A Playlist Is a Necessary Evil

Making good music together.

Coffeetime, May 1, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Late Show / Columbia / 4.5.56

Red Nichols & his Charleston Chasers / Five Pennies / Columbia / 9.6.27

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Until Today / Decca / Hollywood 8.6.36 / vocal = Perry Como

Jesse Stone & his Orchestra / Cole Slaw / RCA Victor / 4.19.49

Ella Fitzgerald / Bewitched / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

set 2

Bill Evans / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Everybody Digs Bill Evans] / Peace Piece / Riverside / 12.15.58

Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / My Ship / Blue Note / 10.18.62

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / After Hours / RCA Victor / 6.10.40

Cleo Brown / Is Jenny Getting Any, Anymore? / Hollywood Hot Shots / Hollywood circa 12.36 

Hoagy Carmichael / Ole Buttermilk Sky / Decca / Hollywood 4.7.46

Pearl Bailey / The One and Only Pearl Bailey Sings / A Man Is a Necessary Evil / Mercury / 1956

set 3

Pony Poindexter / [Pony’s Express] / Lanyop (alt take) / Epic / 2.16.62

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Please Be Kind / Bluebird / 3.9.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton

The Orioles / Tell Me So [version 2] / Jubilee / 4.49
Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August / Life Can Be a Hard Road to Travel / Columbia / c. 12.49 / with Billy Ford & his Musical V-8’s

Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / At Long Last Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Moten Swing / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Blowin’ Country  / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58

Peggy Lee / I Should Care / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away / Gotham [unissued] / mid-1950s

Anthony Newley / Newley Recorded / This Is the Beginning of the End / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1966

Kansas City Gospel Singers / Trouble All About My Soul / Swing Time / LA 11.50

last soulful song

The Drifters / Dance With Me / Atlantic / 1959