Friday, February 24, 2012

1, 2, Button Your Playlist


Coffeetime, February 24, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / Take Twelve / Jazzland / 1.24.62 
Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Char's Blues / Vee Jay / 7.21.61 
Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Cherokee / Prestige / 12.15.50 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin' to Myself / Bluebird / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Billy Wright / This Love of Mine / Savoy [unissued] / Atlanta 5.1.51 
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Just Friends / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55 
Joe Newman / With Woodwinds / You're My Thrill / Roulette / 1958
Timmie Rosenkrantz and his 'Barons' / Blue at Dawn / Continental / 8.22.45 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Great Caesar's Ghost / Vocalion / 3.22.37
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Medley: Boo Hoo; 1, 2 Button Your Shoe; Trouble Don't Like Music; One in a Million / radio transcription / live, Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1.29 to 2.6.37
Billy Cotton & his Band / The Tattooed Lady / Regal Zonophone / London 11.27.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & chorus
The Four Tunes / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946 
La Sonora Matancera / Una Noche En Caracas / La Merenguita / Seeco / 1951 / vocal = Celia Cruz

set 3
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Gensel's Message / Atlantic / 4.23.62 
Roy Eldridge & Richie Kamuca / Comin' Home Baby / Sweet Sue / Pumpkin / 8.22.65
Norman Granz Jazz Concert / Rocker (I'll Remember April) / Norgran / Carnegie Hall, 9.16.50 2
Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Green Eyes / Okeh / 5.8.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day & Howard Dulany
Frank Sinatra / Melody of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 12.13.54 / with Ray Anthony & Orchestra 

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Sunset Eyes / GNP / LA 7.57
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Sometimes I'm Happy / Savoy / 1.23.56 
Mildred Bailey / A Bee Gezindt (As Long As You're Healthy) / Columbia / 1.25.40
Joe Tex / Cut It Out / Ace / 1958
Danny Kaye / That Great Come and Get It Day / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 12.63
The Hightower Brothers / Saved By the Blood of Jesus / Nashboro / Nashville 1962

last soulful song
The Wallace Brothers / Soul, Soul And More Soul / Who's Fooling Who / Sims / Muscle Shoals 1965

Friday, February 17, 2012

Playlist in Q


Coffeetime, February 17, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / Valse Hot / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57 
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Tyree and Lawrence / French Columbia / summer 1956
Jack Hulbert / What a Little Moonlight Can Do / HMV (from the movie Roadhouse) / London 9.13.34 / with Eddie (aka Brian Lawrence) & Rex 
Ida James / I Won’t Say I Will / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / with Count Basie & his Orchestra 
Julie London / London By Night / Nobody's Heart / Liberty / Hollywood  / 12.55

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet Will Excite / There Is No Greater Love / Verve / 2.17.59 
Teddy Charles / Tentet / You Go to My Head / Atlantic / 1.11.56
The Ramblers / Business in Q / Decca / London 11.8.32
Ethel Merman / Why Do They Call a Private a Private / V-Disc / Hollywood 1944 / with Freddie Rich’s Orchestra
Vocaleers / Oh! Where / Red Robin / 12.14.52 
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / I Could Be Happy with You / MGM / 1962

set 3
Hank Mobley / Thinking of Home / Gayle’s Groove / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.31.70 
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / In the Land of Hi-Fi / I Don’t Care / EmArcy / 6.18.56 
Flip Phillips / Bob’s Belief / Signature / c. 9.44
Ella Mae Morse & Johnny Mercer / Blues in the Night / radio broadcast, Command Performance #82 / Hollywood 9.9.43
The Ravens / I’m So Crazy for Love / Okeh / 11.7.50
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / 3.19.57 

set 4
André Previn / 4 to Go! / Like Someone in Love / Columbia / LA 1963
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / 12th Street Rag / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55 
Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Let’s Have a Jubilee / Vocalion / 10.19.34 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Minor Swing / RCA / Rome winter 1949 
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / This Could Be It / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Friendly Brothers / You Can't Win / Vee-jay / Cleveland 1959

last soulful song
Tony Joe White / …Continued / Woman with Soul / Monument / 1969

Friday, February 10, 2012

That Tired Routine Called Playlist


Coffeetime, February 10, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Sweet Sakeena / Bethlehem / 10.11.57 
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Yo-Ho / Prestige / 1.24.63 
Paul Whiteman & his Concert Orchestra / Slaughter on Tenth Avenue / Victor / 6.26.36 
The Revelers / Among My Souvenirs / Victor / 11.23.27
Joe Liggins & his Honey Drippers / Daddy on My Mind / Specialty / LA  late 1950 / vocal duet with Candy Rivers 
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Among My Souvenirs / EmArcy /
LA 4.21.55 

set 2
Shelly Manne & his Men / The Proper Time / The Proper Time / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60 
John Coltrane / Stardust / Time After Time / Prestige / 12.26.58 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Echoes of Harlem / transcription / live at the Cotton Club 1938
Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bring Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 02.13.46
BB King / You Upset Me Baby / Kent / 1960
Tina Louise / It’s Time for Tina / Let’s Do It / Concert Hall / 1957

set 3
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Casey’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60 
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / It's Alright with Me / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56 
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Gate Walks to Board / Peacock / Houston c. 5.53
Blue Barron & his Orch / Love of My Life / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Savannah Churchill & the Striders / Walking by the River / RCA Victor / 10.52 
Frank D'Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Easy to Love / Riverside / 3.7.57 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / I’m Sorry I Made You Blue / Brunswick / 7.30.31 
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / LA 4.19.45
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / That Tired Routine Called Love / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 
Floyd Dixon / Tight Skirts / Swingin’ / Dallas 1960
Alden Bunn aka Tarheel Slim / Get on the Road to Glory / Gotham / Raleigh c. 7.49

last soulful song
Belita Woods / My Magic Corner / Moira / Detroit 1969

Friday, February 03, 2012

Stowaway Playlist


Coffeetime, February 3, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / Will You Still Be Mine / New Jazz / 9.25.59 
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / S'Posin' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 
Sandy Williams' Big Eight / Tea for Me / HRS / 6.2.46 
Whispering Jack Smith / The Song Is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 1.10.28
Mabel Scott / Subway Blues / King / 7.15.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Twelve Nights in Hollywood / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.20.61

set 2
Curtis Fuller & Art Farmer / Curtis Fuller - Art Farmer / It's Too Late Now / United Artists [Mosaic] / 12.1.57
Ike Quebec / Blue Friday / Blue Note [Mosaic] / 7.1.59 
George E. Lee & his Novelty Singing Orchestra / The Meritt Stomp / Meritt / Kansas City 1927 
Sophie Tucker / Follow a Star / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with Ted Shapiro & the Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / 1 Don't Care Who Knows It / radio transcription / mid- 1940s / vocal = Skip Nelson
Mel-O·Dots / One More Time / Apollo / 3.17.52

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61
Horace Silver / The Tokyo Blues / Too Much Sake / Blue Note / 7.14.62 
Harry Owens & his Orchestra / Stowaways in Paradise / radio transcription / Hollywood 1938 / vocal = Kenny Allen
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / That Man of Mine / transcription from Soundie / Hollywood 10.14.46 / vocal = Anna Mae Winburn
The Four Buddies / It Could Have Been Me / Savoy / 1.13.51 

set 4
Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Masquerade Is Over / Fantasy / 1955 
Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55
Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52 
Eddie Vinson & his Orchestra / Wandering Mind Blues & Lazy Gal Blues / Mercury / 6.26.47 & 4.16.47
Hoagy Carmichael / Billy-a-Dick & Look Out Below / home recording / 1951
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / No Hiding Place / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Passport / Rocky Road Records / 1974