Friday, July 29, 2016

Every Man to His Own Playlist

The great Jim Flora capturing the joy in music.

Coffeetime, July 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / Just You, Just Me / Prestige / 9.7.56
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Russ Columbo / Prisoner of Love / Victor / LA 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Every Man to His Own Profession / Decca / 4.23.47
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Decca / 9.12.50

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61
Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / Just for a Thrill / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946
Jack Teagarden / Blues to the Dole / Brunswick / 7.19.39 
Irene Bordoni / Don’t Look at Me That Way / Victor / 6.24.28 / with Irving Aaronson & his Commanders 
Jack McVea / New Worried Life Blues / Rhythm / LA spring 1945 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / I Couldn’t Care Less / Charlie Parker Records / Hollywood 1962

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / The Lady Is a Tramp / Argo [Cadet] / 6.7.63 
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #10 / They Can’t That Away from Me / Clef [Verve] / LA 1953 
The Four Vagabonds / If I Were You / RCA Victor / 5.13.45 
Toni Harper / Sam’s Song (The Happy Tune) / Columbia / LA 5.31.50 / with Four Hits & a Miss
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / You Make Me Feel at Home / Jubilee / 1958

set 4
Les Spann / Gemini / Blues for Gemini / Jazzland / 12.8.60
Lou Stein Quartet & Octet / Eight for Kicks, Four for Laughs / That Old Feeling / Jubilee / 1956 
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
King Cole Trio / You’ve Changed / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.5.47
Raphael Muñoz & his Orchestra / Top Pops of Latin America / Muchos Besos / RCA Victor / 1955
Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / Photograph / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song
Minnie Riperton / Perfect Angel / The Edge of a Dream / Epic / 1974

Friday, July 15, 2016

Just a Playlist Named Joe

Raft, Sinatra… Janet Blair gets all the guys.

Coffeetime, July 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / News / Blue Note / 6.23.57
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
The Revelers / In a Little Spanish Town (’Twas on a Night Like This) / Victor / 1.20.27
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Rose of the Rio Grande / Swing / 6.7.38 / vocal = Ivie Anderson
Roebie Kirk / Don’t Want to Play in the Kitchen (Let’s Go Upstairs) / Harlem / LA c. 8.45 / with Tab Smith’s Orchestra 
Patti Page / The West Side / Here I’ll Stay / EmArcy / Hollywood 1.21.58 

set 2
Tony Scott / Scott’s Fling / Requiem for “Lips” / RCA Victor / 1.7-12.55 
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / The Boy Next Door / Roost / 3.18.57 
Bud Shank / Shank’s Pranks / Jasmine / Nocturne / Hollywood 1954 
Lonnie Simmons / Lonnie’s Blue / Parrot / Chicago 10.15.53
Oscar Aleman / Nobody’s Sweetheart / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38 
Milton Brown & his Brownies / Down By the O-H-I-O / Decca / Chicago 1.27.35
Frank Sinatra & Janet Blair / Lucky Strikes Presents Light Up Time radio show / Some Enchanted Evening / 12.13.49
Delta Rhythm Boys / In Sweden / Perdido / Jubilee [Metronome] / Stockholm 1956 

set 3
Lonnie Smith / Think! / Slouchin’ / Blue Note / 7.23.68
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One By One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / 8.18.38
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / A Ghost of a Chance / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45 / vocal = Hal Stevens
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Phineas Newborn Jr. / The Artistry of Phineas Newborn Jr / Dahoud / Atlantic / 5.3, 4.56
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Daahoud / Mercury / 1960
Prince Cooper / It’s a Hit Baby / Aristocrat / 9.1.47 
Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roulette / Hollywood 1959
The Soul Stirrers / Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long [alt take] / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / The First Minute of a New Day / Ain’t No Such Thing as a Superman / Arista / Maryland, summer 1974

Friday, July 01, 2016

I've Got My Playlist Working for Me Now

Mr. Lunceford, you are the definition of elegant!

Coffeetime, July 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Gettin’ and Jettin’ / Blue Note / 12.5.61 
Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / They All Laughed / New Jazz / 6.28.60
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Liza / Vocalion / 9.14.39
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / She’s a Great, Great Girl / Brunswick / 3.7.28
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Why Do I Get Those Blues? / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander
Rosemary Clooney / Thanks for Nothing / Black Coffee / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 2
Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / With Malice Toward None / Bethlehem / 6.13.60
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Born to Be Blue / Prestige / 5.18.60
James Moody / James Moody’s Moods / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Prestige / 1.28.55
Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29 
Cleo Brown / (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie / Decca / 3.12.35
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / My Old Flame / Columbia / 10.2.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Showmen / 39-21-46 / Minit / New Orleans 2.4.63

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi [take 5] / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Sonia / Time / 3.23.60
Dizzy Gillespie / Groovin’ High / Guild / prob 2.28.45 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Blue Afterglow / Columbia / 12.23.40 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Time Miss Lucy / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s
Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum / The Big Voice of / Baby, Baby, Baby (All the Time) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960

set 4
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Airegin / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 
Steve Allen / Monday Nights / Rosetta / Signature / 1956
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Walkin’ [alt take 1] / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59 
King Cole Trio / By the River St. Marie / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38
Bing Crosby & Billy DeWolfe / I’ve Got My Captain Workin’ for Me Now / V Disc 820A, from the soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood c. fall 1945 
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington in the Land of Hi-Fi / If I Were a Bell / EmArcy / 4.24.56
Soul Stirrers / Christ is All (the World to Me) / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.28.50

last soulful song
Betty Wright / All Your Kissin’ Sho’ Don’t Make True Lovin’ / Alston / 1970