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