A blog companion to the jazz show Coffeetime on WMBR, 88.1 fm in Cambridge, Mass (MIT's radio station). Listen to the show live at WMBR.org, Fridays 2–4 p.m., or to the two most recent shows on the WMBR Archive! This blog offers musings, playlists, favorite foods, and more!
email: coffee@wmbr.org
website: angelynngrant.com
Friday, February 26, 2010
I Playlist Alone
Coffeetime, February 26, 2010, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Yeah! / 7.9.60
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Long As You're Living / Time / 1.19.60
Boots & his Buddies / Blues of Avalon / Bluebird / San Antonio 9.17.37
Adrian Rollini & his Orch / Somebody Loves Me / Decca / 10.23.34
Noel Coward / I Travel Alone / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Jumping Jacks / Long Head Leggy Rascal / Apollo / early 1950s
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Poor Butterfly / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
set 2
Benny Golson / Turning Point / Stella By Starlight / Mercury / 10.30-11.1.62
Sonny Clark / Dial "S" for Sonny / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Ernest Loomis' Orch / Sweet Someone / Victor / 6.2.27
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Minnie the Moocher / Brunswick / 6.26.31 / vocal = George Morton & Chick Bullock
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Are You Ready / Decca / 7.29.42 / vocal = Trevor Bacon & ensemble
Dean Martin / (Ma Come Balli) Bella Bimba / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Pee Wee Crayton / Do Unto Others / Imperial / New Orleans 4.29.54
set 3
Dexter Gordon / [Clubhouse] / Devilette / Blue Note / 5.27.65
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Far East Blues / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Fats Navarro / The Fabulous Fats Navarro, vol 2 / Jahbero [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.13.48
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Swingin' on Nothin' / Victor / 7.15.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford & Sy Oliver
The Opals / Oh But She Did / Apollo [Luna] / 5.13.54
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Lazy Afternoon / MGM / 1962
set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Green Dolphin Street / Contemporary / LA 3.18, 19.57
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Jaquar [alt take] / Roost / 8.53
Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Howard's Blues / live at the Royal Roost 4.23.49
Mel Tormé / Ballerina / Musicraft / Hollywood 8.47 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / After You've Gone / Atlantic / 1.29.58
Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s
last soul song
Barbara Lynn / Nice & Easy / Atlantic / 1971