
Billie Holiday / Everything Happens to Me / Verve / 2.14.55

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Mundell Lowe / soundtrack from MGM film Satin in High Heels [also Blues for a Stripper]/ The Lost and the Lonely / Charlie Parker Records / LA 11.30.61
Erskine Butterfield / Piano Cocktail / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Bill Coleman & his Orch / After You've Gone / Disques Swing / Paris 11.12.37
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson / Doin' the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 (or 1929?)
The Maples / I Must Forget You / Blue Lake / Chicago 1954 / with the Von Freeman Combo
Nancy Sinatra / Sugar / What'll I Do? / Reprise / LA 1967

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Work Done / On a Clear Day / HighNote / live at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco 1976
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins / Calling Berlin, volume 2 / What'll I Do? / Arbors / 1994
Tab Smith & his Orch / Ace High / United / Chicago c. 9.52 (1954?)
The Five Jones Boys / I Heard / Standard transcription / c. 1937
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something (unissued alternate take) / Majestic / 10.47
Buddy Greco / At Mister Kelly's / My Ship / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Resonant Emotions / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from film I Want to Live! / Life's a Funny Thing / United Artists / LA 1958
Frank Sinatra & Skinnay Ennis / Songs By Sinatra radio show, AFRS #25 / Whispering / radio transcription / 3.6.46
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / So Long / Modern / 1946
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late Show / Give Me the Simple Life / Capitol / 1957
Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc / early 12.43

last soul song
Natural Four / Hanging on to a Lie / Boola-Boola / 1971

Friday, April 06, 2007

In a Meditating Playlist

Coffeetime, April 6, 2007; Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Passion Spring / Riverside / 1.20.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Terry Gibbs / Swing Not Spring / Serenade in Blue / Savoy / 8.28.58
Isham Jones & his Orch / In My Heart It's You / Brunswick / 9.8.30
King Porter & his Orch / Chitlin' Ball / Imperial / LA 12.30.47 / vocal = Gene Phillips
Dinah Washington / Crazy He Calls Me / EmArcy / 8.14.54 / with Clifford Brown All Stars

set 2
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Gigi Gryce / In a Meditating Mood / Savoy / 10.22.55
Lynn Hope / Please, Mr. Sun / Aladdin / Chicago 3.11.52
Joe Herlihy & his Orch / State and Madison / Edison / 6.20.27
Geraldo & his Orch / It Can't Be Wrong /mid-1940s / vocal = Dorothy Carless
Dave Bartholomew / Country Boy / DeLuxe / New Orleans 4.49
Willie Parker / Let's Start a Thing Now / M-Pac! / Chicago 1966

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / King Size / 1.11.57
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / St. Louis Blues / Gotham / c. 1951
Joe Thomas' Big Six / He's Got So Much / HRS / 2.14, 15.46 / vocal = Babe Mathews
The Five Red Caps / Tuscaloosa / Beacon / 7.43
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I'll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee

set 4
Billy May & his Orch / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Coolest Pad / UA / Hollywood 1963
Barney Kessel / Workin' Out! / Pedal Point / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Fats Waller / Poor Butterfly / radio transcription / 8.7.39
King Cole Trio / I Love You (for Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / 8.22.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Bobby Darin / Love Look Away / Capitol / LA mid-1960s
The Trumpeteers / The Last Supper / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song
The Tams / Dancing Mood / ABC-Paramount / 1964