Friday, November 30, 2012

What Ev'ry Playlist Knows

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / You’re Not the Kind / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Filide / Riverside / 9.4.58 
Port of Harlem Seven / Pounding Heart Blues / Blue Note / 6.8.39 
Frances Williams / Try a Little Tenderness / Columbia / 1.10.33 / with Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti 
Leo “Snub” Mosley / I’m a Fool About Mama / Penguin / 4.21.49
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Kenny Drew / This is New / You’re My Thrill / Riverside / 3.28.57 
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53
Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Stormy Weather / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52  
King Cole Trio / Body and Soul / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / With All My Heart and Soul / Decca / The Hague 8.13.35
Etta Jones / What Ev’ry Woman Knows / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra
The Larks / Eyesight to the Blind / Apollo / 3.27.51 
Bing Crosby / In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening / Decca / Hollywood 6.20.51 / from the Paramount movie Here Comes the Groom; with Jane Wyman, Matty Matlock’s All Stars, and 4 Hits & a Miss 

set 3
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63 
Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Contours / RCA Victor / LA 3.26, 4.2.53 
Charlie Parker / Bird at the Roost / Hurry Home / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.5.49 / vocal = Buddy Stewart 
The Striders / Baby Don’t You Cry / Apollo [unreleased] / 11.14.49 
The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / Life Does a Man a Favor / MGM / 1958

set 4
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Brookside /  Mode / Hollywood 1957
Nat Adderley / "That's Nat" Adderley / Porky / Savoy / 7.26.55 
Wini Brown / Someone to Watch Over Me / National [unissued] / 8.1.49 
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Lullaby of Broadway / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet
The Keynotes / In the Evening / Apollo / 1955 
Joshua White & his Carolinians / King Jesus Knows I’m Coming / Columbia / 8.6.40 [6.4.40] 

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1971

Friday, November 23, 2012

New Playlist Over My Shoulder



Coffeetime, November 23, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol 1 / Justice / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Teaneck / Capitol / 9.1.62 
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Corky Stomp / Brunswick / Kansas City, Missouri 11.11.29 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / Maybe It’s Because I Love You Too Much / Columbia / London 3.28.33
Ivory Joe Hunter / I Ain’t Got No Gal No More / MGM / mid-1951
Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / In Love in Vain / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson-arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2
Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / But Beautiful / Warwick / 12.60
Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61 
Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra
Johnny Green & his Orchestra / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Columbia / Hollywood 8.13.33 / vocal = Bernice Park
Edna McGriff / I’ll Surrender Anytime / Jubilee / 1952
Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / My Ding-A-Ling / King / New Orleans 1.22.52
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / O Ganso / Verve / LA 5.25.65 

set 3
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / Bingo Domingo / Prestige / live, Minton’s Playhouse, breakfast set 1.6.61 
Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Cycles / Warwick / 1960
Burnie Peacock & his Orchestra / Charmaine / King / 11.9.51 
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
The Ravens / Who’s Sorry Now? / National / 8.50 
Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Stairway to the Stars / Impulse! / 10.17.63 

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / The Princess / Jubilee / LA 1958
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53 
Art Tatum / Yesterdays / radio broadcast, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood c. mid-1947
Kay Starr / Sharecroppin’ Blues / V-Disc 326B / Hollywood 7.13.44 / with Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 
Beny Moré / Tú Me Sabes Comprender / RCA / 1950s
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
The Dontells / I’m Gonna Tell the World / Vee-Jay / 1965

Friday, November 16, 2012

Ten Cents a Playlist


Coffeetime, November 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57 
Donald Byrd / Byrd's Eye View / Hank’s Other Tune (Late Show) / Transition / Cambridge 12.2.55 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / In Swamplands / Bluebird / 12.2.40
Bert Maddison Dance Orchestra aka Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra / High Up in the Sky / Sterno / London c. 8.29 
Cats & the Fiddle / My Sugar’s Sweet to Me / Manor/Regis / early 1946 
Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Sketch of Melba / New Jazz / 4.10.63 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mirage / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 
Illinois Jacquet / I Surrender Dear / Aladdin [unissued] / Chicago 11.7.47
Ruth Etting / Ten Cents a Dance / Columbia / 3.4.30
Dean Martin / That Certain Party / Capitol / LA 9.9.48 / duet with Jerry Lewis, with Mario R. Armengol Orchestra
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55   

set 3
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Funny Time / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Hackensack / Blue Note / 2.26.58 
Charlie Parker / Carvin’ the Bird / Dial / LA 2.26.47 
Martha Raye / I’m Gonna Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in her Stocking / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The Carols / Mighty Lak a Rose / Savoy [unissued] / Detroit 4.27.53 
Bill Henderson / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 10.14.58

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA  9.58
Stan Getz / Mosquito Knees / Roost / live, Storyville Club, Boston 10.28.51 
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Toselli’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941
The Toppers / Palace of Stone (I’m All Alone) / Savoy / 12.8.44 
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Atlantic / 1.29.58
Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 2.46

last (thankful) song
The Manhattans / Love Is Breaking Out All Over / Carnival / 1968

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Where's the Playlist, Honey?


Thanks so, so much for all the people who pledged during or in honor of Coffeetime. And thanks to all the listeners in general. Plus, I must thank my fellow WMBR members, especially those who helped me out during the show last Friday. As Hildy sings, I feel like a million.

Coffeetime, November 9, 2012, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59 
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59 
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Here's Lee Morgan / Terrible "T" / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60 
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 4
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
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / It's a Woman's Prerogative / Savoy / 1947 

set 5
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Yvette / Roost / 8.15.51 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / 11.3.47

set 6
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 7
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / 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
Swan Silvertones / My Rock / End of My Journey / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Friday, November 02, 2012

Got a Date with a Playlist


Coffeetime, November 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / Little Chris / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Scamperin’ / Prestige / 5.2.58 
Count Basie Band / Roseland Shuffle / Decca / 1.21.37
Slatz Randall & his Orchestra / I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) / Brunswick / Minneapolis 3.30 / vocal = Joe Roberts 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42
Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55 

set 2
Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66 
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / Fall Winds / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57 
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / Indian Summer / RCA Victor / 1955
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Bluer than Blue / Decca / 4.15.37 
The Four Aces / This Little Chick Went to Market / Trilon / Oakland 7.47 
The Barry Sisters / Shalom / Nicht auf Zintug (Never on Sunday) / Roulette / 1960

set 3
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Lollipops and Roses / Capitol / LA 9.62 
Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / I Thought About You / Coral / LA 12.5.55
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46 
Three Bits of Rhythm / Bronzeville Jump / Decca / 3.13.41
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Henry Wells & Sy Oliver
Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Lost Mind / Atlantic / 1965

set 4
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56 
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / Chances Are / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Sweet Sue / EmArcy / LA 1955
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / My Baby’s Cool / Gotham / c. 1949 / vocal = Claudine Clark
Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Second Time Around / Roulette / 1964
The Stars of Virginia / Wade in the Water / Chalice / c. 1965

last soulful song
The Pets / I Say Yeah / Carnival / 1964