You're Such a Beautiful Playlist

Mavis, who painted your portrait? I love it!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed

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