A Little Playlist, A Little Kiss

Coffeetime, June 3, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug's Minor B'OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / On a Clear Day / Prestige / 3.23.67
Erskine Butterfield / Light-House / Davis / 6.14.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / It's Only a Paper Moon / Vogue / Paris 12.21.49
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Mean to Me / Decca / London 5.31.29 / vocal = Phil Arnold
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Cuttin' Out / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / vocal = Annie Laurie
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Capitol / LA 7.57 / with orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle and conducted by Frank Sinatra (check out the cover designs)

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Hal Schaefer / Ten Shades of Blue / Bye Bye Blues / United Artists / 1959
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I Surrender Dear / Capitol / LA 5.21.44
Eddie Lang / A Little Love, A Little Kiss / Okeh / 5.28.27
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
Johnny Otis Band / Call Operator 210 / Mercury / LA 1951 / vocal = Mel Walker
Sammy Davis Jr / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / 1966

set 3
Matthew Gee / Jazz by Gee / Kingston Lounge / Riverside / 7.19.56
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Maria / Capitol / LA 9.62
Wardell Gray / Jackie / Prestige / LA 1.21.52
Dorothy Lamour / Sweet Potato Piper / from soundtrack to movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
The Ravens / Someday / National / 9.49
Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short at Town Hall / (I Love You) Samantha / Atlantic / live at Town Hall 5.19.68

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing (Vol. 3) / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Room 608 / EmArcy / Stockholm 4.29.58
George Van Eps / Kay's Fantasy / Jump / 6.13.49
Fats Waller / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Victor / 8.17.34
Jim Bryant / soundtrack to West Side Story / Something’s Coming / Columbia / Hollywood 1961
Chita Rivera & Carol Lawrence / Broadway score to West Side Story / A Boy Like That; I Have a Love /  Columbia / 1957
The Five Trumpets / My Chains Fell Off / Gotham / 1950

last soul song
Gil Scott-Heron / From South Africa To South Carolina / A Lovely Day / Arista / Silver Springs, Maryland summer 1975