Friday, January 23, 2015

Playlist (Means Good Luck)

Swede sitting proper

Coffeetime, January 23, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Introducing Johnny Griffin / Cherokee / Blue Note [unissued] / 4.17.56
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Lullaby in Rhythm / Victor / 4.8.38
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / I Never Saw a Better Night / Bluebird / 07.12.35 / vocal = Dolly Dawn & Sonny Schuyler
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / You Can’t Take It with You / Capitol / LA 10.17.46
Sarah Vaughan / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.16, 18.1954

set 2
Jimmy Smith / Open House / Embraceable You / Blue Note / 3.22.60
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Lotus Flower / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / Day by Day / Contemporary / LA 7.9.54
The Capitol Jazzmen / In My Solitude / MacGregor transciptions / Hollywood 11.16.43
Cleo Brown / When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan / Decca / LA 11.20.35 
Jerry “Boogie” McCain / Stay Out of Automobiles / Trumpet / Jackson, MS 11.4.54
Peggy Lee / I Don't Know Enough About You / CBS radio transcription, The Summer Electric Hour / Hollywood, summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / I Believe in You / Reprise / LA 1964

set 3
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Ka-Link / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Teddy Edwards / Roy’s Boys / Rex / 7.47
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / My Sister and I / transcription / Chicago 1940 / vocal = Jimmy Castle
The Ravens / Mahzel (Means Good Luck) / National / 4.23 & 24.47 
Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / I’m Thru with Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Wes’ Tune / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / The Way You Look Tonight / Contemporary / LA 2.29.60
Nat Gonella & his Georgians / Jubilee / Parlophone / 1.27.38
Helen Humes / Helen’s Advice / Discovery LA / 11.20.50 [4.51?] / with Dexter Gordon’s Orchestra 
Nancy Andrews & Phil Leeds / Christine [original Broadway cast recording] / Freedom Can Be a Most Uncomfortable Thing [reprise] / Columbia / 1960
Swan Silvertones / My Rock / Jesus Is a Friend / Specialty / Hollywood 1953

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Talking Book / Tuesday Heartbreak / Tamla / 1973