Friday, August 28, 2015

The Playlist Is a Silver Dollar

By Jupiter, Ray doesn’t appear on this episode. But I love him

Coffeetime, August 28, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Street Singer] / Melonae’s Dance / Blue Note / 9.1.60
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Ad Libido / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Jersey Lightning / Okeh / 9.6.29 
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Jumpin’ at the Jubilee / V-Disc 196B / Hollywood 11.43
Dinah Washington / After Hours with Miss D / I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / EmArcy / 6.15.54

set 2
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / Requiem / Atlantic / Tristano’s home studio 1954-55 
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Nancy with the Laughing Face / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Lester Young / She’s Funny That Way / Aladdin / LA 8.46
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Runnin’ Ragged / Okeh / 10.28.29
Martha Raye / Summertime / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm / The Tiny Boogie / AFRS Jubilee transcription / 10.14.46 / vocal = Ernestine “Tiny” Davis (also on trumpet) 
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Sweet Talk / Columbia / 1967

set 3
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Visa Vid Midsommartid (Midsummer Song) / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Joe Wilder / Wilder ‘n’ Wilder / My Heart Stood Still / Savoy / 1.19.56
“Flip” Phillips Fliptet / Skyscraper / Signature / c. early 9.44
Stan Kenton & his Orchestra / Wish You Were Waitin’ for Me / radio broadcast, AFRS “One Night Stand” #447 / live, Hollywood Palladium 11.30.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / The Whiffenpoof Song / Okeh / 8.8.51 
Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Nobody’s Heart / RCA / 1955

set 4
Teddy Edwards / [Sunset Eyes] / The New Symphony Sid / Pacific Jazz / 3.21.60 
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Claude / Contemporary / LA 8.17.57
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = Astrud & João Gilberto
Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Rain / NBC Thesaurus radio program #979 / 1941

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Give It Up / Double Shot / 1967