Friday, April 24, 2015

Ain't No Playlist Like One I've Got

I like *you*, Gene Kelly!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed
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