Friday, June 29, 2012

This Playlist is Real




Coffeetime, June 29, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gene Ammons / Jammin' with Gene / Not Really the Blues / Prestige / 7.13.56 
Annette Hanshaw / I Cover the Waterfront / Banner / 6.3.33 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Roy Milton [Specialty] / LA late 1946 [1947] 
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / A Sleepin’ Bee / Reprise / LA 1961 /  arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / The Infants Song / Prestige / 5.26.55 
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / The Moors / Savoy / 7.9.57 
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Castle Rock / A Gentle Breeze / Verve [Norgran] / 3.3.51 
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Blue River / Edison Diamond Disc /  9.19.27 / vocal = Ed Kirkeby   
Delta Rhythm Boys / 9:20 Special / Mercury / Stockholm 8.24.51 / with Andrew Burman’s Band
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Let’s Get Away from It All / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

set 3
Horace Silver / Silver's Blue / The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Epic / 7.17.56 
Charlie Parker / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / WJZ broadcast / live, Birdland 4.7.51
Dorothy Lamour / It Had to Be You / Bluebird / 1.19.40
Deep River Boys / Don’t Ask Me Why / RCA Victor / 2.49
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Rénuncia / RCA Victor / c. 1956

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Taxi War Dance / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Contemporary / 9.13.55 
Bing Crosby / It's Been a Long, Long Time / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / That’ll Just ’Bout Knock Me Out / Decca / 7.21.42
Jerry Orbach / Original Broadway Cast Album for Promises, Promises / Half As Big As Life / United Artists / 1968
The Pilgrim Travelers / Move Up to Heaven / Specialty / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
The Lovelites / This Love is Real / Uni / 1970

Friday, June 22, 2012

My Playlist Comes Tumbling Down


Coffeetime, June 22, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / [Peckin’ Time] / High and Flighty [alt take] / [Blue Note] Mosaic / 2.9.58 
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / New Keep / Riverside / 10.30.59 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Yellow Fire / Bluebird / 8.20.41
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / It Was Only a Sun Shower / Victor / 9.8.27 / vocal = Dusty Roades
Billy Cotton & his Band / The Man from Harlem / Regal Zonophone / London 4.11.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & Teddy Foster 
Jesse Belvin / My Love Comes Tumbling Down / Recorded in Hollywood [unissued] / Hollywood 1.6.52 
Beverly Kenney / Sings for Playboys / What Is There to Say? / Decca / 1958

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Blue Note / 10.21.63 
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / No More / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62 
Milt Jackson / Statements / A Beautiful Romance / Impulse! / 12.14 & 15.61 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Redman Blues / V-Disc 104u [unissued?] / 1943
Adrian Rollini & his Tap Room Gang / Got a Need for You / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Jeanne Burns & Wingy Manone
Mildred Bailey / Scrap Your Fat / V-Disc 135B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / Encounters Ben Webster / La Rosita / Verve / 10.16.57
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / After You’ve Gone / Verve / 8.8.51
Dexter Gordon / Bikini / Dial / Hollywood 6.12.47 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Everything Happens to Me / Columbia / 1941 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Ink Spots / You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling In Love) / Decca / 1948
Don Nelson / The Wind / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / Pink Lady / Contemporary / LA 4.22.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / This Time by Basie! / Moon River / Reprise / 1963
King Cole Trio / To a Wild Rose / Capitol / Hollywood 4.5.46
Luis Russell & his Orchestra / A Rainy Sunday / Apollo / vocal = Lee Richardson / 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, #2 / New Sun in the Sky / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52 
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / Love or Affection / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s
The Bronzemen / Good News / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song
Ann Margret / Someday Soon / RCA Victor / 8.25.64 

Friday, June 08, 2012

Playlist on the Range


Coffeetime, June 8, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / True Blue / Prestige / 6.30.64 
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Buck’s Business / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58 
Bill English / Bill English / Heavy Soul / Vanguard / 1963
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Shivery Stomp / Okeh / 5.22.29  
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Victor / Chicago 3.24.32 / vocal = J.L. Sanders 
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Three Blue Notes
Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Bad Man Jackson, That’s Me / Queen / c. 12.19.45 
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / Goodbye / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61 

set 2
Sandy Mosse / "Relaxin" with … Sandy Mosse / Love Is for the Very Young / Argo / Chicago 10.13.58
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Invitation / Mercury / 1959 
Lester Young & Roy Eldridge / Jazz Giants ’56 / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans / 1.12.56 
Mabel Robinson / Search for Your Heart and See / Decca / 7.23.41 / with the Four Blackamoors
Kay Starr / What Goes Up Must Come Down / radio transcription / LA 1944 [49?] / with Les Paul, Joe Venuti, & Billy Butterfield
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I’ll Send You / Freedom / Houston c. 5.49
Pearl Bailey / Tired / Verve / 2.12.56 

set 3
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry’s Time / Candy / VSP Verve / Hollywood 8.1.57 
Illinois Jacquet & his Orchestra / Hot Rod / RCA Victor / 5.22.50 
Connee Boswell / Home on the Range / Decca / LA 11.13.37 / with Bob Crosby’s Bobcats
The Robins / Our Romance Is Gone / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Pete Kelly’s Blues / Atco / 5.12.59 

set 4
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Betty / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.54 
Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / Emaline / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Capitol / LA 9.46
Little Richard / Get Rich Quick / RCA Victor / Atlanta 10.16.51 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / Tim Dom Dom (Crim Dome Dome) / A&M / LA 1966
Dixie Hummingbirds / Search Me Lord / Gotham / 1949 

last  soulful song
The Masqueraders / I’m Just an Average Guy / AGP Records / 1968  

Friday, June 01, 2012

My Playlist's Reverie


Coffeetime, June 1, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / My Reverie / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57 
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Zec / Blue Note / W3.13.56 
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Indiana / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Alone / Victor / 11.7.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Way Over There by the Cherry Tree / Exclusive / Hollywood 1946
Pat Moran / While at Birdland / Lullaby of the Leaves / Bethlehem / 4.57 / vocal = Bev Kelly 

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Serenade in Blue / Blue Note / 5.5.62 
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / My Reverie / Contemporary / 10.15.56 
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / My Reverie / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Sugar Foot Stomp / Decca / 3.19.31
Bea Wain / My Reverie / V Disc 310B / with Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Hollywood 1944
Sherman “Blues” Johnson & His Clouds of Joy / Hot Fish / Trumpet / Memphis 9.30.52

set 3
Larry Young / Unity / Beyond All Limits / Blue Note / 11.10.65 
Paul Quinichette & his Band / Jazz for Hi-Fi Lovers [The Kid from Denver] / Start Here / Dawn / 7.16.56
Jay McShann’s Kansas City Stompers / [History of Jazz, Volume 4: This Modern Age] / Moten Swing / Capitol / 1945
The Larks / My Reverie / Apollo / 3.51 
Maxine Sullivan / Restless / Apollo / 1948 / with Larry Johnson & his Orchestra [prob]
Little Jimmy Scott / Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere / Specialty / live, Rip’s Playhouse, New Orleans 1951 / with Paul Gayten’s Band 

set 4
Frank Rosolino /Bethlehem’s Grab-Bag [I Play Trombone] / My Delux / Bethlehem / LA 5.56 
Herbie Mann / Bethlehem’s Grab-Bag [Herbie Mann Plays] / Scuffles / Bethlehem / 1956 
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / How About You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58
The Falcons / Please Don’t Leave Me Dear / Chess [unissued] / 1959
Jubalaires / Handwriting on the Wall / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Vicki Anderson / Wide Awake in a Dream / DeLuxe / Miami 4.17 & Cincinnati 5.4.66