My Kind of Playlist

Coffeetime, July 25, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Joe’s Delight / Riverside / 11.17.59

Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Minority / New Jazz / 5.3.60

Muggsy Spanier & his V-Disc Dixielanders / You Took Advantage of Me / V-Disc 753-B (master take) [unissued 2nd take] / 10.22.45

The Piccadilly Players / What a Wonderful Wedding That Will Be / Columbia / London 12.5.28 / vocal = unknown vocal trio

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Like That / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948

Anita O’Day / This is Anita / Time after Time / Verve / LA 12.7.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra

set 2

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / You Go to My Head / Prestige / 5.18.60

Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / My Funny Valentine / RCA Victor / 9.14.61

George Shearing / Summertime / MGM / 6.28.49

Morris’s Hot Babies / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Victor / 12.1.27 

Mae West / Pardon Me for Loving & Running / unknown / LA c. 1935

Buck (Washington) and Bubbles (Sublett) / Sweet Georgia Brown / Columbia  / London 10.20.36

Phil Harris / My Kind of Country / Paramount movie, Buck Benny Rides Again / Hollywood 1940

Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie’s Blues / Built for Comfort / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59 

set 3

Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Ecorah / Riverside / 10.6.59

Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / Bob’s Boys / Prestige / 9.7.56

Jack McVea & his All Stars / House Party Boogie / Black & White [Comet] / LA late 1945 or early 1946

Hildegarde / Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off / Columbia / London 1937 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra

The Hollywood Flames / Tabarin / Unique / Hollywood 1951 

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / They Didn’t Believe Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4

Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Maria / Verve / LA 10.16.57

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Nutmeg / Modern / LA 1945 or 1946

Johnny Mercer / Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah / Capitol / Hollywood 10.10.46 / with the Piped Pipers & Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / Let Me Love You Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood 1962

Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia / Berimbau / Warner Brothers / 1967

The Chosen Gospel Singers / Don’t You Know the Man / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song

The Intruders / Devil with an Angel’s Smile / Gamble / 1966

Do You Call That a Playlist

Coffeetime, July 11, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus / Blue Note / 4.9.61

Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Bohemia After Dark / Savoy / 6.26.55

The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra / Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) / Okeh / 1.26.29 / vocal = Bing Crosby

The Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking, Baby / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 

Sarah Vaughan / Swingin’ Easy / Lover Man / EmArcy / 4.2.54

set 2

Dexter Gordon / Our Man in Paris / Stairway to the Stars / Blue Note / 5.23.63

Milt Bernhardt / Modern Brass / London in July / RCA / 3.4.55

Marylou Williams / The Pearls / Decca / 9.14.38 

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Sugar Is Back in Town / Decca [unissued] / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 6.2.29

Betty Hutton / Blue Skies / Capitol / Hollywood 1945

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Do You Call That a Buddy (Dirty Cat) / Decca / 9.30.40

Yves Montand / On a Clear Day / movie soundtrack / Hollywood 1970

set 3

Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Cute Tomato / Savoy / 3.30.55 

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Spinal / Savoy / 12.20.46

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Swing Time Up in Harlem / Victor / 10.16.40 / vocal = Connie Haines

The Ravens / Old Man River / National / 4.24.47

Bobby Troup / That Darn Cat / Buena Vista / Hollywood 1965

set 4

Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / I'm Just a Lucky So and So / World Pacific / LA 1959

Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / London in July / GNP / 6.27.56

Jimmy Hamilton & the Duke’s Men / Blues in My Music Room / Blue Note / 11.21.45

King Cole Trio / Then I’ll be Tired of You / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.47

Jimmie Dodd / The Mousekedance / Disneyland / Hollywood 1955

Etta James / Tell It Like It Is / Chess / Chicago 12.71

Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A-Turning in My Heart / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song

Aretha Franklin / Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) / Atlantic / 1973

The Playlist I Live In

Coffeetime, July 4, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Max Roach / Max Roach + Four / Ezz-Thetic / Mercury / 9.19.56 

Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Dootone / 1958

Fritze Elizade & his Music / Crazy Rhythm / Brunswick / London 11.16. 28

The Radio Imps (Tom Mackey & Ed Snelle) / Under the Moon / Imperial / London 1927

Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Elevator Boogie / Victor / 8.6.47

Kay Starr / In a Blue Mood / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Capitol / Hollywood 1956

set 2

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62

John Coltrane / Traneing In / Slow Dance / Prestige / 8.23.57

Johnny Costa / Piano Solos / Misty / Coral / 1955

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / It’s Sad but True / Standard transcription 132 / Hollywood 1.15.41 

Ruth Etting / Don’t Tell Him What’s Happened to Me / Columbia / 8.27.30 

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.47

Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Give Her a Kiss / RCA / 1955

set 3

Sonny Rollins / Sonny Boy / The House I Live In / Prestige / 10.5.56 

Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out on a Limb / Nancy / EmArcy / LA 7.9-10.56 

Camille Howard / Song of India Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52

The Boswell Sisters / Shout, Sister, Shout / Brunswick / 4.23.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra http://guymcafee.com/

Tommy Dean’s Orchestra / Eventime / Vee-Jay / Chicago 12.20.54 / vocal = Joe Buckner 

set 4

Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Prelude to a Kiss / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57

Chet Baker / Chet Baker Ensemble / Ergo / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood / 12.22.53

Nina Mae McKinney / Rhapsody in Love / Brunswick / Paris 12.32 

Delta Rhythm Boys / The House I Live In / AFRS California Melodies (?) / Hollywood c. 1944

Margaret Whiting / God Bless America / Capitol / Hollywood 9.12.47 / with the Pied Pipers

Frankie Laine & the Four Lads / I Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long / Columbia / 1954

last soul song

Patti & The Lovelites / Love So Strong / Lovelite / Chicago 1970