Friday, May 04, 2007

Half as Lovely (Twice as Playlist)

Coffeetime, May 4, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58

set 1
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Diminishing / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12, 18,61
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Four / Contemporary / LA 9.12.62
Benny Carter Orch / Takin' My Time / Bluebird / 11.19.40
Ben Selvin & his Orch / Hot-Cha Medley: You Can Make My Life a Bed of Roses, Say, There I Go / Columbia / 3.22.32 / vocal = Kate Smith, Wallace Trio, Jack Miller, respectively
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Boogie Woogie Came to Town / Decca / 1941
Helen O'Connell / Penthouse Serenade / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio

set 2
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / Farewell Machelle / Blue Note / 11.24.64
McCoy Tyner / McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington / I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) [cd bonus track] / Impulse! / 12.2, 7, 8.64
Laurindo Almeida / Laurindo Almeida Quartet, volume 2 [Brazilliance] / Noctambulism / Pacific Jazz / LA 1953
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys / Too Busy / Brunswick / Chicago 9.29.35
DeZurik Sisters / I Left Her Standing There / Vocalion / Chicago 1.39
Doc Pomus / Naggin' Wife Blues / Apollo / late 1947 or early 1948
Peggy Lee / Imagination / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49
Otis Rush / It Takes Time / Cobra / 1958 / with Willie Dixon & his Orch

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Everything's Gonna Work Out Fine / Prestige / 4.10.62
Cannonball Adderley / The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse / Our Delight [unissued on orig LP] / Riverside [Landmark] / The Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach, California 10.16.60
Tadd Dameron Band / Lady Be Good / radio broadcast / The Royal Roost 8.48
The Mills Brothers / Diga, Diga Do / Decca / 12.22.32 / with Duke Ellington & his Orch
Teddy Wilson Quartet / Time After Time / Musicraft / 1946 / vocal = Sarah Vaughn
Frank Sinatra / Half As Lovely (Twice As True) / Capitol / Hollywood 5.13.54

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Divertimento, 1st movement / Contemporary / LA 3.2.57
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Cleo Brown / You Take the East, Take the West, Take the North, I'll Take the South / Decca / 3.12.35
Ruby Johnson / I'm Hooked / Volt? / mid-60s
Ray Charles / The Genius of Ray Charles / Let the Good Times Roll / Atlantic / 6.23.59
Delta Rhythm Boys / Certainly Lord / radio transcription / 1941

last soul song
The Voices of East Harlem / Cashing In / Chicago Sound / 1973