Friday, February 27, 2015

Just a Playlist Named Joe

A good hairdresser is hard to find.

Coffeetime, February 27, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Even Steven / Prestige / 4.20.67
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hankerin’ / Blue Note / 11.13.54
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Peg O’ My Heart / Brunswick / 7.2.30 
Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees / P.S. I Love You / Victor / 9.9.34
Annie Laurie / Baby, What’s New? / Regal / New Orleans 9.49
Little Sylvia / Blue Heaven / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Body and Soul / RCA Victor / 1.18.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra
Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Isn’t It Romantic / Jubilee / 8.9.57
Art Farmer / The Art Farmer Septet / Evening in Paris / Prestige / 6.7.54
The Capitol Jazzmen / Sugar [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 6.7.44
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies / Oh You Pretty Woman / Bluebird / San Antonio 4.4.34
Hildegarde / Cheek to Cheek / Columbia / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Angeline / Decca / Hollywood 12.9.41 / vocal = Perry Como
Aretha Franklin / Soul ’69 / Ramblin’ / Atlantic / 9.24.68 

set 3
Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / Malice Towards None / Jazzland / winter 1961-62
Cannonball Adderley / African Waltz / Kelly Blue / Riverside / 2.61
Kai Winding [Kai's Krazy Kats] / Grab Your Axe Max / Savoy / 12.14.45
The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / London 8.19.38
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Green Eyes / Decca / 1941 / vocal = Helen O’Connell & Bob Eberle
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire / A Fine Romance / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56 / with Marty Paich and his Dek-Tette

set 4
Eddie Harris / Bossa Nova / Lolita Marie / Vee Jay / 11.62 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 4: Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / LA 9.56
Frank Sinatra & Doris Day / There’s No Business Like Show Business / radio transcription, Your Hit Parade / 10.4.47 / with the Hit Paraders
Freddy King / I’m Tore Down / Federal / Cincinnati 1.18.61
Astrud Gilberto / Windy / Lonely Afternoon / Verve / LA 1968
Joiner’s Five Trumpets / Freedom After Awhile / J.O.B. / Chicago 6.19.52

last soulful song
The Diplomats / Accept Me / Dynamo / 1969