Friday, July 27, 2007

From the Land of the Sky Blue Playlist

Coffeetime, July 27, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1
Charlie Persip / Charlie Persip and the Jazz Statesmen / Sevens / Bethlehem / 4.20.60
Billy Butterfield / Billy Butterfield at Princeton / 'Deed I Do / Essex / 1955
Buck Clayton's Big Eight / Sentimental Summer / HRS / 7.24.46
Ray Noble & his Orch / Fair and Warmer / HMV / London 6.28.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Do You Call that a Buddy? / Decca / 1940
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulmates / Come Sunday / Riverside / 9.20.63
Charlie Parker / Out of Nowhere / Dial / 11.4.47
Django Reinhardt / Vous et Moi / Brunswick / Brussels 4.16.42
Osvaldo Pugliese y Su Orquestra Tipica / Reliquias / Derecho Viejo / Odeon / Argentina 5.28.45
Dorsey Brothers Orch / Was That the Human Thing to Do? [alt take A] / Brunswick / 2.5.32
Gene Autry / Ridin' Down the Canyon / Columbia / 5.46
Dinning Sisters / Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia / Capitol / LA 1943
Roger Miller / King of the Road / Smash / Nashville 11.3.64

set 3
Lonnie Smith / Think! / Slouchin' / Blue Note / 7.23.68
Victor Feldman / It's A Wonderful World / Hard to Find / Vee Jay / 1965
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Play It Over / Black & White / LA circa 1.46
Mildred Bailey / Mildred Bailey Show on CBS radio / From the Land of the Sky Blue Water / transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
The Ravens / For You / National / 1947
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / Dindi / Reprise / LA 1967

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Charleston Alley / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / London in July / GNP / 6.27.56
Shep Fields & his New Music / Sophisticated Lady / radio transcription / early 1940s
Cliff Edwards [Ukelele Ike] / When My Sugar Walks Down the Street / 1944
Red Norvo & his Orch / Embraceable You / V-Disc / 1943-1944 / vocal = Carol Bruce
Elvis Presley / Any Way You Want Me / RCA Victor / 10.6.56
"The Church Choir" / soundtrack to The Lost Man / He'll Wash You Whiter Than Snow / Uni / Hollywood 1969 / arranged by Cora Martin

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / Just a Little Lovin' / Atlantic / Memphis 1968

Friday, July 20, 2007

Drive Playlist Drive



Coffeetime, July 20, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1
Joe Henderson / Our Thing / Our Thing / Blue Note / 9.9.63
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Forty Quarters / Prestige / 1.26.57
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / I Should Care [CD bonus track] / Blue Note / 8.4.60
Woody Herman Band / Bijou / Columbia / 8.20.45
Savoy Hotel Orpheans / I Won't Dance / HMV / London 3.23.35 / vocal = Anne Lenner & Brian Lawrence, orch conducted by Carroll Gibbons
King Cole Trio / I Love to Make Love to You [aka Any Old Time] / MacGregor transcription / 1944
Dakota Staton / More Than the Most! / The Crazy Things We Do / Capitol / 1959

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Unsung Hero / When Sunny Gets Blue / Epic [Columbia] / 7.13.61
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / The Nearness of You / Prestige / 5.20.55
John Coltrane / Ballads / It's Easy to Remember / Impulse! / 12.21.61
George Gershwin / When Do We Dance? / Columbia / London 7.6.26
Ruth Etting / It's Easy to Remember / Columbia / 4.5.35
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Drummin' Man [10" EP] / Drum Boogie / Columbia / vocal = Irene Day & Ensemble
Ella Mae Morse / AFRS Mail Call #87 / Cow Cow Boogie / Hollywood 4.19.44 / with AFRS Orch conducted by Captain Meredith Wilson
Sammy Davis Jr / I Gotta Be Me / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Reprise / LA 1968

set 3
Barney Kessel / Let's Cook! / Tiger Rag / Contemporary / LA 8.6.57
T.J. Fowler's Orch / Gold Rush / Savoy / Detroit 1.16.53
The Five Jones Boys / Rose Room / Standard transcription / c. 1937
Anita O'Day / Tennessee Waltz / London / 10.26.50 / with Jack Pleis & his Orch
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Mean Old World / Abkco / LA 1963

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions / Django / Fantasy /LA 1956
Dave Brubeck Trio / Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals [10" EP] / Body and Soul / Fantasy / San Francisco spring 1950
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Shortnin' Bread / transcription / 1945
Putney Dandridge & his Orch / Chasing Shadows / Vocalion / 6.25.35
Little Sylvia [Vanderpool Robinson] / Drive Daddy Drive / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow
Jackie Wilson / You Better Know It / Brunswick / 1959
Golden Gate Quartet / A Look Away from Heaven / radio transcription / 1941

last soul song
Oscar Toney Jr / Just for You / Bell / 1967

Friday, July 13, 2007

Max the Playlist



Coffeetime, July 13, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Cute / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Cannonball Adderley / Jump for Joy / Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown) / Mercury / 8.20.58
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / La Mer (Beyond the Sea) / Savoy / 2.26.55
John Kirby & his Orch / Anitra's Dance / Vocalion / 5.19.39
Jack Hylton & his Orch / My One and Only / Bluebird / Small Queen's Hall, London 9.12.28 / vocal = Jack Jackson, Billy Ternent, Chappie d'Amato
Babs Gonzales / Everything's Cool / Apollo / 4.47
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Love is the Thing / Prestige / 3.30.61

set 2
Phineas Newborn Jr / While My Lady Sleeps / While My Lady Sleeps / RCA Victor / 4.23.57
Joe Newman / Good 'n' Groovy / Li'l Darlin' / Prestige Swingville / 3.19.61
Alec Wilder / A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra / Max the Saxophone / Golden Records / 1958 / orch arranged & conducted by Mitch Miller
Orchestre Typique Cubain Sous la Direction du Maestro Castellanos / Cuba en Paris / Odeon / Paris, circa 11 or 12.30
Jack Payne & the BBC Dance Orch / My Brother Makes Noises for the Talkies / HMV / London 1931
Chubby Newsome / New Orleans Lover Man / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1.49
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Sings for Adults Only / Josephine / Roulette / 1960

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Bobby Jaspar / I Remember You / Pathé Marconi, French Columbia / 11.12, 14, 20.56
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Sittin' Around / King / Cincinnati 6.28.50
The Charioteers / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia (?) / 6.3.47
Hadda Brooks / I Don't Mind / Okeh / 12.18.53
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / Once in Awhile / Capitol / LA 1957

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / Poinciana / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland [Far Wes] / Falling in Love with Love / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.1.59
Bing Crosby / It's Easy to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 2.21.35 / with George Stoll & his Orch, The Rhythmettes & Three Shades of Blue
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer / Two of a Kind / Two of a Kind / Atco / LA 1961 / orch arranged & conducted by Billy May
Soul Stirrers / Christ is All (the World to Me) / Specialty / Hollywood 7.28.50

last soul song
The Five Stairsteps / The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / Tell Me Who / Buddah / Chicago 1967

Friday, July 06, 2007

Playlist in My Lemon & Lime

Coffeetime, July 6, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (1560) / Easy to Love / Blue Note / 4.21.57
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / Larue / Riverside / 5.21.57
Wilbert Baranco & his Rhythm Bombardiers / Night and Day / Black & White / LA 1.46
California Ramblers / Glad Rag Doll / Edison / 12.26.28
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / soundtrack to Gold Diggers of 1938 / I Want to Go Back to Bali / Victor / Hollywood 4.13.38
Johnny Otis Band / Feel Like Crying / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Connie Haines / Connie Sings a Tribute to Helen Morgan / They Didn't Believe Me / Hi-Fi Tops / Hollywood 7.26, 30.57

set 2
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris / La Vie en Rose / Specialty / Hollywood mid-50s
JJ Johnson / JJ! in Person / My Old Flame / Columbia / 1956
Hank Jones / Porgy & Bess / My Man's Gone Now / Capitol / late 1958
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orch / Medley: On the Alamo/My Ideal/I'll Get By / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932
The Mills Brothers / Chinatown, My Chinatown / Decca / 4.14.42
T-Bone Walker & his Band / Too Lazy / Imperial / LA circa 9.50
Diana Dors / Swinging Dors / Roller Coaster Blues / Columbia / 1960

set 3
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Valsa de Pôrta das Caxias / Warner Brothers / LA 1965
Gene Krupa Trio / The Man I Love / Clef / 6.52
Dinning Sisters / Echo Said No / Capitol [unreleased] / LA 5.17.47
The Three Riffs / Cherry in My Lemon and Lime / Apollo / 5.9.50
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / You're Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 9.14.56 / with Willie Smith on alto

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Solos for Guitar / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Star Big Band / Jazz Rolls Royce / "Coop" Salutes the Co-op / Phillips [Fresh Sounds] / LA 1957 (1961?)
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / Moonlight on the Ganges / radio transcription / Cafe Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania 2.8.43
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Sammy Davis Jr / soundtrack to Salt & Pepper / Salt & Pepper / UA / Hollywood 1968
The Pilgrim Travelers / Troubled in Mind / Specialty / Hollywood 8.4.55

last soul song
Gene Chandler / Situation / It's Your Love I'm After / Mercury / 1970