Friday, May 29, 2015

A Playlist for a Teacher

Young, pouty, and handsome. Sings, too.

Coffeetime, May 29, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Avila & Tequila / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Two Guitars / radio transcription / 1946
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Stars Fell on Alabama / 9.11.34 / vocal = Tony Sacco
James Moody & his Orchestra / Monday Blues / Vogue / Zurich, Switzerland 5.1.49 / vocal = Al “Fats” Edwards
Morgana King / For You, For Me, For Evermore / If You Could See Me Now / EmArcy / 3.29.56

set 2
Jimmy Smith / I'm Movin’ On / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi Hat / If I Should Lose You / Roost [unissued] / live , Hi Hat, Boston 2.11.54
Art Tatum Trio / Flying Home (theme) & I Cover the Waterfront / radio transcription / from Basin Street club, NYC 10.56 / with Slam Stewart and Everett Barksdale
Helen Proctor / Let’s Call It a Day / Decca / 10.13.39
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Bing and Connee / An Apple for a Teacher / Hollywood 6.22.39 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / What Can It Be? / MGM / 1962

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays / If I Should Lose You / Roost / 12.16.55 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Man / Verve / 2.17.59
Joe Thomas & his Orchestra / Tearing Hair / King / 5.21.49
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Moonlight Serenade / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
The Ink Spots / No Wonder / NBC radio broadcast, “The Home Cookin’ Boys from Up Harlem Way” / Philadelphia 7.12.39
Buddy Greco / Buddy & Soul / But Beautiful / Columbia / 1962

set 4
Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Sweet Lorraine / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / I’m Thru with Love / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown / radio transcription / 1934
King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Ann Cole / I’ve Got a Little Boy / Baton / 3.59 / with the Suburbans & Orchestra
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / Canoeiro / Verve / 6.9.67 
The Southern Harmonizers / What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? / Specialty / Hollywood late 1947

last soul song
The Incredibles / Crying Heart  / Audio Arts! / Hollywood 1966