All This and Playlist Too

Coffeetime, August 22, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / The Twister / Prestige / 7.13.56

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Tempo and Swing / Victor / Chicago 2.26.40

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Memories of You / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson

Loumell Morgan / Bow Tie Jim / Apollo / 8.9.46
Chris Connor / Bethlehem’s Girlfriends / All This and Heaven Too / Bethlehem / 4.55 / with Ralph Sharon’s Quintet

set 2

Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Ballade / Blue Note / 12.11.60

Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Easy to Remember / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55

Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / My Old Flame / Jazztone / 12.3.54

Eddie Lang / Eddie’s Twister / Okeh / 4.1.27 

Bing Crosby / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Brunswick / 2.9.33

Lil Greenwood / Grandpa Can Boogie Too / Federal / LA 4.28.52 / with the Four Jacks 

The Sharps / Look What You’ve Done to Me / Combo / Hollywood 1958  

set 3

Red Garland / Can’t See for Lookin’ / I Can’t See for Lookin’ / Prestige / 6.27.58

Teddy Edwards / Teddy’s Ready! / Scrapple from the Apple / Contemporary / LA 8.17.60

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 4.1.41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan

Delta Rhythm Boys / I’m Awfully Strong for You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Lowell Martin’s Orchestra

Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA / 1955

set 4

Jack Sheldon / Leroy’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.18.55

Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Pebble Beach / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964

Joe Venuti / Tico Tico / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #36 / Paris 6.11.53 

King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44

Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / Look What You’ve Done to Me / King / Cincinnati 1.4.57

Hightower Brothers / It’s My Desire / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville 1963

last soulful song

Ken Boothe / Look What You’ve Done for Me / Splash / Jamaica 1972

A Little Playlist at Twilight

Coffeetime, August 15, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Webb City / Time / 1.19.60

Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Shoutin’ on a Riff / Blue Note / 11.10.57

Willie Bryant Orchestra / Rigamarole / Victor / 5.8.35 

Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / When Nobody Else Is Around / Victor / 4.7.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson

Jesse “Tiny” Kennedy / Sister Flat Top / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.49 

Dinah Washington / Dinah ’62 / A Handful of Stars / Roulette / 1962

set 2

Booker Ervin / The Song Book / Come Sunday / Prestige / 2.27.64 

Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / The Heather on the Hill / Riverside / 7.22.59 

J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / How Long Has This Been Going On / Prestige / 12.3.54

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / I’m a Real Kind Papa / Bluebird / 4.26.39 

Charles “Crown Prince” Waterford / P.I. Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47

The Cadillacs / That’s All I Need / Jubilee / 11.56

Bobby Darin / Gyp the Cat / Capitol / Hollywood 3.24.65

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970

set 3

Blue Mitchell / [Step Lightly] / Andrea / Blue Note / 8.13.63

Lou Donaldson / Sweet Juice / 11.19.52 

Howard McGhee Orchestra / Sleepwalker Boogie / Dial / 12.3.47

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / A Little Kiss at Twilight / Victor / 5.31.38

Deep River Boys / No One Sweeter Than You / RCA Victor / 1.11.49

Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Blame It on My Youth / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.56

set 4

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / They Say It’s Wonderful / EmArcy / 11.4.59

Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Too Marvelous for Words / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Bugler’s Dilemma / Victor / 7.25.41

Adolph Hofner & his Texans / I’ll Keep My Old Guitar / Bluebird / Blue Bonnet Hotel, San Antonio 10.25.38

Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Sunshine Cake / radio broadcast, AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra

Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short / At Town Hall / Here’s to Us / Atlantic / 5.19.68

Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me Over in the Rock of Ages / Decca / 4.8.41

last soulful song

Major Lance / Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um / It’s All Right / Okeh / Chicago 10.18.63

Prettily Playlist

Coffeetime, August 1, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55

Tina Brooks / True Blue / Good Old Soul / Blue Note [alt take] / 6.25.60

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Dancing with My Shadow / Regal Zonophone / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / The Golden Rule / King [unissued alt take] / Cincinnati 8.10.51 

Peggy Lee / Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee / The Second Time Around / Capitol / 1.12.61 

set 2

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley’s Message / Little Girl Blue / Prestige / 7.20.56

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Little Boy Blue / Blue Note / 1.25.60

Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans / On the Avenue – Part 1: Slumming on Park Avenue; You’re Laughing at Me; He Ain’t Got Rhythm / Vocalion / London 6.3.37 / vocal = Anne Lenner

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Fire, Fire, Fire / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 2.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes

Annisteen Allen / Cloudy Day Blues / Federal / 1.5.51

Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party/ Balling the Jack / Bravo! /1959

set 3

Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit–New York Junction / Blue Room / 3.13.56

Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / You Are My Love / Capitol / 1958

Charlie Parker / If I Love Again / Clef / 5.25.53 

Ella Mae Morse / AFRS Command Performance #27 / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra

The Ravens / If I Love Again / Okeh / 10.30.50 

Frank Sinatra / No One Cares / Why Try to Change Me Now / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1959

set 4

Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Prettily Italy / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Three of a Kind / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Wild Cat / Okeh / 6.21.28 

King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

T-Bone Walker / It’s a Low Down Dirty Deal / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / For Me / A&M / LA 1967 

W. H. Brewster & The Brewster Ensemble aka Brewsteraires / Book of the Seven Seals, part 1 / Gotham [unissued] / 1952 

last soulful song

The Manhattans / I Call it Love / Carnival / 1967