Long Skirt Playlist Blues

Coffeetime, November 25, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Confirmation / EmArcy / 12.23.57 

Kenny Dorham / 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note / 5.31.56 

Boots [Clifford "Boots" Douglass] & his Buddies / Wild Cherry / Bluebird / San Antonio 8.14.35

Joe Venuti & his Orchestra / I Like a Little Girl Like That / Victor / 9.30.30 / vocal = Frank Luther

The Syncopators / River Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49 

Dinah Washington / My Song / Mercury / Chicago summer 1952 / with Jimmy Cobb & his Orchestra 

set 2

Dizzy Reece / Progress Report / The Gypsy / Decca / London 12.28.56

Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Goodbye / Riverside / 1.27.61 

Kenny Drew / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 4.16.53 

Lionel Hampton Sextet / Shufflin' At The Hollywood / Victor / 4.5.39 

Paul Robeson / River Stay Away from My Door / HMV / London 1931

Normanaires / My Greatest Sin / MGM / 1953

Burt Bacharach / Make It Easy on Yourself / Make It Easy on Yourself / A&M / LA 1967

set 3

Jerome Richardson / Midnight Oil / Way in Blues / New Jazz / 10.10.58 

Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / This Time the Dream’s on Me / Savoy / 5.19.56 

Big Jay McNeely / Deacon’s Parade / radio transcription / live, Birdland 3.7.53

The Four Vagabonds / P.S. I Love You / Apollo / 3.26.47 

Anita O’Day / Tennessee Waltz / London 10.26.50 / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't  So / It’s the Talk of the Town / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956 

set 4

Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Taking Life Easy / Fantasy / 1957 

Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Godchild / Tampa / LA 6.15.55 

Cy Coleman / Pianorama / The Gentleman Is a Dope / Capitol / 1961

Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker / Long Skirt Baby Blues / Black & White / LA 11.6.47

Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Somebody Else Is Taking My Place / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Danny Kaye / Danny Kaye / C’est Si Bon / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 1963

Mid-South Singers / Lord Come On and See About Me / Duke / 1953 

last soulful song

Jimmy Church / Tennessee Waltz / live, The!!!!Beat TV show, Nashville 1966 

Stand Up and Playlist

Coffeetime, November 18, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / Chant / That’s All / Blue Note / 4.17.61 

Webster Young / For Lady / Moanin’ Low / Prestige / 6.14.57 

Billy Cotton & his Band / What a Difference a Day Made / Regal Zonophone (?) / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Ooh La La / Majestic / 7.47 / vocal = Bob Merrill 

Beryl Booker / I Should Care / Vogue / Paris 2.54 

set 2

Bill Evans / Moon Beams / If You Could See Me Now / Riverside / 5.17.62 

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country [Jazz Swings Broadway] / Two Lost Souls / Pacific Jazz [World Pacific] / LA 11.29.56

Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56 

Paul Davis & his Orchestra / Black and Tan Fantasy / Gennett / 11.25.32

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Moanin’ Low / Brunswick / 3.31.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday

Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Love Is a Wonderful Thing / United / Chicago 9.51 

Du Droppers / Honey Bunch / RCA / 8.11.54 

set 3

McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / Autumn Leaves / Impulse! / 6.4.63  

Miles Davis / Jazz Track; Frantic / Fran-Dance / Columbia / 5.26.58 

James Moody / Lover, Come Back to Me / Vogue / Paris 7.27.51

Una Mae Carlisle / The Rest of My Life / Joe Davis / 10.20.44

The Moonglows / Doubtful / Chess/Checker [unreleased] / early 1955 

set 4

The Jazzpickers / For Moderns Only / Easy Pickin’s / EmArcy / 5.3.57 

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Leave Your Worries Behind / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Larry Adler / Lover, Come Back to Me / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 

Mills Brothers / Rockin' Chair / Decca / 3.8.32

Sammy Davis Jr / A Treasury of Golden Hits / Stan' Up an' Fight / Reprise / Hollywood 1963

The Five Trumpets / The Ten Commandments / Victor / 2.1.49

last (soulful) song

Hortense Ellis / Can I Change My Mind / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s

There's a Playlist in the Pines

Coffeetime, November 11, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Kenny Dorham / ‘Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Hill’s Edge / Blue Note / 5.31.56 

Hank Mobley / Soul Station / Split Feelin’s / Blue Note / 2.7.60 

Loring “Red” Nichols / I Got a Woman Crazy for Me (aka She’s Funny That Way) / S D Records / Chicago 6.30.44 

Whispering Jack Smith / Baby Face / Victor / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.22.26 

Loring “Red” Nichols & his Orchestra / Keep a Song in Your Soul / Brunswick / 2.19.31 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Love, Look Away / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59 

set 2

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 5.8.65 

Gene Ammons / Old Folks / Decca / 3.24.52 http://www.jazzdisco.org/gene-ammons/catalog/#decca-28094

Jimmy Hamilton & the Duke’s Men / Blues for Clarinet / Blue Note / 11.21.45

Carson Robison’s Kansas City Jack-Rabbits / Victor / Stuff / 7.31.29 

Bing Crosby / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Brunswick / 6.16.33 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra

Chubby Newsome / I’m Still in Love with You / Regal / New Orleans 12.19.49

Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Believe in You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 3

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Walkin’ / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59 

Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Just a Closer Walk / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64

Jack McVea & his All Stars / Tatoe Pie / Black & White / LA 12.47

Dinah Washington / Wise Woman Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars 

The Four Buddies / You Left Me Alone / Savoy / 3.3.53 / with Hal Singer Orchestra 

Louis Jordan / It’s Hard to be Good Without You / Aladdin / 1955

set 4

Red Norvo / Night and Day / Savoy / LA 5.3.50 

Stan Getz / Split Kick / Roost / 1.23.51

Benny Morton Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34

Bobby Darin / That's All / That’s the Way Love Is / Atco / LA 12.19.58

Detroit Harmonettes / I Gave Up Everything / DeLuxe / 1954

last (thankful) soul song

Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Brother, Can You Spare a Playlist?

So many thanks to everyone who pledged in this year's WMBR fundraiser, to all the WMBR deejays who helped me out (Jesse, Larry, Bruce, Zoë, Keith), and to all my listeners everywhere. We do it together and it's fun.

Coffeetime, November 4, 2011 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1

Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60

Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Futurity / 5.20.54 

Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 

Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 2

Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60

Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra

Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42

The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transcription / 1942

Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37

set 3

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56

Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49

Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 4

Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orch

Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 5

Stan Getz / Penny / Roost / 1.23.51 

The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944

Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47

set 6

Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers / COD / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1945

Jack Mcvea / My Business Is COD / Black & White / LA 1.46 / vocal = Estelle Edson

set 7

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59

Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961

Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58

Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last (thankful) soul song

Natural Four / Count on Me / Curtom / Chicago 1975