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Friday, August 22, 2008
Blues My Naughty Playlist Gives to Me
Coffeetime, August 22, 2008, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Horace Silver / Doin' the Thing / Doin' the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
James Moody / Wail Moody Wail / Donkey Serenade / Prestige / 12.12.55
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Leave the Rest to Me / Victor [unissued] / 11.6.41
Noel Coward / Half-Caste Woman / HMV / Small Queen's Hall, London 1.2.31 / with Ray Noble & his Orch
The Sparrows / Why Did You Leave Me / Jay Dee / 9.17.53
Peggy Lee / Black Coffee / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Decca / spring 1953 http://bbob.tistory.com/275
set 2
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / Stella By Starlight / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Art Tatum / Tea for Two / radio transcription / live, Basin Street, NYC 10.55
Count Basie & his Orch / These Foolish Things / Columbia? /11.2.50
Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds" Orch / Bandanna Babies / Brunswick / 8.14.28
The Boswell Sisters / We're on the Highway to Heaven / Victor / 7.20.30 / with Jackie Taylor & his Orch
Artie Simms / Take It Easy Baby [alt take] / Apollo / 10.46
Bette McLaurin / Do You Know Why / Coral / 12.9.52 / with Don Redman & his Orch
Sammy Davis Jr / Greatest Hits / Bee-Bom / Reprise / LA 1967
set 3
Booker Ervin / The Book Cooks / The Book Cooks / Bethlehem /6.60 [4.6.60]
Freddie Mitchell & his Orch / Summertime Boogie / Derby / 5.50
Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941
Benny Goodman & his Orch / I'm Like a Fish Out of Water / Bluebird / 12.3.37 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Mel Tormé / The Tormé Touch / Keepin' Myself for You / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56
set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Lighthouse at Laguna / Witch Doctor No. 2 / Laguna Beach 6.20.55
Stan Getz / Crazy Chords / Prestige / 6.21.49
Toni Harper / Happy Feet / Columbia / LA 5.31.50 / with Mannie Klein's Dixieland Band
BB King / Please Love Me / RPM / 1953
Ricky Nelson / It's All in the Game / Imperial [unissued alt take] / LA 9.2.58
The Chosen Gospel Singers / What a Wonderful Sight / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54
last soulish song
The Free Movement / I've Found Someone of My Own / Decca / 1971