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Friday, September 28, 2007
The Playlist's Hip
Coffeetime, September 28, 2007, Angelynn Grant
bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981
set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Big Beat / Sakeena's Vision / Blue Note / 3.6.60
Kenny Dorham / 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Love Me or Leave Me / RCA Victor / LA 8.21.36
Whispering Jack Smith / There Ain't No "Maybe" in My Baby's Eyes / Victor / 10.30.26 / with Arthur Johnston on piano
[The Three] Boswell Sisters / Heebie Jeebies / Okeh / LA 10.3.30 / with Martha on piano
Dinah Washington & the Ravens / Hey Good Looking / Mercury / 10.25.51
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings More Cole Porter / Night and Day / Mercury / LA 3.27.56
set 2
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Clark Terry / Et Tu Me Regardes / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 1.60
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Autumn Serenade / Capitol / 1958
Danny K. Stewart & his Aloha Boys / Hawaiian Favorites / Fort Street Rag / Tops / 1957
Osvaldo Pugliese y Su Orquestra Tipica / Reliquias / Amurado / Odeon / Argentina 8.27.43
Bing Crosby / Little Dutch Mill / Brunswick / LA 3.10.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch, featuring James Briggs on clarinet
Juanelda Carter & Swingsters aka King Cole Trio / Dancing in the Street / Standard transcription / LA 1.14.39
Annisteen Allen / Hard to Get Along / Federal / 1.5.51
Bobby "Blue" Bland / The Soul of the Man / Dear Bobby (The Note) / Duke / 1965 / duet with Vi Campbell
set 3
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Six Bits Jones / Blue Note / 6.25.62
Video All-Stars / TV Jazz / Soft Sounds / Somerset / LA 1958
Max Roach Quartet / Ham and Haig (aka Hot House) / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49
Alice Faye & The Mills Brothers / Dinah / transcription / LA 11.30.33 / perhaps Rudy Vallee introducing?
Savannah Churchill & the Sentimentalists / Foolishly Yours / Manor / 12.46 / The Sentimentalists were comprised of the Brown Dots and later became The Four Tunes
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé's California Suite / Poor Little Extra Girl / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich
set 4
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / You Go to My Head / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58 /
Barney Kessel / Carmen / The Gypsy's Hip / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
The Cats & the Fiddle / I'm Singing, So Help Me / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / I Cried for You / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman
Tony Joe White / Black and White / Look of Love / Monument / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 1969
Jollyaires / The Lord's Been Good to Me / Tru-Sound? / Memphis? late-60s/early-70s?
last soul song
Irma Thomas / Girl Needs Boy / Minit / New Orleans 1961