Friday, March 22, 2013

My Playlist Waits (O Meu Playlist Espera)



Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Where You At? / Blue Note / 7.8.60 
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 10.25.54 
Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / The Stroller / Blue Note / 8.21.54 
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Wabash Blues / Victor / Kansas City, Missouri 12.13.27 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon 
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I Can’t Go for You / Decca / 3.12.40 / vocal = Red Richards 
Mari Jones / It Just Wasn’t True / Modern / Hollywood c. 1953 / with Johnny Moore’s Blazers 

set 2
Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Serenade in Blue / Epic / 1956
Duke Jordan / Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet / Sultry Eve / Signal S / 10.10.55 
Lee Konitz / Duet for Saxophone and Guitar / Prestige / 3.13.51 
Art Tatum Trio / Exactly Like You / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36
Chris Connor / Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Rock On! / Mercury / 1.3.57 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) / Blue Note / 9.13.67 
Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Ko-Ko / Argo / Chicago 1960
Charlie Parker / The Jazz Scene / The Bird / Clef / Carnegie Hall 12.47 
The Mills Brothers / Darling Nelly Gray / Decca / 4.7.37 / with Louis Armstrong 
Maxine Sullivan / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / 8.28-30.55 

set 4
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / The Floater / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 
Stan Levey / West Coasting / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54 
King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47
Mae West / They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk / Brunswick / 1933
Little Milton [Campbell] / Spring / Checker / Chicago 2.69
Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Decca / 2.21.41

last soul song
Leon Haywood / It’s Got to Be Mellow / Decca / 1968

Friday, March 15, 2013

A Certain Kind of Playlist


Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59 
Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / Blue Dots / Prestige / 5.10.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / How High the Moon / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56 
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / After School Swing Session (Swinging with Symphony Sid) / Decca / 1940
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / When Your Lover has Gone / Blue Note / 12.21.58 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / More than You Know / Riverside / 5.28.63 
Blu Lou [Louisa Dupont ] Barker with Danny Barker’s Fly Cats / I Don’t Dig You, Jack / Decca / 11.17.39 
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Stop, You’re Breaking My Heart / radio transcription / late 1930s / vocal = Stan Noonan
Noel Coward / Noel Coward New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Portrait of Wes / Dangerous / Riverside / 11.27.63 
Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Macedonia / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unreleased] / 8.50
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Don’t Do Something to Someone Else / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Dedicated to You / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 
Frank Foster / No Count / Casa de Marcel / Savoy / 3.7.56 
Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / The Old Man of the Mountain / radio broadcast / 1933 
Elmore James / Coming Home / Vee Jay / 1957
Dionne Warwick / Make Way for Dionne Warwick / Reach Out / Scepter / 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Dip Your Fingers in the Water / Okeh / 2.25.42

last soulful song
The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Certain Kind of Lover / Uni / LA 1970

Friday, March 08, 2013

Playlist Lullaby


Coffeetime, March 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Russian Lullaby / Prestige / 2.7.58 
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58 
Paul Fenoulhet with The Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / Swingin’ on Lennox Avenue / HMV / London late 1940s
Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
The Robins / Rockin’ / Modern / LA 3.51 
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / How Deep Is the Ocean / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]  
The Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, Vol 1 / Alone Together / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / These Foolish Things / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56 
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Come On Let’s Boogie / Freedom / Houston c. 4.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Swings Lightly / Gotta Be This or That / Verve / LA 11.23.58 

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Miss Fine / Verve / 3.26.63 
Curtis Fuller & Tommy Flanagan / Jazz… It’s Magic! / Soul Station / Savoy / 9.5.57 
Charlie Parker / East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) / WNBC Hear America Swingin’ broadcast / live, Birdland 8.27.54
The Spirits of Rhythm / That’s What I Hate About Love [That’s What I Like About You] / Brunswick / 1934 
Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Charles Brown / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Aladdin / LA 12.21.50 

set 4
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / A Nice Day / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58
Barney Kessel / Carmen / If You Dig Me / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie / soundtrack to MGM movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / No You, No Me / Hollywood 1943
Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / I Love Being Here with You / Epic / 4.19-21.61
Swan Silvertones / Is God Satisfied with Me? / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song
Baby Washington / I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face / Sue / 1962

Friday, March 01, 2013

Playlist Is Going to Ruin Me



Coffeetime, March 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / The Quest / We Diddit / New Jazz / 6.27.61 
John Coltrane / [7105] / Straight Street / Prestige / 5.31.57 
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of '67 / I’m Coming, Virginia / Impulse! / 2.15.67 
Jackie Souders Orchestra / Maybe Sometime / Columbia / LA 2.16.27  / vocal = Walton McKinney
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Old Swing Master / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra 
Dinah Washington / In Love / I Didn’t Know About You / Roulette / 1962

set 2
Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / 7.58 
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964 
Max Roach / Max Roach + Four on the Chicago Scene / My Old Flame / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58 
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Medley: Rainbow; Silver Bells / radio transcription / 1945
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / What’s the Use? / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 
The Flamingos / Jump Children aka Vooit-Vooit / Chance / Chicago 12.24.53 

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Cross Fire / EmArcy / 10.5.51 
Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Back to Back / Victor / 6.1.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Four Aces / I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder, part 2 / Trilon / Oakland 12.46 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56 

set 4
Conte & Pete Candoli / Two for the Money / Willow Weep for Me / Mercury / LA 1959 
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / No Such Luck / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Sax Gill / Dancer’s Delight / Gotham / 1950
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / It Seems Like Old Times / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Wayne King & his Orchestra / Time Was / Victor / 6.21.41 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Jackie Wilson / The Greatest Hurt / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1.21.62
Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down / Coral / San Francisco 1952

sat soulful song
The Admirations / Wait Till I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1.14.63