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