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| I surrender, handsome Billy Eckstine! |
Coffeetime, May 12, 2017, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Jackie McLean / Swing, Swang, Swingin’ / I’ll Take Romance / Blue Note / 10.20.59
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Toll Bridge (Rifftide) / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Dinah / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / She’s Funny That Way / Victor / vocal = Van Fleming / 1.17.29
Theodore “Wingy” Carpenter & his Wingies / Rhythm of the Dishes and Pans / Decca / 1.12.40
Jeri Southern / The Southern Style / I’ll Take Romance / Decca / 1955
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes – Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Strictly Romance / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Art Tatum / The Tatum Touch / Humoresque / Columbia / live, Shrine Auditorium, LA 1949
The Ramblers / Decca Stomp / Decca / London 5.23.33
Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra / Wherever There’s Me, There’s You / AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46 / vocal = Francis Glenn & Jay Johnson
Danny Kaye / Eileen / Columbia / 1941
Ann Cole / Are You Satisfied / Baton / 1955 / with Dave McRae Orchestra
set 3
Kenny Dorham / Trompeta Toccata / The Fox / Blue Note / 9.14.64
Frank Foster / I’ll Take Romance / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
The Spirits of Rhythm / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 9.20.33
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
Billy Eckstine / I Surrender Dear / There Are Such Things / EmArcy / 1955
set 4
Tal Farlow / Tal / Isn’t It Romantic / Verve / 1956
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / I’ll Take Romance / Contemporary / LA 7.2.54
Art Tatum Trio / Sweet Lorraine / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
King Cole Trio / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / vocal = Ida James
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970
Swan Silvertones / Singin’ in My Soul / Lord Today / Vee Jay / Chicago 1960
last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads / Monkey Time ’69 / Volt / Memphis 1969
