Friday, June 26, 2015

You Call It Madness, But I Call It Playlist

Smoothies in a Soundie

Coffeetime, June 26, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed
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