Friday, April 25, 2014

Don't Let That Playlist Get Away


Coffeetime, April 25, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dave Bailey / Bash! / Osmosis / Jazzline / 10.4.61 
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Mambo Blues / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Delta Four / Swingin’ on That Famous Door / Decca / 12. 20.35
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Don’t Let That Moon Get Away / HMV / London 12.13.38 
Amos Milburn & his Chickenshackers / I’m Going to Tell My Mama / Aladdin / LA 9.21.50
Sylvia Syms / In a Sentimental Mood / In a Sentimental Mood / Movietone / 1965

set 2
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Sea Breeze / Verve / 12.17.57 
Barney Wilen / Jazz sur Seine [soundtrack] / Vamp / Fontana / Paris 2.13, 14.58 
JATP (Gene Krupa Trio) / The Man I Love / Clef / 6.52 
JATP (Shorty Sherock & others) / The Man I Love / Clef / 7.2.44 / vocal = Carolyn Richards
The Four Buddies / Story Blues / Savoy / 4.10.52
Dell-Vikings / Come Go with Me / demo, audition tapes / 10.56 
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Work Song / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64 

set 3
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Cracker Jack / Savoy / 7.18.56 
Dexter Gordon / I’ve Found a New Baby / Clef / LA mid-40s
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Boys / There Goes My Dream / Bluebird / 12.1.41 
The Robins / Around about Midnight / Score / LA 5.27.49 
Fred Astaire / Easy to Dance With / That Face / Verve / LA 3.27.57 / with Buddy Bregman’s Orchestra 

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Funny Frank / Contemporary / LA 3.12.57 
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Sauter-Finegan Memories of Goodman and Miller / Benny Rides Again / RCA Victor / 1958 / arranged by Bill Finegan 
Lil “Brown Gal” Armstrong & his Dixielanders / Riffin’ the Blues / Decca / 3.17.40
David Kaonohi & his Honoluans / In a Canoe / Victor / c. 1938
Yves Montand / Paris Recital / Le Chat de la Voisine / Philips / live at Le Theatre D’Etoile, Paris 1964
Dusty Springfield / The Look of Love / Sunny / Philips / 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / High, Low and Wide / Columbia / 4.8.47

last soulful song
Loleatta Holloway / This Man’s Arms / Aware [unissued] / 1971 





Friday, April 18, 2014

Three Short Dances for Solo Playlist


Coffeetime, April 18, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Stanley Turrentine / ZT’s Blues / The Lamp Is Low / Blue Note / 9.13.61 
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Giant Steps [alternate version 2] / Atlantic [unissued] / 4.1.59 
Jimmy Hamilton & the Duke’s Men / Slapstick / Blue Note / 11.21.45 
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Binnie Hale / Spread a Little Happiness / Columbia / London 3.12.29 / from the musical “Mr Cinders” with Al Starita & his Novelty Orchestra 
Charles “Crown Prince” Waterford / Coal Black Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Dinah Washington / If I Had You / Mercury / 3.17.55

set 2
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / My Funny Valentine / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61 
Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / A Cockeyed Optimist / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / My One and Only Love / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater 12.4.54 
Tony Scott / Scott’s Fling / Three Short Dances for Solo Clarinet / RCA Victor / 1.7-12.55 
The Chocolate Dandies / That’s How I Feel Today / Okeh / 9.12.29
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / All My Life / Bluebird / 4.9.36 
The Dinning Sisters / The Bride and Groom Polka / Capitol / Hollywood late 1947
The Ravens / Midnight Blues / Okeh / 10.30.50 

set 3
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / S’Wonderful / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.25.57 
Sonny Stitt / With the New Yorkers / Cherokee / Roost / 1957
Sonny Stitt / Cool Mambo / Prestige / 3.25.52 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (I’ve Been) Saving Myself for You / Bluebird / 5.28.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
The Four Vagabonds / Choo-Choo / Apollo / 7.47 
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / My Last Night in Rome / Epic / 1964

set 4
Bob Gordon / Moods in Jazz / Moer Blues / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 
Conrad Gozzo / Goz the Great! / Blue Lou / RCA Victor / 1955
Billy Mitchell Quintet / Swing Not Spring / The Zec / Savoy / Detroit 1948 
Bing Crosby / Swinging on a Star / AFRS broadcast #452 / Hollywood 4.13.44 / with The Charioteers & The Music Maids 
Charioteers / Tica Ti Tica Ta / radio transcription / 1942
Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Swingin’ on a Star / Roulette / 1964
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Surely, Surely, Amen / Peacock / Memphis 1.53

last soulful song
Freddie North / Just Another Guy / Abet [unissued] / 1967

Friday, April 11, 2014

Playlist, Playlist All the Time


Coffeetime, April 11, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Toy / Riverside / 8.10.60 
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / After All / Standard transcription / Hollywood 9.17.41 
The Harlem Footwarmers [aka the Duke Ellington Orchestra] / Rocky Mountain Blues / Okeh / 10.14.30 
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Why Dream? / Bluebird / 07.12.35 / vocal = Sonny Schuyler
Billy Valentine Trio [Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers] / Three Handed Woman / Decca / 1950 
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / El Preciso Aprender A Ser So (Learn to Live Alone) / Verve / 12.65

set 2
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Quintet [Moving Out] / Silk ’n’ Satin / Prestige / 8.18.54 
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Medley: You’re Blasé; Bewitched / Riverside / early 1964 
Eddie Lang / Rainbow Dreams / Parlaphone / 3.29.28 
Ted Weems & his Casa Loma Orchestra / Home on the Range / test pressing / 1.27.41 / vocal = Perry Como & Garry Moore
Jay McShann & his Sextet / Voodoo Woman Blues / Mercury / LA 7.26.46 / vocal = Jimmy Witherspoon
Maxwell Davis & his Band / When I’m in My Tea / Aladdin / LA 6.11.46 / with Jo-Jo Adams
Dean Martin / That Lucky Old Sun / Capitol / Hollywood 8.12.49 

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / Flutie / Warwick / 12.60
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Citation / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1950
Vido Musso's All Stars / Vido in a Jam / Savoy / 2.25.46
Ivie Anderson / Twice Too Many / Black & White / LA 10.46 / with Phil Moore’s Orchestra
The Five Keys / How Long / Aladdin / Hollywood 4.3.52 
Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton / Jazz Spec / Baby, Baby All the Time / Columbia / 10.24.55 

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / Bow Jest / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58 
Neal Hefti / The Band with Young Ideas / Coral Reef / Coral / early 1950s
Fred Astaire / Puttin’ on the Ritz / Columbia / London 3.26.30 / with Debroy Somers & his band
Peggy Lee / I’ve Had My Moments / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
Aretha Franklin / Soul ’69 / So Long / Atlantic / 1969
Golden Gate Quartet / Rock My Soul / Bluebird / 11.15.38

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


Friday, April 04, 2014

Playlist Time


Coffeetime, April 4, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Wail / Prestige / 11.20.64 
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (1560) / Hi Groove, Low Feedback / Blue Note / 4.21.57 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / This Is Romance / HMV / London 9.11.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
T-Bone Walker & his Band / Too Lazy / Imperial / LA circa 9.50
Sarah Vaughan / Swingin’ Easy / Words Can’t Describe / EmArcy / 2.14.57 

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / What’s New / New Jazz / 10.30.59 
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Charlie Ventura / Blue Prelude / Norgran / 12.22.52 
Ida Cox & her All Star Orchestra / I Can’t Quit That Man / Okeh / 12.20.40 
Frank Sinatra & Doris Day / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / radio broadcast, Your Hit Parade / 9.27.47 
Ray-O-Vacs / Party Time / Kaiser / 1956 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Bim-Bom / A&M / Hollywood 1967 

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Shu Shu / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Beepdurple / Prestige / 5.8.65 
Charlie Parker / Swedish Schnapps / She Rote [alternate take] / Clef / 1.17.51 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella and Her Fellas / That’s the Way It is / Decca / 2.26.45 / with the Ink Spots 
The Clovers / All Righty Oh Sweetie / Atlantic / 8.28.54 
Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / So Near and Yet So Far / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Divertimento: 4th Movement / Contemporary / LA 3.2.57 
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midget / Valerie / RCA / 7.8.56
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Bulgin’ Eyes / Black & White / LA 9.46
Anita Boyer & her Tomboyers / A Little Jive Is Good for You / MacGregor transcription / LA 2.25.41 
Martha Raye / Sam’s Got Him / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
José Feliciano / Feliciano! / Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968
Cora Martin / Every Once in a While / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood / c. 1950

last soulful song
Tyrone Davis / A Woman Needs to be Loved / Dakar / Chicago 1968