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

Friday, February 19, 2010

Little Happy-Go-Lucky Playlist


Coffeetime, February 19, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Frank Foster & Frank Wess / Jazz is Busting Out All Over / M. C. / Savoy / 10.13.57
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Horseshoe Curve / New Jazz / 2.4.55
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Meditation / radio transcription / 1941-2
Lonnie Johnson / Swing Out Rhythm / Decca / Chicago 11.8.37
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Ooh Mop / Black & White / LA 10.45 / vocal = Cappy Oliver
Dinah Washington / Look to the Rainbow / EmArcy / 11.10.55

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Prestige / 11.7.58
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Never Never Land / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / I'm Through With Love / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / radio transcription / 1934
Ella Logan / Lost My Man / radio transcription / 4.4.35
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Yes, Indeed! / Decca / LA 12.13.40 / with Bob Crosby's Bob Cats
T-Bone Walker & his Band / No Reason / Imperial / LA circa 9.50
Martha Davis and Spouse [Cal Ponder] / A Tribute to Fats Waller / It's a Sin to Tell a Lie / ABC-Paramount / mid-1950s

set 3
Bobby Hutcherson / Components / Little B's Poem / Blue Note / 6.10.65
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Hush! / Jazzline / 1.12.62
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Donna Lee / radio transcription / 1947
Spirits of Rhythm / Junk Man / Decca / 9.14.34
Duke Ellington & his Orch / On the Sunny Side of the Street / live at the Cotton Club 4.24.38 / vocal = Ivie Anderson
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Tenderly / Bethlehem / 1956 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orch

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Tara Ferma / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Oscar Peterson / The George Gerswhin Songbook / S' Wonderful / Mercury [Clef] / Hollywood 11, 12.52
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / The Breeze & I / Capitol / 1950
Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White / A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) / Soundie / Hollywood 1942
BB King / I Can Hear My Name / Kent / 1962
Matt Monro / A Matter of Innocence (soundtrack to the Universal film) / Pretty Polly / Decca / 1967
The Radio Four / Jesus Never Left Me Alone / Nashboro / Nashville 3.61

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Little Happy-Go-Lucky Girl / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Friday, February 12, 2010

A Little Playlist Told Me

Coffeetime, February 12, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Katanga / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Tina Brooks / One for Myrtle / unissued [Blue Note / Mosaic] / 3.2.61
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / If I Love Again / Capitol / 1958
Shep Fields & his New Music / Stormy Weather / radio transcription / early 1940s
The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Heaven Can Wait / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 5.9.39 / vocal = Hal Yates
Al Russell Trio / Let's Go Down the Road / Ballen/Apollo / early 1946
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Thursday's Child / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Hittin' the Jug / Prestige / 6.16.60
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / The Continental / Capitol / 1950
Woody Herman Band / By Play / Capitol / 1949?
Dick Jurgens & his Orch / Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Eddy Howard
The Voices of Walter Schumann / Serenade / Come Rain or Come Shine / Capitol / 1953
Big Maybelle / A Little Bird Told Me / Savoy / 4.13.57 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch

set 3
Blue Mitchell / Down With It! / Hi-Heel Sneakers / Blue Note / 7.14.65
Milt Jackson / On the Scene / Blue Note / 4.7.52
Charioteers / Down, Down, Down (What a Song) / Okeh / 6.1.41
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Perfidia / Columbia / 1941 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / Something's Gotta Give / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Angel Wings / Jazz: West / LA 1956
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Tea for Two / Savoy / 2.26.55
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood /8.22.46
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado / A Touch of Tabasco / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.30-31 & 8.15.59
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Gospel Harmonettes / The Soul of the Gospel Harmonettes / Royal Telephone / Vee Jay / 1964

last soul song
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds / You Don't Stand a Chance If You Don't Dance / Suspicious Love / Pye / London 1975

Friday, February 05, 2010

Mr. Playlist Knocks Twice

Coffeetime, February 5, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / My Groove Your Move / Blue Note / 11.13.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Blue Daniel / Contemporary / 9.22.59
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Broad Jump / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Maurice Winnick & his Orch / Love is a Dancing Thing / Vocalion / London 1936 / vocal = Sam Costa
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Leaping Boogie / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Angel Eyes / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.2.54
Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66
Golden Gate Orch {The California Ramblers} / Stockholm Stomp / Edison Diamond Disc / 12.9.26
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / The Stuff's Out / Decca / 7.5.39
The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald / I'm Making Believe / Decca / 8.30.44
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / Just You (Avec) / Reprise / LA 1965

set 3
Barney Kessel / Let's Cook! / Jersey Bounce / Contemporary / LA 8.6.57
Andre Previn Trio / California Clipper / Sunset / LA 10.13.45
Margaret Whiting / Someone to Watch Over Me / Capitol / 1945
The Striders / If I Only Knew / Apollo / 11.14.49
Nat "King" Cole (King Cole Trio) / You Can Depend On Me / Capitol / LA 8.15.56 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison

set 4
René Thomas / Meeting Mister Thomas / Wonderful, Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 1963
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Who's Sorry Now / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Mr. Clarinet Knocks Twice / National / 1.2.46
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / Hollywood 1949 / with Page Cavanaugh & the Ken Lane Singers ?
Solomon Burke / Stupidity / Atlantic / 1963
Nancy Wilson / Today, Tomorrow, Forever / Wives and Lovers / Capitol / Hollywood 1964
The Larks / Honey in the Rock / Apollo / 1.52

last soul song
French Coffey featuring Rozlin / Nothing from Nothing / Pick-A-Hit / LA late 1960s