Friday, February 24, 2017

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