I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

Having fun with Ethel.

Coffeetime, February 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Hymn to the Orient / Riverside / 12.19.57
Prestige All Stars / All Day Long / Slim Jim / Prestige / 1.4.57
Ross Gorman’s Earl Carroll Vanities Orchestra / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Columbia / 10.29.25
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Outside / Harmony / 1.31.29
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Since I Fell for You / radio broadcast / live, Savoy Ballroom 1945 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Big Mama Thornton / My Man Called / Peacock / Houston 1956
Julie London / All Through the Night / Get Out of Town / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / Central Park West / Atlantic / 10.24 & 26.64
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ethel Waters & her Ebony Four / Maybe Not at All / Columbia / 10.28.25
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 11.48
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout / Vegas / 1964

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Kenny’s Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Skylark / Prestige / 10.21.66
Lester Young / Sax-o-Be-Bop / JATP / 1946
Harry James & his Orchestra / Opening Theme [Ciribiribin); If That’s the Way You Want It, Baby / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Earl Coleman with Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa  / 2.20.57
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Gone with the Wind / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54
Lynn Hope / Please, Mr. Sun / Aladdin / Chicago 3.11.52
Kay Starr / Who’s Foolin’ Who / Lamplighter / LA 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / I Wish You Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1962
Donald Height / You’re Gonna Miss Me / Shout / 1966
Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to That Land / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soulful song
Lea Roberts / Prove It / Minit / LA 5.1.69

Waiting for the Playlist to Come In

Sam, you do sing so handsomely!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Star Bright / A Variation on Monk / Blue Note / 11.19.59
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Bet / Savoy / 11.5.56
The Comedian Harmonists / Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear / Odeon / Berlin 1932
Walter Brown / Let’s Love Awhile / Capitol / LA 7.50 / Jay McShann’s Kaycee Stompers
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Verve / LA 1.8.57

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

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Strange / Capitol / 1958
Bing Crosby / After Sundown / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.27.33 / with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / Tea for Two / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra, Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”), the Ken Lane Singers, & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones & his Playboys / New Arrival / Imperial / 1947

set 3
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / Here’s That Rainy Day / Prestige / live at The Five Spot 10.13.66
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
The Mills Brothers / Dinah / Brunswick / 12.16.32 / with Bing Crosby
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Sam Cooke / Encore / When I Fall in Love / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Bloke’s Blues / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Too Marvelous for Words / Pacific Jazz / live at The Haig, Hollywood 1.53
Les Paul Trio / If I Love Again / V-Disc 572B / mid-1940s
Peggy Lee / Waiting for the Train to Come In / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Marlene Dietrich / Dietrich in London / I Wish You Love / Columbia / Queen’s Theatre, London 12.12.64
Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Burdens to God / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Don’t Let Me Be a Cryin’ Man / A-Bet / Crowley, Louisiana (?) 1966

Lonesome Playlist

Dreaming with Dinah…

Coffeetime, February 3, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / M & M / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Let’s Go Home / Columbia / 4.24.41
Annette Hanshaw / Moon Song (That Wasn’t Meant for Me) / Banner / 1.25.33
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Wynonie Harris
Dinah Washington / Our Love Is Here to Stay / EmArcy / early spring 1954

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Mr. Know-It-All / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Joe Newman / All I Want to Do Is Swing / Leonice / RCA Victor / 2.8.55
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Wild Dog / Okeh / 3.28.28
Boswell Sisters / Gee, But I’d Like to Make You Happy / Okeh / LA 10.3.30 / on label as The Three Boswell Sisters
Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Lonesome Lover / King / Cincinnati 9.27.51
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Some Day, Sweetheart / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Salt Water Blues / Riverside / 5.9.60
Earl Anderza / Joe and I / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63
Tadd Dameron Band / Ep-Bop / transcriptions [Jazzland] / live Royal Roost 1948
Connee Boswell / Stormy Weather / Decca / LA 8.7.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Varsity / 12.47
Jean Sablon / Ciel de Paris / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris early 1960s

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Roulette / Tampa/Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Tal Farlow / Tal / How About You / Verve / 1956
Helen Forrest / Everybody Knew but Me / Decca / Hollywood 11.19.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio
Jerry Butler / I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Vee-Jay / 1965
Dixie Nightingales / Forgive These Fools / Chalice / Memphis / 1966

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Mercury / 10.66