Friday, October 28, 2016

Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Playlist

Handsome + Handsome = 

Coffeetime, October 28, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Blueing Boogie / Mercury / LA 1959
Cozy Cole & his All Stars / Comes the Don / Remington [Continental] / 11.24.44
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Detour Ahead / Riverside / 12.23.60

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / ’Tis Autumn / Prestige / 11.27.58
Thomas [Fats] Waller / The Digah’s Stomp / Victor / 12.1.27 / with Thomas Morris & his Hot Babies
George Van Eps [or Dick McDonough] / The Chant [or Chasing a Buck] / home tape / c. 1934
Alphonso Trent & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 3.24.33 / vocal = Anderson Lacy
Dick Todd / ’Tis Autumn / Bluebird / 11.26.41 / with Leonard Joy & orchestra
Big Maybelle / Some of These Days / Savoy / 8.13.59

set 3
Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Blue’s Inn / Blue Note / 1.18.59
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Charlie Parker / Just One of Those Things / Mercury / 3.31.54
The Modernaires / Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside / radio, AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46 / featuring Johnny Drigg, with Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra
Al Hibbler / Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That, Baby / Decca / 1.17.58

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Mediolistic / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Al Caiola & his Orchestra / Guitars, Woodwinds, and Bongos / Too Marvelous for Words / UA / LA 1960 / Ultra Audio Wall to Wall Stereo series
Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians / Ami Hula Sway / radio transcription / spring 1941
Anita Boyer & her Tomboyers [King Cole Trio] / Sing You Sinners / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44 / with Bob Dukoff on sax
Bing Crosby / Autumn Leaves / Decca / Hollywood / 9.7.50 / with Axel Stordahl & orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
The Golden Echoes / Down on My Knees / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 4.5.49

last soulful song
James Carr / You’re Pouring Water on a Drowning Man / Goldwax / 1966

Friday, October 14, 2016

Foggy Playlist

All aboard the happiest train!

Coffeetime, October 14, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / It’s You or No One / Riverside / 9.4.58
Pepper Adams / Jazz is Busting Out All Over / Stop / Savoy / 11.12.57
J. C. Heard & his Orchestra / Rhythm Time / Bouncing for Barney / Remington [Continental] / 3.20.46
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Betty Co-Ed / Victor / 6.25.30
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Friendship / Decca / LA 1.11.47
Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / Night Bird / Verve /10.16.61

set 2
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / Once in a While / Riverside / live, Café Bohemia, 10.14.56
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Orpheans / Rhapsody in Blue / Columbia / 5.28.35 / with Larry Adler on harmonica
The Boswell Sisters / That’s What I Like About You / Victor / LA 7.20.30 / with Jackie Taylor & his Orchestra 
Kay Starr / Allez-Vous-En / Capitol / Hollywood 4.15.53
Freddy King / I’m Tore Down / Federal / Cincinnati 1.18.61

set 3
Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Arrowhead / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57
Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Jewel’s Tempo / UA / 10.58
Brew Moore & his Playboys / Blue Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48
Connee Boswell / Sunrise Serenade / Decca / LA 4.25.39 / with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
Delta Rhythm Boys / Do You Care / transcription / 1941
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / Skylark / Dawn / 1956

set 4
Red Callender / Callender Speaks Low / Foggy Day / Crown / Hollywood 10.28.56 
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / The Late Late Show / RCA / 7.8.56
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Dinah / Okeh / 3.28.28 
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Lonesome Me / radio, Associated Transcription No. 60 / 8.7.39
Lulu / Sings To Sir With Love / You and I / Epic / London 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
The Fascinations / I Can’t Stay Away from You / Mayfield / 1967

Friday, October 07, 2016

I'm No Playlist

Really now, who is?

Coffeetime, October 7, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Wonderful, Wonderful / Blue Note / 9.22.57
Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Bo-Till / Blue Note / 3.3.57
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Sunday in the Park / Decca / 3.22.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44 / with emcee Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / No Booze Blooze / Prestige / 6.30.64
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Whiteman Stomp / Victor / 8.11.27
Mae West / I’m No Angel / from Paramount movie I’m No Angel / Hollywood 7.33 / dialogue with Cary Grant
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / I Know Your Wig Is Gone / Black & White / LA 9.13.47
Louis Armstrong / Blueberry Hill / Decca / 9.6.49 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & chorus

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Esther’s Melody / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Howard McGhee / Dilated Pupils / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / I Had to Live and Learn / Decca / 3.2.39
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Art Pepper / Begin the Beguine [alt take] / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ the Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / It’s the Talk of the Town / Modern / LA 3.46
Sammy Davis, Jr. / Hey There / Decca / 6.7.54 / with Sy Oliver & orchestra 
The Gate City Singers / I Thank You Jesus / Tru-Sound / 4.7.62 

last soulful song
Eddie Floyd / Can We Talk This Over / Stax [unissued] / mid-1960s