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Friday, July 01, 2011
Another Playlist of the Opposite Sex
Coffeetime, July 1, 2011, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Round Table / Epic / 1956
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Fanfare / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / “204” / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Ol’ Man River / Bluebird / 5.9.28 / instrumental only
Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Never Gonna Dance / Columbia / 10.8.36 / directed by Carroll Gibbons, vocal = George Melachrino
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / I’m Wise to You Baby / Manor / 12.48 / vocal = Jimmy “Baby-Face” Lewis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Body and Soul / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 5
set 2
Art Farmer / Art / Goodbye, Old Girl / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Laura / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55
Chuck Wayne, et al / I Only Have Eyes for You / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Leonard Feather's Hip-Tet / Keep Your Mind on Me / Savoy / 11.20.44 / vocal = Helen Humes
Joe Morris Blues Cavalcade / Bald Head Woman / Atlantic / Philadelphia 2.10.51 / vocal = Billy Mitchell
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / Another Human Being of the Opposite Sex / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
set 3
Freddy Redd / San Francisco Suite / San Francisco Suite: View of the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausolito; Grant Street (Chinatown); Barbary Coast; Cousin Jimbo’s Between 3 and 7 AM; Dawn in the City / Riverside / 10.2.57
Three Peppers / Swingin’ at the Cotton Club / Decca / Hollywood 2.27.37 / appearing in "A Lady Takes A Chance" starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur
Wini Brown / I Only Have Eyes for You / National [unissued] / 11.27.48 / overdubbed onto instrumental from set 2
Ray Charles / Dedicated to You / Candy / ABC-Paramount / 1961
set 4
Art Pepper / Intensity / Too Close for Comfort / Contemporary / LA 11.23, 25.60
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Pick Yourself Up / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Habanera (“Carmen”) / AFRS Jubilee #136 / LA 6.4.45
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / All That’s Left Is to Say Goodbye / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65
Dixie Nightingales / In My Savior’s Care / Memphis , WDIA Test transcription, 1952
last soul song
Jerry Butler / Just Because I Really Love You / Mercury / 1968