Boogin' in the Playlist

Coffeetime, September 24, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene / Shirley / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Boo-Lu / Prestige / 12.28.56
Count Basie & his Orch / Feedin' the Bean / Okeh / Chicago 4.10.41
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / What Can You Say in a Love Song / Victor / 7.13.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Orch / Boogin' in the Basement / Pacific / San Francisco/Oakland 1946
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Bewitched / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Taste of Honey / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Lover Man / Argo / Chicago 1960
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / What Is This Thing Called Love / Prestige / 8.17.56
Boots [Clifford "Boots" Douglass] & his Buddies / Coquette / Bluebird / San Antonio 2.25.36
Annette Hanshaw / It's the Talk of the Town / Banner / 9.1.33
Tab Smith & his Orch / Roebie's Blues / Ebony / LA 8.45 / vocal = Roebie Kirk
Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards / Sleepy Time Gal / radio transcription / LA ? 1940s?

set 3
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham / Callin' the Blues / Callin' the blues / Prestige / 7.18.58
Dizzy Gillespie / That's Earl, Brother / Savoy / 5.15.46
The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Boogie Blues / Columbia / 8.21.45 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Clark Terry / Travellin' All Alone / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 1.60 / vocal = Quentin Jackson

set 4
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Gay Blade / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Hugo Hurwhey / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Laura / EmArcy / LA 1955
Rudy Vallée & His Connecticut Yankees / The Drunkard Song (There Is a Tavern in the Town) / Victor / 7.2.34
Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Personality / Roulette / 1964
Highway QC's / Jesus is Waiting / I Heard / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1960

last soul song
Tyrone Davis / Without You in My Life / Dakar / 1973

Have Mercy, Playlist

Coffeetime, September 17, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / The Turnaround! / Pat 'N Chat / Blue Note / 2.5.65
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Callin' All Cats / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Stealin' Apples / Columbia / 10.25.37
Jack Jackson & his Orch / I Like to Go Back in the Evening / Vocalion / mid-1930s
The Ray-O-Vacs / Let's / Decca / 6.51
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You / United Artists / LA 7.58

set 2
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Over the Rainbow / Candid / 9.27.60
Quincy Jones / soundtrack to The Pawnbroker / The Naked Truth / Mercury / 2.20.65
King Cole Trio / Moon Song (That Wasn't Meant for Me) / Standard transcription / LA 5.39
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / Concentratin' on You / Victor / 11.18.31
Fred Astaire / Music Makes Me / Brunswick (?) / London 12.12.33
The Cadillacs / Let Me Explain / Josie / 10.55
Los Cariñosos / Vamo A Cuba / Cachito / Vik (RCA Victor) / 1950s

set 3
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Swamp Seed / Riverside / 5.28.63
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Yearnin' / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Atomic Energy / Peacock / Houston 1.49 / with Jack McVea Band
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Don't Wake Up My Heart / RCA Bluebird / 5.28.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Basin Street Boys / This Is the End of a Dream / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Poor Fool / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / Quintet / Loaded with Bass / Tampa / LA 1955
Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Louis / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / I Love the Way You Say Goodnight / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Have Mercy, Baby / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66
Southern Sons / Rest for the Weary / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Little Esther / Alone Again, Naturally / I've Never Found a Man (To Love Me Like You Do) / Kudu / 1972

Art Howard Reminisces on Coffeetime

Coffeetime, September 10, 2010, Angelynn Grant

dear friend Art Howard

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / It Don't Mean a Thing / Mercury / 3.18.57
Benny Carter / Aspects / September Song / United Artists / LA 9.58
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / For Dancers Only / Decca / 6.01.37
Ethel Waters / Shake That Thing / Columbia / 12.23.25
Spike Jones & His City Slickers / Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep / Bluebird / 1942 / vocal = Del Porter
Sarah Vaughan / September Song / EmArcy / 12.16.54

set 2
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Trust in Me / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
Dizzy Gillespie / Hurry Home (alt take) / Vogue / Paris 3.27.52
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson / Ain't Misbehavin' / Brunswick / 9.4.29 / with Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang
Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers / Corrine Corrina / Decca / San Antonio 2.5.37
Wingy Manone & his Orch / Corrine, Corrini / Bluebird / 4.26.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / I'll Never Smile Again / Victor / 5.23.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers
Ray Charles / Ray Charles / Don't You Know / Atlantic / Miami 6.55

set 3
Sonny Stitt & Zoot Sims / Inter-Action / Look Down That Lonesome Road / Cadet / Chicago 1.25.65
Charlie Parker / Cheryl / [Savoy] / live, Royal Roost 3.5.49 / announcer = Symphony Sid
Ink Spots / If I Didn't Care / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee #78 / Hollywood 5.2.44

set 4
Teddy Edwards / Together Again! / Perhaps / Contemporary / LA 5.15, 17.61
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Trust in Me / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937 / vocal = Pha Terrell
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing at All / Speak Low / Verve / LA 8.14.56
Southernaires / Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray / Decca / 6.14.39

Working on a Groovy Playlist

Coffeetime, September 3, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Staus Quo / Blue Note / 3.3.57
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / Dig Dis / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Count Basie & his Orch / Time Out / Decca / 8.9.37
Little Jack Little / With Every Breath I Take / Columbia / 10.25.34
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Sassin' the Boss / Vocalion / 8.2.39 / vocal = Willie Smith
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Gloomy Sunday / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / Ruby, My Dear / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Blue Mitchell / A Sure Thing / A Sure Thing / Riverside / 3.8.62
Les Paul Trio / All of Me / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Het Ramblers Quintet aka The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Swinging the Fiddles / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 11.15.38
Don Redman & his Orch / Doin' What I Please / Brunswick / 10.6.32 / vocal = Don Redman
Mildred Bailey / I'll Never Be the Same /Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Fool on the Hill / Upa, Neguinho /A&M / Hollywood 1968

set 3
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Reza / Verve / 9.27.66
Lee Morgan / Delightfulee / The Delightful Deggie / Blue Note / 5.27.66
Paul Gayten & his Band / Bear Hug / Regal [unissued] / New Orleans 1950
The Four Blackbirds / Miss Otis Regrets / Vocalion / 1935
The Charioteers / Riding Around in the Rain / Decca / 1935
Midge Williams & her Jazz Jesters / Mama's Gone, Goodbye / Vocalion / 11.23.37
Bobby Darin / That's All / Was There a Call for Me / Atco / 12.19.58

set 4
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Walkin' [alt take 2] / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Pick Yourself Up / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
Teddy Wilson with Paul Baron Orch / Body and Soul + It Had to Be You + Closing Theme /Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
The Dorsey Brothers Orch / Stay on the Right Side of the Road / Brunswick / 3.14.33 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Barbara Lewis / Workin' on a Groovy Thing / Girls Need Loving Care / Atlantic / 6.3.66
Evening Star Quartet / Lord Take My Hand / Apex / 1.49

last soul song
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Back in the Same Old Bag Again / Duke / Houston 1966