Friday, May 27, 2011

My Hi-De-Ho Playlist



Coffeetime, May 27, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Indestructible / Mr. Jin / Blue Note / 5.15.64
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly! / Gone with the Wind / Vee Jay / 7.21.61
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / A Pixie from Dixie / Columbia / 4.24.41
The Georgians / Breakaway / Columbia / 5.20.25
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orchestra / Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well? / Bluebird / 3.30.42 / vocal = DW & The Hardaway Four
Ella Fitzgerald / Little Girl Blue + You're Driving Me Crazy / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

set 2
Ruby Braff / Fine and Mellow / Storyville / Boston 1955
Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / Genevieve / Angel / 1953
Johnny Guarnieri / Piano Contrasts / Why Do I Love You? / Mercury / 8.17.45
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / My Hi-De-Ho Man / Decca / 10.27.36
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I Wish I Knew / radio transcription / live Peacock Room, Baker Hotel, Dallas 8.9.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Gabriel Found His Horn / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars, vocal = Doc Cheatham (?) / Boston 1952

set 3
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Pennies from Heaven / Prestige / 4.12.57
Tadd Dameron & his Orchestra / Focus / Capitol / 4.21.49
Savannah Churchill / If I Didn’t Love You So / 9.52 / RCA Victor / with The Striders
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Everything Happens to Me / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953

set 4
Ralph Burns / The Herdsmen Play Paris / Thanks for You / Fantasy [Vogue] / Paris 5.5.54
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / You Are Too Beautiful / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Am I Blue / V-Disc 487A / 4.19.45
Ann Cole / Love of My Own + Nobody But Me / Sir [Baton] / 1960
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Didn’t It Rain / Varsity / 12.47

last soul song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1972

Friday, May 20, 2011

Pu-leeze Mr Playlist

Coffeetime, May 20, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / Speedster / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Turbo Village / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters / RCA Victor / 1955
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
TJ Fowler & his Band / What’s the Matter Now? / National / Detroit 1948 / vocal = Hank Ivory
Billie Holiday / Music for Torching / Isn’t This a Lovely Day? / Clef / LA 8.25.55

set 2
Benny Carter & his Orch / Further Definitions / Blue Star / Impulse! / 11.15.61
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / My Conception / Time / 3.23.60
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Deep in a Dream / Savoy / 10.6.55
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Say It with a Kiss / radio transcription / 1938
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Betty Hutton / I Wake Up in the Morning Feelin’ Fine / Capitol / LA 1949 / from the Paramount Picture "Red, Hot and Blue"
Sam Cooke / Encore / I Cover the Waterfront / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / Sunday Go Meetin’ / New Jazz / 8.19.60
Hank Crawford / Mr Blues Plays Lady Soul / Lady Soul / Atlantic / 2.13.69
Tadd Dameron Sextet / The Fabulous Fats Navarro / Dameronia (alternate take) / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Just About This Time Last Night / radio transcription / 1947 / vocal = Fran Warren
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie's Blues / Sittin’ and Cryin’ the Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Mildred Bailey / I Didn’t Know About You / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orchestra
William Daniels & Barbara Harris / Broadway score from "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"  / Wait Till We’re Sixty-five / RCA Victor / 1965
Flying Clouds of Detroit / Journey to the Sky / Nashboro? / early 1950s

last soul song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

Friday, May 13, 2011

Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Playlist

Coffeetime, May 13, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Tune Up / EmArcy / Hollywood 12.20.57
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Wheelin' and Dealin' / Contemporary / 3.5.63
Six Men & A Girl / Mary Lou Williams Blues / Variety / 1.26.40
Bobby Howes / On the Amazon / Columbia / 12.3.29 / with Al Starita & his Novelty Orchestra
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Eatin' Watermelon / Torch / Dallas 1949
Doris Day / (What Every Girl Should Know) / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Grant Green / Am I Blue / Sweet Slumber / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / My Old Flame / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Earl Hines & his Orch / Number 19 / Bluebird / 2.13.40
George Olsen & his Orchestra / Stucco in the Sticks / radio broadcast / 1931 / vocal = Ethel Shutta
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.24.37 / with orchestra & direction by Cy Feuer, from movie On the Avenue
Cats & the Fiddle / I'm Singing (So Help Me) / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Your Feet's Too Big / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 3
Clark Terry / Ol’ Zulu / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 1.60
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / Blues the Most / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / This Lovely Feeling / Philips / 4.25.63
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Tanya / Specialty / LA 7.8.46
The Four Vagabonds / It Can’t Be Wrong / Bluebird / 5.26.43
The King Sisters / When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano / V-Disc 764A / 5.47
Yves Montand / France's Formidable Yves Montand / Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Mome / Columbia / Paris 1954 / with Bob Castella et Ses Rythmes

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Reflections / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Third Variation: Night Stroll / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Velvetones / How I Miss You / Columbia / 1950
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Bee / Duke [unissued] / Houston 1955
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Varsity / 12.47

last soul song
Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell / United / Hold Me Oh My Darling / Tamla / Detroit 1967

Friday, May 06, 2011

A Hundred Playlist from Today



Coffeetime, May 6, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 / Let’s / Blue Note / 2.2.57
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / How High the Moon / Jubilee / 1962
Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Passionette / Vocalion / 5.4.36
Boyd Senter & his Senterpedes / Give It to Me Right Away / Victor / Hollywood 10.29.29 / vocal = Ray Stillwell
Charles Brown / Don’t Fool with My Heart / Aladdin / LA 1.18.50
Helen O'Connell / Someone to Watch Over Me / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio

set 2
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Angel Face / Savoy / 1.23.56
Jack Jenney / Stardust / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39 / arranged by Hugo Winterhalter
Dupree Bolton / Laura / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
Garden Palace Dancing Orchestra / When Erastus Plays Old Kazoo / Columbia / LA 6.28.28 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 1954 1

set 3
Frank Wess / You Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Cold Miner / Prestige / 1.24.63
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Why Can’t You Behave / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / Charmaine / Prestige / 2.27.59
J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / This Is It / Apollo / 5.48
Connee Boswell / You Grow Sweeter as the Years Go By / Decca / 4.25.39 / with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
The Rhythm Kings / Night After Night / Ivory / late 1949
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Laura / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Howard McGhee / Experiment Perilous / Sunset / LA 11.12.45
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP "Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production"] / I Know That You Know / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson ("dance effects & songs") & the Page Cavanaugh Trio & the Ken Lane Singers
Geater Davis / Why Does It Hurt So Bad / Seventy-Seven / Muscle Shoals 1972
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Salt Sea / A&M / LA 1969
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / When the Train Comes Along / Paramount / Charlotte, NC 6.5.38

last soul song
The Royalettes / It’s Gonna Take a Miracle / MGM / 1965