An Earful of Playlist

Coffeetime, August 28, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Mamma-Daddy / Riverside / 10.16.57
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Red Cross / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56
Sauter-Finegan Orch / Sauter-Finegan Memories of Goodman and Miller / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / RCA Victor / 1958 / arranged by Bill Finegan
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #5 / Taboo / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Little Jack Little / I'm Going Shopping with You / Columbia / 1.8.35
Lil Green / Outside of That / RCA Victor / Chicago 5.8.47
Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / Downhearted Blues / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / All My Yesterdays / Blue Note / 12.1.67
Mal Waldren / The Quest / Warm Canto / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Bill Coleman & his Orch / Rose Room / Columbia / Paris 11.12.37
Cab Calloway & his Orch / Tu Me Enseñaste A Querer (I Learned about Love from Her) / Victor / 12.19.33
Bonnie Lake & the King Cole Trio / Harlem Swing / transcription / LA 1.14.39
Mabel Scott / Disgusted / Exclusive / Chicago 1949-50
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / Stranger in Paradise / Mercury / 1960

set 3
Cedar Walton / Spectrum / Days of Wine and Roses / Prestige / 5.24.68
Morris Lane / Luke the Spook / Savoy / 1.24.47
Mills Brothers / And the Angels Sing / Decca / West Hempstead, England 8.17.39
Harry James & his Orch / It's Been So Long / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / East of the Sun / Dot / 5.12, 13, 15.58 / vocal = Sy Oliver with the Jerry Duane Singers

set 4
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Smile / Mercury / 1959
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / The Puritan / Dawn / 1956
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Rainbow Dreams / Parlophone / 3.29.28
Ethel Merman / An Earful of Music [from the Samuel L. Goldwyn movie Kid Millions] / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.8.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / The Good Life / Reprise / LA 1964
Little Milton / Blues 'n' Soul / Sweet Woman of Mine / Stax / Memphis / 1974
Morning Echoes / I'm Singing, Lord / Nashboro ? / mid-1960s

last soul song
The Superbs / Baby's Gone Away / Dore / 1965

I'm Always Chasing Playlists

Coffeetime, August 21, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / Lights Out / Up / Prestige / 1.27.56
Barry Harris / Preminado / Preminado / Riverside / 12.21.60
Clifford Brown Big Band / All Weird / Vogue [Prestige] / Paris 10.11.53
Emil Coleman & his Riviera Orch / Let's Begin / Columbia / 11.14.33
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / Especially for You / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
Dinah Washington / A Cottage for Sale / EmArcy / 1.11.55 / with Hal Mooney Orch

set 2
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary / Monk's Mood / Time / 2.12.60
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds / Improvisation / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Jamaica, Shout / Brunswick / 9.27.34
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Perfect / Okeh / 10.21.27
Technical Sergeant Jack Leonard & his V-Disc Volunteers / Sleepy Time Gal / V-Disc / 1945
The Vagabonds aka The Four Vagabonds / I Guess I'm a Fool / Premium / 1950
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / I Always Shake the Tree / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman

set 3
Herbie Mann / Sound of Mann / Dearly Beloved / Verve / 5.5.60
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Please Send Me Someone to Love / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Eddie Davis Trio / Together / King / Cincinnati 8.16.55
The Ravens / I'm Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47
Herb Jeffries / I Left My Heart in Mississippi / V-Disc / LA 1945 / with Joe Liggins & the Honeydrippers
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
George Shearing & The Montgomery Brothers / Stranger in Paradise / Darn that Dream / LA 10.9-10.61
Russ Freeman - Bill Perkins Quartet / Jazz West Coast, vol III / Brother Can You Spare a Dime / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / Capitol [unissued] / LA 11.28.44
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / Lonesome Feelings / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s
The Pilgrim Travelers / After Awhile / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Hollywood 8.2.55

last soul song
Brother to Brother / The Affair / Turbo / 1974

The Night We Called It a Playlist

Coffeetime, August 14, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce /Modern Jazz Perspective / Social Call / Columbia / 8.30.57
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Hub Cap / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers / Thunder / Decca / Chicago 7.28.36
The Chocolate Dandies / Stardust / Columbia / 10.10.28
Fred Rich & His Orch / I'm Tickled Pink with a Blue-Eyed Baby / Columbia / 11.19.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Two-Timin' Baby Boogie / Exclusive / LA 2.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 1954

set 2
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Heleen / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61
Benny Golson / Free / My Romance / Argo / 12.26.62
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Guitar Jump / transcription / 1945
Les Paul Trio / Guitar Boogie / Decca / 1.9.47
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Wouldn't You / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
The Four Blackbirds / Black-Eyed Susan Brown / Vocalion [unissued] / 1934-35
Etta Jones / Blow Top Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orch
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do Ray Mi Trio / Blue Skies / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Yusef Lateef /Lost in Sound / Soul Blues / Charlie Parker Records / 1962
Johnny Smith / Phase II / Shiny Stockings / Verve / 11.13.68
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Mr. Drum Meets Mr. Piano / Savoy / 1.2.46 http://www.jazzdisco.org/savoy/1946-dis/c/#460126
Five Rocquettes / Reminiscing / Decca / 1941
Gene Krupa & his Orch / How Do? / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Matt Dennis / Plays & Sings / The Night We Called It a Day / Kapp / Tally-Ho Club, Hollywood 1954

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / Yardbird Suite / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Groovin' High / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Mickey Rooney, & Bill Lee / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 4.26 and 9.24.48 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Don't You Remember / Specialty / LA 2.15.50
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / There is a Time (Le Temps) / Reprise / LA 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Sampson / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soul song
Lulu / Stealing My Love from Me / soundtrack to To Sir with Love / Fontana / 1967

Kiss Crazy Playlist

Coffeetime, August 7, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Chet Baker / Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet / Cherokee /Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Yesterday's Gardenias / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Don Redman & his Orch / Margie / Bluebird / 12.6.38
Ray Miller Orch / That's My Girl / Victor / 3.25
Annette Hanshaw / You Wouldn't Fool Me Would You? / Columbia / 3.15.29
Margie Anderson / The Blues / The Thrill is Gone / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / late 50s, early 60s

set 2
Nat Adderley / "That's Nat" Adderley / You Better Go Now / Savoy / 7.26.55
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Rainy Night / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Larry Adler / medley from Follow the Fleet: I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket; I'd Rather Lead a Band; Let Yourself Go / Decca / London 3.36 / with Jay Wilbur & his band
Clayton, Jackson, and Durante [Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, and Lou Clayton] / Can Broadway Do without Me? / Columbia 5.9.29
Connee Boswell [Boswell Sisters] / I'm All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart / Brunswick / 8.28.31 / with Victor Young & his orch
Frank Sinatra / medley: I'll Be Seeing You; Paper Doll; Try a Little Tenderness; Somebody Loves Me; Where or When; Blue Skies / radio transcription from Songs by Sinatra, AFRS #22 / Hollywood 1.9.46
Delta Rhythm Boys / Kiss Crazy Baby / Decca / 8.26.54 / with Jimmy Leyden Orch

set 3
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / Blue Strollin' / Prestige / 5.25.59
Hank Jones / Porgy & Bess / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' / Capitol / late 1958 http://www.jazzdisco.org/elvin/cat/a/#581100
Charlie Parker / Perhaps (take 3) / Savoy / 9.24.48
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Swing Time Up in Harlem / Victor / Hollywood 10.16.40 / vocal = Connie Haines
The Bachelors / Yesterday's Roses / Mercury / 12.49 / lead vocal = Joe Van Loan
Anthony Newley / Tony / Who Can Say / London / 1961

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Star Big Band / Jazz Rolls Royce / Strike Up the Band / Phillips / UCLA 1957
Fats Waller / Down Home Blues / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / Oh Me! Oh My! / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson ("dance effects & songs") & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.6.65
The Zion Travelers / I Must Tell Jesus / Dooto / 1962

last soul song
Gladys Knight & the Pips / Neither One of Us / Don't It Make You Feel Guilty / Soul / Hollywood 1972