Friday, September 27, 2013

Oh! You Sweet Playlist



Coffeetime, September 27, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / November Afternoon / Philips / 4.25.63
Jerome Richardson / Midnight Oil / Minorally / New Jazz / 10.10.58 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / V-Disc 315B / 11.9.43
Secco's Gitanos / Three Little Words / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.37
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues / United Artists / 7.58

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Nothin' But the Truth! / But Beautiful / Prestige / 12.13.66 
Urbie Green / [Slidin’ Swing] / I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / Vanguard [Jazztone] / 8.17.54 
Fats Navarro / Jazz at the Philharmonic / The Things We Did Last Summer / Carnegie Hall 1949 
Billy Banks / Oh! You Sweet Thing / Victor / 8.18.32 / with members of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Delta Rhythm Boys / Georgia on My Mind / transcription / 1941
Gene Kelly & Georges Guetary / soundtrack to American in Paris / S’Wonderful / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 7.25.50

set 3
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Lover / Savoy / 1.23.56 
Oscar Pettiford / South Pacific Jazz / Oh Lady Be Good (Guamania) / Savoy / USO tour, Guam 1.17.52 
The Charioteers / So Long / transcription / 1942
June Christy  / Hey, Lawdy Papa (47th Street Jive) / Capitol radio transcription / Hollywood 12.45 / with The Kentones 
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / The Funky Shepherds / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58 
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Cheerful Little Earful / Contemporary / 10.15.56 
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Moonlight in Vermont / Tampa / LA 1954
Jerome Richardson / (Follow the Sun On) Highway 101 / Oakland 1945
Frank Sinatra / The Things We Did Last Summer / Columbia / Hollywood 7.24.46 
Jackie DeShannon / This Is Jackie DeShannon / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Imperial / LA 3.17.65
The Trumpeteers / Don’t You See / CBS radio broadcast / 5.9.50

last (soulful) song
Joe Bataan / Singin’ Some Soul / Crystal Blue Persuasion / Fania / 1971


Friday, September 20, 2013

A Playlist is a Sometime Thing


Coffeetime, September 20, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / The Prophet / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56 
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Hidden Channel / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55 
Sam Coslow / You’re a Real Sweetheart / Victor / 8.14.28 
Lil Green / My Mellow Man / Bluebird / Chicago 1.21.41 
Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / How Long Has This Been Going On / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / Thursday’s Theme / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Red Garland / Volume 1 / Prestige Moodsville / Softly Baby / 12.11.59 / with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 
J.C. Higginbotham / Weary Land Blues / Blue Note / 4.7.39 
Ruth Etting / A Poor Ex-Wife / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1930
Cab Calloway & his Cab Jivers / Your Voice / Bluebird / Chicago 8.18.49
Dean Martin / September Song / live broadcast, The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show on NBC-TV / 7.26.49  
Chuck Willis / Bless her Heart / Columbia / 1.26.55

set 3
Milt Jackson / Bags Meets Wes! / S.K.J. / Riverside / 12.19.61 
Wardell Gray / Bernie’s Tune / Xanadu: personal recording: Bob Andrews Archive / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Feelin’ High and Happy / RCA Victor / 4.22.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
The Prisonaires / I Know / Sun / Memphis 10.17.53 
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / LA 7.23.57 

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Steve Allen Theme / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Velvet Eyes / Mercury / live at Joe Pasternak's house, Hollywood 3.24.58 
Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans / Energy & Motion / E-lec-tri-city / Motivation Records / 1961 / with Tony Mottola & Orchestra
Sammy Davis Jr. / Porgy and Bess / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Decca / LA 10.28.58 
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Troubled, Lord I’m Troubled / Columbia / 12.49

last (soulful) song
Archie Bell & the Drells / Go for What You Know / Atlantic / Philadelphia 11.1.68

Friday, September 13, 2013

Think a Little Playlist



Coffeetime, September 13, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Melody for C [alt take] / Blue Note / 11.13.61 
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / Together We Wail / Prestige / 1.20.56 
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace Kirby “Saxie” Dowell
Buck and Bubbles / Breakfast in Harlem / Columbia / London 10.5.36
Laurel Watson / Honey in a Hurry / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Sextette
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Detour Ahead / Riverside / 12.23.60 

set 2
Sonny Criss / Crisscraft / All Night Long / Muse / Hollywood 2.24.75 
John Coltrane / The Coltrane Legacy / Untitled Original (To Her Ladyship) / Atlantic / 5.25.61 
Blind Willie Dunn aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson / Blue Room / Okeh / 1929 
The Ramblers / Chinatown, My Chinatown / Decca / London 11.9.32 / vocals = Eddy Meenk, Wim Poppink, & Jac Pet
Little Esther / Hollerin’ and Screamin’ / Federal / LA 7.25.52 
Chuck Jackson / Soul Brother’s Twist / Wand / live, Apollo Theater (probable) 1965

set 3
Max Roach [Booker Little] / Award-Winning Drummer [Jazz Series, Vol. 8] / Gandolfo’s Bounce / Time / 11.4.58 
Stanley Turrentine / Stan "The Man" Turrentine / Stolen Sweets / Time / 1959
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker / Klaunstance [original take 1] / Savoy / Detroit 12.21.47 
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Words of Love / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National / 1.50 
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Two Different Worlds / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66 

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Doozy / Impulse! / 11.15.61 
Andy Iona & The Islanders / Summer Time Girl / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1939 / vocal = Hilo Trio
Mae West / I Want You, I Need You / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.7.33
Sam Cooke / For Sentimental Reasons / Keen / Hollywood 1957
The Soul Stirrers / I’m So Happy in the Service of the Lord / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last (soulful) song:

Barbara Lewis / Think a Little Sugar / Atlantic / Chicago 1962 / with the Dells


Friday, September 06, 2013

Ain't That Just Like a Playlist



Coffeetime, September 6, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / 1958: Paris Olympia / Justice / Fontana / live, Paris 12.17.58 
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That's Right! / You Leave Me Breathless / Riverside / 8.9.60 
Reb Spikes’ Majors & Minors / My Mammy’s Blues / Columbia / LA 10.15.27 
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Two Sleepy People / HMV / London 12.3.38 / vocal = Al Bowly
Ben Smith / Blackstick Boogie / Apollo / 10.46
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss “D” / I’ll Close My Eyes / EmArcy / 12.6.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra 

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Manne-Hole, volume 1 / How Could It Happen to a Dream / Contemporary / live, Shelly’s Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 
Hal McKusick / Bird Feathers / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / Prestige / 12.27.57 
Paul Desmond / Paramount movie Advise and Consent / Advise and Consent / RCA Victor / 3.15.62 with overdubbed solo recorded 3.19.62
The Comedian Harmonists / Ah, How Is It Possible! (Ach wie ist’s möglich denn?) / Electrola / Berlin 1.9.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Ain’t That Just Like a Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time) / Decca / LA 9.46 
Mabel Mercer / Merely Marvelous / You Fascinate Me So / Atlantic / 1.11.60 / with The Jimmy Lyon Trio 

set 3
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Rosetta / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60 
Slide Hampton Orchestra / Well, You Needn’t / Epic / 4.9.62 
Charlie Parker / Sippin’ at Bells [first take 3/alt take 4] / Savoy / 8.14.47 
Mildred Bailey / Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Ram) / Columbia / 1.5.40 / duet with Roy Eldridge
The 5 Red Caps / Tuscaloosa / Beacon / LA 7.43 
Jimmy Witherspoon / Spoon / It Only Happens Once / Reprise / LA 1961

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Slappy’s Tune / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 
Teddy Charles / On Campus: Ivy League Jazz Concert / Too Close for Comfort / Bethlehem / live, Yale 11.21.59 
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / September Song / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53 
Walter Huston / from movie Knickerbocker Holiday / September / United Artists / Hollywood 1944 
Edward Winter / Original Broadway Cast Album for Promises, Promises / Wanting Things / United Artists / 1968
Swan Silvertones / Move Up / Vee Jay / Chicago 12.57

last soulful song
Belita Woods / That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You / Karen / Detroit 7.69