Friday, December 26, 2014

Playlist Hoot



Coffeetime, December 26, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Parlan / On the Spur of the Moment / Skoo Chee / Blue Note / 3.18.61
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / That’s Right, I’m Wrong / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Jitterbug / Bluebird / 1.22.34
Joe Swift / Crazy ’Bout Your Cookin’ / Exclusive / LA 1948 / with Johnny Otis Band
Nancy Wilson / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 11.11.63

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Where Are You? / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Mad About the Boy / Savoy / 1.19.56
Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / Genevieve / Angel / 1953 
Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Missy / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars / Boston 1952
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Let It Roll Again / King / 5.50 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble 
Hermione Gingold & Maurice Chevalier / Yes, I Remember It Well  / MGM movie Gigi / Hollywood fall 1957
Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Mickey’s New Year / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

set 3
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / 63rd Street Theme / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Bob Brookmeyer / Bob Brookmeyer and Friends / Jive Hoot / Columbia / 5.26, 27.64
Ruby Braff / Flaky / Storyville / Boston 1955
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947  
The Ravens / Count Every Star / National / 3.50
Billy Eckstine / Temptation / MGM / Hollywood 1949

set 4
Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / Show Me / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Sunday Jazz á la Lighthouse, Vol. 1 / Morgan Davis / Contemporary / live, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA 1953
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Blue Moon / Duke / Memphis 1962
Golden Gate Quartet / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Columbia / 6.5.46

last soulful song

The Incredibles / I’ll Make It Easy  (If You’ll Come On Home) / Audio Arts! / Hollywood 1966 

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Wanted, $10,000.00 Playlist

Toy box: ready to play.

Burnt Biscuits, December 20, 2014, Angelynn Grant, filling in for John Funke

set 1
Larry Williams / You Bug Me, Baby / Specialty
Jesse Lee Turner / Shake, Shake, Shake / Carlton
Bobby Darin / Bullmoose / Atco
Beginners Guitar / Don Rainey / none on label
Ricky Nelson / Waitin' in School / Imperial
David Seville / Almost Good / Liberty
Ernie Freeman / Puddin' / Imperial
Charlie Drake / She's My Girl / United Artists

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles / bed

set 2
Chubby Checker / Popeye the Hitchhiker / Parkway
Ernie K-Doe / Wanted $10,000.00 Reward / Minit
Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin' and Kissin' / Joy
Faye Adams / It Hurts Me to My Heart / Warwick
Baby Cortez / Getting Right / Chess
The Drifters / Rat Race / Atlantic

The String-A-Longs / Wheels / Warwick / bed

set 3
Maxine Brown / My Life / ABC-Paramount
The Van Dykes / You're Shakin' Me Up / Mala
France Gall / Et des Baisers / Philips
The Ventures / 007-11 / Dolton
Steps of Stone / Keep Away from Me / Hope

Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O-Soul [instr] / Ric-Tic / bed

set 4
The Flamingos / Boogaloo Party / Philips
The Sandpebbles / Forget It / Calla
The Raeletts, featuring Vernita Moss / Leave My Man (Woman) Alone / TRC
Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celeste

last joyful song
The Penguins / Jingle Jangle / Mercury

Friday, December 19, 2014

The Playlist Waltz


I love this album cover so much!

Coffeetime, December 19, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed  
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947  
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orchestra and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972 
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957 
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965 

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / LA 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (Capitol Promo)  / Capitol / LA 9.17.47 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67


Friday, December 12, 2014

Merry Olde Playlist

Coffeetime, December 12, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57 
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Winter Weather / Okeh / Hollywood 11.27.41 / duet = Peggy Lee & Art Lund 
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Namely You / Riverside / 12.23.57
The Ramblers / 13th December Stomp / Decca / London 5.23.33
Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49 
Slim & Slam / It’s Gettin’ Kinda Chilly / Vocalion / 11.9.38
Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles 

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Sweet Honey Bee / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Sidewalks of New York / Atlantic / 3.16.49
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51 
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959 
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / The Man I Love / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50

Friday, December 05, 2014

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

A real entertainer saluting a real entertainer


Coffeetime, December 5, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Rhythm-A-Ning / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / Just in Time / Riverside / 6.11, 12, & 19.57
Cee Pee Johnson & his Orchestra / Swing Crazy; Theme: One O’Clock Jump / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.44 
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / I’ll Be Getting Along / HMV / London 10.24.29 / vocal = Billy Milton, directed by Carroll Gibbons
Floyd Dixon / Real Lovin’ Mama / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / duet with Mari Jones; with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Johnny Walks / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
George Wallington / I Married an Angel / Prestige / 5.25.53
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller
Jack Teagarden / Puttin’ and Takin’ / Brunswick / 7.19.39 
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / I’m Fer It / Urban / LA spring 1946
Otis Rush / Double Trouble / Cobra / Chicago 1958

set 3
Jackie McLean / Marney / Blue Note [unissued] / 2.11.63
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / Wonder Why / Prestige / 5.20.55
Machito & his Afro Cubans / 5: Roost Anniversary, volume 1 / Cubop City, part 1 / Roost / live broadcast, Royal Roost 1949
Delta Rhythm Boys / Do You Care / transcription / 1941
Una Mae Carlisle / You’re Gonna Change Your Mind / Joe Davis / 8.8.44
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Wives and Lovers / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor / Tune for Tex / Urania / c. 10.54 
Johnny Smith / Nice Work if You Can Get It / Roulette / 11.52
Ray Charles / I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now / Swing / LA 11.24.50
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Manhattan / RCA / LA 1957
Earl Gaines / The Door Is Still Open / DeLuxe / Hollywood 1968
Pilgrim Travelers / Gonna Walk Right Out / Specialty / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967

Friday, November 28, 2014

Der alte Playlist




Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Off to the Races / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Jackie McLean / Formidable / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Paul’s Bunion / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / My Ideal / Brunswick / Chicago 1.7.31 
Ivory Joe Hunter / Old Gal and New Gal Blues / King / Nashville 11.18.47 
Dinah Washington / For Those in Love / Easy Living / EmArcy / 3.16.55

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
Ike Quebec /  Easy Living / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Wild Dog / Victor / 10.7.30 
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / There’s Rhythm in the River / Victor / Camden, NJ 2.3.31
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / Robin Hood / V-Disc 300-B / 7.19.44
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / Guaglione / Epic / 1964

set 3
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / Our Love Is Here to Stay / EmArcy / 11.19.55
Wardell Gray / Grayhound / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
Ella Mae Morse / Robin Hood / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS Orchestra, arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern
The Ravens / Deep Purple / National / 1.27.49
Frank D’Rone / In Person / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Melancholy Madeline / Tampa  / 2.20.57 
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Autumn Leaves [alt take] / RCA Victor / 3.15.62
Machito & his Orchestra / 6/8 / Clef [Verve] / 12.21.50 / with Charlie Parker 
Comedian Harmonists / Der alte Cowboy (The Last Roundup) / HMV / Berlin 8.22.30 
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia  / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / People / Atlantic / 1966
Golden Gate Quartet / Noah / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Major Lance / Since You’ve Been Gone / Dakar / 1969

Friday, November 21, 2014

Home in My Playlist

Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
Hank Mobley / Poppin’ / East of Brooklyn / Blue Note / 10.20.57
Miff Mole & his Little Molers / My Gal Sal / Okeh / 9.1.27 
Geraldo & his Savoy Hotel Orchestra / You’ve Done Something to My Heart / Columbia / London 2.12.39 / vocal = Gwen Jones
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Mop-Mop / Decca / 3.15.44
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / Blue Moods / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Never Never Land / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Without You / Blue Note / 7.8.60
Charlie Parker / Meandering [partial take 1] / Savoy / 11.26.45
Fats Waller / Georgia on My Mind / Victor / 5.13.41 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / My Sweet Tooth Says I Wanna (But My Wisdom Tooth Says No) / Bluebird / 7.31.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Four Blazes / Man, That’s Groovy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44 
Fred Astaire / If Swing Goes, I Go Too / movie soundtrack, Ziegfeld Follies [edited out of final movie] / Hollywood 1945
Ann Cole / Nobody But Me / Sir / 1959 

set 3
Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Hip Tip / Prestige / 5.2.58
Pete Brown’s All-Star Quintet / I May Be Wrong / Keynote / 7.19.44 
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time / radio broadcast / San Francisco 4.25.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The Charioteers / Sweet and Low / I Can’t Get Started / Columbia / 6.9.47
Mel Tormé & Margaret Whiting / Broadway, Right Now! / Medley: Far Away from Home; Angelina / Verve / 1960

set 4
Curtis Counce / [Sonority] / Bella Rosa / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica [also issued as West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi] / Linger Awhile / Hi Fi Jazz / LA 5.26.57
Cleo Brown / Swingin’ on the Swanee Shore / Decca / prob late 1935, early 1936
Frank Sinatra / Over the Rainbow / dress rehearsal for CBS radio show, The Frank Sinatra Show, V-Disc / 1.2.46 / with the Ken Lane Singers
Solomon Burke / Home in Your Heart / Atlantic / 1963
The Alphabetical Four / Go Down Jonah and Serve the Lord / Decca / 1.25.40

Friday, November 14, 2014

Land of the Blue Playlist

Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Mogie [unissued take 2] / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60
Prestige All Stars / Four Altos / Kokochee / Prestige / 2.9.57
Rex Stewart & his Orchestra / Linger Awhile / Bluebird / Chicago 11.2.40
Thelma Terry & her Playboys / When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin’ By / Columbia / 9.27.28 / vocal = Wayne Smith
Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers / C.O.D. / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1945
Lee Wiley / Lee Wiley with Billy Butterfield / A Touch of the Blues / Maybe You’ll Be There / RCA Victor / 7.24.57

set 2
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / Don’t Explain / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Mood / The Beginning / Savoy / 4.6.57 
Dizzy Gillespie / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / Paris 4.11.52
Eddie South  / Rhapsody in Blue / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee 86 / Hollywood summer 1944 / Master of Ceremonies = Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain du Melody’s Bar / Quatro Palomas / Columbia / Paris mid-summer 1932 / duet with Florentino Frontella
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
Sonny Thompson / Let’s Call It a Day / King / Cincinnati 1952 / vocal = Lula Reed

set 3
Art Farmer / Portrait of Art Farmer / By Myself / Contemporary / 4.19.58
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Land of the Blue Veils / Riverside / 5.4.59
Bud Powell / The Bud Powell Trio Plays / Bud’s Bubble  / Roost / 1.10.47
Maxine Sullivan / Loch Lomond / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 
The Toppers [Steve Gibson & the Red Caps] / Palace of Stone / Savoy / 12.8.44
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Capitol / 1957 

set 4
Bud Shank / Casa de Luz / Nocturne / Hollywood 1954 
Charlie Mariano / The Nymph / Fantasy / San Francisco 3.53
King Cole Trio / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / vocal = Ida James
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / I Ain’t Drunk / Aladdin / Hollywood summer 1954 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Dois Dias / A&M / Hollywood 1969
The Southern Sons / We'll Anchor Bye and Bye / V-Disc 147 / early 12.43

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

Friday, November 07, 2014

Got Playlist for Sale

Coffeetime, November 7, 2014, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
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 
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54 
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
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 / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

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
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Got a Penny / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.43

set 6 
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45 

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
Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Friday, October 24, 2014

There's Playlist in My Eyes


Coffeetime, October 24, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Touché / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Frank Foster / My Heart Stood Still / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
Noël Chiboust et son Orchestre / Le Sheik / Swing / Paris 10.22.40
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / It’s a Precious Little Thing Called Love / Victor / 4.8.29 
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Sing a New Song / Columbia / London 8.24.32 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Everything I Do Is Wrong / Specialty / LA 7.13.48
Morgana King / Winter of My Discontent / Who Can I Turn To / Ascot / 1964

set 2
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / Melancholy Mood / Blue Note / 8.29.59
Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / Tenderly / King / Cincinnati 1958
Lee Konitz / Roost 5th Anniversary Album [Originalee] / Ballad for Ruth / Roost / Paris 9.18.53 
The Lewis Bronzeville Five / Low Down Gal Blues / Bluebird / Chicago 4.11.40
The Orioles / Baby, Please Don’t Go / Jubilee / 9.6.51
Robert Morse / I Believe in You / original Broadway cast score to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / RCA Victor / 1961

set 3
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Inverness / Vergara / 1961
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Meetin’ Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Kai Winding / Roost 5th Anniversary Album [Kai Winding All Stars] / Sleepy Bop / Roost / 1950 
Anita O’Day / José Gonzalez / V-Disc 543B / August 1945 / with Gene Krupa & his Orchestra
The Robins / There’s Rain in My Eyes / National / LA 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band
Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / Back in Your Own Back Yard / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / I Wished on the Moon / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / Easy Living / Imperial / LA early 1956
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / September Song (take 2) / Tampa [unissued] / Hollywood 11.13.53 
Kay Starr / My Future Just Passed / Standard transcription / 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio with Joe Venuti
Little Esther & Mel Walker / Deceivin’ Blues / Savoy / 6.20.50 / with Johnny Otis Orchestra
BB King / Jump with Your Baby / RPM / LA 1955
Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down Before God / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soul song
The Class Mates aka The Coronadas / You Can Do Me Some Good / Bright Star / Chicago early 1967

Friday, October 17, 2014

A Peach of a Playlist

I played Kapps today, just not *this* Kapp!


Coffeetime, October 17, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / Don’t Stand Up / New Jazz / 10.30.59
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Midnight Mambo / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Pete Brown’s All-Star Quintet / That’s My Weakness Now / Keynote / 7.19.44 
Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / That’s My Weakness Now / Columbia / 7.3.28
Shorty Bates & his Texas Saddle Pals / You’re There / Mel-o-tone / Dallas late 1940s
Jimmy Forrest / Dig Those Feet / United [unissued] / 2.3.53 
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / How Long Has This Been Going On / Kapp / 1958

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / Passion Flower / New Jazz / 10.30.59
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Les Paul Trio / This Can’t Be Love / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / A Peach of a Pair / Victor / Hollywood 6.18.31 / vocal = Russ Columbo 
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Do You Want It? / Capitol / Kansas City 1949 
The Five Keys / I Took Your Love for a Toy / King / Cincinnati 8.18.59
Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum  / The Big Voice of / How Many More Times / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960 / 

set 3
Sonny Rollins / I’m an Old Cowhand [alt take] / Contemporary / LA 3.7.57
Pete Johnson / Buss Robinson Blues [alt take] / Solo Art / 4.16.39
The Charioteers / Stardust / transcription / 1942
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Gee, It’s Good to Hold You / V-Disc 584A / Hollywood 7.30.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / Now / medley: The Girl on the Magazine Cover; I Love to Quarrel with You; Along Came Ruth / Kapp / Hollywood 1959

set 4
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Mean to Me / Contemporary / LA 9.3.57
Kenny Burrell & Frank Wess / Jazz for Playboys / Pin Up / Savoy / 12.26.56
Lester Young / The Master’s Touch / Blues ’n Bells [take 2] / Savoy / 6.28.49 
Fats Waller / Baby Brown / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Stella Johnson / Please Tell Me So / KRC [Kent Records Corp] / 1.20.58
Bobby Darin / medley: This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Just in Time / live, Ed Sullivan Show 1962
Jubalaires / I Declare the World Is in a Bad Condition / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / Aware of Love / Vee Jay / 1961

Friday, October 10, 2014

There’s a Cabin in the Playlist


Coffeetime, October 10, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / A Peck a Sec / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Tin Tin Deo / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Don Byas / Melody in Swing / Super Disc / 9.12.45 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / HMV / London 7.13.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Linda Hopkins / Come Back Baby / Federal / Kansas City 2.9.56
Peggy Lee / Pete Kelly’s Blues / Bye, Bye Blackbird / Decca / Hollywood 5.10.55 

set 2
Jimmy Smith / House Party / Lover Man / Blue Note / 2.25.58 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Celedia / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Larry Adler / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / London 6.3.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Worry Blues / Brunswick / 12.26.34 / duet with George Brunies
Big Three Trio / Evening / Columbia / Chicago 12.30.47
Big Mama Thornton / The Fish / Peacock / Houston early 1955
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / 1972

set 3
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / Bedouin / Blue Note / 11.24.64
Phineas Newborn Jr / A World of Piano! / Oleo / Contemporary / 10.16.61
Charlie Parker / Charlie’s Wig / Dial / 12.17.47 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Skylark / Okeh / 11.25.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / Send for Me If You Need Me / National / 5.48
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / Early Autumn / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.24 & 25.62

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / In a Mellowtone / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19.56
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Tale of an African Lobster / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 
Big Maybelle / So Long / Savoy / 4.13.57
Frank Sinatra / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / Capitol / Hollywood 9.13.55
Golden Gate Quartet / Bye and Bye Little Children / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Ruby & The Romantics / Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore / Kapp / 4.65 

Friday, October 03, 2014

I Woke Up with a Playlist

Coffeetime, October 3, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Poppin’ / Gettin’ into Something / Blue Note / 10.20.57
Clifford Brown / Salute to the Bandbox / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Ridin’ and Jivin’ / Bluebird / 7.12.39
Annette Hanshaw / I Cover the Waterfront / Banner / 6.3.33 
Fred Astaire / soundtrack to Shall We Dance / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.37
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Thanks for the Memory / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

set 2
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / From Within / Riverside / 5.9.60
Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland / You Don’t Know What Love Is / EmArcy / 8.12.55
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Don’t Worry About Me / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55
Joe Venuti / Autumn Leaves / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Your Socks Don’t Match / Decca [unreleased take] / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Bing Crosby
The Treniers / This Is It / Okeh / LA 1.9.52
Sammy Davis, Jr. / I Gotta Be Me / I’m a Brass Band / Reprise / LA 2.1.68 

set 3
Shelly Manne & his Men / Play “Checkmate” / The King Swings / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61
Kenny Clarke / Jazz Men Detroit / Apothegm / Savoy / 5.9.56
Howard McGhee / High Wind in Hollywood / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Ella Logan & Spirits of Rhythm / I Woke Up with a Teardrop / Columbia / Hollywood 9.4.41
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Dedicated to You / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Friends, vol 1 / I Cover the Waterfront / Contemporary / LA 2.11.56
Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946
Mildred Bailey / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Brunswick / 6.6.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Lulu / New Routes / Where’s Eddie / Atco / Muscle Shoals 1970
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
Gil Scott-Heron / Real Eyes / Your Daddy Loves You / Arista / 1980

Remembering my Dad, Edgar Weston Grant

Edgar Weston Grant, 1932–2014

– Angelynn Grant

My friend and my father passed away on Saturday, September 20, 2014. It’s a tough, dual loss. We were friends always, like friends, sometimes disagreeing and taking pauses, but we never lost touch. I always looked forward to updating him on school, or friends, beautiful sunsets, or the mundane pet peeves of life.

His entry into this world made the newspapers. Back in 1932, the Cranston/Provience city line passed through the room at my grandparents’ house on Edgewood Boulevard where my dad was born. This caused quite a stir as the two deputy superintendents of health took two days to decide in which town his birth should be registered. There was a fairly large write up in the Journal and it became a public interest story all over the country. Just a few weeks ago, during some idle Googling, I found a Plattsburgh paper that used the article to fill a few column inches and, no doubt, give a good, old fashioned chuckle to its readers.

My dad loved his parents. I never heard him say one bad word about either one or about any punishment they may have had to deal out to him as a boy. My grandparents, maybe by design, spaced their three children roughly eight years apart: first Shirley, then my dad Eddie, and then Judy. This way, as my mom pointed out the other day, each child was doted on. My grandmother’s brother, my dad’s beloved uncle Eddie, and his wife Mamie took turns taking the older two on vacations with them and my dad recalled those trips with as much thrill and pride last year as he must have had back then. And, after his uncle Eddie passed away, Mamie became my dad’s movie matinee partner.

My dad became friends with the neighbor Armbrust boys and went to their church, St. Paul’s Lutheran. That started lifelong friendships with “the gang,” some of whom are here tonight. Not many people keep lifelong friends; it says a lot about all of them and their days in the Walther League – tales of which my siblings and I heard many times as kids.

My parents met at the Walther League. They were young when they married (19 and 20) and had an instant family with my adopted older sister Vickie and their new child one year later, Stephanie. And I wasn’t far behind.

My parents gave us a storybook childhood. Camping vacations, picnics, drive ins, birthday parties, and always a fun time in the backyard of what had been my Swedish great-grandparents’ house in Edgewood. They sacrificed a lot, yet still kept up with their friends from church, friends from square dancing, and all of our aunts, uncles, and cousins. Big family dinners and cookouts were common.

My dad went into the jewelry industry, no doubt influenced by many at St. Paul’s. He was celebrated at the end of his apprenticeship as a top apprentice. In addition, to support his young family, my dad enlisted in the Navy Reserves and had many moonlighting jobs. In the Reserves, he was a photographer and his buddy went on to a career at the National Geographic. My father got to meet a young Senator Jack Kennedy and his new wife Jackie at the base once. (Sadly, he wasn’t able to take a photo he could keep.)

One of his moonlighting jobs was as a photographer at The Celebrity Club, a hot jazz/pop club in Providence. Technically, “camera girls” took the photos, going around table to table, and my father would develop them in back. The darkroom was next to the entertainers’ dressing room and he met so many stars. The ones that always made an impression on me were Sarah Vaughn and the Treniers. He told me just a few months ago, how Sammy Davis Jr picked his brain about camera lenses and techniques, because Sammy was a photo buff himself. There, my parents got to see Patti Page, a big deal for a couple so young and working hard for every penny. They stayed huge fans of hers.

My dad was not just a skilled draftsman, making technical drawings for some machine part with precision pencils, he also was a gifted cartoonist. He could draw Donald Duck perfectly! He loved art everywhere, both musical and visual. We had all kinds of music playing in our house – the jazz/popular music like that from The Celebrity Club, country/hillbilly music from square dancing, and whatever rock and roll was coming along: Elvis, the Beatles, the Who – and my father never once said any type of music was bad. In 1985, he and I saw Bo Diddley and Carl Perkins in the same night. It was a nonjudgmental environment. Instead, he always tried to find out what *you* liked about something.

He loved visual art and he and I went to many gallery openings, like the small exhibit of the early 20th century photographer Alfred Stieglitz at Wheaton College in 1980 and many trips to the RISD museum.

He would point out the lovely purple flowers growing along the sides of the highway or the pretty “mackerel back” cloud formation in the sky – a sign of coming rain. When we were in Watch Hill, we always stayed to watch the sun dip below the horizon.

He was a great conversationalist and, although as a teen it may have made me blush, he would strike up conversation with any and every grocery store bagger. He loved to sing and had a great voice. He knew how to read music and we had always had a piano. So I read music almost as early as I learned to read words. He knew a good amount of German, again because of St. Paul’s with its large German congregation, and loved to sing out “O Tannenbaum.” He knew a smattering of Swedish from my grandmother, mostly confined to pepperkakker and other words for yummy foods.

We both loved basketball. I guess I did, because he did. We watched the Providence College Friars on TV when Jimmy Walker played and, starting when I was 11 years old, we went to games together, first at P.C. and then as season ticket holders in the Civic Center for the big championship seasons of the early ’70s. We had the best seats: it was a two-seat aisle all by itself, center court, not far up, across from the benches. Of course, we had the best. That was my dad.

He was good at playing sports, too. In his fifties, he became a golfing fiend – and got very good at it. He and I canoed a lot. He was so deft at maneuvering the canoe to the side of the river so I could nibble on wild blueberries or get us in the right position so I could scoop up golf balls off the coast of the Weekapaug golf course. Fishing for golf balls was a passion for us and we set a trend, drew competition, eventually from the course itself.

I’m grateful that, in his last few years, my sister Stephanie and I were able to help him live in his own home, in the way he wanted.

I’ll miss calling him and reading him this long speech. I’ll miss telling him about my projects and my clients, my neighbors and my pals, my car mechanic and my saint of a dentist. I was lucky. He was a one of a kind dad.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Strike While the Playlist's Hot




Coffeetime, September 12, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / The CA Quintet at the Lighthouse / Our Delight / Riverside [unissued] / Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach 10.16.60
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / 1239-A / Prestige / 12.17.63 
The Chocolate Dandies / Smack! / Commodore / 5.40
Ruth Etting / It’s Been So Long / Brunswick / 3.30.36
Flennoy Trio / My Honey Chile / Melodisc / LA 1944 
Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / St. Louis Blues / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / If I Loved You / Prestige [unissued] / 11.20.64
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Prelude to a Kiss / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Terry Gibbs / Michelle, parts 1 & 2 / New Jazz / 3.14.49
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / There’s a Wah-Wah Girl in Agua Caliente / Brunswick / Chicago 5.16.30 
Eartha Kitt / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Disques Swing/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.21.50 / with Doc Cheatham & his Trio
The Regals / Got the Water Boiling / Atlantic / 2.14.55 

set 3
Chet Baker / Comin’ On with The Chet Baker Quintet / No Fair Lady / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Charlie Parker / Love for Sale / Clef / 12.10.54
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Remember Me? / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
The Four Vagabonds / Coming In on a Wing and a Prayer / Bluebird / 5.26.43 
Jimmy Witherspoon / Witherspoon, Mulligan, Webster at the Renaissance / C. C. Rider / hifi jazz / LA late 1959 

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Long Ago and Far Away / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / There Will Never Be Another You / Liberty / LA 9.55
Walter Huston / from movie Knickerbocker Holiday / September / United Artists / Hollywood 1944 
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / Strike While the Iron’s Hot / Coral / 2.4.54 / arrangements by Don Redman
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Favela / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
The Dixie Nightingales / Hush Hush / Chalice / Memphis 1965

last soulful song
Wilson Picket / Don’t Knock My Love / Atlantic / 1971

Friday, September 05, 2014

Darn That Playlist

Coffeetime, September 5, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / The Prophet / Blue Note [cd bonus track] / 5.31.56
Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / Do I Love You / Warwick / 12.60
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Cruisin’ with Cab / NBC radio broadcast, “For the Record” / 9.18.44
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Livery Stable Blues / Columbia / 4.28.27 
Annette Hanshaw / Love Me Tonight / Banner / 6.3.33 
The Striders / Five O’Clock Blues / Apollo / 3.20.50
Sarah Vaughan / No Count Sarah / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / 8.6-8.57

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Star Brite / Blue Note / 8.4.60
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For All We Know / Riverside / 10.30.59
Bill Coleman & his Orchestra / The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down / Columbia / Paris 11.12.37
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Put It Away / Vocalion / 12.14.39 / vocal = Willie Smith
Helen Humes / Rock Me to Sleep / Discovery / Hollywood 5.9.50 / with Marshall Royal Combo 
Noel Coward / At Las Vegas / Medley: I’ll See You Again; Dance, Little Lady; Poor Little Rich Girl; A Room with a View; Someday I’ll Find You; I’ll Follow My Secret Heart; If Love Were All; Play, Orchestra, Play / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra

set 3
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / soundtrack to Paris Blues / Mood Indigo / United Artists / 5.2-3.61
John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz / My Shining Hour / Atlantic / 11.24.60
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Playboy’s Theme / RCA / 6.14, 17, 21.60 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Red Pepper / Savoy / 12.20.46  
June Christy / June’s Blues / transcription / 1946 / with the Kentones
The 5 Royales / How I Wonder / King / 1.55 
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / The Party’s Over / Reprise / Hollywood 7.19.61 / with Marty Paich & his Orchestra 

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / Summertime / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57 
Willie “The Lion” Smith / Passionette / Commodore / 1.10.39
Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / A Sailboat in the Moonlight / Vocalion / 6.15.37
Mariano Merceròn / Rumberos de Ayer / RCA / Mexico c. 1951 / vocal = Beny Moré
The Alphabetical Four / I Want Two Wings to Veil My Face / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
The Guilloteens / Don’t Let the Rain Get You Down / HBR / Hollywood 1965 

Friday, August 22, 2014

All This and Playlist Too



Coffeetime, August 22, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / The Twister / Prestige / 7.13.56
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Tempo and Swing / Victor / Chicago 2.26.40
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Memories of You / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Loumell Morgan / Bow Tie Jim / Apollo / 8.9.46
Chris Connor / Bethlehem’s Girlfriends / All This and Heaven Too / Bethlehem / 4.55 / with Ralph Sharon’s Quintet

set 2
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Ballade / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Easy to Remember / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55
Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / My Old Flame / Jazztone / 12.3.54
Eddie Lang / Eddie’s Twister / Okeh / 4.1.27 
Bing Crosby / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Brunswick / 2.9.33
Lil Greenwood / Grandpa Can Boogie Too / Federal / LA 4.28.52 / with the Four Jacks 
The Sharps / Look What You’ve Done to Me / Combo / Hollywood 1958  

set 3
Red Garland / Can’t See for Lookin’ / I Can’t See for Lookin’ / Prestige / 6.27.58
Teddy Edwards / Teddy’s Ready! / Scrapple from the Apple / Contemporary / LA 8.17.60
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 4.1.41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
Delta Rhythm Boys / I’m Awfully Strong for You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Lowell Martin’s Orchestra
Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA / 1955

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Leroy’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.18.55
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Pebble Beach / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Joe Venuti / Tico Tico / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #36 / Paris 6.11.53 
King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / Look What You’ve Done to Me / King / Cincinnati 1.4.57
Hightower Brothers / It’s My Desire / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville 1963

last soulful song
Ken Boothe / Look What You’ve Done for Me / Splash / Jamaica 1972

Friday, August 15, 2014

A Little Playlist at Twilight


Coffeetime, August 15, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Webb City / Time / 1.19.60
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Shoutin’ on a Riff / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Willie Bryant Orchestra / Rigamarole / Victor / 5.8.35 
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / When Nobody Else Is Around / Victor / 4.7.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Jesse “Tiny” Kennedy / Sister Flat Top / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.49 
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’62 / A Handful of Stars / Roulette / 1962

set 2
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / Come Sunday / Prestige / 2.27.64 
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / The Heather on the Hill / Riverside / 7.22.59 
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / How Long Has This Been Going On / Prestige / 12.3.54
Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / I’m a Real Kind Papa / Bluebird / 4.26.39 
Charles “Crown Prince” Waterford / P.I. Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
The Cadillacs / That’s All I Need / Jubilee / 11.56
Bobby Darin / Gyp the Cat / Capitol / Hollywood 3.24.65
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970

set 3
Blue Mitchell / [Step Lightly] / Andrea / Blue Note / 8.13.63
Lou Donaldson / Sweet Juice / 11.19.52 
Howard McGhee Orchestra / Sleepwalker Boogie / Dial / 12.3.47
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / A Little Kiss at Twilight / Victor / 5.31.38
Deep River Boys / No One Sweeter Than You / RCA Victor / 1.11.49
Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Blame It on My Youth / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.56

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / They Say It’s Wonderful / EmArcy / 11.4.59
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Too Marvelous for Words / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Bugler’s Dilemma / Victor / 7.25.41
Adolph Hofner & his Texans / I’ll Keep My Old Guitar / Bluebird / Blue Bonnet Hotel, San Antonio 10.25.38
Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Sunshine Cake / radio broadcast, AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short / At Town Hall / Here’s to Us / Atlantic / 5.19.68
Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me Over in the Rock of Ages / Decca / 4.8.41

last soulful song
Major Lance / Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um / It’s All Right / Okeh / Chicago 10.18.63


Friday, August 01, 2014

Prettily Playlist

Coffeetime, August 1, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Good Old Soul / Blue Note [alt take] / 6.25.60
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Dancing with My Shadow / Regal Zonophone / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / The Golden Rule / King [unissued alt take] / Cincinnati 8.10.51 
Peggy Lee / Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee / The Second Time Around / Capitol / 1.12.61 

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley’s Message / Little Girl Blue / Prestige / 7.20.56
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Little Boy Blue / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans / On the Avenue – Part 1: Slumming on Park Avenue; You’re Laughing at Me; He Ain’t Got Rhythm / Vocalion / London 6.3.37 / vocal = Anne Lenner
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Fire, Fire, Fire / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 2.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Annisteen Allen / Cloudy Day Blues / Federal / 1.5.51
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party/ Balling the Jack / Bravo! /1959

set 3
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit–New York Junction / Blue Room / 3.13.56
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / You Are My Love / Capitol / 1958
Charlie Parker / If I Love Again / Clef / 5.25.53 
Ella Mae Morse / AFRS Command Performance #27 / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra
The Ravens / If I Love Again / Okeh / 10.30.50 
Frank Sinatra / No One Cares / Why Try to Change Me Now / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1959

set 4
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Prettily Italy / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Three of a Kind / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Wild Cat / Okeh / 6.21.28 
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
T-Bone Walker / It’s a Low Down Dirty Deal / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / For Me / A&M / LA 1967 
W. H. Brewster & The Brewster Ensemble aka Brewsteraires / Book of the Seven Seals, part 1 / Gotham [unissued] / 1952 

last soulful song
The Manhattans / I Call it Love / Carnival / 1967

Friday, July 25, 2014

My Kind of Playlist


Coffeetime, July 25, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Joe’s Delight / Riverside / 11.17.59
Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Minority / New Jazz / 5.3.60
Muggsy Spanier & his V-Disc Dixielanders / You Took Advantage of Me / V-Disc 753-B (master take) [unissued 2nd take] / 10.22.45
The Piccadilly Players / What a Wonderful Wedding That Will Be / Columbia / London 12.5.28 / vocal = unknown vocal trio
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Like That / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948
Anita O’Day / This is Anita / Time after Time / Verve / LA 12.7.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / You Go to My Head / Prestige / 5.18.60
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / My Funny Valentine / RCA Victor / 9.14.61
George Shearing / Summertime / MGM / 6.28.49
Morris’s Hot Babies / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Victor / 12.1.27 
Mae West / Pardon Me for Loving & Running / unknown / LA c. 1935
Buck (Washington) and Bubbles (Sublett) / Sweet Georgia Brown / Columbia  / London 10.20.36
Phil Harris / My Kind of Country / Paramount movie, Buck Benny Rides Again / Hollywood 1940
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie’s Blues / Built for Comfort / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59 

set 3
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Ecorah / Riverside / 10.6.59
Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / Bob’s Boys / Prestige / 9.7.56
Jack McVea & his All Stars / House Party Boogie / Black & White [Comet] / LA late 1945 or early 1946
Hildegarde / Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off / Columbia / London 1937 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
The Hollywood Flames / Tabarin / Unique / Hollywood 1951 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / They Didn’t Believe Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Maria / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Nutmeg / Modern / LA 1945 or 1946
Johnny Mercer / Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah / Capitol / Hollywood 10.10.46 / with the Piped Pipers & Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / Let Me Love You Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood 1962
Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia / Berimbau / Warner Brothers / 1967
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Don’t You Know the Man / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
The Intruders / Devil with an Angel’s Smile / Gamble / 1966

Friday, July 11, 2014

Do You Call That a Playlist


Coffeetime, July 11, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Bohemia After Dark / Savoy / 6.26.55
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra / Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) / Okeh / 1.26.29 / vocal = Bing Crosby
The Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking, Baby / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Sarah Vaughan / Swingin’ Easy / Lover Man / EmArcy / 4.2.54

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Our Man in Paris / Stairway to the Stars / Blue Note / 5.23.63
Milt Bernhardt / Modern Brass / London in July / RCA / 3.4.55
Marylou Williams / The Pearls / Decca / 9.14.38 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Sugar Is Back in Town / Decca [unissued] / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 6.2.29
Betty Hutton / Blue Skies / Capitol / Hollywood 1945
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Do You Call That a Buddy (Dirty Cat) / Decca / 9.30.40
Yves Montand / On a Clear Day / movie soundtrack / Hollywood 1970

set 3
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Cute Tomato / Savoy / 3.30.55 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Spinal / Savoy / 12.20.46
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Swing Time Up in Harlem / Victor / 10.16.40 / vocal = Connie Haines
The Ravens / Old Man River / National / 4.24.47
Bobby Troup / That Darn Cat / Buena Vista / Hollywood 1965

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / I'm Just a Lucky So and So / World Pacific / LA 1959
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / London in July / GNP / 6.27.56
Jimmy Hamilton & the Duke’s Men / Blues in My Music Room / Blue Note / 11.21.45
King Cole Trio / Then I’ll be Tired of You / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.47
Jimmie Dodd / The Mousekedance / Disneyland / Hollywood 1955
Etta James / Tell It Like It Is / Chess / Chicago 12.71
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A-Turning in My Heart / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) / Atlantic / 1973

Friday, July 04, 2014

The Playlist I Live In


Coffeetime, July 4, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + Four / Ezz-Thetic / Mercury / 9.19.56 
Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Dootone / 1958
Fritze Elizade & his Music / Crazy Rhythm / Brunswick / London 11.16. 28
The Radio Imps (Tom Mackey & Ed Snelle) / Under the Moon / Imperial / London 1927
Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Elevator Boogie / Victor / 8.6.47
Kay Starr / In a Blue Mood / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Capitol / Hollywood 1956

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62
John Coltrane / Traneing In / Slow Dance / Prestige / 8.23.57
Johnny Costa / Piano Solos / Misty / Coral / 1955
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / It’s Sad but True / Standard transcription 132 / Hollywood 1.15.41 
Ruth Etting / Don’t Tell Him What’s Happened to Me / Columbia / 8.27.30 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.47
Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Give Her a Kiss / RCA / 1955

set 3
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Boy / The House I Live In / Prestige / 10.5.56 
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out on a Limb / Nancy / EmArcy / LA 7.9-10.56 
Camille Howard / Song of India Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52
The Boswell Sisters / Shout, Sister, Shout / Brunswick / 4.23.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra http://guymcafee.com/
Tommy Dean’s Orchestra / Eventime / Vee-Jay / Chicago 12.20.54 / vocal = Joe Buckner 

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Prelude to a Kiss / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Ensemble / Ergo / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood / 12.22.53
Nina Mae McKinney / Rhapsody in Love / Brunswick / Paris 12.32 
Delta Rhythm Boys / The House I Live In / AFRS California Melodies (?) / Hollywood c. 1944
Margaret Whiting / God Bless America / Capitol / Hollywood 9.12.47 / with the Pied Pipers
Frankie Laine & the Four Lads / I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long / Columbia / 1954

last soul song
Patti & The Lovelites / Love So Strong / Lovelite / Chicago 1970

Friday, June 27, 2014

Wave to Me My Playlist


Coffeetime, June 27, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Nica’s Dream / Blue Note / 7.8.60 
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Junka / Time / 3.23.60 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’m Comin’ Virginia / Brunswick / 4.23.37
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Room with a View / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Mert Curtis
Joe Thomas & his Orchestra / Everybody Loves My Baby / Mercury / 3.52 
Etta Jones / Don't Go to Strangers / All the Way / Prestige / 6.21.60

set 2
Bucky & Mary Pizzarelli / Love Song / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together! / I Surrender Dear / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Jazz Scene / Frustration / Clef / Hollywood summer 47
Napoleon’s Emperors / You Can’t Cheat a Cheater / Victor / 5.23.29 
Jack Teagarden / You Know Just As Well As I Know / Brunswick / Chicago 6.23.39 
The Mills Brothers / Lazy River / Soundie / Hollywood 1944 
T.J. Fowler & his Band / What's the Matter Now / States [unissued] / Chicago 1955 / vocal = Frank Taylor
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / It’s a Wonderful World / Capitol / Hollywood 10.27.65 

set 3
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / Cobb’s Mob / Prestige / 2.27.59
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / Tune-Up / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Louis Bellson Just Jazz All Stars / Punkin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 2.52
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / The Jitney Man / Bluebird / 11.17.41 / vocal = Billy Eckstine
The Dinning Sisters / Wave to Me My Lady / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Whistle While You Work / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
Art Pepper & Conte Candoli / Mucho Calor / I Love You / Andex / Forum Theater, LA 4.24.58 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie Plays Hefti / Scoot / Roulette / 1958 
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44
Earl King / I’m Packing Up / Ace [unissued] / Jackson, Mississippi 1955
The Zion Travelers / Packing Up / Dooto / 1962

last soul song
The Five Stairsteps / World of Fantasy / Windy C / Chicago 1966

Friday, June 20, 2014

Playlist a Simple Melody


Coffeetime, June 20, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Songs for my Father / The Natives Are Restless Tonight / Blue Note / 10.26.64
Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Let It Stand / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.3.57 
Shep Fields & his New Music / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / radio transcription / early 1940s
Aileen Stanley / I’ll Get By, As Long As I Have You / Victor / 1.7.29 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / How ’Bout That / Chicago 11.15.41
Dinah Washington / The Two of Us / Again / Mercury / 1959

set 2
Joe Newman / Jive at Five / More than You Know / Prestige / 5.4.60
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Variegations / Debut / 9.55 
Les Paul Trio / Hawaiian Paradise / Decca / Hollywood 8.31.45
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Penn Beach Blues / Okeh / 11.15.27
Blue Lu Barker / You’re Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim / Decca / 8.11.38 / with Danny Barker’s Fly Cats
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale / I’ll Capture Your Heart / soundtrack to Paramount movie Holiday Inn / Hollywood spring 1942
Herman Gillespie / Have a Good Time / Gotham [unissued] / Philadelphia 2.25.58

set 3
Art Farmer / Perception / Change Partners / Argo / 10.25-27.61
Benny Golson / Turning Point / (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over / Mercury / late 1962
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra / Ray’s Idea / Musicraft / 7.9.46 
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Fancy Meeting You / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
The Beavers / I’d Rather Be Wrong Than Blue / Coral / 1950
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe / Knowbody Knows / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4
Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Ray Brown / Poll Winners Three! / (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over / Contemporary / LA 11.2.59
Ruby Braff / Braff!! / Here’s Freddie / Epic / 6.28.56
Doris Browne / Why Don’t You Love Me Now / Gotham [alternate take] / Philadelphia 6.53 / with Doc Bagby Band
Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Play a Simple Melody / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #332 / Hollywood 3.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Percy Mayfield / Please Believe Me / Specialty / Hollywood 4.2.57 
The Bronzemen / Where Shall I Be / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / It’s Gonna Be Alright / Wand / 1965