That Old Black Playlist

Coffeetime, October 31, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Poppin' / Poppin' / Blue Note / 10.20.57
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Skål Brothers / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Oliver Nelson / Oliver Nelson's Big Band / Miss Fine / Impulse! / LA 6.2.67
Frank Froeba & his Swing Band / There'll Be a Great Day in the Morning / Decca / 12.24.35
Don Voorhees & His Earl Carroll's "Vanities" Orchestra / Dancing The Devil Away / Edison / 1927
The Ray-O-Vacs / Wine-O / Kaiser / 1957
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Better Luck Next Time / Sing / Chicago 2.59

set 2
Chet Baker / Comin' On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Stairway to the Stars / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Stan Getz / Getz/Gilberto #2 / Tonight I Shall Sleep with a Smile on My Face / Verve / live, Carnegie Hall 10.9.64
Steve Allen / Allen's All Stars / Yours Alone / Mercury / live, Joe Pasternak's Home, Hollywood 3.24.58
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Gabby / Bluebird / 11.6.41
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Doin' Things / Okeh / 5.4.27
Frank Sinatra / That Old Black Magic / radio rehearsal - Songs by Sinatra / 1946
Five Jones Boys / Mr Ghost Goes to Town / Variety / LA 12.10.36
Tiny Bradshaw / Breaking Up the House / King / Cincinnati 6.8.50

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights, Volume 2 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58 /
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Ramblin' Rose / Capitol / LA 9.62
Erskine Butterfield / Six-thirty Express / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Jimmy Nolen / After Hours / Federal / 1956
Sarah Vaughn / I'm Scared / Crown / 1.9.46 / with John Kirby Band
The Ravens / Once in a While / National / autumn 1947
"Scat Man" Crothers / Gone with "Scat Man" Crothers [Rock 'N Roll with "Scat Man" Crothers] / Ghost Riders in the Sky / Craftsmen [Tops] / 1957

set 4
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quartet and Quintet / Tea for Two / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Hall, San Francisco 1.15.56
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / C'est La Vie / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
Ruby Braff / Braff!! / S'Wonderful / Columbia [Epic] / 6.28.56
Delta Rhythm Brothers / Black Magic / AFRS Jubilee #61 / LA 1.17.44
Ray Charles / I'm All Yours – Baby! / Till the End of Time / ABC / LA 1969 / arranged by Sid Feller
The Golden Echoes / When the Saints Go Marching In / Specialty / LA 1949

last (soulful) song
Dion Di Mucci / Sandy / Laurie / 1963

Watch Yourself, Playlist!

Coffeetime, October 24, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Amyable / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Xtacy / Jubilee / 8.9.57
Coleman Hawkins & Leonard Feather's Esquire All Stars / Esquire Bounce / Commodore / 12.4.43 / Oscar Pettiford discography
Leo Reisman / Butterfingers / Brunswick / 4.5.34 / vocal = George Beuler
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Anita O'Day / At Mister Kelly's / It Never Entered My Mind / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

set 2
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / Fayth, You're… / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Red Garland / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60
Howard McGhee / Man with a Horn / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 / Oscar Pettiford discography
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Put on an Old Pair of Shoes / Brunswick / 4.3.35
Tab Smith Septette / Amateur Night in Harlem / Apollo / 10.15.45 / vocal = Willie Bryant
Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Ain't Gonna Hush / Modern / LA 1955 / vocal = Cordella de Milo
Little Milton [Campell] / I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town / Checker / Chicago 1965

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Blues Walk / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.66
Rusty Bryant & the Carolyn Club Band / Back Street / Dot / early 1953/54
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / It Isn't a Dream Anymore / Victor / 9.26.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
The Four Buddies / Why at a Time Like This / Savoy / 10.12.50
Billy Eckstine / Once More with Feeling / As Time Goes By / Roulette / 1960 / with Billy May & his Orch

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / As Time Goes By / Dawn / 1956
Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again / Decca / LA 1957
Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers / I've Found a New Baby / HRS / 8.31.38
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Do You Believe in Love at Sight? / RCA / 9.8.31 / vocal = unknown
Ann Cole / I've Got a Little Boy / Baton / 3.59 / with the Suburbans & orch
The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / You're So Right for Me / MGM / 1958
Selah Jubilee Singers / I Saw the Light / 10.8.41

last soul song
Enchanting Enchanters / No One in this World / BenMoKeith / Gary, Indiana late 1960s

Don't Dream of Any Playlist But Me

Coffeetime, October 17, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / The Midgets / RCA / 7.8.56
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Georgie Auld / Georgie Porgie / Musicraft / 5.24.45
Ruth Etting / I'm Good For Nothing but Love / Columbia / 1931
The Ebonaires / Bye Bye, Bye, Bye Bye / MGM / 1949
Lester Williams / Hey Jack / Macy's Records / Houston 1950
Georgia Carr / I Don't Know Any Better [not released] / Capitol / LA early 1950s

set 2
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Cal Tjader / Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / Fanstasy / San Francisco 1961
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Alone Together / Capitol / 1958
Tab Smith & his Orch / On the Sunny Side of the Street / United / Chicago c. 11.45
Jean Goldkette & his Orch / That's Just My Way of Forgetting You / Victor / Chicago 7.12.28 / vocal = Jean Napier
Harry James & his Orch /On a Little Street in Singapore / Columbia / 1939 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Romancers / Jump and Hop / Dootone / LA 1956 / with Chuck Higgins on tenor sax
Sammy Davis Jr / Sammy Davis Jr Sings What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers / A Lot of Livin' to Do / Reprise / LA 7.18.61 / with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / A Lot of Livin' to Do / Blue Note / 1.13.67
Sergio Mendes / The Great Arrival / Girl Talk / Atlantic / Hollywood 6.2.66
The Metronome All-Stars / Victory Ball / RCA Victor / 1.3.49
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Whistle While You Work / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
The Gates [aka The Golden Gate Quartet] / She's Gonna Ruin You, Buddy / Columbia / 1949
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / It Never Entered My Mind / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Pete's Alibi / Atlantic / LA 8.16.55
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Strange Again / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Chick Webb & his Orch / Liza / Decca / 11.37
Dixieaires / Until You Say You Are Mine / Continental / 1948
Danny Kaye / For Children / Laugh It Off Upsy Daisy / Decca / LA c. 1956 / duet with his daughter Dena
Mel Tormé / soundtrack to The Judy Garland Show, episode #2 / Don't Dream of Anybody But Me / LA 7.7.63 / with Count Basie & his Orch
Wingman Quartet / Shelter in the Time of Storm / Down Beat / late 1940s

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / Somebody New / Wand / 1965

A Foggy Playlist

Coffeetime, October 10, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59
James Clay & David "Fathead" Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / Figger-ation / Riverside / 4.26.60
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Ev'ry Day / live at the Cotton Club 5.15.38
Sydney Kyte & his Piccadilly Hotel Band / Me / Regal / 1931-32
Johnny Otis Band / Ain't Nothin' Shakin' / Savoy / LA 11.10.49 / vocal = Redd Lyte
Nancy Wilson / Broadway - My Way / You Can Have Him / Capitol / LA 1964

set 2
Bill Holman-Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / 502 Blues Theme / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Jimmy Hamilton / Can't Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Erskine Butterfield / Boogie Woogie Barcarolle / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / You Set Me on Fire / 1.31.39 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Judy Garland / Get Happy / soundtrack to MGM film Summer Stock / Hollywood 3.15.50 / with the MGM Studio Chorus and orch arranged & conducted by Lloyd "Skip" Martin
The Dells / Dreams of Contentment / Vee Jay / Chicago 9.15.55

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Behind the 8 Ball / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / Live at El Matador / Favela / Fantasy / LA 1966
Fats Navarro / Barry's Bop / Savoy / 12.5.47
Babs & her Brothers / Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town / Decca / 12.4.35
The Three Barons [aka The Three Riffs] / Poor Butterfly / Savoy / 11.3.44
Les McCann / Sings / Please Send Me Someone to Love / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orch arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson

set 4
Jack Marshall & Shelly Manne / Sounds! / Am I Blue? / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Louis Bellson & his Orch / Pearl Bailey + Louis Bellson = Happy Sounds / A Foggy Day / Roulette / 1962
Django Reinhardt / Beyond the Sea / Bluebird / Rome early 1949
King Cole Trio / Laura / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44
Ike & Tina Turner / Hard Times / Kent / 1964
Swan Silvertones / Is God Satisfied with Me? / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

last soul song
The Gentleman Four / You Can't Keep a Good Man Down / Wand / LA 1966

Wrap Your Playlist in Dreams

Coffeetime, October 3, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Compulsion / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17.60
Roy Haynes / We Three / Reflection / New Jazz / 8.14.58
Benny Carter / Aspects / Something for October / United Artists / LA late summer 1958
Don Redman & his Orch / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
Gertrude Lawrence / Do Do Do / Decca / 10.29.26
Geraldo & his Orch / All Through the Day / Parlophone / London 7.24.46 / vocal = Sally Douglas
Dinah Washington / A Stranger on Earth / The Man that Got Away / Roulette / 5.9.62

set 2
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Trane Whistle / You are Too Beautiful / Prestige / 9.20.60
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Intermezzo / Mercury / 1959
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / I Got Rhythm / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Georgia Jumpers / The Big Feet Rag / Columbia / 1931
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / Sugar Blues / Victor / Camden 3.27.31
Bing Crosby / An Apple for the Teacher / Decca / LA 6.22.39 / duet with Connee Boswell, with John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Ruby & the Romantics / Till Then / What a Difference a Day Made / Kapp / 1963

set 3
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite! / Wrap Your Trouble in Dreams / Verve / 2.20.59
Johnny Mandel / soundtrack to Harper / Harper's Ferry / Mainstream / Hollywood 1966
Don Byas / Slammin' Around / Paris 8.30.45
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Always and Always / RCA Victor / 3.9.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Warren Suttles & The Dreamers / These Things I Miss / Jubilee / 3.51
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / It's Bad for Me / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / Rugolomania / 4:20 AM / Columbia / LA 5.10, 10.11.54 & 2.22-23.55
Barney Kessel / Carmen / Swingin' the Toreador / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
The Dreamers / Music'll Chase Your Blues Away / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Ray Charles / Dedicated to You / Margie / ABC-Paramount / 1961
Morgana King / Wild is Love! / You Fascinate Me So / Reprise / LA 1966
Sensational Prodigal Sons / I Found the Lord / Dayco / late 1960s

last soul song
The Van Dykes / I Won't Hold It Against You / Mala / 12.65