Friday, November 20, 2009

The Playlist with the Flaxen Hair



Coffeetime, November 20, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Stix Trix / Riverside / 2.25.58
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin' / Let Me Know / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Ev'ry Day / live at the Cotton Club 5.15.38
Ambrose & his Orch / Down on Jollity Farm / Decca / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 11.23.29 / vocal = unknown
Timmie Rogers & Excelsior Hep Cats / Bring Enough Clothes / Excelsior / LA 1945
Ramp Davis & his Lower Rampart Street Boys / Rampart Street Blues / Modern [unissued] / LA 1951
Mabel Mercer / Merely Marvelous / I Walk a Little Faster / Atlantic / 1.11.60 / with The Jimmy Lyon Trio

set 2
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / The Maid with the Flaxen Hair / Roost / 3.18.57
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / 'Tis Autumn / Prestige / 11.27.58
Count Basie / This Time by Basie! / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Reprise / LA 1960
Savoy Orpheans / Hang on to Me / Bluebird / Savoy Hotel, London 3.19.26
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Boo Boo Boo / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Du Droppers / Drink Up / RCA [unissued] / 12.30.53
The King Sisters / Aloha / My Little Grass Shack / Capitol / Hollywood 10.11.56

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Dee Dee / Bethlehem / 12.60
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Tab Smith & his Orch / Tab Steps Out / Regis / Chicago c. 2.45
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Where in the World / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
Dixieaires / Long Lean and Lanky / Gotham / 1948
Buddy Greco / Big Bands & Ballads / Girl Talk / Reprise / LA 1968

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Nevertheless / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Quincy Jones / soundtrack to The Pawnbroker / End Title / Mercury / 2.20.65
King Cole Trio / Those Things Money Can't Buy / radio transcription, King Cole Trio Time, AFRS edition / 12.6.47 / plus Duke Ellington piano solo on Variations on Mood Indigo
Lavern Baker / See See Rider / Atlantic / 9.26.62
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ Just a Boy and Girl in Love / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Ananias / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soul song
The Manhattans / I'm the One that Love Forgot / Carnival Records / 1965