Friday, May 25, 2007

The Playlist That Is!

Coffeetime, May 25, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / The Lamp is Low / Prestige / 2.27.64
Teddy Charles / The Teddy Charles Tentet / Lydian M-1 / Atlantic / 1.17.56
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Dinah's in a Jam / live at the Cotton Club 4.24.38
Whispering Jack Smith / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along / Victor / 4.28.26 / whistling = Carson Robison
Benny Carter & his Orch / There, I've Said It Again / Decca / 1.21.41 / vocal = Roy Felton
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins, piano

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58 /
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Body and Soul / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Joe Venuti / Laura / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Corky's Stomp / Decca / circa 11.8.29
Joan Crawford / How Long Will It Last? / Hollywood 8.23.31 / with Gus Arnheim & his Cocoanut Grove Orch
The Ink Spots / Slap That Bass / Decca / 4.9.37
William "Brother" Woodman / Hot Mama / Combo / LA mid-1950s / vocal = Ethyl Brown & The Chanteers
Pearl Bailey & Mike Douglas / Young at Heart / Project 3 / LA 1969

set 3
Curtis Amy / Mustang / Mustang / Verve / 1966 (67?)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Are You Real / On the Ginza /Moon / live, London 1965
Julian Dash / Goin' Along / 12.50 / interesting note: his niece Julie Dash directed "Daughters of the Dust"
Lou Preager & his Band / Medley: Whispering in the Light; Hey, Good Lookin' / live at The Locano Ballroom, London 1940s/ vocal = Edna Kaye & Paul Rich
The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / My Ship / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin' By the River / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57
Les Paul Trio / I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me / V-Disc / mid-1940s
John Kirby & his Orch / Tweed Me / Victor / 10.7.41
Frank Sinatra & Janet Blair / Lucky Strikes Presents Light Up Time radio show / Some Enchanted Evening / 12.13.49
Etta James / Miss Pitiful / Cadet / 6.10.69
Sammy Davis Jr / Greatest Hits / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / LA 1967
The Argo Singers / See How He Kept Me / Vee-Jay / 1962

last soul song
Junior / Mama Used to Say / Mercury / 12.81

Friday, May 18, 2007

Honeysuckle Playlist

Coffeetime, May 18, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal-2 / Blue Calypso [CD bonus track] / Prestige / 4.19.57
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Sonia / Time / 3.23.60
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Weary Blues / Decca / 9.26.35
Ray Noble & his Orch / Weep No More, My Baby / HMV / London 10.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ray Johnson / Boogie the Blues / Mercury / 1953-55
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Blue Moon / Coral / 1958 with Buddy Cole Trio

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Time On My Hands / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender /Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.66
Arnett Cobb Septet / I'm in the Mood for Love / Okeh / 8.7.51
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Deep River / 1940 / thanks to Jean-Pierre!
Fats Waller / Clothes Line Ballet / Bluebird / 11.16.34
Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon / Take Off Them Hips / Decca / 4.17.40
Benny Goodman Sextet / She's Funny That Way / Columbia / vocal = Jane Harvey
Bobby “Blue” Bland & BB King / Together Again…Live / Everyday (I Have the Blues) / Impulse! / live Cocoanut Grove, LA 1976

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quartette / Mean to Me / King / 6.14.58
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Loch Lomond / Gotham / Philadelphia 1950 / nice essay about Tiny Grimes
Ella Logan & Spirits of Rhythm / I Woke Up with a Teardrop / Columbia / Hollywood 9.4.41
Melody Masters / My Baby / Apollo / 1946
Four of Us / Lift Up the Latch / Modern / 1947 / hat tip to Tony at Vocal Harmony site
Anthony Newley / Tony / You're Free / London / 1961

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / Little Tenderfoot / ABC [Impulse] / 12.11.56
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Jack Sprat / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Eddie South / The Distinguished Violin of Eddie South / I Hadn't Anyone Till You / Mercury / Chicago 7.14.58
Ida James / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.22.44 / with the King Cole Trio
The Falcons / Take this Love I've Got / Atlantic / 1963 / with Wilson Picket
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / LA 1967
The Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee-Jay / Chicago 2.28.56

last soul song
Jackie Ross / Jerk and Twine / Chess / Chicago 1965

Friday, May 11, 2007

There's a Playlist in this Old Building

Coffeetime, May 11, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Can't See for Looking / Prestige / 6.27.58

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Big Six / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
John Coltrane / Bahia / Goldsboro Express / Prestige / 12.26.58
Trummy Young's Big Seven / Fruitie Cutie [alternate take] / HRS [Mosaic box set - thanks Lou!] / 9.3.46
Lee Morse & her Bluegrass Boys / Moanin' Low / Columbia / 7.24.29
Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers / Dinah / soundtrack to The Big Broadcast / Hollywood 12.16.31
Russell Jacquet / Wake Up Old Maid / Jewell / 9.21.46 / vocal = Numa Lee Davis
Dinah Washington / In Tribute… / I've Run Out of Reasons / Roulette / 9.10.62 / with the Vocaleers (?)

set 2
Sonny Rollins / soundtrack to Alfie / He's Younger Than You Are / Impulse! / 1.26.66
André Previn & his Pals / Gigi / I Remember It Well / Contemporary / LA 4.7-8.58
Art Tatum / Here's Art Tatum / Honeysuckle Rose / Brunswick / 1955
Dick Powell / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / soundtrack to On the Avenue / Hollywood 2.6.37 / with Victor Young & his Orch
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / You Showed Me the Way / Modern Music / LA 1946
Sam Cooke / Encore / Along the Navaho Trail / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orch

set 3
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions / Fenwyk Farfel / Fantasy /LA 1957
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Blue Bash / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Charlie Parker & his Orch / An Oscar for Treadwell / Clef / 6.6.50
The Dinning Sisters / Lolita Lopez / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Ann Cole / My Tearful Heart / Baton / New Orleans 1956
Bobby Darin / That's All / It Ain't Necessarily So / Atco / 12.19.58

set 4
Oscar Moore / Afterglow / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings And Plays [Grey December] / I Wish I Knew / Pacific Jazz / 2.28.55
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Perkin' / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
Three Bits of Rhythm / I Used to Work in Chicago / Modern Music / 1946
Marlene Dietrich / An Evening with Marlene Dietrich / Honeysuckle Rose and Falling in Love Again / soundtrack from BBC TV show / New London Theatre, London 11.23-24.72 [CD says "Queen's Theatre, London 12.12.64"?]
The Southern Sons / There's a Leak in this Old Building / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Choice o f Colors / Love is Gone / unissued Hotlanta demo [from Good Guys Don't Always Win CD] / early 1970s

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