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Friday, February 27, 2009
Cast Your Playlist to the Wind
Coffeetime, February 27, 2009, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Donald Byrd / 2 Trumpets / Dig / Prestige / 8.3.56
J.C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Shake that Jelly Roll / Vocalion / Chicago 2.7.29
Ambrose & his Orch / My Lucky Star / Decca / Liverpool & Victoria Hall, London 10.7.29 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Eugenie Baird / Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington / Mood Indigo / Design / 1958
set 2
Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow [Booker Little and Friend] / If I Should Lose You / Bethlehem / fall 1961
John Coltrane / Lush Life / Like Someone in Love / Prestige / 8.16.57
Sil Austin / Plays Pretty for the People / Prisoner of Love / Mercury / 2.59
Don Byas / Melody in Swing / Super Disc / 9.12.45
Cleo Brown / The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow / Decca / 3.12.35
Ella Fitzergerald / Ella and Her Fellas / You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) / Decca / 1.18.46 / with Louis Armstrong and Bob Haggart Orch
Junior Parker / Driving Wheel / Duke / Memphis 1961
set 3
Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Cool / Verve / 3.28.63
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / Blue Moon / Jubilee / 1962
Joe Houston / Curfew / Combo / LA 1958
Bud Freeman & his Summa Cum Laude Orch / Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Alone / Decca / 9.26.40 / vocal = Teddy Grace
The Four Buddies / Moonlight in Your Eyes / Savoy [unissued] / 1.31.51
Buddy Greco / Hang You Hat at Mister Kelly's / Dancing on the Ceiling / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55
set 4
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Moon River / Fantasy / LA 1962
Skip Martin / TV soundtrack: The Music from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer / Lenox Avenue Strut / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1959
Bing Crosby / You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Brunswick / 1.12.33 / with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians, featuring Lebert Lombardo on trumpet
Johnny Otis Band / Wishing Well / Mercuryy / LA 1952 / vocal = Ada Wilson
Dean Martin / This Time I'm Swingin' [Dean Martin Deluxe] / On the Street Where You Live / Capitol [Pickwick] / Hollywood 1960
The Lynn Harmonizers / I Was Standing / Silver Cross / Boston 1963
last soul song
Denise LaSalle / Keep It Coming / Westbound / Detroit 1971