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