Friday, July 29, 2011

Did You Ever See a Monkey Play a Playlist

Coffeetime, July 29, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note [unissued / Mosaic] / 3.16.58
Hal McKusick / Criss Cross / Coral / 2.4-6.57
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Good Little Bad Little You / HMV / London 2.19.29 / vocal = Eddie Collis, directed by Carroll Gibbons
Tommy (Mary Jo) Braden & his Flames [The Four Blazes] / Did You Ever See A Monkey Play a Fiddle / United / Chicago 4.13.54
Dinah Washington / Feel Like I Wanna Cry / Mercury / 6.10.53

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / So in Love / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Bobby Jaspar / In a Little Provincial Town / Pathé Marconi / 11.12, 14, 20.56
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] /3.29.56
Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds” Orchestra / Magnolia’s Wedding Day / Brunswick / 8.14.28
Alphonse Trent & his Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Gennett / Richmond, Indiana 3.5.30 / vocal = Leo “Stuff” Smith
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Wham (Wham, Re, Bop, Boom, Bam) / Decca / 1.2.40 / vocal = June Richmond
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / I Am in Love / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.59
B.B. King / I Stay in the Mood / Kent / 1966

set 3
Johnny Smith / Phase II / Sunny / Verve / 11.13.68
Sonny Rollins / Alfie soundtrack / On Impulse! / Impulse! / 1.26.66
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Scrapple from the Apple / private recording [Xanadu] / Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach 12.27.51
The Five Jinks / Za Zu Swing / Bluebird / Charlotte 2.20.37
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Poor Simple Simon / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Billy Eckstine / Songs by Billy Eckstine / Over the Rainbow / MGM / 1949

set 4
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Just Friends / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Can’t We Be Friends? / V-Disc / 12.43
Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart / B19 / unissued performance / Hollywood 7.24.41
Noël Coward / In New York / I Like America / Columbia / 1957
Pilgrim Travelers / I Could Do Better than That / Specialty [unissued take 6] / Hollywood 8.2.56

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / If I Didn’t Love You / Wand / 1965