Monday, July 28, 2008

Friday, July 18, 2008

If My Playlist Could Only Talk

Coffeetime, July 18, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Doin' Allright / It's You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Barry Harris / Preminado / My Heart Stood Still / Riverside / 12.21.60
Flip Phillips / Swinging with Flip Phillips & his Orch / Singing in the Rain / Clef / 3.21.52
Phil Harris / I Got the Ritz from the One I Love (I Got the Big Go-By) / Victor / San Francisco 10.13.31 / with the Lofner-Harris St Francis Hotel Orch
The Charioteers / Bagel and Lox / Columbia / 8.6.46
Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy / Homecoming Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 12.27.47
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orch

set 2
Junior Cook / Junior's Cookin' / Easy Living / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / My Old Flame / Riverside / 5.27.57
John Kirby & his Orch / Tunisian Trail / V-Disc / early 11.43
Billie Holiday & her Orch / If My Heart Could Only Talk / Vocalion / 1.12.37
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Ain't Gonna Study War No More / radio transcription / 6.19.40 / vocal = Dandridge Sisters & Lunceford Quartet
Pee Wee Crayton / The Telephone is Ringing / Vee Jay / Chicago 9.7.56

set 3
Harold Mabern / Workin' & Wailin' / Strozier's Mode / Prestige / 6.30.69
Joe Thomas / Buttons / King / 4.26.51
The Five Breezes / Sweet Louise / Bluebird? / Chicago 11.15.40
Peggy Lee / Ask Anyone Who Knows / transcription (radio show) / Hollywood 7.27.47 / with Dave Barbour Orch; intro with Woody Herman
Sammy Davis Jr / California Suite / Willow Road / Reprise / LA late 1963 arranged by Marty Paich

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa / 2.20.57
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Confirmation / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57 /
Harmony Hawaiians / Hula Hula Hula / Hollywood fall 1944
Russ Morgan & his Orch / Joseph, Joseph / Brunswick / 3.10.38 / vocal = Carolyn Clarke
Bobby Blue Bland / I'm Not Ashamed / Duke / 1959
Tom Jones / Live Caesars Palace / She's a Lady / Parrot / Las Vegas 1971
The Alphabetical Four / What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Decca / 8.16.38

last soul song
Tavares / Check It Out / Capitol / 1974

Friday, July 11, 2008

Playlist on a Log



Coffeetime, July 11, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / Upptankt / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / B and B / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Benny Morton's All Stars / The Sheik of Araby / Blue Note / 1.31.45
Greta Keller / I Never Had a Chance / London 9.34 / with Fred Hartley & his Quintet
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / How High Am I? / V-Disc #376 / Hollywood 4.3.44
Johnny Otis Band / New Love / Savoy / LA 1.10.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Dinah Washington / I Concentrate on You / Mercury / 1.11.55 / with Hal Mooney Orch

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Into Something / You've Changed / New Jazz / 12.29.61
Sam Jones / The Chant (Sam Jones Plus 10) / Over the Rainbow / Riverside / 1.26.61
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Circus in Rhythm (original take 2) / Savoy / 4.18.44 / with Earl Warren & his Orch
Josephine Baker & the Comedian Harmonists / Sous le ciel d'afrique / Paris 1935
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP "Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production"] / Crazy Rhythm / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson ("dance effects & songs") & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
T-Bone Walker / Hypin' Woman Blues / Capitol / LA 11.7.47
Dean Martin / French Style / The Poor People of Paris / Reprise / LA 1962

set 3
Sahib Shihab / Summer Dawn / Please Don't Leave Me / Argo / Cologne, 5.8-9.63
Charlie Parker Septet / Yardbird Suite / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46
Adrian Rollini Quintette / Josephine / Decca / 12.4.36 / vocal = Sonny Schuyler
The Carols / Fifty Million Women / Savoy / Detroit 4.27.53 / with TJ Fowler Band
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Willow Weep for Me / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 4
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Don Juan / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
Shelly Manne & His Men / Swinging Sounds / Bernie's Tune / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56
Mae West / Paramount film I'm No Angel / I Found a New Way to Go to Town / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.3.33
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Bump on a Log / King / Cincinnati 2.6.54
Rick Nelson / soundtrack to ABC TV production, On the Flip Side / It Doesn't Matter Anymore / Decca / LA 12.66
The Soul Stirrers / I'm Gonna Move in the Room with the Lord / Specialty / Hollywood 1.28.50

last soul song
Marlena Shaw / Spice of Life / Liberation Conversation / Cadet / 1969



Friday, July 04, 2008

Playlist on Parade



Coffeetime, July 4, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Midnight Session / Potpourri / Savoy / 3.8-9.57
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Blue Gwynn / Riverside / 5.11.59
Beech-Nut Coffee-break musical interlude / EP of radio drop-in commercials for Beech-Nut coffee [["produced by Cummings Productions for Charles W. Hoyt Co."] / early 1950s (?)
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / Fun to Be Fooled / Victor / 7.13.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Mills Brothers / Tiger Rag / Brunswick / 11.5.31
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Rain-Check / RCA Victor / LA 1950
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Sing / Chicago 2.59

set 2
Ike Quebec / With a Song in My Heart / Imagination / Blue Note / 2.13.62
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Riverside / 7.22.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice 'Pres' / I'll Always Be in Love with You / EmArcy / 1.30.52
Don Redman & his Orch / It's a Great World After All / 6.28.32
Gene Krupa & is Orch / Harlem on Parade / Okeh / 1.23.42 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Paramount movie Holiday Inn / Song of Freedom / transcription / Hollywood spring 1942
The Ravens / The House I Live In / Savoy [National] / spring 1948

set 3
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Moment's Notice / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Art Blakey's Messengers / Musa's Vision / Blue Note / 12.27.47
Benny Carter & his Orch / Your Conscience Tells You So / Deluxe / 8.46 / vocal = Lucy Elliott
The Basin Street Boys / Josephine / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
The Larks / Lucy Brown / Apollo / 3.27.51
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Cannonball Adderley / The CA Quintet at the Lighthouse / Big "P" / Riverside / Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach 10.16.60
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / Dancin' Pants / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / I Shouldn't Cry But I Do / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson
Frank Sinatra / from the US Treasury Department radio show #5, Music for Millions / Buy a Piece of the Peace / 9.9.45
Bobby Darin / That's All / unaired BBC tv show / London Palladium 7.26.67
The Colemanaires / I Cannot Understand It / Apollo / mid-1950s

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967