Friday, March 27, 2009

If Playlists Come True

Coffeetime, March 27, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
The Jazz Messengers / Hank's Symphony / Columbia / 5.4.56
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / I See You Face Before Me / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Cab Calloway & his Orch / Cruisin' with Cab / V-Disc [WEAF (NBC) radio broadcsst] / 9.18.44
Fred Rich & his Orch / Nobody But You / Columbia / 5.10.29 / vocal = The Rollickers
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You) / Decca / 1.24.41
The Larks / Ooh… It Feels So Good / Apollo / 3.27.51
Dakota Staton / Crazy He Calls Me / Crazy He Calls Me / Capitol / 1958

set 2
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / You Go to My Head / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56
Joe Newman / Joe Newman with Woodwinds / Time / Roulette / 1958
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / Yesterdays / Prestige / 4.18.61
The Ramblers / Ragging the Fiddle / Decca / London 5.23.33
Joe Haymes & his Orch / He's the Life of the Party / Bluebird / 5.4.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood & band
The Ink Spots / Do I Worry / Kraft Music Hall radio show broadcast transcription / 2.27.41 / with introduction by Bing Crosby
Frankie Laine / Rockin' / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Columbia / 1950

set 3
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Shangri-La / Somerset / LA 1965
Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Prisoner of Love / Verve / 1.13.56
Terry Gibbs / Terry's Tune / New Jazz / 3.14.49
The Five Cousins [Spirits of Rhythm] / Rhythm / Brunswick / 9.20.33
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Good for Nothin' But Love / Victor / 12.15.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Mel Tormé / The Tormé Touch / The Blues / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Cherokee / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / If Dreams Come True / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66
Pauline & her Perils [Six Hits and a Miss minus two Hits] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (a little celeste by Nat King Cole) and solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
The Cadillacs / Gloria / Josie / 6.54 / with Rene Hall's Combo
Sammy Davis Jr / Sammy (The Original Television Soundtrack) / The Birth of the Blues / MGM / London 9.73
Harmonizing Four / I Found the Lord / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soul song
The Gentlemen Four / It Won't Hurt / Wand / 1968