Friday, November 14, 2014

Land of the Blue Playlist

Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Mogie [unissued take 2] / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60
Prestige All Stars / Four Altos / Kokochee / Prestige / 2.9.57
Rex Stewart & his Orchestra / Linger Awhile / Bluebird / Chicago 11.2.40
Thelma Terry & her Playboys / When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin’ By / Columbia / 9.27.28 / vocal = Wayne Smith
Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers / C.O.D. / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1945
Lee Wiley / Lee Wiley with Billy Butterfield / A Touch of the Blues / Maybe You’ll Be There / RCA Victor / 7.24.57

set 2
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / Don’t Explain / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Mood / The Beginning / Savoy / 4.6.57 
Dizzy Gillespie / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / Paris 4.11.52
Eddie South  / Rhapsody in Blue / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee 86 / Hollywood summer 1944 / Master of Ceremonies = Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain du Melody’s Bar / Quatro Palomas / Columbia / Paris mid-summer 1932 / duet with Florentino Frontella
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
Sonny Thompson / Let’s Call It a Day / King / Cincinnati 1952 / vocal = Lula Reed

set 3
Art Farmer / Portrait of Art Farmer / By Myself / Contemporary / 4.19.58
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Land of the Blue Veils / Riverside / 5.4.59
Bud Powell / The Bud Powell Trio Plays / Bud’s Bubble  / Roost / 1.10.47
Maxine Sullivan / Loch Lomond / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 
The Toppers [Steve Gibson & the Red Caps] / Palace of Stone / Savoy / 12.8.44
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Capitol / 1957 

set 4
Bud Shank / Casa de Luz / Nocturne / Hollywood 1954 
Charlie Mariano / The Nymph / Fantasy / San Francisco 3.53
King Cole Trio / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / vocal = Ida James
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / I Ain’t Drunk / Aladdin / Hollywood summer 1954 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Dois Dias / A&M / Hollywood 1969
The Southern Sons / We'll Anchor Bye and Bye / V-Disc 147 / early 12.43

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66