The Playlist Is Your Pillow

Coffeetime, March 28, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Rumproller / Edda / Blue Note / 4.2165
Sonny Red / Images / Dodge City / Jazzland / 6.61
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Down Home Rag / Bluebird / 12.6. 38
Ambrose & his Orchestra / My Dream Memory / Decca / London 10.11.29 / vocalist = Lou Abelardo
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington in the Land of Hi-Fi / I’ve Got a Crush on You / EmArcy / 4.24.56

set 2
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / I Talk to the Trees / Riverside / 7.21.59
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / What’s New / Riverside / 4.26.60
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Really Blue / Victor / 10.7.30
The Three Keys / Song of the Islands / Vocalion / 8.16.33
The Merry Macs / You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) / Decca / Hollywood 1949 / with Bing Crosby
Daisy Mae [Diggs] & Her Hep-Cats / Lonesome Playgirl / Gotham / Philadelphia 3.31.55
Eddie Cantor / The Eddie Cantor Story / How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?) / Capitol / Hollywood 1953

set 3
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Mambeando / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Milt Jackson / Big Bags / Later Than You Think / Riverside / 6.62
Brew Moore & his Playboys / More Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48
June Christy / Get Happy / transcription / 1946 / with the Kentones
Jumping Jacks / Why Do I Cry (Why Oh Why) / Lloyds / 4.27.53
Danny Kaye / Danny Kaye / The Moon Is Your Pillow / Decca / Hollywood 12.19.47

set 4
Barney Kessel / Kessel Plays Standards / 64 Bars on Wilshire / Contemporary / LA 7.1.54
Alex Kallao / Alex Kallao Trio / Sometimes I’m Happy / RCA Victor / 1954
The Metronome All Stars / Early Spring / Capitol / 1.23.51
The Boswell Sisters / Shuffle Off to Buffalo / 4.11.33
Bing Crosby / Day By Day / Decca / Hollywood 9.13.45 / with Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / Give Me the Simple Life / Capitol / LA 1957
The Swan Silvertones / He Saved My Soul / Vee-Jay / 1963

last soulful song
Barbara Lynn / I’m a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

The Playlist’s Gotta Come from the Heart

Coffeetime, March 21 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug’s Minor B’OK / Savoy / 11.7.56 

Blue Mitchell / A Sure Thing / Gone with the Wind / Riverside / 3.28.62 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Hocus Pocus / Bluebird / 3.6.34 

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Decca / London 10.23.34 / vocalist = Sam Browne

Albinia Jones / What’s the Matter with Me / Savoy / 4.15.45

Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57 

set 2

Ike Quebec / If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) / Blue Note / 9.25.60 

John Lewis & his Orchestra / A Milanese Story, Original Soundtrack / Monday in Milan / Atlantic / Turin 1.17.62 / with Quartetto di Milano 

Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips – Buddy Rich Trio / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Clef / 12.14.52 

Jimmy Durante & Frank Sinatra / The Song’s Gotta Come from the Heart / MGM movie soundtrack, It Happened in Brooklyn / Hollywood 9.26.46

Little Esther / Looking for a Man / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51 / with the Earle Warren Orchestra 

Beny Moré / Guajiro / RCA Victor / 1950

set 3

Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones [1527] / Billie-Doo / Blue Note / 7.14.56 

Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / On a Misty Night / Riverside / 3.9.62 

Fats Navarro / Fats Navarro Featured with the Tadd Dameron Quintet / Lady Be Good / Jazzland / live, Royal Roost 8.29.48 

The Three Keys / I’ve Found a New Baby / Vocalion / 9.8.33

The Pied Pipers / Goodbye Romance / Capitol / Hollywood 1948 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Bing Crosby / Hey There / CBS recordings for radio / Hollywood 11.18.54 / with Buddy Cole & his Trio 

set 4

Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / Fascinating Rhythm / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57 

Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Almost Like Being in Love / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.30.53 

Si Zentner / Warning Shot / Warning Shot / Liberty / Hollywood 1967

Delta Rhythm Boys / La Cucaracha / transcription / 1941

Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee! / The Surrey with the Fringe on Top / Capitol / Hollywood 1960 

Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Oh Baby / RPM / 1955 

The Alphabetical Four / The Sun Didn’t Shine / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song

Jimmie Raye / You Must Be Losing Your Mind / JRE/Garrison / 1967

We Three (My Echo, My Playlist, and Me)

Coffeetime, March 7, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / Formidable / Brunswick / L'Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58 

John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Princess / New Jazz / 7.26.57 

Noel Coward / Mary Make Believe / HMV / London 5.28 / with Carroll Gibbons & the New Mayfair Orchestra

Joe Morris & his Orchestra / I Hope You’re Satisfied / Atlantic / 11.20.50 / vocal = Laurie Tate 

Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / My Old Flame / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / After Midnight / Crown / 1960 

Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Everything Happens to Me / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55 

Jack Teagarden's Big Eight / Big Eight Blues / HRS / 12.15.40 

Stan Kenton & his Orchestra / The Lady in Red / radio broadcast / Pacific Square Ballroom, San Diego 11.16.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / Footlights Parade Selection, part 2 / Decca / The Hague, Netherlands 4.2.34 / vocal = Wim Poppink

Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Dreaming Blues / Deluxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50

set 3

Joe Newman / The Joe Newman Quintet Featuring Frank Wess / Wednesday’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 5.4.60 

The Be Bop Boys / Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinny / Webb City parts 1 & 2 / Savoy / 9.6.46 

The Ink Spots / We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me) / Decca / 7.16.40

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Raggle Taggle Gypsies / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan

Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Capitol / 4.13, 16, 18, 23.56

set 4

Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Colonel Bogey & River Kwai March / Mercury / 1959 

George Wallington / Love Beat / Prestige / 9.4.52 

Teddy Reig’s All Stars / Saxon / Savoy / 1.22.47 

Cleo Brown / Slow Poke / Decca / LA 4.4.36 

Richard Harris / Camelot / How to Handle a Woman / Warner Brothers movie soundtrack / Hollywood 1967

Selah Jubilee Singers / I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long / Decca / 2.21.41

last soulful song

Carl Carlton / I Wanna Be with You / I Wanna Be with You / ABC Records / Philadelphia 1975