Friday, March 04, 2016

This Playlist's Too Hip for Me

Ya gotta look at me like that, Bobby?

 Coffeetime, March 4, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Ghana / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Confirmation / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / White Heat / Victor / 1.26.34
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Dinner at Eight / HMV / London 10.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly 
Jack McVea’s All Stars / Fightin’ Mama Blues / Melo-disc / Hollywood 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62 

set 2
Eddie Johnson / Indian Summer / Blue Star / Nessa / Chicago 6.24 & 7.2.81
Art Farmer / Modern Art / Darn That Dream / United Artists / 9.10, 11, 14.58
Howard McGhee / Body and Soul / Regent / Guam 1.17.52
Junie C. Cobb & His Grains Of Corn / Smoke Shop Drag / Vocalion / Chicago 2.9.28 / vocal = Junie C. Cobb 
Willie Bryant Orchestra / The Voice of Old Man River / Victor / 8.1.35
Betty Hall Jones / This Joint’s Too Hip for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49 
Lester Williams / Hey Jack / Duke / Houston 1950
Tom Jones / Close Up / Witch Queen of New Orleans / Parrot / London 1972

set 3
Stan Kenton / New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm / Improvisation / Capitol / Hollywood 9.8-16.52
George Barnes / Guitars Galore / Sugar / Mercury / LA 1961 
Red Prysock & his House Rockers / Jump for George / Red Robin / 5.52
Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Ella Mae Morse / Jam Session on The Red River Valley / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS Orchestra, Mel Tormé & the Mel-tones, and arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern 
Billy Eckstine / I Surrender Dear / I Surrender Dear / EmArcy / 1955

set 4
Georgie Auld / Plays the Winner / It’s a Good Day / Philips / Hollywood 4.2.63
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four and One Moore / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Soothe Me / Regent / 1949 / vocal = Buddy Stewart
Rafael Muñoz & his Orchestra / Top Pops of Latin America / Prisonero del Mar / RCA Victor / 1955
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s the Way Love Is / Atco / Hollywood 12.19.58
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
Kid Creole & the Coconuts / I’m a Wonderful Thing, Baby / Sire / 1982