Friday, July 27, 2012

Coffee in the Morning and Playlist at Night


Coffeetime, July 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Smack Up / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58 
Victor Feldman / Transatlantic Alliance / Four / Tempo / London 1.3.57 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Frenesi / V-Disc / Hollywood 1.15.41
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track Baby (But You’re Goin’ the Wrong Way) / Decca / Hollywood 12.8.47 / vocal = Martha Davis 
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Cal Tjader / Jazz Confidential [Jazz at the Blackhawk] / Crown [Fantasy] / Journey’s End [Land’s End] / live at the Blackhawk, San Francisco 1.20.57 
John Lewis & his Orchestra / A Milanese Story, Original Soundtrack / Finale / Atlantic / Turin 1.17.62 / with Quartetto di Milano 
Bennie Green / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Stardust / Prestige / Chicago 5.13.52 
The Ramblers / Black Heaven / Decca / London 11.8.32
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Unlucky Girl / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones 
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Spaniels / 100 Years from Today / Vee-Jay / 8.27.59 

set 3
James Moody / Great Day / Opales’ Que / Argo [Cadet] / Chicago 6.17, 18.63 
Oliver Nelson / Screamin’ the Blues / Three Seconds / New Jazz / 5.27.60 
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50 
Maxine Sullivan / Red River Valley / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
The Charioteers / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Columbia / 6.6.47
Buddy Greco / Buddy’s Back in Town! / You Better Go Now / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Just Friends / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Groovin’ High / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56 
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I Didn't Like It the First Time / Capitol / LA 11.13.47
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Lady Is a Tramp / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra  
Jubalaires / Swing Down Chariot / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

Friday, July 20, 2012

Playlistenium


Coffeetime, July 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Jodie’s Cha Cha / Riverside / 9.4.58 
Thad Jones / The Fabulous Thad Jones / Elusive / Debut / 8.11.54 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Get a Kick Out of You / Victor / 4.4.50 
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / The Continental / Columbia / London 12.34
Turner Layton / I Get Along Without You Very Well / radio transcripton? / 7.8.39
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / You Lovely You / Decca / 5.10.44 / vocal = Trevor Bacon 
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / This Is the Beginning of the End / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57 
Herbie Mann's Californians / Blues for Tomorrow / A Sad Thing / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Dizzy Gillespie / Stardust / Savoy / 10.25.51 
Ethel Waters with the Hermann Chittison Trio / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 
“Female Vocal Quartet” / How Deep Is the Ocean / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood 1945
Denny Dennis / Stardust / Rex / 5.2.40 
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49

set 3
Eddie Harris / Jazz for Breakfast at Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's / Vee Jay / 1961 
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cloudy / Crown / 1960
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Mush Mouth / Mercury / 9.53 
Connee Boswell / Sand in My Shoes / Decca / Hollywood 6.28.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
The Quintones / Harmony in Harlem / Vocalion / 1940
Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Warm Up / Tampa / LA 1954
Gerry Mulligan / Mulligan Plays Mulligan / Mullenium / Prestige / 8.27.51 
Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Blue Grass / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / Summertime / Mercury / 1954 
Nellie Lutcher / St. Louis Blues / Okeh / LA 8.25.53
Albert King / Had You Told Me It Like It Was (It Wouldn’t Be Like It Is) / King / 1963
Golden Gospel Singers / How I Got Over / Decca / 1951

last soulful song
Helene Smith / Pot Can’t Talk About the Kettle / Blue Star / Miami 1963 

Friday, July 13, 2012

Reina (My Lovely Playlist)




Coffeetime, July 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Cliff Craft / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57 
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra / Moten Swing / Victor / 12.13. 32 
Russ Columbo & his Orchestra / Living in Dreams / Victor / 6.16.32
Joe Thomas / Got to Have Her Lovin’ / King / Cincinatti 6.28.50
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Don’t Explain / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Time After Time / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Goin Home / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Paul Robeson / Lazy Bones / Victor / 1933
Mabel Scott / No More Cryin’ Blues / Coral / 5.22.51 
Sergio Franchi / Sings in Italian: Il Fantastico! / Gringo / 4 Corners of the World / Italy 1962

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / The Mercenary / Blue Note / 10.10.69 
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Gut Soul / Prestige Swingville [unissued] / 3.7.60
Jimmy Forrest / Coach 13 / United / 11.27.51 
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / You’ll Never Know / Standard transcription / 1943 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Reina (My Lovely Queen) / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = The Enchanters
Jimmy Witherspoon / The Day Is Dawning / Federal [unissued?] / LA 9.30.52

set 4
Lennie Neihaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Have You Met Miss Jones / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
Hoagy Carmichael / Memphis in June / V-Disc 550 / Hollywood 8.13.45 
Anita O'Day / This is Anita / Fine and Dandy / Verve / LA 12.6.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra 
Wynona Carr / Act Right / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.55 
Golden Gate Quartet / Gospel Train / NBC Thesaurus radio program #979 / 1941

last soulful song
The Fuzz / Leave It All Behind Me / Calla / 1971

Friday, July 06, 2012

The Playlist Becomes You




Coffeetime, July 6, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / The Baghdad Blues / Blue Note / 8.29.59 
Red Garland / All Mornin’ Long / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Prestige / 11.15.57 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / A Stranger in Paree / Victor / 4.13.38 / from Gold Diggers of Paris 
Floyd Dixon / Lovin’ / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 
Frances Faye / I'm Wild Again / He’s Funny That Way / Bethlehem / LA 1955 

set 2
Joe Henderson / Page One / La Mesha / Blue Note / 6.3.63 
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Easy to Remember / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55 
Candy & Coco / China Boy / Vocalion / LA 9.19.34
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Decca / The Hague, Netherlands 2.4.35
Bing Crosby / Moonlight Becomes You / Decca / Hollywood 6.12.42 / with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra, from Road to Morroco
Memphis Slim / Living Like a King / Peacock / Houston 1952

set 3
Bobby Timmons / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Easy Does It] / Pretty Memory / Riverside / 3.13.61 
Charlie Rouse / Yeah. / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Epic / 12.21.60
Ramp Davis / Bayou Bounce / Modern / LA 1951
Harry James & his Orchestra / You Go to My Head / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
The 5 Royales / With All Your Heart (aka Put Something in It) / Apollo / c. 5.54 
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Here’s That Rainy Day / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66 

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Crazy Rhythm / Riverside / 3.7.57 
Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Squeeze Me / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.24.44
Ann Cole / Brand New House / Sir / 1960
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / A Garden in the Rain / Mercury / Hollywood 2.18.64
Sallie Martin Singers / God Is a Battle Ax / Specialty demo / Hollywood 8.16.50

last soulful record
The Four Singing Avalons / She’s My Woman, She’s My Girl / Atco / 1968