Friday, November 26, 2010

Little Miss Playlist

Coffeetime, November 26, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Vergo / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Kucheza Blues / Blue Note / 2.14.63
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Battleground / Prestige / 4.8.49
Ray Noble & his Orch / Here Lies Love / HMV / London 12.8.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Willa Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Let Your Tears Fall Baby / Peacock / Houston 1951
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Dream of You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / I Can’t Get Started / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Jungle Love / Brunswick / 4.29.38
George Lee & his Novelty Singing Orch / He’s Tall, Dark, and Handsome / Brunswick / Kansas City circa 11.8.29 / vocal = Julia Lee
Dorothy Ellis / Slowly Going Out of Your Mind / Federal / LA 1.16.52 / with Johnny Otis Band
Jumping Jacks / Julocka Jolly / Lloyds [Apollo] / 4.27.53
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / Take a Little Walk / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64

set 3
The Jazzpickers / For Moderns Only / When You Love Someone / EmArcy / 5.2.57
Bobby Timmons / In Person / They Didn’t Believe Me [cd bonus track] / Riverside [unreleased] / live at the Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cadillac Slim / Swing / 8.23.46
Benny Goodman Sextet / 10" LP / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / 3.10.42 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Tunes / My Last Affair / RCA Victor / 1949
Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / It’s All Right with Me / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 4
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Cheremoya / Atlantic / LA 8.16.55
Kenny Burrell & Frank Wess / Playboy / Savoy / 12.26.56
Lud Gluskin & his Orch / Midnight in Paris / Brunswick / 1935 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Child / Duke / Houston 1968
Soul Stirrers / I’m So Glad (Trouble Don’t Last Always) / Specialty / Hollywood 2.16.55

last soul song
Major Lance / Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um / Little Miss Love / Okeh / 10.17.63

Friday, November 19, 2010

A Lovely Way to Spend a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 19, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / The Last Train from Overbrook / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabiel) & his Orch / Tuxedo Junction / Bluebird / 7.18.39
Ipana Troubadours / I’m Riding to Glory / Columbia / 4.17.28 / vocal = unknown trio
Mildred Bailey / I’ll Get By / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
Clarence Gatemouth Brown / Mary Is Fine / Peacock / Houston 1.49
Nancy Wilson / Welcome to My Love / Why Try to Change Me Now / Capitol / Hollywood 1968

set 2
Lucky Thompson / One Last Goodbye / (French) Columbia / 4.20.56
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Since I Fell for You / Fantasy / LA 1962
Horace Henderson & his Orch / Chloe / Vocalion / Chicago 5.8.40
Chocolate Dandies / Paducah / Okeh / 10.13.28
Jane Pickens / There’s a Lull in My Life / radio transcription / Hollywood 1937
Georges Guétary / Divine Melodie / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1946
The Treniers / Who Put The “Ungh” in Mambo / Okeh / 11.15.54 / with Quincy Jones & Orch

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Tacos Joe / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Kenny Clarke / Afternoon in Paris / Savoy / 5.9.56
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #7 / Diverse / Verve / 5.5.49
Ink Spots / A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee #78 / Hollywood 5.2.44
Savannah Churchill / The Things You Do to Me / Columbia [Manor] / fall 1948 / with The Four Tunes
Sammy Davis Jr / When the Feeling Hits You / Don’t Cry Joe / Reprise / Las Vegas ("recorded wild in…") 4.30.64 / with Sam Butera & the Witnesses

set 4
Steve Allen / Allen's All Stars / Snacks at Pasternak’s / Mercury / live, Joe Pasternak's Home, Hollywood 3.24.58
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Like the Likes of You / Riverside / 11.23.56
Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula / Columbia? / late-20s?
Albinia Jones / Salty Papa / National / 4.14.45 / with Don Byas’ Swing Seven
Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short at Town Hall / Something to Live For / Atlantic / live at Town Hall 5.19.68
Hunki-Dori aka Chester McDowell / I Hear the Savior Calling / Sun / Memphis c. 1958

last soul song
Barbara Lynn / I’m a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

Friday, November 12, 2010

I'm a Playlist (But Aren't We All)

Coffeetime, November 12, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Steve's Blues / Prestige / 10.21.66
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / All the Things You Ain't / V-Disc / LA 7.20.44
Annette Hanshaw / I’m Sure of Everything but You / Banner / 12.2.32
Floyd Dixon / Wine Wine Wine / Aladdin / LA 5.12.52
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Lament of the Lonely / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / What's New / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / In a Sentimental Mood / World Pacific / LA 1959
Red Norvo / Russian Lullaby / Keynote / 10.10.44
The Mason-Dixon Orch / What a Day! / Columbia / 5.15.29
Peggy Lee / Trav’lin Light / Capitol radio transcriptions / LA 4.4, 8.49
Cardinals / Shouldn’t I Know / Atlantic / 3.51
Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / What’s Going to Happen to the Tots / Columbia / 1956

set 3
David Fathead Newman / House of David / Little Sister / Atlantic / 1967
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / An Adventure in Sound – Reeds in Hi-Fi / Polytonal Blues / Mercury / LA 11.1.56
Lem Davis / G-U-M-P-E-Y / Savoy / 5.10.46
Les Brown & his Orch / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
The James Quintet / Bewildered / Coral / 1949
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Manhattan / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / Change Partners / Jubilee / LA 1958
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / The Bull Speaks / Jazzland / 3.16-17.55
King Bennie Nawahi / I’m a Dreamer (But Aren’t We All) / Columbia / 1928
King Cole Swingsters aka King Cole Trio / That “Please Be Mine-able Feeling / Davis & Schwegler [Keystone] transcription / LA 1.14.39
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / Roulette / 1960
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Leaning on the Lord / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.11.52

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Money Burns a Hole in My Playlist




My deepest thanks to Jesse Kaminsky, Laura Wilson, Larry Azrin, Keith Sawyer, and Bruce Sylvester. And thanks to all who have donated or pledged so far, those who will in the future, and those who want to but can't, but still are out there for me every week.

Coffeetime, November 5, 2010 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 2
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quintet with Carl Perkins / Buddy Can You Spare a Dime / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley / Blue Note / 12. 22. 47
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orch
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour / Why Don't You Do Right / Columbia / 7.27.42
Monroe Tucker & His All Stars / You Gotta Give It Up / Apollo / 2.27.46 / vocal = Frank Haywood

set 4
David Fathead Newman / House of David / One Room Paradise / Atlantic / 1967
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Shake / Prestige / 4.10.62
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch
The Ink Spots / With Plenty of Money and You / Decca / Hollywood 2.5.37
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 5
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orch

set 6
Mills Brothers / Money in My Pockets / Decca / 2.24.34
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47

set 7
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Straight Life / Savoy / LA 3.4.52
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James