Friday, June 12, 2009

Playlist is Just a Gamble



Coffeetime, June 12, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Joe Wilder / Jazz from Peter Gunn / Not from Dixie / Columbia / 1959
Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / Sleep Talk / Bethlehem / 6.13.60
Red Garland / High Pressure / Two Bass Hit / Prestige / 12.13.57
Benny Goodman Quartet / Avalon / Bluebird / Hollywood 7.30.37
Noel Coward / Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun? / HMV / London 7.28.41
The Ray-O-Vacs / Start Lovin' Me / I Still Love You / Decca / 1.50
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / All My Tomorrows / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Time on My Hands / Verve / 10.15.57
Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / Love Letters / Argo [Cadet] / 6.7.63
Hank Jones / Porgy & Bess / I Can't Sit Down / Capitol / late 1958
Louis de Vries / Oh! You Sweet Thing / Decca / Amsterdam 8.13.35
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / You're in the Army Now / radio transcription, AFRS show Showtime / 1944
Amos Milburn / Anybody's Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.18.47
The Ink Spots / Spotlight on the Ink Spots / Life is Just a Gamble / Design / 1959

set 3
Shelly Manne & his Men / score to film The Proper Time / Drum Solo & Blues Theme from The Proper Time / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60
Ike Quebec / But Not for Me / Blue Note / 2.5, 13.62
Eddy Howard & his Orch / You're Getting to be a Habit with Me / radio broadcast transcription / 1948
The Five Jones Boys / Lulu / movie soundtrack from The Big Show / Hollywood 1936
Earl Coleman with Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56

set 4
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / The Lady is a Tramp / Contemporary / 1962
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Rose Bud / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orch / Georgia On My Mind / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Little Esther / You Can Bet Your Life I Do / Savoy / 5.2.56
Anthony Newley / The Genius of Anthony Newley / You Are Too Beautiful / London / 1966
Jubalaires / Noah / soundie / 1946

last soul song
The Five Stairsteps / Change of Pace / Windy C / 1967

Friday, June 05, 2009

I, The Living Playlist

Coffeetime, June 5, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars / Reggie of Chester / Liberty / LA 2.27.57
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Can't We Be Friends / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Ernie Henry / Lasts Chorus / Melba's Tune / Riverside / 9.15.57
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Swingin' for a Swiss Miss / Pathé Marconi / Paris / 10.18.36
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Not a Cloud in the Sky / Brunswick / 1930 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Paul Gayten & his Trio / Creole Gal / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1949
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

set 2
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Day Dream / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Mule / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Polka Dots & Moonbeams / radio transcription / 1947
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = The Three Jokers [aka Eddy Howard, Stan Noonan, Ronnie Kemper]
Alice Faye / There's a Lull in My Life / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie Wake Up and Live / Hollywood 1937
Charlie White & the Playboys [aka The Clovers] / Good Golly Miss Molly / Cat / 12.9.54
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55

set 3
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / Father Time / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Teddy Charles / Collaboration West / Étudiez le Cahier / Prestige / Hollywood 8.21.53
Johnny Hodges & his Orch / [Castle Rock] / Sideways / Clef [Verve ]/ 1.13.52
Mills Brothers / You Rascal, You / Decca / 1931
Erskine Hawkins & his Orch / "I", The Living "I" / Bluebird / 4.8.39 / vocal = Ida James
Danny Kaye / Danny Kaye / Turn Around / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 1963

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / … And Friends / Star Song / Fantasy / LA 1963
Count Basie & his Orch / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! / Together Again / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62
Dave Bartholomew & his Orch / Stormy Weather / King / New Orleans 1.22.52
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / It Hurts to Be Alone / Studio One / Jamaica mid-1960s
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / Let's Love (Si Tu M'emportes) / Reprise / LA 1965
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Sinking Sand / Vee Jay / 1959

last soul song
Bobby Womack / soundtrack to Across 110th Street / Quicksand / UA / LA 1972
or
Barbara Lewis / Workin' on a Groovy Thing / Love Makes the World Go 'Round / Atlantic / Chicago 1968