Friday, August 31, 2012

What Kind of Playlist Am I

Coffeetime, August 31, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Chet Baker / In New York / Hotel 49 / Riverside / 9.58 
Art Taylor / Taylor's Wailers / Exhibit A / Prestige / 2.25.57 
Paul Specht & his Orchestra / That’s What I Call Sweet Music / Columbia / 1.14.29
Jubalaires / Casey Jones / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Margie Anderson / The Blues / My Funny Valentine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / 1959

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / I Waited for You / Blue Note / 11.23.55 
Gene Ammons / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Prestige / 2.8.55 
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Mozeltov / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Utt-Da-Zay / Vocalion / 7.17.39
Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters / Lucille / Atlantic / 6.23.53 
Lee “Shot” Williams / You’re Welcome to the Club / Federal / Cincinnati 1964

set 3
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Cat Walk / Bethlehem / 11.57
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Tempo de Brazilia / Everest / 1960
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Dexter’s Minor Mad / Savoy / 12.11.47 
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Mary Ann McCall / On Time / Okeh / LA 06.19.47 / with Ralph Burns Orchestra 
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / It Wasn’t the Stars that Thrilled Me / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

set 4
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55 
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / The Song Is Ended / Riverside / 7.20.59 
Arnett Cobb / I’m in the Mood for Love / Okeh / 8.7.51 
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47
Chuck Willis / My Baby’s Coming Home / Okeh / 11.19.52
Anthony Newley / Original Broadway Cast Recording: Stop the World I Want to Get Off / What Kind of Fool Am I / London / 1961
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Gotta Let You Go / Uni / LA 1970

Friday, August 24, 2012

I Can't Wait Until I See My Playlist's Face

Coffeetime, August 24, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / Hey, Lock! / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60 
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones [1527] / If I Love Again / Blue Note / 7.14.56 
The Hot Club Swing Stars / Singing at the Sugar Bowl / Swing / Paris 12.14.38 
Noël Coward / I Travel Alone / HMV / London 1934 / with Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / ’Tain’t Me / Specialty / LA 12.30.47 / with Camille Howard
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Love Affair / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / These Foolish Things / Blue Note / 10.14.58 
Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Imagination / Jubilee / 8.9.57 
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29 
Bing Crosby / Who Calls? / Decca / Hollywood 5.23.41 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) / Capitol / Hollywood 12.15.48 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra / for Rick, John, & The Scientist Kittens
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / Blues Get Off My Shoulder / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69 / for George!

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Green Jeans / Blue Note / 5.20.65 
Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Close Your Eyes / Prestige / 3.5.57 
Mills Brothers / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Brunswick / 11.19.31
Mabel Scott / Just Give Me a Man / Exclusive / LA c.12.48
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / Let’s Face the Music and Dance / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56 

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / El Cerrito / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Benny Carter / Swingin' the ’20s / In a Little Spanish Town / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58 
King Cole Trio / These Foolish Things / MacGregor transcription #71 / LA 11.21.44
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Weeping Willow Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Martha Raye / Sugar (That Baby of Mine) / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / The Joker / A&M / LA 1966
Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song
The Monticellos / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Red Cap / 1967

Friday, August 17, 2012

Luck Be a Playlist



Coffeetime, August 17, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird (alt take) / Blue Note / 9.15.57 
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / With a Song in My Heart (alt take) / Blue Note / 9.1.57 
Cicely Courtneidge / The Moment I Saw You / from movie “The Soldiers of The King,” HMV / London 4.3.33 / with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Guitar in My Hand / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra 
Dinah Washington / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55 

set 2
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn (alt take) / Blue Note / 10.2.63 
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / What Is There to Say / Riverside / 6.11-12.57 
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Am I Blue / Gotham [unissued] / 1951 
Alix Combelle et son Orchestre / Hangover Blues / Swing / Paris 10.4.37 / featuring Bill Coleman on trumpet
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Somebody Loves Me / Perfect / 8.27.24
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Dulce Mujer / Decca Paris c. late 1934 
The Orioles / Drowning Every Hope I Ever Had / Jubilee / 5.54 

set 3
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / It’s Time / Time / 9.27.60 
Cy Coleman / Pianorama / Luck Be a Lady / Capitol / 1961
Sonny Thompson / Long Gone, part 2 / King [orig Miracle Records] / Chicago 1948 / with The Sharps & Flats, featuring Eddie Chamblee on tenor sax
Spirits of Rhythm / Shoutin’ in the Amen Corner / Brunswick / 9.14.34 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (Gotta Get Some) Shut Eye / RCA Victor / 2.1.49 / vocal = Martha Tilton 
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Don’t Dream of Anybody but Me / Atco / 5.12.59 

set 4
Al Caiola & his Orchestra / Guitars, Woodwinds, and Bongos / Bernie’s Tune / UA / LA 1960 / Ultra Audio Wall to Wall Stereo series 
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of "Things to Come" / Mother’s Whistler / Liberty / LA 9.55
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Darn That Dream / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56 
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948 
Little Esther / Better Beware / Federal / LA 1.4.52 
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / Come Back to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 10.29.65 
Golden West Singers / Life of Jesus / Ajax / San Francisco 1949

last soulful song
Orpheus / Can’t Find the Time to Tell You / MGM / 1968

Friday, August 03, 2012

The Keeper of the Eddystone Playlist

Coffeetime, August 3, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Thad Jones / Thad Jones / One More / Debut / 3.10.55
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Plenty for Kenny / Savoy / 3.30.55
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Para Vega Me Voy / V-Disc 266B / 9.11.44
Little Jack Little & his Orchestra / Where Am I / Columbia / 10.16.35
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / Harlem on a Saturday Night / Decca / 9.9.38
June Christy / The Misty Miss Christy / I Didn’t Know About You / Capitol / Hollywood 1.26.55

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Mood / Morning / Savoy / 4.6.57
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Lost Tears / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I’m Alone with You / V-Disc 266A / 1944
Herb Jeffries / Flamingo / V-Disc 212B/Victor / Hollywood 9.28.40 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
T-Bone Walker / West Side Baby / Black & White / LA 12.29.47
Lavern Baker / Whipper Snapper / Atlantic / 12.18.57

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Makin’ Whoopee / Contemporary / LA 8.6.56
Dexter Gordon & his Boys / Nostalgia / Dextivity / Savoy / 12.22.47
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / This Heart of Mine / V-Disc 399B / 7.44 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
The Ravens / It’s Too Soon to Know / National / 11.48
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Caravan / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Conte Candoli / Westcoasting with Conte Candoli and Stan Levey / Everything Happens to Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Junior / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Flip Phillips / Jumping Moods with Flip Phillips / If I Had You / Clef / LA 10.10.52
Richard Dyer-Bennett / The Keeper Of the Eddistone [Eddystone] Light / V-Disc 47A/RCA Victor / 9.43
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / The Lonely One / Capitol / LA 9.21.56 / with Juan Tizol
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Tristeza / Verve / LA 5.27.65
The Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc 147A / 1944

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / I Ain’t Gonna Stop / AGP Records / 1968