Friday, May 31, 2013

(Gotta Get Some) Playlist




Coffeetime, May 31, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Blues Inn / Blue Note / 1.18.59 
Julian Priester / Keep Swingin' / Julian’s Tune / Riverside / 1.11.60 
Benny Carter & his Harlem Club Orchestra / Symphony in Riffs / Columbia / 10.16.33 
Annette Hanshaw / I Hate Myself (For Falling in Love with You) / Harmony / 4.30.29 
Floyd Dixon / Call Operator 210 / Aladdin / Hollywood 2.12.52 
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / What’s New / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Valaida [Snow], Queen of the Trumpet / I Wish I Were Twins / Parlophone / London 1.18.35 / with Billy Mason & his Orchestra
Donald Novis / Deep Purple / radio transcription / Hollywood 1939
Toni Harper / The Dish Rag (Rub a Dub Dub) / Columbia / Hollywood 5.31.50 / with Manny Klein’s Dixieland Band
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Snaggle Tooth Ruth / King / Cincinnati 9.28.50

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Judyful / Savoy / 6.7.60  
Rene Hall / Two Guitar Boogie / RCA Victor / 3.10.53 
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Cherokee / Savoy / 1.31.49 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (Gotta Get Some) Shut-eye / Victor / 2.1.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Bill Johnson & Musical Notes  / Let’s Be Sweethearts Again / RCA Victor / 1947 / “vocal refrain by Gus Gordon & Quartet” 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They All Laughed / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / On Mike / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55 
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Evil Eyes / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 
Ida James / No Love, No Nothing / MacGregor Transcription / LA 5.10.44 / with the King Cole Trio
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / I Come From New York / RCA Victor / 4.30.47
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA / LA 1957
Rising Star Gospel Singers / His Eyes Are on the Sparrow / Pacific / Berkeley 8.46 

last soulful song
Lou Johnson / Walk On By / Big Top / 1966

Friday, May 24, 2013

Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit Bag



Coffeetime, May 24, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60 
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53 
Buster Bailey & his Chocolate Dandies / Call of the Delta / Vocalion / 12.28.34 
Russ Columbo / I See Two Lovers / Brunswick [unissued] / LA 8.31.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra 
Little Esther [Phillips] / Cherry Wine / Federal / Cincinnati 3.11.53
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / How Can You Face Me / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 2
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Serenity / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy / 9.29.55 
George Van Eps / Once in a While / Jump / Hollywood 6.19.49 
Sophie Tucker / I’m the Last of the Red Hot Mamas / Victor / Hollywood 3.25.29
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / Cincinnati 12.20.45
Seymour Rechtzeit & Sam Medoff / Surrey Mit a Fringe afn Top; Oy, S’iz a Sheyne Fremorgn / radio broadcast, WEVD / 1948
Earl Gaines / Little Boy Blue / Starday-King [unissued] / Cincinnati late-1960s

set 3
Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Stuffy / Blue Note / 10.20.61 
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Ornithology / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / Coastin’ with J.C. / Apollo / 5.48
The Five Red Caps / Gabriel’s Band / Beacon / 10.44 
Ella Mae Morse / Mr. Five By Five / radio broadcast, Command Performance #40 / Hollywood 11.3.42 
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / The Way You Look Tonight / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Frank Rosolino / Swing Not Spring / Sweet and Lovely / Savoy / Detroit 9.52 
Bob Crosby & his V-Disc Bobcats / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (And Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil!) / Navy V-Disc #260-A / 4.3.45
Viola Watkins / It Must Be Love / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952
The Pilgrim Travelers / I’m Going Through [take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Hush Little Baby / Atco / 1964

Friday, May 17, 2013

Old Fashioned Playlist



Coffeetime, May 17, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out / Blue Note / 2.9.58 
Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Philly Mignon / Blue Note / 12.27.62 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Savage / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Move Your Hand Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Lonely Woman / Impulse! / 9.18.63 

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Velvet Moon / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Ballad to the East / Savoy / 7.9.57 
Barney Kessel / The Man I Love / Rex / 6.7.45
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Miss Liza / Odeon / Paris 5.3.32 
Het Ramblers Quintet aka The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Zuiderzee Blues / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 11.15.38
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / The Peanut Vendor / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Nat King Cole / A Mis Amigos / Fantastico / Capitol / Rio de Janeiro 1959

set 3
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Time’s Up / Time / 1.19.60 
Kenny Clarke / Detroit Jazz Men / You Turned the Tables on Me / Savoy / 5.9.56 
Max Roach / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49 
The Mills Brothers / The Song Is Ended / Decca / 6.13.38 / with Louis Armstrong
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Just a Gigolo / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Stumpy Brown
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve 9.27.66 

set 4
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Old Fashioned Love / Contemporary / LA 6.11.57 
Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Bugle Blues / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57
Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Oopy Doo / EmArcy / 12.19.51 
Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Harris / Camelot [movie soundtrack] / What Do the Simple Folk Do? / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 1967
The Gospel Harmonettes / Camp Meeting / Now I’m Ready / Vee Jay / 1963 

last soul song

Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965 

Friday, May 03, 2013

Grant Avenue Playlist



Coffeetime, May 3, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57 
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / The Goof and I / Capitol / Hollywood 3.14.56  
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Collegiate / Edison Diamond Disc / 6.23.25  
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Three Little Words / Victor / 8.20.30 / vocal = The Rhythm Boys: Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Girl Fifteen / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / vocal = Floyd Dixon & Mari Jones
Dinah Washington / My Song / Mercury / Chicago summer 1952 / with Jimmy Cobb Orchestra

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Savoy / 12.17.59 
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #1: Night and Day / I Can’t Get Started / Clef / 3.25.52 
Freddy Johnson & Lex Van Spall & their Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me (take 2) / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 11.29.34 / vocal = Rosie Poindexter
Bing Crosby & the Rhythmaires / Love Is So Terrific / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time #63 / Hollywood 3.31.48 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 
Ann Cole / I'm Waiting for You / Baton / 1956 

set 3
Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / You’ve Changed / Prestige / 1.31.68 
Manny Albam & his Orchestra / More Double Exposure / Rio Rita; I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / RCA Victor / 1961
Red Prysock & his Orchestra / Rock 'n' Roll / Happy Feet / Mercury / 3.26.54 
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Blue Boogie / transcription / 1945
Harry James & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Night / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Grant Avenue Suite / Fantasy / San Francisco 1958
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3 / Who Cares / Offbeat / 9.60 
Eddie Bush & his Society Islanders / Nami Waimea / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s
Conrad Johnson & his Orchestra / Howling on Dowling / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 
Tom Jones / Tom Jones Live! At The Talk of the Town / Land of a Thousand Dances / Parrot / London 1967 
The Soul Stirrers / The Lord Laid his Hands on Me / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Spend a Little Time / Atlantic / Chicago 1963 / with the Dells