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