Friday, October 30, 2015

The Gal from Playlist

Play for me, Georgie.

Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / Play “Checkmate” / Cyanide Touch / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61
George Wallington / Squeezer’s Breezer / Prestige / 5.23.53
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Gal from Joe’s; Riding on a Blue Note / transcription / live, Cotton Club 5.1.38
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / There’s Silver on the Sage Tonight / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Eddy Howard
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Dinah Washington / Raindrops / Mercury [unissued] / 6.54

set 2
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Don Elliott / The Don Elliott Quintet / Laura / RCA Victor / 1954 
Georgie Auld / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Coral / 1955
John Kirby & his Orchestra / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Victor / 7.25.41
Mills Brothers / Way Down Home / Decca / 1.25.39
Ray-O-Vacs / Besame Mucho / Decca / 5.17.50 
Georgie Auld & the Mello Larks / The Melody Lingers On / The Lamp is Low / Top Rank International / 1959

set 3
Shelly Manne & his Men / The Proper Time / Blue Stutter; Piano Jazz; Wheels / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Callaway Went That-a-Way / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
Kai’s Krazy Kats / Loaded / Savoy / 12.14.45 
Maxine Sullivan / Corn Pickin’ / 3.20.39 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra
Delta Rhythm Boys / Take the “A” Train / Victor / Hollywood 4.27.47
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Pony Tale / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58
Joe Newman / All I Wanna Do Is Swing / Dream a Little Dream of Me / RCA Victor / 1955 
“Fats” Waller  / “Fats” Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, transcription / 3.11.35
Moonglows / Don’t Say Goodbye / Chess / Chicago 12.56
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Pass Me By / Columbia / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Old Pharaoh Get Lost / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus #1044 / c. 2.42

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sings Rock and Soul / So Much Love / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

Friday, October 23, 2015

The Moon Got in My Playlist

Record more soul tunes, NN, even if people call them popcorn.

Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Asiatic Raes / Blue Note / 9.22.57
Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Love Me or Leave Me / Verve / 1.13.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Yesterdays / Apollo / 2.16.44
Jack Smith, The Whispering Baritone / Crazy Rhythm / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.19.28
T-Bone Walker / She’s the No Sleepin’ Est Woman [alt] / Black & White / LA 12.18.47
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook / It Was Written in the Stars / Verve / LA 1.15.61 / with Billy May’s Orchestra

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Jimmy Smith / Plain Talk / Time After Time / Blue Note / 3.22.60
Adolph Hofner & his San Antonians / Cotton-Eyed Joe / Columbia / Dallas 2.28.41
Sophie Tucker / Some of These Days / Columbia / Chicago 11.23.26 / with Ted Lewis & his Band
Bing Crosby / The Moon Got in My Eyes / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.37 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Jerry “Boogie” McCain / Crazy ’Bout That Mess / Trumpet [unissued] / Jackson, MS 11.4.54
Nichelle Nichols / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Epic / Hollywood 12.16.66

set 3
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) / Riverside / early 1964
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Shome / Prestige / 11.9.56
Dexter Gordon / Dexter’s Cuttin’ Out / Savoy / 10.30.45
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Delta Rhythm Boys / A-Sittin’ & A-Rockin’ / radio broadcast, Command Performance / AFRS #202 / LA 12.13.45 / intro by Celeste Holm 
The Rovers / Why Oh-h / Capitol / San Francisco 3.55 

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Keester Parade / Riverside / Hollywood 11.23, 28, 30.66
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It Could Happen to You / Riverside / 3.7.57
Sonny Stitt / With the New Yorkers / Birds’ Eye / Roost / 1957
The Maxin Trio / Confession Blues / Down Beat Records / Seattle late 1948
Frank Sinatra & Margaret Whiting / This Can’t Be Love / radio broadcast, Light-Up Time / AFRS #16 / 11.49
Little Milton / Can’t Hold Back the Tears / Checker / Chicago 1965
The Zion Travelers / Down By the River / Dooto / LA 1962

last soul song
The Toys / Try to Get You Out of My Heart / Musicor [unissued] / 1966

Friday, October 16, 2015

Zing Went the Strings of My Playlist

Hey Patti! Don’t buy. Adopt!
Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Rhumba Nhumba / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Bonna Rue / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo [take 2] / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra / Crazy Rhythm / Victor / 4.12.28 / vocal = Franklyn Baur
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / I Would Do Anything for You / Decca / 1.23.40
Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / The Nearness of You / Mercury / 1956

set 2
Earl Anderza / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63 
Billy Taylor / The New Billy Taylor Trio / There Will Never Be Another You / ABC-Paramount / 12.16, 17.57
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang / Royal Garden Blues / Okeh / 10.5.27
Bud Freeman & his Famous Chicagoans / Jack Hits the Road / Columbia / 7.23.40 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 
Martha Raye / That Old Feeling / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Buffalo Nickel, part 1 / Apollo / 1949
Chuck Willis / Loud Mouth Lucy / Okeh / 3.52

set 3
Johnny Richards / Something Else By Johnny Richards / Dimples / Bethlehem / Hollywood 8.56
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of ’67 / This Is It / Impulse! / 2.15.67
Howard McGhee All Stars / South Pacific Jazz / Harvest Time / Savoy / USO tour, Guam 1.17.52
Virginia Four [aka Norfolk Jazz Quartet] / Dig My Jelly Roll / Decca / 8.23.39
Connee Boswell / You Forgot to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 4.16.38 / with Harry Sosnik & his Orchestra 
Matt Dennis / Plays and Sings Matt Dennis / Angel Eyes / Kapp / live, Tally Ho, Hollywood 1958

set 4
Pete Rugolo / New Sounds / When You’re Smiling / Harmony / LA 1957
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Sauter-Finegan Memories of Goodman and Miller / Superman / RCA Victor / 1958 / arranged by Eddie Sauter
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Five Brothers / Prestige / 4.8.49
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / My Baby / United / Chicago 4.15.53 
Dinah Washington / Since My Man Has Gone and Went / Mercury / summer 1953
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Signature / 1961
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / Tide of Life / Peacock / Houston 1962

last soul song
Barbara Lynn / Nice & Easy / Atlantic / 1971 

Friday, October 09, 2015

And So, Playlist

Me sale del corazón

Coffeetime, October 9, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars - Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Benny Goodman Sextet / I Found a New Baby / Victor / 1.15.41
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / And So, Goodbye / HMV / London 11.9.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Never Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand’s Doin’ / Decca / 4.29.40
Anita O’Day / Anita Sings the Most / Tenderly / Verve / Chicago 1.31.57

set 2
Bucky Pizzarelli / After Thoughts, part 1 / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / How Deep is the Ocean / Savoy / 5.19.56
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Ida / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Luis Russell’s Burning Eight / Call of the Freaks / Okeh / 1.15.29 
Helen Kane / I Wanna Be Loved By You / Victor / 9.20.28 / with Leonard Joy & The Victor Orchestra
Joe Swift / Right Now Baby / Exclusive / LA 1948 / with Johnny Otis Band
Fred Astaire / Shoes with Wings On / soundtrack to MGM movie “The Barkleys of Broadway” / Hollywood 1949

set 3
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Si Si / Prestige / 11.20.64
Mills Brothers / There Goes My Headache / Decca / 9.14.34
Mills Brothers / Miss Otis Regrets / Decca / 9.12.34
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / V-Disc 33A / Hollywood 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Dawn / 1956

set 4
The Guitars, Inc. / Soft and Subtle / In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room / Warner Brothers / LA 1959  
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Aunt Sarah / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.54
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust / V-Disc 649A / Hollywood 8.12.45
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Grieving for You / Columbia / Hollywood 1949 / vocal = Rosemary Clooney 
Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor / 1950s
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / For No Rhyme or Reason / Atlantic / 1957
Blue Jay Gospel Singers / Shall I Meet You Over Yonder? / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 4.23.52

last soul song
The Presidents / I Want My Baby / Deluxe / 1969

Friday, October 02, 2015

Playlist, What's Wrong with You?

Mildred Bailey's floating head!

Coffeetime, October 2, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s Message / Minor Disturbance / Prestige / 7.20.56
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Jazz Messengers / The End of a Love Affair / Columbia / spring 1956
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Love of My Life / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Dear Little Café / Decca / London 7.30.29 / unknown vocalist
[Leo] “Snub” Mosley’s Band / The Man with the Funny Little Horn / Decca / 3.11.40
Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / Verve / LA10.16.61

set 2
Lee Morgan / [Taru] / Taru, What’s Wrong with You / Blue Note / 2.15.68
Sonny Rollins / Alfie / He's Younger than You Are / Impulse! / 1.26.66
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Flamingo / Savoy / 2.26.55
The Rhythm Band / The Man I Love / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 4.18.28 
Mildred Bailey / You’re the Moment in My Life / Vocalion / 6.27.39 / with John Kirby’s Orchestra
Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / It Happened in Monterey; Ramona / Musicraft / LA 5.46 / with Sonny Burke & his Orchestra
Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Rocks in My Bed / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / You Love But Once / Verve / 3.26.63
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Hot in Harlem / Atlantic / Cleveland 5.1.48
Dick Haymes / Little White Lies / A Little Bit Independent / Decca [Coral] / LA 1950 / with the Song Spinners (?)
The Larks / Rockin’ in the Rocket Room / Apollo / 1.25.54 
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Skylark / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / with Abe Most on clarinet

set 4
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Cool Bunny / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Just One of Those Things / Contemporary / LA 4.25.55
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / Really? Healy! / RCA / 7.13.56
Mae West / Mister Deep Blue Sea / from Paramount movie Klondike Annie / Hollywood 1936 with Victor McLaglen
Nat “King” Cole / 8 Top Pops / Walking My Baby Back Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1952
Priscilla Bowman / A Rockin’ Good Way / Abner / 7.30.58 / with the Spaniels 
Golden Gate Quartet / If I Had My Way / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soul song
Erma Coffee / You Made Me What I Am / Hi / Memphis 1973