There Ain’t No Sweet Playlist That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

Couch singin’ with Damita & Steve (dig that guitar)

Coffeetime, April 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Minority / Riverside / 7.1.58

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Hey Doc! / Bluebird / 8.8.41

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / You’re Mine, You! / HMV / London 6.16.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly

King Porter & his Orchestra / Charlie the Boogie Man / Imperial / LA c. 12.19.47 / vocal = ensemble 

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / The Night We Called It a Day / Atlantic / 3.13.58

set 2

Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Sonny Boy / Prestige / 10.9.62

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Peter Gunn” / Dreamsville / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59

Ike Quebec Quintet / Blue Harlem / Blue Note / 7.18.44

Fats Waller / Turn on the Heat / Victor / 12.4.29 

J. C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Once or Twice / Vocalion / Chicago 10.24.29 / vocal = Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon 

The Merry Macs / Deep in the Heart of Texas / Decca / Hollywood 1942

Rhapsody with June Cole’s Orchestra [Miss Rhapsody aka Viola Wells] / Groovin’ the Blues / Savoy / 7.6.44

Little Milton [Campbell] / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63

set 3

Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Favela / Blue Note / 10.5.62

Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / The Lady Is a Tramp / Savoy / 1956

Herbie Fields Hot Seven / Run Down / Savoy / 5.4.45

Roy Fox & his Orchestra / Rockin’ the Town / radio broadcast / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee

The Four Vagabonds / Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans / Apollo / 11.13.46 

Nat King Cole / L.O.V.E. / Thanks to You / Capitol / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Tynan Time / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56

Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / Aquarium / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54

Hadda Brooks / Say It with a Kiss / Modern [unrelease] / 1948

Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / When You Come Back to Me / RCA Victor / 6.18.51 

Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / There Ain’t No Sweet Girl That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

Soul Stirrers / How Far Am I from Canaan? / Specialty [unissued] / 3.1.51

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965

Blowin’ Your Playlist Out

Dapper. And can sing.

Coffeetime, April 22, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Butch and Butch / Impulse! / 2.23.61

Sam Jones / The Chant / Four / Riverside / 1.13.61

Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Moon-a-Tic / Riverside / 8.10.60

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Sneakin’ Out / RCA Victor / 4.24.46

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / As Time Goes By / Victor / 7.25.31

Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 

Peggy Lee / I’m a Fool to Want You / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.62 

set 2

Kenny Burrell / Men at Work / I’m a Fool to Want You / Cadet / live, The Village Vanguard 1966

Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58

John Kirby & his Orch / Night Whispers / Victor / 10.7.41

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Stringin’ the Blues / Columbia / 11.8.26 

Phil Harris / I Got the Ritz from the One I Love (I Got the Big Go-By) / Victor / San Francisco 10.13.31 / with the Lofner-Harris St Francis Hotel Orchestra 

Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / Please Keep Me in Your Dreams / Vocalion / 1.12.37

Wynonie Harris / Blowin’ Your Brains Out / King / 12.23.47

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Jumpin’ Jupiter / Blue Note / 5.22.61

John Coltrane / Dakar / Mary’s Blues / Prestige / 4.20.57

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Maternity / Savoy / 12.20.46

Connee Boswell / Carioca / Brunswick / 4.27.34 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra

The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love? / Manor / c. 1947 

George Sanders / The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady / As Time Goes By / ABC-Paramount / LA 1958

set 4

Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / Look Who’s Dancing / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.28, 31 & 6.4.56 

Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / Speak Low / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.10.61

Teddy Wilson & his Band / The Sheik of Araby / broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show / 1.5.45

Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Ol’ Man River / Banner / 8.8.34 / vocal = Sonny Woods 

The Treniers / This Is It / Okeh / LA 1.9.52

Peggy Lee / Miss Peggy Lee – In Love Again! / The Moment of Truth / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / This World Is in a Bad Condition / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 2.2.39

last soulful song

The Impressions / Grow Closer Together / ABC-Paramount / 1962

 

Playlist Bounce

White tie jive harmonies!

Coffeetime, April 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Philly Joe Jones / Blues for Dracula / Tune-Up / Riverside / 9.17.58

Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Night Tide / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961

The Ramblers / Duke’s Holiday / Decca / Hilversum, Netherlands 12.33

Little Jack Little / I Don’t Want to be President / Columbia / Hollywood 12.7.34

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes

Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

set 2

Red Garland / Red Alone / These Foolish Things / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60 

Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Stars Fell on Alabama / Tampa / LA 6.15.55 

Lou Donaldson / The Things We Did Last Summer / Blue Note / 6.20.52

Joe Marsala & his Orchestra / Don’t Let It End / Black & White / 11.29.44

Edythe Baker / Where’s That Rainbow? / Columbia / 7.27

Adrian’s Tap Room Gang / Weather Man / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Putney Dandridge 

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / The Sound of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Love Is a Simple Thing / RCA Victor / 1954 / vocal = Joe Mooney & the Doodlers [Sally Sweetland & Lillian Clark] 

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / She Moves Me / RPM / 1956 

set 3

Jimmy Smith / Prayer Meetin’ / Picnickin’ / Blue Note / 2.8.63

Sonny Stitt / Personal Appearance / Original / Verve / 5.12.57

Jay Jay Johnson / Opus V / Prestige / 5.26.49

The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)

Doris Day / Day Dreams / If I Could Be With You / Columbia / 2.49

Yves Montand / [Á Paris, volume 3] / Dis-Moi Jo / Odéon [King] / Paris 11.05.53

set 4

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Sweet Georgia Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.29.56

Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / Midnight Sun / Everest / 9.29.58

Coleman Hawkins & Leonard Feather's Esquire All Stars / Esquire Bounce / Commodore / 12.4.43

Dick Haymes / Comme Ci, Comme Ça / Decca / Hollywood 1.16.49

Edna McGriff / I Love You / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Orchestra

Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Coxsone / Jamaica 1970

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Jonah in the Belly of the Whale / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song

The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

Playlist on the Lowlands

Looking at ya. Singing to ya.

Coffeetime, April 8, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Columbia / 7.17.56

Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Madison Avenue / Prestige / 8.23, 25,29.65

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / After Hours / Bluebird / 6.10.40 

Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / I Woke Up Too Soon; Dancing with My Shadow / Bluebird /12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / It’s a Lowdown Dirty Shame / Decca / 7.21.42

Ella Fitzgerald / The Cole Porter Songbook / I Get a Kick Out of You / Verve / Hollywood 2.9.56 

set 2

Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / Body and Soul / Coral / LA 1955

Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57

Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / The Things We Did Last Summer / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Moonrise on the Lowlands / Victor / Chicago 4.9.36 

Hildegarde / I’m in the Mood for Love / Columbia / London 1934

Beny Moré / Sin Razón Ni Justicia (Without Reason Nor Justice) / RCA Victor / 1951 / with Orquesta Chucho Rodriguez

Amos Milburn & his Band / House Party / Aladdin / LA 7.25.55

set 3

Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Sunday in New York / Blue Note / 6.3.64

Wes Montgomery / Full House / S.O.S. / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62 

Tadd Dameron Sextet / Dameronia / Blue Note / 9.26.47 

Charioteers / Ridin’ Around in the Rain / radio transcription / 1942

Teddy Wilson & his Big Band / Stairway to the Stars / radio broadcast, BBC’s America Dances / 8.10.39 / vocal = Thelma Cooper 

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Our Time / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Big Foot / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56

Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Finders Keepers / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54

Jo Stafford / The Things We Did Last Summer / Capitol / Hollywood 7.25.46

Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc 147A / early 12.43

last soulful song

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / The New Religion / The Entertainer / Pye [Atco] / 1966

I Kiss Your Playlist, Madame

Happiness is a hot guitarist.

 Coffeetime, April 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / [Curtain Call] / On the Bright Side / Blue Note / 8.18.57

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Minor Run-Down / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Oran Hot Lips Page & his Band / Jumpin’ / Bluebird / 4.24.38

Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / I Kiss Your Hand, Madame / Victor / 3.18.29 / vocal = Ran Weeks

Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / Sweet Man / Savoy / 11.21.44

Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye / Mercury / 1956 

set 2

Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Yesterdays / New Jazz / 10.16.59

Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Don’t Blame Me / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60

Doc Cheatham & his Trio / Doc’s Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 1.21.50

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds Roll Away) / Decca / 9.12.34

Ethel Waters / Don’t Blame Me / Decca / 7.18.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra

Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / A Stranger in Town / Decca / LA 10.5.44 / with Eddie LaRue’s Quartet

Floyd Dixon / Is It True? / Cat / 4.28.54

Patty Duke / Sings Songs from Valley of the Dolls / Give a Little More / United Artists / 1967

set 3

The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Li’l Darlin’ / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60

Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61

Charlie Parker / Jazz Perennial / The Bird / Norgran [Verve] / 2.10.49

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Red Wagon / radio transcription / 7.9.40 / vocal = Dandridge Sisters

The Ravens / I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do / National / 9.11.47 

Anthony Newley / Tony / You’re Free / London / 1961 

set 4

William Donati / Presents Something Different / Firefly / Tampa / c. 1955

Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / Marie / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.24.61

Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Sittin’ In / Commodore / 11.10.38

Helen O’Connell / Oh, You Crazy Moon / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio 

T-Bone Walker / Travelin' Blues / Imperial / LA 4.5.50

Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / Don’t Blame Me / Argo / Chicago 6.27, 29.62

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song

The Emotions / Flowers / You’ve Got the Right to Know / Columbia / Chicago 1976