Friday, June 19, 2015

When We're Alone (Playlist Serenade)

I like the way you lounge, Harold!
Coffeetime, June 19, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed
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