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