The Modern Sound of Mr Playlist

Coffeetime, April 24, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / Ladders / Prestige /1.13.56 / with wacky cover design by Gil Melle
Dizzy Reece / Soundin' Off / Once in a While / Blue Note / 5.12.60
Dick McDonough Orch / Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea / early 1937
Johnny Marvin / Little By Little / Victor / 8.3.29 / with the Victor Orch directed by Leonard Joy
Ethel Waters / Don't Blame Me / Decca / 7.18.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
Dave Young / Drinking Ink Splink / Aristocrat / Chicago 1947
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / Trust in Me / Capitol / LA 1957

set 2
Dizzy Reece Group / Ballad medley: Together; Darn That Dream; I Surrender, Dear; I've Lost Your Love / Tempo / London 1.3.57
The Ramblers Dance Orch / White Heat / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, The Netherlands 8.22.34
Ella Fitzgerald with the Mills Brothers / I Gotta Have My Baby Back / Decca / 1949
Pat Flowers & his Rhythm / How Many Kisses / Victor / 6.4.47
Eddy Howard & his Orch / Nice Work If You Can Get It / radio broadcast transcription / 1948
Mabel Scott / Mister Fine / Parrot / Chicago c. 8.53

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Jimmy Smith's House Party / Blues After All / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Ring Dem Bells / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Don Byas / Rosetta / Prestige / Paris 12.4.46
Jack Teagarden / Especially for You / Brunswick / Chicago 6.23.39 / vocal = Linda Keene
Basin Street Boys / Satchelmouth Baby / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orch
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, vol 1 / Isn't This a Lovely Day? / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Sugar / Fantasy / 1957
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Sergical / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging "Guys and Dolls" / Guys and Dolls / Columbia / 10.19.59
Billie Holiday & her Orch / Trav'lin' All Alone / Vocalion / 9.13.37
Tommy Ridgley / Three Times / Ric / New Orleans spring 1961
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Mister Kicks / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64
Golden Gate Quartet /Job / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last (soulful) song
Classics IV / Spooky / Mary, Mary Row Your Boat / Imperial / LA 1968

Tip-Toe through the Playlist with Me

Coffeetime, April 17, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin' Up Up Up / Asiatic Raes / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / Londonderry Air / Riverside / 12.7.60
Pete Johnson / Boogie Woogie on St Louis Blues / film soundtrack / c. 1947
Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers / Aunt Jemima Stomp / Brunswick / Chicago /3.15.29
Ambrose & his Orch / Tip-Toe through the Tulips with Me / Decca / Liverpool & Victoria Hall, London 12.31.29 / vocal = unknown
La Verne Ray / Drunk, That's Alll / Jubilee [unissued alt take] / 2.1.50 / with the Rene Hall Sextet
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / I Had the Craziest Dream / Columbia / LA 1958

set 2
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / God Bless the Child / Blue Note / 1.13.67
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / How Deep is the Ocean / Prestige / 5.25.59
Martha Davis and Spouse [Cal Ponder] / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Jitterbug Waltz / ABC-Paramount / mid-1950s
Oscar Aleman / Jeepers Creepers / Disques Swing / Paris 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers
Hoagy Carmichael / Riverboat Shuffle / radio broadcast, The Hoagy Carmichael Show / 12.10.44
Ella Johnson / If You Would Only Say You're Sorry / Mercury / 2.11.55
Ray Charles / Dedicated to You / Marie / ABC-Paramount / 1961

set 3
Chet Baker / Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Willow Weep for Me / Mercury / LA 1959
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Tatoe Pie / Black & White / LA 12.47
The 4 Vagabonds / I Had the Craziest Dream / Bluebird / 1.15.43
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Don't Kick It Around / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Some Other Spring / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Don't Worry 'Bout Me / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / The Swingin' Sound / Wait for Me / Signature / 1959
Georgie Auld / I've Got You Under My Skin / I've Got You Under My Skin / Decca / 1956
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Boulevard of Broken Dreams / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Deane Janis
BB King / I Can't Lose / Kent / 1962
Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Rocks in My Bed / Vee-Jay / 1964
Capitol City Quartette / No Jim Crow in Heaven / Apex [Gotham] / c. 1950

last soul song
Cliff Nobles / Love is All Right / Phil L.A. of Soul / 1968

Beautiful Moons Playlist

Coffeetime, April 10, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Lion's Den / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet / Assunta / Savoy / 10.18.61
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Moten Swing / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937
The Savoy Orpheans / Tell Me More / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex 6.9.25 / vocal = Cyril Ramon Newton
Jack Teagarden / Class Will Tell / Brunswick / 4.14.39
The Flamingos / Blues in a Letter / Chance / Chicago 1952
Dinah Washington / Dinah / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / 11.11.55

set 2
Art Farmer / Portrait of Art Farmer / The Very Thought of You / Contemporary / 4.19.58
Quincy Jones & his Orch / Explores Music of Henry Mancini / Dreamsville / Mercury / 2.5.64
Eddie South / Sentimental Rhapsody / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1956
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson / Charmaine / radio broadcast / Apollo Theater c. 1952
Mildred Bailey / Please Be Kind / Columbia / 2.10.38 / with Red Norvo & his Orch
Gene Sedric Orch / Music to My Sorrow / Harmonia / 8.46
Les McCann / Comment / What I Call Soul / Atlantic / 1970

set 3
Laurindo Almeida / Laurindo Almeida Quartet, volume 2 [Brazilliance] / Speak Low / Pacific Jazz / LA 1953
Freddy Redd / San Francisco Suite / Old Man River / Riverside / 10.2.57
Shorty Sherock / Jazz at the Philharmonic, vol 2 / Bugle Call Rag / Clef / 7.2.44
The Three Keys / Heebie Jeebies / Vocalion / 8.16.33
Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes / Time Out for Tears /Manor / 6.47
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / There's a Small Hotel / MGM / 1962

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Body and Soul / RCA Victor / 10.2.61
Oscar Moore / Beautiful Moons Ago & Too Marvelous for Words / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / vocal on Marvelous = Inez Jones
Kay Starr / There's a Lull in My Life / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Long John Hunter / Stop What You're Doing / Yucca / Alamogordo, NM early 1960s
Jackie De Shannon / For You / If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody / Imperial / LA 1967
The Zion Travelers / Packing Up / Dooto / 1962

last soul song
Eddie Floyd / Knock on Wood / I Stand Accused / Stax / Memphis 12.27.66

Wrap Your Playlist in Rhythm and Dance

Coffeetime, April 3, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Philly Joe Jones / Philly Joe's Beat / Muse Rapture / Atlantic / 1960
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That's Right! / Tadd / Riverside / 8.9.60
Erskine Butterfield / Part-Time Boogie / Davis / 6.13.56
Freddie Rich & his Orch / Dixie Jamboree / radio transcription, Fred's Friendly Five / fall 1931
Robert Carr [aka Ernest Gray] / Stand to Your Post / Edison Bell / 5.12
Baby Doll & Her Royal Swingsters [aka Thelma (Dolly) Cooper / Talk to Me Daddy / Coleman / late 1940s
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / He's My Guy / Capitol / Hollywood 7.57

set 2
Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / Larue / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Memorial Album / Easy Living / Blue Note / 8.28.53
Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / Petite Fantasy (Slightly Out) / Somerset / 1960
Benny Carter & his Orch / Boogie Woogie Sugar Blues / Decca / 10.23.40
Nicholas Brothers / Wrap Your Cares in Rhythm and Dance / Decca / 12.6.37
Chuck Willis / It Ain't Right To / Okeh / 1.26.51
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party/ Coffee Break / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Soul Battle / Blues for Mr. F (Mort Fega) / Prestige / 9.9.60
Freddie Mitchell & his Orch / Pony Express / Derby /1949
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / What Is This Thing Called Love? / RCA Victor / 8.19.41 / vocal = Connie Haines
The Four Vagabonds / Mighty Hard to Go Through Life Alone / Miracle / summer 1949
Martha Raye / Honeysuckle Rose / AFRS Swingtime / Hollywood 1944
Bobby Darin / Oh! Look at Me Now / My Buddy / Capitol / LA 1962

set 4
Howard McGhee / Maggie's Back in Town!! / Softly , As in a Morning Sunrise / Contemporary / LA 6.26.61
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / A Parable / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1955
King Cole Trio / I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44
Charles King / Broadway Melody / soundtrack to MGM movie Broadway Melody / Hollywood 1929
Maxine Sullivan / I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair / 3.20.39 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Nega Manhosa / RCA Victor / 1950s-early 60s
The Pilgrim Travelers / Nothing Can Change Me (Since I Found the Lord) / Specialty / Hollywood / 7.22.48

last soul song
Tommie Young / She Don't Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power / Shreveport 1972