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