Viva El Playlist!

Coffeetime, February 28, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / Hub’s Nub / Blue Note / 6.19.60 

Hank Mobley / Poppin’ / Tune Up / Blue Note / 10.20.57 

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees  / The Latin Quarter / Victor / 4.13.38 / from Gold Diggers of Paris 

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Shout, Sister, Shout! / Decca / 9.5.41 / vocal = Sister Rosetta Sharp & ensemble

Linda Keene / Unlucky Woman / Black & White / 11.29.44 / with Joe Marsala Orchestra 

set 2

Lee Morgan / City Lights / You’re Mine You / Blue Note / 8.25.57 

Sonny Criss / Plays Cole Porter / I Love You / Imperial / Hollywood 10.3.56 

Don Byas / Laura / American Record / 9.6.45

Fats Waller / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Victor / 6.11.37 

Greta Keller / I Never Had a Chance / Decca / London 9.34 / with Fred Hartley & his Quintet

Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / Hollywood 12.6.44 / with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Dancing in the Dark / Riverside / 12.23.60 

set 3

The Prestige All Stars / Just Wailin’ / Gospel Truth / New Jazz / 2.14.58 

Pete Johnson’s All Stars / 1280 Stomp / National / 1.2.46 

The Mills Brothers / Dinah / Decca / 12.16.31 / with Bing Crosby

Jo Stafford / Bewitched / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #330 / Hollywood 8.20.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Mel-O·Dots / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / Apollo [unreleased] / 3.17.52

set 4

Hampton Hawes / The Green Leaves of Summer / Secret Love / Contemporary / LA 2.17.64 

Barney Kessel / Carmen / Viva El Toro! / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58 

Harry Carney’s Big Eight / Shadowy Sands / HRS [Mosaic - thank you, Lou] / 3.18.46 

June Christy / The One I Love / Capitol radio transcription / Hollywood 6.46 / with The Kentones 

Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / Jack / National / 1965 

Flying Clouds of Detroit / I Got a Right to the Tree of Life / King / Detroit c. 5.50

last soul song

Fantastic Four / As Long As I Live / Ric Tic / Detroit 1967

Misery Is a Thing Called Playlist

Coffeetime, February 21, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Jimmy Forrest / Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest / Tin Tin Deo / Prestige / 9.1.61 

Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Room 608 / Blue Note / 11.13.54 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Grand Terrace Shuffle / Bluebird / 7.12.39

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight (2) / Victor / 1.31.30 / vocal = George “Fathead” Thomas 

Billy Kyle’s Big Eight / Ooh Baby, You Knock Me Out / HRS / 9.11.46 / vocal = Trummy Young

Chris Connor / A Jazz Date with Chris Connor / Lonely Town / Atlantic / 12.17.56 

set 2

Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / But Beautiful / Blue Note / 6.19.60 

Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60 

King Cole Trio / Honeysuckle Rose / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.47

Sol Hoopii / Radio Blues / Columbia / LA 10.13.27 

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / San Francisco / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright

Henry “Rubberlegs” Williams / That’s the Stuff You Gotta Watch [alt take 1] / Savoy / 4.24.45 

Buddy Greco / Buddy’s Back in Town! / You’re the Top / Epic / LA 1961

set 3

Lee Morgan / City Lights / Kin Folks / Blue Note / 8.25.57 

Sonny Criss / Willow Weep for Me / Imperial / LA 1.26.56 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Johnny’s Boogie / Exclusive / Hollywood c.3.25

The Ravens / Would You Believe Me / National / 4.24.47

Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Misery Is a Thing Called Moe / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones

Bobby Darin / Love Swings / Spring Is Here / Atco / 1961

set 4

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Honeysuckle Rose / Impulse! / 11.13.61 

The Prestige All Stars / Just Wailin’ / Trinidad / New Jazz / 2.14.58 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / I Wanna Count Sheep (Till the Cows Come Home) / Victor / 3.10.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore 

Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / Guilty / Musicraft / LA 10.19.46 / with Artie Shaw & his Orchestra

Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / You Stepped Out of a Dream / A&M / LA 1969

Highway QC’s / Child of God / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song 

Maxine Brown / If You Gotta to Make a Fool of Somebody / Wand / LA 1965 

Playlist, Maestro, Please

Coffeetime, February 14, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Just One of Those Things [alt take] / Blue Note [Mosaic] / 9.29.57 

Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / After You’ve Gone / Blue Note / 8.21.54 

Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Deep Harlem / Brunswick / 6.6.30 

Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / I Would Do Anything for You / Bluebird / 7.25.32 / vocal = Larry Murphy

Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / Hour After Hour / Apollo / LA 11.2.45

Dakota Staton / At Storyville / Music, Maestro, Please / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

  

set 2

Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / This Is Always / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59 

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Ill Wind (You’re Blowing Me No Good) / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 

Oscar Pettiford / The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two / Laura /  ABC-Paramount / 8.30.57

Hoagy Carmichael & his Orchestra / Bessie Couldn’t Help It / Victor / 9.15.30 

The Pied Pipers / The Trolley Song / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Little David & his Harps / You’ll Pay / Savoy / 10.4.55 

set 3

Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Bitty Ditty / Bethlehem / 1960 

Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Allen’s Alley (Wee) / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58

Julian Dash / Goin’ Along / Mello-Roll / 12.50 

Golden Gate Quartet / Whoa Babe / Victor / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

Martha Tilton & Jack Leonard / Thanks for the Memory / V-Disc 629B / 11.14.45

Billy Eckstine “The Great Mr. ‘B’” / Solitude / National / LA 4.21.47 

set 4

Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Chiquito Loco / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Verve / 1.13.56 

King Cole Trio / Who’s Been Eatin’ My Porridge / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44

King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / 3.23.61

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Shoes / Duke / 1966

The Chosen Gospel Singers / No Room in the Hotel / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song

Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs / Sugar Shack / Dot / 1963

Deciphering the Playlist

Coffeetime, February 7, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Number Five (Bertha D. Blues) / Prestige / 8.2.61 

The Jazz Messengers / Deciphering the Message / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 

Trummy Young's Big Seven / Fruitie Cutie [alternate take] / HRS [Mosaic box set – thanks Lou!] / 9.3.46 

Dorothy Carless / Heart and Soul / Columbia / Abbey Road, London 10.25.38 / piano = Billy Mayerl 

Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / Bopsie’s Blues / Savoy / 8.16.51 / vocal = Melvin Moore 

Lucy Ann Polk / Lucky Lucy Ann / I’m Just A Lucky So And So / Mode / Hollywood 7.12.57 

set 2

Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / So Sweet My Little Girl / Blue Note / 8.9.63 

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball / Flamingo / Savoy / 7.14.55 

James Moody / Aimer Comme Je T'Aime / Vogue / Paris / 7.13.51

Bing Crosby / I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) / Hollywood 7.17.36 / Paramount movie “Rhythm on the Range” with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra, Leonid Kinskey, Martha Raye, Bob Burns, Louis Prima, accompanied by The Sons of the Pioneers

The Four Aces / Cherie / Trilon / Oakland 7.47 

The Charioteers / Don’t Play No Mambo / Josie / 1955 / with Sid Bass Orchestra

set 3

Gene Ammons / Funky / Stella by Starlight / Prestige / 1.11.57 

Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 

Sonny Criss / Tornado / Clef / LA 9.22.49 

Mills Brothers / London Rhythm / Decca / London 9.10.36

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / At a Sidewalk Penny Arcade / Columbia / 10.30.47 / vocal = Rosemary Clooney 

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Train Blues / Specialty / LA late December 1947 

set 4

Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / For Dancers Only / Riverside / 1.61 

Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Theme for Terry / Roulette / 6.3-4.57

Johnnie Ingram & his Orchestra / The Great One / Topper / San Francisco c. 1950 

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / My First Impression of You / Brunswick / 1.6.38 / vocal = Billie Holiday

Bus Moten & his Men / Baby You Messed Up / Capitol / Kansas City 10.31.49 

Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / In the Land of Make Believe / Atlantic / Memphis 1968 

The Pilgrim Travelers / What Are They Doing (My Lord) [take 2, unissued] / Specialty / Hollywood / 12.24.47

last soulful song

Earl Gaines / Three Wishes for a Fool / Hollywood / Nashville 5.5.67 

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