Friday, March 25, 2011

Don't Let that Playlist Get Away

Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Be-Bop / Philips / 4.25.63
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Minor Trouble / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57
Earl Hines & his Orch / Lightly and Politely / Bluebird / Chicago 10.6.39
Ronnie Munro & his Orch / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper
Jimmy Witherspoon / Take Me Back Baby / Modern / 1950
Kay Starr / I Cry By Night / P. S. I Love You / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Gerald Wiggin’s Music

set 2
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Mal Waldron / The Quest / Duquility / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Margo / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / Mercury [Keynote] / 8.9.46
Bing Crosby / Blue Hawaii / Trade Winds / Decca / with Dick McIntyre & his Harmony Hawaiians / 7.1.40
Woody Herman / Pancho Maximillian Hernandez / radio transcription / Hollywood summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Hey Now / Modern / LA 1947

set 3
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Voodoo / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Laurindo Almeida / A Man and a Woman / Mas Que Nada / Capitol / Hollywood 1967
Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / On Stage / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956
Dick Haymes / [Little White Lies] / – And Mimi / Decca / LA 7.25.47 / with Gordon Jenkins Orch
The Crickets / Milk and Gin / MGM / 1.53
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Aplomb / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Some Enchanted Evening / Dot / 1958
Slam Stewart Quintet / Dozin’ / Continental / 7.10.45
King Cole Trio / Close to You / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.45
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / A Tower of Strength / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
Silver Echo Quartet / Sinner Man / Manor / 1945

last soul song
Justin Jones / Dance by yourself / Flippin’ Records / 1961

Friday, March 11, 2011

Hippy Dippy Itty Bitty Playlist



Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Windmill / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / The Shadow of Khan / New Jazz / 3.13.62
Metronome All Stars / How High the Moon, part 2 / MGM / 7.9.53
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / We’ll Be Married in June / Radiex / 2.27.30
Jessie Matthews / When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart / soundtrack to the Gaumont movie Evergreen / London 4.5.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Sam from Birmingham / Decca / 6.51
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Go / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Blue Note / 8.27.62
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #5 / In a Sentimental Mood / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Low Key Lightly / soundtrack to Columbia movie Anatomy of a Murder / Hollywood 1959
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / On the Beach at Bali Bali / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
June Christy / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; This Is Romance / transcription / 1946 / with the Kentones
Floyd Dixon / Roll Baby Roll / Cat / 4.28.54

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Lowland-ism / Bethlehem / 12.60
Quincy Jones & Orch / Little Hippy Dippy / soundtrack to Palomar movie For Love of Ivy / ABC / LA 3.68
Vido Musso Orch / Gone with Vido / Trilon / LA 6.47
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo) / Bluebird / 3.28.39 / vocal = The Smoothies
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.31.51
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ In Love Again / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Mundell Lowe / Satan in High Heels soundtrack; Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / Charlie Parker Records; MGM / LA 1962
Kay Starr / Dixieland Band / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
T-Bone Walker / News for My Baby / Imperial / LA 1951-52
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / The Face I Love / Verve / 6.9.67
“The Church Choir” / He’ll Wash You Whiter than Snow / soundtrack to Universal movie The Lost Man / Uni / Hollywood 1969 / arranged by Cora Martin


Friday, March 04, 2011

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist



Coffeetime, March 4 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / La Villa / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Just One of Those Things / Riverside / 10.28.58
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Honeysuckle Rose / Bluebird / 4.10.35
Little Jack Little & his Orch / Stay As Sweet As You Are / Columbia / 10.25.34
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / The “G” Man Got the “T” Man / Apollo / 11.2.45
Anita O’Day / Cool Heat / A Lover Is Blue / Verve / LA 4.6.59

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Big, Fat, and Forty-Four / Bluebird / 11.6.41 / vocal = Wheeler & The Hardaway Four
Kay Starr / I Waited a Little Too Long / Capitol / Hollywood 1.15.52
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / RCA / LA 1957

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / South Seas / Verve / 3.10.64
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Lo-Fi / Savoy / 7.18.56
Jo Stafford / I Never Loved Anyone / Capitol / Hollywood 11.7.47
James Quintet / Let’s Put Our Hearts on the Table / Derby / c. 1950
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Five More / Jazz West / LA 8.6.56
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Beanstalk / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Jane Russell / Ain't There Anyone Here for Love / soundtrack from 20th Century Fox movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Hollywood 1953
Lester Williams / Crazy ’Bout You Baby / Duke/ Houston 1954
Jerry Butler / Find Another Girl / Vee-Jay / 1961 / with Curtis Mayfield on guitar
Selah Jubilee Singers / I’ll Fare Better in that Land / Decca / 12.15.44

last soul song
Cynthia & the Imaginations / There's Something the Matter with Your Heart / Magic City / 1968