Friday, November 28, 2014

Der alte Playlist




Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Off to the Races / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Jackie McLean / Formidable / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Paul’s Bunion / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / My Ideal / Brunswick / Chicago 1.7.31 
Ivory Joe Hunter / Old Gal and New Gal Blues / King / Nashville 11.18.47 
Dinah Washington / For Those in Love / Easy Living / EmArcy / 3.16.55

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
Ike Quebec /  Easy Living / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Wild Dog / Victor / 10.7.30 
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / There’s Rhythm in the River / Victor / Camden, NJ 2.3.31
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / Robin Hood / V-Disc 300-B / 7.19.44
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / Guaglione / Epic / 1964

set 3
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / Our Love Is Here to Stay / EmArcy / 11.19.55
Wardell Gray / Grayhound / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
Ella Mae Morse / Robin Hood / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS Orchestra, arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern
The Ravens / Deep Purple / National / 1.27.49
Frank D’Rone / In Person / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Melancholy Madeline / Tampa  / 2.20.57 
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Autumn Leaves [alt take] / RCA Victor / 3.15.62
Machito & his Orchestra / 6/8 / Clef [Verve] / 12.21.50 / with Charlie Parker 
Comedian Harmonists / Der alte Cowboy (The Last Roundup) / HMV / Berlin 8.22.30 
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia  / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / People / Atlantic / 1966
Golden Gate Quartet / Noah / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Major Lance / Since You’ve Been Gone / Dakar / 1969

Friday, November 21, 2014

Home in My Playlist

Coffeetime, November 14, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
Hank Mobley / Poppin’ / East of Brooklyn / Blue Note / 10.20.57
Miff Mole & his Little Molers / My Gal Sal / Okeh / 9.1.27 
Geraldo & his Savoy Hotel Orchestra / You’ve Done Something to My Heart / Columbia / London 2.12.39 / vocal = Gwen Jones
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Mop-Mop / Decca / 3.15.44
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / Blue Moods / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Never Never Land / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Without You / Blue Note / 7.8.60
Charlie Parker / Meandering [partial take 1] / Savoy / 11.26.45
Fats Waller / Georgia on My Mind / Victor / 5.13.41 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / My Sweet Tooth Says I Wanna (But My Wisdom Tooth Says No) / Bluebird / 7.31.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Four Blazes / Man, That’s Groovy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44 
Fred Astaire / If Swing Goes, I Go Too / movie soundtrack, Ziegfeld Follies [edited out of final movie] / Hollywood 1945
Ann Cole / Nobody But Me / Sir / 1959 

set 3
Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Hip Tip / Prestige / 5.2.58
Pete Brown’s All-Star Quintet / I May Be Wrong / Keynote / 7.19.44 
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time / radio broadcast / San Francisco 4.25.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The Charioteers / Sweet and Low / I Can’t Get Started / Columbia / 6.9.47
Mel Tormé & Margaret Whiting / Broadway, Right Now! / Medley: Far Away from Home; Angelina / Verve / 1960

set 4
Curtis Counce / [Sonority] / Bella Rosa / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica [also issued as West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi] / Linger Awhile / Hi Fi Jazz / LA 5.26.57
Cleo Brown / Swingin’ on the Swanee Shore / Decca / prob late 1935, early 1936
Frank Sinatra / Over the Rainbow / dress rehearsal for CBS radio show, The Frank Sinatra Show, V-Disc / 1.2.46 / with the Ken Lane Singers
Solomon Burke / Home in Your Heart / Atlantic / 1963
The Alphabetical Four / Go Down Jonah and Serve the Lord / Decca / 1.25.40

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

Friday, November 07, 2014

Got Playlist for Sale

Coffeetime, November 7, 2014, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2 
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54 
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 

set 3 
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transciption / 10.28.43 
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 4 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra

set 5
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Got a Penny / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.43

set 6 
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45 

set 7 
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James