Friday, November 22, 2013

Hoe Cake, Playlist, and Sassafras Tea



Coffeetime, November 22, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / I Get a Kick Out of You / EmArcy / Hollywood 8.5.54 
Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland / Little Beaver / EmArcy / 8.12.55 
Ray Noble & his New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Pied Piper of Hamelin / HMV / London 12.4.31 / vocal = Al Bowlly 
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Listen, Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant & Cappy Oliver
June Christy / Something Cool / The Night We Called It a Day / Capitol / Hollywood 1953 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra

set 2
Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / How Deep Is the Ocean / Prestige / 9.7.56 
The Ramblers / My Sweetie Went Away / Decca / London 5.23.33
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Diga Diga Doo / Victor / 11.15.28 / vocal = Ozie Ware & Irving Mills
The Four Blues / The Vegetable Song / Apollo / 12.17.47 
Phil Harris / That’s What I Like About the South / Woodman, Spare that Tree / RCA Victor / 1947

set 3
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Foreign Intrigue / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58 
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Travelin’ / Verve / 7.25.63 
Charlie Parker / Barbados / Savoy / live, The Royal Roost 2.12.49 
Connee Boswell / Gay Ranchero / Decca / Hollywood 5.27.41 
The Four Vagabonds / Hoe Cake, Hominy, and Sassafras Tea / Apollo / 11.13.46 
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / Let Me Love You / Impulse! / 9.24.64

set 4
The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging Guys and Dolls / I’ve Never Been in Love Before / Columbia / 10.27.59 
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / Four and One More / Prestige / 4.8.49 
Fats Waller / Birmingham Blues / Okeh / 10.22 
Sherman “Blues” Johnson & his Clouds of Joy / Sugar Mama / Trumpet / Memphis 9.30.52 
Jerry Orbach & Company / Cast Recording of “The Fantasticks" / Try to Remember / MGM / 6.13.60
The Southern Sons / Rest for the Weary / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soulful song
Marva Whitney / Don’t Let Our Love Fade Away / Excello / Kansas City 1973




Friday, November 15, 2013

The Murphy Playlist



Coffeetime, November 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night at Birdland, volume 2 / Quicksilver (take 2) / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54 
James Clay & David "Fathead" Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Riverside / 4.26.60 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra (also issued under pseudonyms Chester Leighton & his Sophomores and Golden Terrace Orchestra) / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Eddie Walters 
Mabel Smith (Big Maybelle) / Dirty Deal Blues / King [unissued] / Cincinnati late 1947 
Peggy Lee / Black Coffee / (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young / Decca / 5.4.53 

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / All Alone / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / I’m Old Fashioned / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55 
Mills Brothers / I Found the Thrill Again / Decca / 9.15.36 / Harry Mills solo
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Camille Howard / Within This Heart of Mine / Specialty / Hollywood 1.26.50
Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Murphy Man / Blue Note / 9.29.66  
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Lisa / Riverside / 11.16.60 
Gene Ammons / Tenor Eleven / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 5.2.50
Cats & the Fiddle / That’s All I Mean to You / Bluebird / Chicago 7.31.40 
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Compared to You / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Boar-Jibu / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Yellow Dog Blues / Decca / 6.25.28
Dinah Washington / Mellow Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
T-Bone Walker / Inspiration Blues / Comet / LA 11.13.47
Ricky Nelson / More Songs by Ricky / Time After Time / Imperial / LA 4.12.60
Swan Silvertones / Singing in My Soul / Where Shall I Go? / Vee-Jay / 1960

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66


Friday, November 08, 2013

Playlist for Sale


Coffeetime, November 8, 2013 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
David Fathead Newman / Fathead / Sweet Eyes / Atlantic / 11.5.58 
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54 
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Countdown / Atlantic / 5.5.59 
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59 
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 


set 3 
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transciption / 10.28.43 
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 4 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra

set 5 
Stan Getz / Navy Blue / Roost / 8.15.51 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47

set 6 
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / LA 7.27.42
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45 
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 7
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song

Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58

Friday, November 01, 2013

Big Daddy Playlist


Coffeetime, November 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Miss Hazel / Blue Note / 6.25.60 
Matthew Gee / Jazz by Gee / Out of Nowhere / Riverside / 7.22.56
Freddie Green & his Kansas City Seven / Sugar Hips / Duke / 5.7.45 
Arthur Schutt / Lover Come Back to Me / Okeh / 3.28.29 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Reaching for Someone / Okeh / 5.22.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Black Magic / AFRS Jubilee #61 / LA 1.17.44
Kay Starr / I Cry By Night / What Do You See in Her / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Gerald Wiggins Music

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Come Sunday / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Ernie Felice / Cocktail Time / Solitude / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Jazz at the Philharmonic / Embraceable You / Mercury / Carnegie Hall 9.18.49 
Sophie Tucker / My Pet / Okeh / 3.9.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Don’t Hesitate Too Long / Decca / 10.3.47 / vocal = Annisteen Allen
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / Wives and Lovers / Reprise / LA 1964

set 3
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / Crash Program / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / In My Old Virginia Home (On the River Nile) / Impulse! / 4.25.62 
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Begin the Beguine / Savoy / 2.26.55 
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Gayten’s Nightmare / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1949
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Fiddle Diddle / Victor / 10.11.38
Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy / LA 1.11.50 / vocal = The Robins 
James Darren / No. 1 / Sophisticated Lady / Colpix / Hollywood 1959

set 4
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / Marable Eyes / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57 
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / Sorta Blue / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 
Jimmie Revard & his Oklahoma Playboys / Big Daddy Blues / Bluebird / Texas Hotel, San Antonio 10.26.36
The Orioles / Gettin' Tired Tired Tired / Jubilee / 1.17.52 
Elvis Presley / Anyway You Want Me / RCA Victor / Hollywood 9.1, 2, 3.56
The Bronzemen / Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again / Standard transcription / circa 9.39

last soulful song
Wallace Brothers / Thanks a Lot / Sims / 1967