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