Playlist El Bongo

Mr. Milton is enumerating for us.

Coffeetime, March 27, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / Raggedy Ann / Jazzland / 1.24.62

Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Just in Time / Riverside / 3.11.63

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Swing / Paris 7.7.37

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Whispers in the Dark / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Eddy Howard

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Heed My Warning / Decca / 4.13.49

Dakota Staton / Dakota / The Masquerade is Over / Capitol / 1960

set 2

Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / These Foolish Things / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Blues by Budd / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60

Irene Dunne / Lovely to Look At / Victor / 4.4.35 / with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra

Camille Howard & her Orchestra / Shrinking Up Fast / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50

Judy Holliday / Trouble Is a Man / Where Have You Been? / Columbia / 3.31.58

Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia / Old Piano Roll Blues / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3

Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / The Maze / Blue Note / 5.28.62

George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / Tango El Bongo / Columbia / LA 8.1.56

Dick Hyman / Noel Coward—A Piano Portrait By Dick Hyman [Conversation Piece] / Poor Little Rich Girl / Classic Editions [Proscenium] / 1953

The Smoothies / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze  / Bluebird / 5.17.39 

The Big Three / Reno Blues / Columbia / Chicago 12.30.47

Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Oh, Baby It Scares Me / Bethlehem / 11.2.55

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / For Minors Only / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56

Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Something for Kenny / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60

Hadda Brooks / Tootsie Timesie / Modern / 1948

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Dance Parade / San / Columbia / 3.3.49 / with The Clooney Sisters

Little Milton / I Play Dirty / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Free at Last / Decca / 7.15.37 

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / Staighten Up Your Heart / Atlantic / Chicago 7.9.63

Just Another Playlist

Guaranteed good times with Fats, no matter what the weather.

Coffeetime, March 20, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / The Rat Race Blues / New Jazz / 6.7.60

Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Jazznocracy / Victor / 1.26.34 

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Deep Night / Victor / 2.6.29

Tiny Bradshaw / Long Time Baby / King / Cincinnati 1.16.51

Sylvia Syms / [In a Sentimental Mood] The Fabulous Sylvia Syms / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / [Movietone] 20th Century Fox / 1964

set 2

Red Garland / Groovy / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 8.9.57 

Leo Parker / Let Me Tell You ’Bout It / Blue Leo / Blue Note / 9.9.61

The Ramblers / Consolation / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37

Benny Morton Orchestra / Fare Thee Well to Harlem / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Jerry Blake

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Honeysuckle Rose (take 2) / radio transcription / 8.7.39

Little Willie John / Person to Person / King / 6.13.57

set 3

Donald Byrd / [Chant] / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 4.17.61

Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Catwalk / Bethlehem / 12.60 

Ernie Fields & his Orchestra / 88 / Regal [unissued] / 11.29.49 

Charioteers / With Every Breath I Take / radio transcription / 1942

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Pass the Bounce / Okeh / 12.29.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day 

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / One for My Baby / Regal / Kansas City 12.50 

set 4

Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / A Wonderful Guy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Infinity Promenade / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53

Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Round ’Bout Town / Vocalion / 10.25.37 

Tony Mottola & Carl Kress / Fun on the Frets / radio transcription / 1941

King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44

Peggy Lee / Sugar ’n‘ Spice / I Believe in You / Capitol / 10.62 / with orchestra conducted by Benny Carter

The Famous Skylarks / Roll Jordan Roll / Nashboro / Nashville 1962

last soulful song

Mary Wells / I’m Sorry / 20th Century Fox / 7.16.65

What a Girl! What a Playlist!

Would it help if I pout?

Coffeetime, March 13, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Ernie Henry / Seven Standards and a Blues / I Get a Kick Out of You / Riverside / 9.30.57

John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz / Like Sonny / Atlantic / 12.2.59

Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Dead Heat / Prestige / 3.5.57

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / What a Girl! What a Night! / Victor / Chicago 11.20.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders 

Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August & his 4 Bars / Rock My Soul / Coleman Records / c. 1946

Julie London / London By Night / My Man’s Gone Now / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

set 2

Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / My Old Flame / Riverside / 5.27.57

Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Moonglow / Bethlehem / late 1958

Wardell Gray / The Man I Love / Sunset / Hollywood 11.23.46

Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Guitar Boogie / transcription / 1945

Joe Venuti – Eddie Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Brunswick / 10.22.31 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 

Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / It’s Me Again / RCA Victor / 7.20.50 / vocal = The Honeydreamers 

Laurel Watson / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Septette

Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Agnes Moorhead, Walter Huston, Denny Wilson, & Jackie “Butch” Jenkins / The Stanley Steamer / MGM movie soundtrack, Summer Holiday / Hollywood 7.26.46

set 3

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mosaic / Crisis / Blue Note / 10.2.61

Tadd Dameron’s Band / Anthropology / broadcast / live, Royal Roost 8, 9.48

The Four Vagabonds / I Can’t Make Up My Mind / Atlas / Hollywood 10.45 

Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45

Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Love Is a Now and Then Thing / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)

set 4

John Graas / Jazz Studio 3 / Symphony No. 1 in F Minor: Scherzo / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.54 

Shelly Manne / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars, Volume 3 / My Manne Shelly / Contemporary / LA 5.26.59

Una Mae Carlisle / Without You Baby / Joe Davis / 5.23.44

B.B. King / The Jungle / Kent / Memphis 1967

The Capitol City Stars / Jesus, I Live to Call Your Name / Tru-Sound / 5.3.62

last soulful song

Orpheus / Orpheus / Never in My Life / MGM / fall 1967

Playlist for One, Please James

The ol' over-the-shoulder pose…nice!

Coffeetime, March 6, 2015, 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 / Mosaic / Mosaic / Blue Note / 10.2.61

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Cotton Tail / Impulse! / 11.13, 15.61

Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / South Rampart Street Parade / Decca / LA 11.16.37

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / That’s When I Learned to Love You / Victor / 7.15.29

Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry Baby (With a Guy Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Be My All / Atlantic / 4.8.58

set 2

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Early Morning / Prestige Moodsville / 8.23.60

Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / When Sunny Gets Blue / Blue Note / 11.11.60

Milt Jackson Sextet / I’m in the Mood for Love / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Fats Waller / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Victor / 8.2.29 

Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Coucou / Swing [unissued] / Paris 10.1.40 / vocal = Josette Daydé

Bob Range / I Found Out / Apollo / 9.30.49

The Ravens / My Baby’s Gone / Okeh / 10.30.50 

set 3

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenors / Save Your Love for Me / Jazzland / 11.4 & 10.60

Lee Morgan / [Standards] / This Is the Life / Blue Note / 1.13.67

Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / Dizzy Atmosphere / King / Cincinnati 1958

Boswell Sisters / Wha’d Ja Do to Me? / Brunswick / 3.19.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra

Harry James & his Orchestra / All or Nothing at All / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Dinner for One, Please James / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Belle of the Ball / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Night and Day / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54

Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Our Delight / Roulette / 6.3-4.57

Hoagy Carmichael / Ginger and Spice; Memphis in June / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)

Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto / Do I Make Myself Clear / Cadet / Chicago 9.65

Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Lord I’ve Tried / Columbia / 12.49

last soulful song

Loleatta Holloway / Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) / Aware / Atlanta / 1975