Ain't No Playlist Like One I've Got

I like *you*, Gene Kelly!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Curtis Fuller / Two Bones / Slide’s Ride / Blue Note / 1.22.58 

Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Bird House / Warwick / 3.2.61 

Rex Stewart’s Big Seven / Cherry / HRS / 7.23.40

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 

The Red Caps Trio / Get Off That Kick / Joe Davis / LA 2.45 

Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Speak Low / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

set 2

Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / These Foolish Things / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55

Kenny Dorham / The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album / Lazy Afternoon / [Xanadu] / 1.10.60

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Ol’ Man River / Mercury / 1960

Joe Venuti / Estrellita / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)

Turner Parrish / Trenches / Gennett / 1.13.32

Bing Crosby & the Merry Macs / Dolores / Decca / Hollywood / 3.5.41

Tubby “Tab” Smith aka Tab [Talmadge] Smith & his Orchestra / Trunk Packed Up / Queen / circa 9.45 / vocal = Hester Lancaster 

T-Bone Walker & his Band / I Walked Away / Imperial / LA circa 9.50

set 3

McCoy Tyner /  Today and Tomorrow / Three Flowers / Impulse! / 2.4.64

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Cotton Top / Savoy / 1.31.49

Betty Hutton / A Square in the Social Circle / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / from 1945 Paramount Pictures movie The Stork Club

The Charioteers / When I Grow Too Old to Dream / Columbia [Harmony] / 12.47

Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / These Foolish Things / Impulse! / 9.24.64

set 4

Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Makin’ Whoopee / Contemporary / LA 2.24.56

Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It's a Grand Night for Swinging / Riverside / 3.7.57

Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Forty Six West Fifty Two / Commodore / 11.10.38

Una Mae Carlisle / You and Your Heart of Stone / Joe Davis / 8.8.44 

Gene Kelly / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / I Like Myself / MGM / Hollywood spring, summer 1955

The Southern Sons / There’s a Leak in this Old Building / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soulful song

Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

Clownin' the Playlist

April showers bring…Guétary!

Coffeetime, April 17, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Joe Henderson / Mode for Joe / Granted / Blue Note / 1.27.66

Jackie McLean & John Jenkins / Alto Madness / Windy City / Prestige / 5.3.57

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Poor Little Rich Girl / radio transcription / 1947 

Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano

Linda Hopkins / Three Time Loser / Crystalette / LA 1954 / with the Red Callender Orchestra

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / The Ballad of the Sad Young Men / Verve /10.16.61 

set 2

Chet Baker / In Milan / My Old Flame / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59

Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / A Room with a View / Fantasy / 1957

Cozy Cole All Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44

Julia Lee / Won’t You Come Over to My House / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.8.29 / with = George Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra 

Boots [Clifford "Boots" Douglass] & his Buddies / Sweet Girl / Victor / San Antonio 2.25.36

Georges Guétary / Mon P’tit Bouquet de Fleurs / Pathé / Paris 1949

Flairs / (Why Do) I Love You? / Crown / LA 1963 

set 3

Gene Ammons / The Happy Blues / Can’t We Be Friends / Prestige / 4.23.56

The Ink Spots / Stairway to the Stars / radio broadcast, NBC affiliate WFIL / Philadelphia 7.12.39 

Jo Stafford & her Men of Jazz / I’m Comin’ Virginia / V-Disc 895A / 1945

Fred Astaire / Easy to Dance With / I Used to Be Color Blind / Verve / LA 3.27.57 / with Buddy Bregman’s Orchestra 

set 4

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Clownin’ the Frets / Okeh / 4.6.28

Oscar Alemán Trio / Dear Old Southland / Swing / Buenos Aires 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers

Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti

Elvis Presley / Elvis for Everyone! [also Elvis By Request] / Summer Kisses, Winter Tears / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.8.60 / unused song from 20th Century Fox movie Flaming Star 

The Sallie Martin Singers / He’s Able to Carry Me Through / Specialty / Hollywood 12.15.50

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Bright Lights and You, Girl / Mercury / 1970

My Heart is a Playlist

Dreamy…

Coffeetime, April 10, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Oliver Nelson / Screamin’ the Blues / The Drive / New Jazz / 5.27.60

Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out [alt take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58

Don Albert & his Orchestra / Deep Blue / Vocalion / San Antonio 11.18.36

Annette Hanshaw / If I Had a Boy [Girl] Like You / Harmony / 6.16.30

Mabel Scott / Wailin’ Daddy / Brunswick / LA 3.17.52

Dinah Washington / Dinah / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / 11.11.55

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Shadows / Crown / 1960

Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Leila / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58

Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / I’d Love It / Victor / 11.5.29 

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful / Victor / 11.29.35

Gene Phillips / I Owe Everybody / Combo [unissued] / LA 1953 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra

“Palmer” / Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad / Combo [unissued] / LA early 50s

Otis Rush / Three Times a Fool / Cobra / Chicago late 50s

set 3

Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Chant / Blue Note [unissued] / live, Half Note, 11.11.60

Milt Jackson Sextet / Fiesta / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Ella Mae Morse / Shoo-Shoo Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 10.20.43 / with Dick Walters & his Orchestra

The Ravens / Time Takes Care of Everything / Columbia / 10.19.50 

Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / I’ll Buy That Dream / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Delirium / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58

Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / My Heart Is a Violin / Angel / 1953

King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Martha Davis / Experience / Coral / 5.10.51

Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / Sunday in New York / Capitol / LA 9.17.64

The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Right to the Tree of Life / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song

Mad Lads / Make Room / Volt / Memphis 1968