Friday, July 25, 2014

My Kind of Playlist


Coffeetime, July 25, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed
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

Friday, July 11, 2014

Do You Call That a Playlist


Coffeetime, July 11, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed
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

Friday, July 04, 2014

The Playlist I Live In


Coffeetime, July 4, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed
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