You Call It Madness, But I Call It Playlist

Smoothies in a Soundie

Coffeetime, June 26, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Junior Cook /Junior’s Cookin’ / Pleasure Bent / Jazzland / 12.4.61

Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Capri / Prestige / 5.26.55 

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Hittin’ the Ceiling / Decca / London 9.12.29

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / After You’ve Gone / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon

Mildred Bailey / The Little Man Who Wasn’t There / Vocalion / 6.27.29 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Ivory Joe Hunter / Big Wig / 4 Star / San Francisco 1947

Carmen McRae / Bethlehem’s Best / Easy to Love / Bethlehem / 10.6.54 / with Matt Mathews Quintet

set 2

Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen / Prestige / 10.9.62

Hal McKusick / East Coast Jazz 8 / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Bethlehem / 1955

The Chocolate Dandies / Goodbye Blues / Columbia / 12.3.30 

The Smoothies / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / Bluebird / 9.5.39

Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Give Me All of You / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3

Jackie McLean / Lights Out / Lights Out / Prestige / 1.27.56

The Spirits of Rhythm / I’ve Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 9.20.33

Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / I Double Dare You / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain

Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Laughing Boy / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4

Hal Schaefer / Ten Shades of Blue / Caribbean Blues / United Artists / 1959 

Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Bethlehem’s Best [The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet] / Let’s Get Away From It All / Bethlehem / 10.17.55

Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Potter’s Luck / Roost / 8.15.51 

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

King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / MacGregor Transcription / LA 1.45

Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Capitol / LA 7.25.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Wade in the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song

The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / You Make Me So Mad / Buddah / Chicago 1968 / featuring James III on lead

When We're Alone (Playlist Serenade)

I like the way you lounge, Harold!

Coffeetime, June 19, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / Open Sesame (alternate take) / Blue Note [unreleased] / 6.19.60

Sonny Rollins / Sax Colossus / Strode Rode / Prestige / 6.22.56

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Happy as the Day is Long / Decca / 9.11.34 

Al Bowlly / Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with New Cumberland Dance Orchestra

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Disc Jockey Blues / Atlas / LA mid-1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander

Doris Day / soundtrack Warner Brothers movie Young Man With a Horn / Too Marvelous for Words / Columbia /  1.25.50 / Harry James & his Orchestra

set 2

Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / When Sunny Gets Blue / Epic / 7.13.61

Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Little Girl Blue / 3.13.56

George Wallington / Tenderly / Prestige / 9.4.52

Andy Kirk & his Seven Little Clouds of Joy / Gettin’ Off a Mess / 7.15.30

Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / There’s No Other Girl / Columbia / 9.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen 

King Cole Trio / When We’re Alone (Penthouse Serenade) / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.26.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day

Mel Tormé / Little White Lies / Musicraft / Hollywood 11.16.47 / with Hal Mooney & his Orchestra

Little Milton [Campbell] / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 1963

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Sidewinder / Totem Pole / Blue Note / 12.21.63

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Atomic Energy / Peacock / Houston early 1950 

Mills Brothers / Way Down Home / Decca / 1.25.39

Etta Jones / My Sleepy Head / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / Penthouse Serenade / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4

Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Curtain Call / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60

Benny Carter / Aspects / June Is Bustin’ Out All Over / United Artists / LA  late summer 1958 

Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954

King Cole Trio / No Love, No Nothing / MacGregor Transcription / LA 5.10.44 / vocal = Ida James

Steve Gibson & his Red Caps / My Tzatskele (My Little Darling) / RCA / 12.17.54 

Sammy Davis Jr / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / live, Sands Hotel 12.66 

The Soul Stirrers / He’s My Rock (Wait on Jesus) (take 2) / Specialty [unreleased] / Hollywood 7.8.53

last soul song

Roz Ryan / You’re My Only Temptation / Volt / Memphis 1970

Playlist in June

Yes. Ladies love Hoagy.

Coffeetime, June 12, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Phil Woods / Woodlore / Get Happy / Prestige / 11.25.55

Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Mambo Diane / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 

James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen / Joy-Mentin’ / Blue Note / 3.4.44 

Charles “Buddy” Rogers / (Up on Top of a Rainbow) Sweepin’ the Clouds Away / Columbia / 3.4.30

T-Bone Walker / Come Back to Me Baby Blues / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young & his Orchestra

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / ’Round Midnight / Impulse! / 9.18.63

set 2

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60

Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Body and Soul / Capitol / 4.4-5.55 

Lee Konitz / Conception / Yesterdays / Prestige / 3.8.51

Thomas “Fats” Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29 

Ruth Etting / (I’m Still Without a Sweetheart) With Summer Coming On / Banner / 6.2.32

Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) / MGM / 8.8.47 / vocal = Sy Oliver

Frankie Laine & the Four Lads / Wa-Hoo / Columbia / 1954

set 3

Arnett Cobb / Party Time / The Slow Poke / Prestige / 5.14.59

Kenny Burrell / [At the Five Spot Café] / Beef Blues Stew / Blue Note / live, Five Spot 8.26.59

Tadd Dameron / A Be-Bop Carroll / Savoy / 10.28.47

The RAF Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / San Fernando Valley / ORBS (The Overseas Recorded Broadcasting Service) BBC radio broadcast, Top of the List / London circa late 1942 / vocal = Corporal Denny Dennis 

The Charioteers / Open the Door, Richard / Columbia / Hollywood 1.16.47

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56

set 4

Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Perkin’ / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55

Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / Bone Brother / EmArcy / 11.19.55

Eddie Cantor / In My Arms / radio broadcast, Eddie Cantor show / Hollywood spring 1943 / with Peter Van Steeden’s Orchestra

Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra

Gladys Knight & the Pips / You Broke Your Promise / Fury / 1961

The Sunset Travelers / On Jesus’ Program / Looking for a Better Place / Peacock / Houston 1964

last soul song

The C.O.D.’s / Cry No More / Kellmac Records / Chicago 1965

You're Such a Beautiful Playlist

Mavis, who painted your portrait? I love it!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Work Time / There’s No Business Like Show Business / Prestige / 12.2.55

Horace Silver / Six Pieces of Silver / Señor Blues / Blue Note / 11.10.56

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Victor / 10.36

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Sunshine and Roses / Columbia / London 1.8.32 / vocal = Cyril Grantham

Cats & the Fiddle / Gone / Bluebird / 12.7.39

Mavis Rivers / Listen to Somebody New [Mavis Rivers Sings About the Simple Life] / Walkin’ By the River / Capitol / Hollywood 3.8, 11, 23.60

set 2

Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 3.23.67

Art Pepper / Gettin’ Together! / Why Are We Afraid? / Contemporary / LA 2.29.60

Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / If I Had You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.28, 31 & 6.4.56
Alex Combelle et son Orchestra / Weekend Stomp / Swing / Paris 2.20.40

Chick Daniels & his Royal Hawaiians / Little Brown Gal / Brunswick / Hollywood fall 1935

Martha Raye / My Melancholy Baby / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Louisville Lodge Meeting / Decca / Hollywood 6.5.51

Bobby Parker / You Got What It Takes / Vee Jay / 1957

set 3

George Benson / It’s Uptown / Eternally / Columbia / 1965

Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 / Senator Whitehead / Impulse! / 3.22.62

Charlie Parker / On a Slow Boat to China / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.12.49

Margaret Whiting / My Ideal / Capitol / Hollywood 1943 / with Billy Butterfield & his Orchestra

The Robins / I’m Through / Savoy / LA 2.13.50

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / How Sweet It Is to Be in Love / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4

Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Bones for Jones / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball’s Sharpshooters / If I Love Again / EmArcy / 3.6.58

Roy Brown / Dreaming Blues / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Learnin’ the Blues / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62

Silver Echo Quartet / Rock My Soul / Manor / 1948

last soul song

Archie Bell & the Drells / You’re Such a Beautiful Child / Atlantic / 1968