Friday, July 08, 2011

Happiness Is Playlist

Coffeetime, July 8, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Dig This / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, Volume 1 / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 11.11.60 / announcer = Ruth Mason
Benny Morton Orchestra / Taylor Made / Columbia / 2.23.34
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / Mean Music / Victor / 8.27.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Three Barons aka The Three Riffs / Milk Shake Stand / Savoy / 11.3.44 / with Tiny Grimes Quartette
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Blue Piano / Impulse / 9.18.63

set 2
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds / Short Story / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Happiness Is / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Johnny Hodges & his Orch / Castle Rock / Blue Fantasia / Verve [Norgran] / 1.15.52
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Bakiff / V-Disc / Hollywood 9.17.41
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Lessons in Love / Decca / 3.17.36
Frank Sinatra / Close to You / radio transcription, Songs by Sinatra, CBS radio / 12.26.43
Roy Brown / I’ve Got the Last Laugh / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 1.16.51

set 3
Dupree Bolton / Summertime / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Lonely Woman / New York 19 / Atlantic / 1.29.62
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / On the Sunny Side of the Street / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 5.23.53
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / The Lady’s in Love with You / RCA Victor / 4.7.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Dindi / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pink Squirrel / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / How About You / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater 12.4.54
Art Tatum Trio / Sweet Lorraine / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 32 / Hollywood 5 & 6.43 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Hildegarde / Love Walked In / Columbia / London 1935 (?) / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67
Hightower Brothers / Lord Take Me Through / Nashboro / Nashville 1961

last (soulful) song
The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / My Brother Woody / Project 3 / 1967