Friday, October 26, 2012

This Playlist is Haunted


Coffeetime, October 26, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin' the Thing / Kiss Me Right / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.20.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Verve / 2.17.59 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / My Sweet Tooth Says “I Wanna” / Columbia / 7.14.31
The Velvetones / Sweet Lorraine / Coronet / 3.46 
The Ebonaires / Bye Bye, Bye, Bye Bye / MGM / 1949
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / What More Can a Women Do / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Nocturne / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Easy Living / Verve / 7.26.63 
Stan Getz / Yesterdays / Roost / 1.23.51 
Meade Lux Lewis / DuPree Blues / Clef [JATP] / Embassy Auditorium, LA 4.22.46 
Winegar’s Penn Boys / My Gal Sal / Edison / 5.3.28 
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / Forty-Second Street  / Victor / 1.13.33 / vocal = Dick Robertson or Jerry Baker
Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941
Bing Crosby / Holiday in Europe / Never on Sunday / Decca / LA 1961

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60 
Shorty Sherock / C-Jam Blues / Clef [JATP; unissued] / Philharmonic Auditorium, LA 7.2.44 
Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / LA 12.6.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra, Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers
The Basin Street Boys / Exactly Like You / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra 

set 4
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Stateside Panic / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Crazy Rhythm / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Leete / Blue Note / 8.8.54 
King Cole Trio / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44 / vocal = Anita Boyer
Big Maybelle / No More Trouble Out of Me / Columbia [Epic] / 1.20.54 
Jubalaires / The Preacher and the Bear / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lee Jones & the Sounds Of Soul [The Masqueraders] / This Heart Is Haunted / Amy / 1968 

Friday, October 19, 2012

Poor Little Playlist

 Coffeetime, October 19, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 [bonus tracks; The Dealers] / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / 4.19.57 
Curtis Counce / Vol. 1, Landslide / A Fifth for Frank / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56 
Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Columbia / 2.17.28 / vocal = Mull Downey (aka Sonny Faircloth)
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Thrill is Gone / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra 

set 2
Lucky Thompson / A Lady’s Vanity / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56
Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / A Waltz for Fran / Jazzland / 1.24.62 
Johnny Guarnieri / Salute to Fats (take 3) / Savoy / 4.18.44
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Diga Diga Doo / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.7.47 
Eddie Cantor / Dinah / Decca / LA 10.31.44 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Ella Johnson / What a Day / Mercury / 6.5.56
Liz Lands / One Man’s Poison / One-derful! / Chicago 1967

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Worksong / Blue Note / 5.22.61 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Lullaby in Rhythm / private recording [Xanadu] / Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach 12.27.51
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Ben Rides Out / National / 1.31.46 
Earl Warren / Poor Little Plaything / Savoy [unreleased] / 4.18.44 
Melody Masters / My Baby / Apollo / 1946 
Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / Stardust / Dot / 5.12,13,15.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Why Not? / Fantasy / 1957 
Vinnie Burke / Bass by Pettiford/Burke / Yesterdays / Bethlehem / 1954 
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Tippin’ In / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55 
Tina Dixon / Parrot Bar Boogie / King / 1948
The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / spring 1950
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1969
Echoes of Zion / Keep Still / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song
Timothy Wilson / Baby Baby Please / Buddha / 1967

Friday, October 05, 2012

About Rip Van Playlist


Coffeetime, October 5, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Norgran / 1.12.56 
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Carioca (El Tambores) / Riverside / 5.4.59 
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 1947
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Come a Little Closer / Victor / 11.18.30 / vocal = Quentin Jackson 
Cats & the Fiddle / Public Jitterbug No. 1 / Bluebird / Chicago 12.7.39 
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Soul Lament / Blue Note / 1.8.63 
Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57 
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49 
Benny Goodman Quartet / My Melancholy Baby / Victor / 11.18.36
Greta Keller / Say It Isn’t So / Brunswick / 11.10.32 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Annie Laurie / It Hurts to Be in Love / King / 1958
Bobby Darin / soundtrack to film That Funny Feeling / That Funny Feeling / Capitol / Hollywood 9.18.54

set 3
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / Groun’ Hog / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60 
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46 
Boswell Sisters / Nights When I Am Lonely / New Orleans 3.25.25 / with Vitaly Jaques “Vic” Lubowski on piano 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / About Rip Van Winkle / Bluebird / 1.17.40 / vocal = Bootsie Garrison, Don Redman, and ensemble
Du Droppers / How Much Longer / RCA / 3.18.54 
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / How Insensitive / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet with Antonio Carlos Jobim

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55 
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / The Way You Look Tonight / EmArcy / 2.8.57 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / You’re My Desire / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Bull Moose Jackson & his Orchestra / Oo-Oo-Bob-A-Lee-Bob / Queen / 12.45 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do / Capitol / LA 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Blind Barnabas / Okeh / 5.25.41

last soulful song
The 5 Stairsteps / The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / Find Me / Buddah / Chicago  1967