Friday, February 07, 2014

Deciphering the Playlist


Coffeetime, February 7, 2014 Angelynn Grant

bed
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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