Friday, December 07, 2012

Playlist in the Sky

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 
Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow / Calling Softly / Bethlehem / fall 1961 
Oran “Hot Lips” Page / Rockin’ at Ryan’s / Commodore / 3.8.44 
Billy Cotton & his Band / Lazybones / Regal Zonophone / London 8.22.33 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Charles Brown / Gee / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / There Must Be a Way / Roulette / LA 1963

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56 
Ike Quebec / All the Way / Blue Note [unissued, same session as BN1840] / 2.5.62 
Lester Young / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46 
Kansas City Six / Countless Blues / Commodore / 9.27.38
Ray Charles & his Orchestra / I’ll Do Anything but Work / Swingtime / LA 5.26.50
The Enchanters / Housewife Blues / Jubilee / 11.51 
The Fascinators / Come to Paradise / Capitol / 1959 

set 3
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres & Sweets / Mean to Me / Verve [orig Norgran] / LA 11.1.55 
Dexter Gordon / Rosetta / Clef / LA late 1943 or c. 7.44 
Duke Daly & his Orchestra / Remember Pearl Harbor  / Elite / 12.41 
The Four Vagabonds / Rosie the Riveter / Bluebird / 2.43 
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was There When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 11.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / One for My Baby / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Pee Jay / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56 
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Somebody Loves Me / GNP / 6.27.56
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Dibblin' and Dabblin' / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / XYZ / Okeh / Chicago 10.6.39
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / I Could Write a Book / Mercury / 1960
Pilgrim Travelers / Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.17.49

last soulful song
Willie Tee / Teasin’ You Again / Gatur / 1972