Friday, April 14, 2017

This Is a Very Special Playlist

Hey, Hey – How’m I Doin’?

Coffeetime, April 14, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / Break City / Blue Note / 8.29.59
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley’s Second Message / Crazeology / Prestige / 7.27.56
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Out of Nowhere / Bluebird / 6.5.39
Whispering Jack Smith / All By Yourself in the Moonlight / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England     12.28.28
[Leo] “Snub” Mosley & Orchestra / Social Drag / Sonora / 1946 / vocal = Bob Carroll & ensemble
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Happy Birthday to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood c. 1950
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Why Was I Born? / Verve / LA 1.6.63

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Why Was I Born? / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Richie Kamuca / Some Other Spring / Concord / 1977
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61
Gene Ammons / It’s the Talk of the Town / Aristocrat / Chicago 10.12.48
Nat Gonella & his Trumpet / Nobody’s Sweetheart / Brunswick / London 5.26.33 / vocal = Nat Gonella & Garland Wilson
Hildegarde / Medley: The Moon Got in My Eyes; All You Want to Do Is Dance / Columbia / London 9.4.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Old Man River / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Buffalo / Blue Note / 1.15.61
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Odds Against Tomorrow / Cue #9 / 10.9.59
Mills Brothers / Jungle Fever / Decca / LA 2.24.34
Johnny Mercer / Surprise Party / Capitol / Hollywood 8.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Shadow of Your Smile / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
Shelly Manne / My Son the Jazz Drummer! / Di Grine Kuzine / Contemporary / 12.20.62
Oscar Peterson / Plays the George Gershwin Song Book / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Verve / summer 1949
Garland Wilson / China Boy / Brunswick / Paris c. 12.33
King Cole Trio / Look What You’ve Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Happy Birthday Boogie / Decca [unissued] / 6.5.51
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / Why Was I Born? / Roulette / LA 1963
Golden Gate Quartet / Travelin’ Shoes / Bluebird / Charlotte, North Carolina 1.24.38

last soulful song
Natural Four / Count on Me / Curtom / Chicago 1975