Friday, October 25, 2013

The Playlist Situation


Coffeetime, October 25, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
The Jazztet / Big City Sounds / Bean Bag / Argo / 9.16, 19, 20.60
Dexter Gordon / Doin' Allright / For Regulars Only / Blue Note / 5.6.61 
Chocolate Dandies / Smack / Commodore / 5.25.40
Dick McDonough & Carl Kress / Danzon / Brunswick 1.31.34 
Boswell Sisters / Don’t Tell Him What Happened to Me / Okeh / LA 10.31.30 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Five Guys Named Moe / V-Disc 196 / LA 8.43
Hadda Brooks / Femme Fatale / Dream / Modern / Hollywood 1946

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / When Sunny Gets Blue / Impulse! / 6.4.63  
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Skylark / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62 (Christian McBride tells a Freddie Hubbard tale on The Moth)
Frank Wess / All My Life / Commodore / 8.12.54
Kansas City Stompers / Good Feelin’ Blues / Brunswick / Chicago 7.2.29
Georgia White / Daddy Let Me Lay It on You / Decca / Chicago 5.11.36 / with Les Paul
Mildred Bailey / Sunday, Monday, or Always / V-Disc 105B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson
Frankie Laine / Rockin' / West End Blues / Columbia / LA 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Groove / New Jazz / 3.22.60 
Art Blakey Big Band / Tippin’ (take 1) / Bethlehem [unissued] / 12.57 
Mills Brothers / Shoe Shine Boy / Decca / 6.23.36
Lou Preager & his Band / I Heard You Cried Last Night / Columbia / live, Hammersmith Palais, London c. 1943 / vocal = Edna Kaye & Paul Rich
Sammy Davis Jr / California Suite: Poor Little Extra Girl / Reprise / LA late 1963 / arranged by Marty Paich 

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / Happy Times / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56 
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Something Different / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66 
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire / Paramount movie “Blue Skies” / A Couple of Song and Dance Men / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.46 / with John Scott Trotter & his orchestra
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Swing Man / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Sammy Yates
Astrud Gilberto / I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do / World Stop Turning / Verve / 2.4.69
Rugged Cross Singers of Baltimore, Maryland / Try God / Gotham / 1955

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Groovy Situation / Mercury / Chicago 1970

Friday, October 18, 2013

A Pretty Girl Is Like a Playlist

Conte can break my windshield anytime

Coffeetime, October 18, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Old World, New Imports / Blue Note / 3.7.63
Clifford Brown / Hymn to the Orient / Blue Note / 8.28.53 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Second Balcony Jump / Bluebird / 3.19.42
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Wha’d Ja Do to Me? / Columbia / London 4.2.31 / vocal = Sid Buckman
Mabel Scott / Baseball Boogie / King / Cincinnati 3.25.50 
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Don’t Explain / EmArcy / 12.22.54 

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Serves Me Right / Riverside / 10.28.58 
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights, Volume 2 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58 
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Stormy Weather / radio transcription / 1946
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Sensation / Okeh / 9.27.28 / vocal = Rube Bloom 
Hildegarde / A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody / Columbia / London 1936 
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? / Decca / 1947 
Beny Moré / Yo No Fui / RCA Victor / Havanna 1940s

set 3
Terry Gibbs / Il Nutto / El Flippo / Limelight [Mercury] / 4.15.63 
Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / The Lion’s Roar / Blue Note / 10.20.61 
Leo Parker & his Mad Lads / Rolling with Parker (Rollin’ with Leo) / Gotham / 12.28.50 
Knites of Rhythm (aka The Southern Sons) / Baby Won’t You Fall in Love / Bluebird / 10.29.41 
Anita O’Day / Tennessee Waltz / 10.26.50 / London / with Ben Homer & his Orchestra
Bobby Darin / This is Darin / My Gal Sal / Atco / 5.12.59

set 3
Pete & Conte Candoli / The Candoli Brothers [Bell, Book & Candoli] / Old Devil Moon / Dot / LA 12.58
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Baseball Theme / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Sam Butera & the Witnesses / The Big Horn / Hey There / Capitol / Hollywood 1958
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Got a Bran’ New Suit / Electrola / 8.20.35 
Ann Cole / Each Day / Baton / 11.56 / with The Suburbans 
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé's California Suite / La Jolla / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich
The Southern Sons / Go Down Moses / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / I Ain’t Gonna Stop / AGP / Memphis 1968


Friday, October 04, 2013

Rock My Playlist Away


Coffeetime, October 4, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Prestige All-Stars / Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors / Interplay / Prestige / 3.22.57 
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Blue Concept / Columbia / 3.13.57 
Tram, Bix and Lang / For No Reason at All in C / Okeh / 5.13.27
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / That’s My Weakness Now / Columbia / 6.17.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby, Harry Barris, Al Rinker
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / This Is One Time, Baby (You Ain’t Gonna Two Time Me) / RCA Victor / LA 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / Shangri-La / Capitol / Hollywood 8.64

set 2
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / I Can’t Get Started / Prestige / live at The Five Spot 10.13.66 
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / My Ideal / Liberty / Hollywood / 11.25, 29.55 
Morris Lane / Stairway to the Stars / Coral / 5.15.52
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I’m Playing Solitaire / Victor / 12.6.38 / vocal = Quentin Jackson
Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / The Night Before Judgement Day / Savoy / 5.15.45 / duet with Harold Underhill
The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away / Gotham [unissued] / mid-1950s
Jimmy Smith / Ain’t That Love / Blue Note / 10.14.58 / vocal = Bill Henderson

set 3
Herbie Mann's Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Lady Bird / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Milt Jackson Sextet / Sweet and Lovely / Savoy / Chicago 2.48 
The Three Keys / Rasputin (That Highfalutin' Lovin' Man) / Brunswick / 4.6.33
Jane Froman / Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! / Columbia / 1941 
Earl Coleman with Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / My Ideal / Prestige / 12.7.56 

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica [also issued as West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi] / The Things We Did Last Summer / Hi Fi Jazz / LA 5.26.57 
Stan Getz / ’S Wonderful / Roost / 12.10.50 
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Wind Bag / Prestige / 12.3.54 
Noel Coward / Noel Coward New York / I Wonder What Happened to Him (Indian Army Officer) / Columbia / 1956
Betty Everett / I’ll Be There / One-derful! / 1963
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Hytones / Bigger and Better / A-Bet / 1967