Friday, September 25, 2009

You Keep Coming Back Like a Playlist



Coffeetime, September 25, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Love Me or Levey / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56
Charlie Mariano / Johnny One Note / Bethlehem / 7.11.55
Count Basie & his Orch / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! /Skippin' with Skitch / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62
Freddie Rich & his Orch / Some of These Days / CBS radio transcription, Fred's Friendly Five / fall 1931 / announcer = David Ross
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Blues for What I've Never Had / RCA Victor / LA 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Cupid / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / September Song / Jubilee / 1962
Teddy Charles / Flyin' Home: Salute to Hamp / He's Gone Again / Bethlehem / 1958
Johnny Otis Band /Harlem Nocturne / radio transcription / live Apollo Theater 12.1.52 / announcer = Lucky Millinder, featuring Freddy Ford on alto
The Ramblers Dance Orch / What Harlem Is to Me / Decca / Amsterdam 8.26.35 / announcer = Coleman Hawkins
Spirits of Rhythm / I've Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 9.20.33
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / You Keep Coming Back Like a Song / Hollywood August to November 1945
Pee Wee Crayton / My Idea About You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55
Lee Andrews & the Hearts / The Clock / Main Line / 6.57

set 3
Sonny Criss / Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) / Ballad for Samuel / Prestige / LA 5.8.68
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / I Got a Crush on You / Savoy / 11.11.55
Teddy Edwards / Steady with Teddy / Rex /LA 7.47
Maxine Sullivan / If I Had a Ribbon Bow / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orch
Basin Street Boys / Vootnay on the Votnay / Exclusive / LA circa 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Teddy Edwards / Sunset Eyes / Takin' Off / Pacific Jazz / LA 8.16.60
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of "Things to Come" / Thinking of Russ / Liberty / LA 9.55
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / When Lights Are Low / Victor / 9.11.39
Nat Gonella / Moon Country (Is Home to Me) / Decca / 7.2.34
Jackie Wilson / It's All a Part of Love / People / Brunswick / 1970
Christland Singers / Someday, Somewhere / Peacock / Houston 1953

last soul song
Betty Wrigth / Pure Love / Alston / 1970

Friday, September 18, 2009

Vamo A Playlist A The Annex

The Annex, September 18, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Noro Morales & his Orch / Lecouna's Afro-Cuban Suite / Vik (RCA Victor) / 5.6, 7, & 10.57

set 1
Beny Moré / Dolor Carabali / RCA Victor
Celio Gonzalez & La Sonora Mantancera / Totico Tuyo / Seeco
Perez Prado / "Prez" / Come Back to Sorrento (Torna a Sorrento) / RCA Victor / 1958
Arsenio Rodríguez / Burundanga
Los Cariñosos / Vamo A Cuba / Vamo A Cuba / Vik (RCA Victor)
Arsenio Rodríguez / Todos Seguimos la Conga
Los Cariñosos / Vamo A Cuba / Los Cadetes / Vik (RCA Victor)
Desi Arnaz & his Orch / Babalu

set 2
Miguelito Valdés & Noro Morales & his Orch / Oh, Me Tambó!
El Borinquen Orch / Cha-Cha & Mambo / By Candlelight / Paris / 1956
Celia Cruz / La Merenguita
Elena Madera / La Voz de Pasíon / Quisiera Saber / Decca with orch conducted by Johnny Conquet
Gina Léon / Aléjate
Alberto Socarras / Latin Impressions / Hindustan / Decca
Trîo Servando Díaz / La Jícara / radio transcription
René Touzet / Mr. Cha Cha Cha / Mi Guaguanco / GNP / live, Crecendo, Hollywood

last song
Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor

You're Such a Beautiful Playlist

Coffeetime, September 18, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Further Explorations / The Outlaw / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Art Farmer / Meet the Jazztet / Avalon / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60
Bob Zurke & his Delta Rhythm Band / [Tom Cat on the Keys] / Tea for Two / RCA Victor / 1.18.40 [1955]
Maynard Baird & his Southern Serenaders / Postage Stamp / Vocalion / Knoxville, Tenn 4.7.30
Jack Buchanan & his Orch / Everything Stops for Tea / HMV / London 1.19.36
Roy Eldridge & his Orch / Where the Lazy River Goes By / Vocalion / Chicago 1.28.37 / vocal = Gladys Palmer
Tommy Brown / Double Faced Deacon / Savoy / 1.24.51 / with the Griffin Brothers
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / 'Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966

set 2
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Lonely Woman / Why Are You Blue? / Atlantic / 1962
Johnny Otis & his Orch / Stardust / Mercury / LA 12.26.51
The Three Blazers / Fugue in C Major / Atlas / Hollywood 1945
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / High Fever / Victor / Chicago 12.8.26
Johnny Mercer / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Capital / Hollywood 7.31.42 / with Freddie Slack & his Orch
Jo Stafford / I Got the Sun in the Morning / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #332 / Hollywood 3.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orch and introduced by Dick Haymes
Clarence Cooper / [Folk, Pops 'n Jazz Sampler ] / 900 Miles / Elektra / [1957] 1955

set 3
Harold Mabern / Workin' & Wailin' / Waltzing Westward / Prestige / 6.30.69
Vido Musso's All Stars / Moose on the Loose / Savoy / 2.25.46
The Five Breezes / Minute and Hour Blues / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Chuck Foster & his Orch / Sunshine of My Heart / transcription / Chicago 1940 / vocal = Dorothy Brandon
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Theme Two: Autobiography of a Musician, Bongo Blues / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Jack Marshall & Shelly Manne / Sounds! / A Day in Brazil -- Medley / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Poeme / Contemporary / LA 1.26.57
Dizzy Gillespie / He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped / Allegro Elite (RCA) / 7.9.46 / vocal = Alice Roberts
Frankie Laine & the Four Lads / Juba-Juba-Jubalee / Columbia / 1954
The Jubilee Hummingbirds / Jesus Will Fix It / Chalice [unissued] / 1960s

last soul song
Jerry Butler / What Do You Do on a Sunday Afternoon / Mercury / 1973

Friday, September 11, 2009

You and the Night and the Playlist

Coffeetime, September 11, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
JJ Johnson / Dial JJ 5 / Old Devil Moon / Columbia / 5.14.57
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Action / Riverside /1.31.58 http://www.jazzdisco.org/kelly/dis/c/#580131
The Plantation Orch aka Pike Davies Orchestra / Silver Rose (Blackbirds of 1926) / Columbia / London 12.1.26
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / Turn on the Heat / Okeh / 10.10.29
The 5 Royales / I'm Gonna Run It Down /King / Cincinnati 6.54
Toni Harper / Toni / Little Girl Blue / Verve / LA 1.3.56

set 2
Booker Ervin / Cookin' / You Don't Know What Love Is / Savoy / 11.26.60
Ronnie Mathews / Doin' the Thang! / Prelude to a Kiss / Prestige / 12.17.63
The Ramblers Dance Orch / Erratic Rhythm / Decca / London 11.9.32
Johnnie "Geechie" Temple / Fix It Up and Go / Decca / 9.23.40
Hadda Brooks & Ebonaires / Bewildered / Modern / LA 1949
Paul Gayten & his Orch / Goodnight, Irene / Regal / 10.50 / with the Coleman Brothers
Burt Bacharach / Living Together / Reflections / A&M / Hollywood 1973

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I'm Movin' On / T'Ain't No Use / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Stan Getz / Getz/Gilberto #2 / Stan's Blues / Verve / live Carnegie Hall 10.9.64
Charlie Parker / Jazz Perennial / Cardboard / Norgran [Verve] / spring 49
Charioteers / Swing Madness / Columbia / early 1940s
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Orch / There Won't Be a Shortage of Love / V-Disc / 2.42 http://www.petersando.com/dollyd.html
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette / When the Sun Comes Out / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57
The Five / Forelock / RCA Victor / LA 1955
Pleasant Joseph aka Cousin Joe / Boogie Woogie Hannah / Savoy / 1.13.46
Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor / 1950s
Mary Love / Is That You / Modern / LA 1967 / duet with Arthur Adams
Hightower Brothers / Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville 1962?

last soul song
The Chi-Lites / A Letter to Myself / Could It Be I'm Falling in Love / Brunswick / 1973

Friday, September 04, 2009

All God's Children Got Playlist

Coffeetime, September 4, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Take Aim / As You Like It / Blue Note / LA 7.25.60
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford Orch in Hi Fi / Not So Sleepy / ABC-Paramount / 6.12.56
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Liebestraum / Victor / 2.18.37
Lew Stone & his Band / Tina / Regal-Zonophone / London 1934 / vocal = Sam Browne?
Lavaida Carter / Dixie Isn't Dixie Any More (Blackbirds of 1936) / HMV / London 9.15.36
Amos Milburn / Amos Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.12.46
Peggy Lee / Rendezvous with Peggy Lee / Stormy Weather / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.48

set 2
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Street of Dreams / Bethlehem / 3.17 & 18.55
Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / I'm Just a Lucky So and So / World Pacific / LA 1959
Orchestre Typique Cubain Sous la Direction du Maestro Castellanos / Bruno Zayas / Odeon / Paris, circa 11 or 12.30
Fats Waller / Valentine Stomp / Victor / 8.2.29
Bing Crosby / My Kinda Love / Okeh / 1.26.29 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
Harlem Stars (Big Mama Thornton) / Bad Luck Got My Man / E&W Records / Houston late 40s
George Sanders / The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady / September Song / ABC-Paramount / LA 1958

set 3
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Rock Bottom / Impulse! / LA 3.4.66
Phineas Newborn, Jr / Fabulous Phineas / What's New? / RCA Victor / 3.28 & 4.3.58
Fats Navarro / Nostalgia / Be Bop Romp / Savoy / 12.5.47
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Little Things that Mean So Much / Columbia / 9.12.39 / vocal = Jean Eldridge
The Counts & the Countess / Ride, Red, Ride / Melodisc / 1945
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / You Are Too Beautiful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Moon River / Capitol / LA 9.62
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / A Foggy Day / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
Maynard Ferguson / Dimensions / All God's Children Got Rhythm / EmArcy / 2.19.54
Danny Kaye / South Pacific / Honey Bun / Decca / Hollywood 4.18.49
Walter Huston / from movie"Knickerbocker Holiday" / September / United Artists / Hollywood 1944
Marie Knight / Cry Me a River / Musicor / 1965
Soul Stirrers / Be with Me Jesus / Specialty / Chicago 2.16.55

last soul song
Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / One Hand Washes the Other / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1 &2.70