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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