Friday, February 23, 2018

Playlist While Dancing

Kay Starr explains music! And hairdos.

Coffeetime, February 23, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Sunday / Prestige / 5.17.57
The Jazz Messengers / Ecaroh / Columbia / 5.4.56
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Windy City Jive / Bluebird / Hollywood 8.20.41
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon) / Victor / 9.24.26 / vocal & ukulele = Johnny Marvin
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Run Your Mouth and I’ll Run My Business / Decca 1.25.40
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Good Morning Heartache / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / For Heaven’s Sake / Blue Note [unissued - Mosaic] / 10.20.60
Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Why Try to Change Me Now / Westminster / 1960
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / A Foggy Day / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / It’s the Talk of the Town / Columbia / 9.22.33 /
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Trouble Why Pick on Me / Brunswick / 9.24.31 / vocal = Louis Deppe
Jo Stafford & Johnny Mercer / Conversation While Dancing / V-Disc 503B / Hollywood 9.13.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Clyde McPhatter / May I Sing for You? / That’s My Desire / Mercury Wing / 1962

set 3
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Cattin’ / Prestige / 4.12.57
Kay Starr / You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mamma At All) / Capitol / Hollywood 10.20.47
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Lovely to Look At / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Charleston Alley / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancin’ / It’s All Right With Me / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra
Mildred Bailey / Right as the Rain / radio transcription: The Mildred Bailey Show (aka Music Till Midnight, CBS Playhouse No. 3 (currently called the Ed Sullivan Theater) / 10.20.44 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee & Desi Arnaz / Mañana / transcription (radio show) / Hollywood 1952 / Sonny Burke & his Orchestra
Jackie Wilson / Please Tell Me Why / Brunswick / 1961
The Pilgrim Travelers / Thank You Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 8.12.48

last soulful song
Tommy Ridgley / Heavenly / Ric / New Orleans 12.8.62

Friday, February 16, 2018

Playlist Has Got Me

Rare treasure: live performance by the Golden Gate Quartet!

Coffeetime, February 16, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / Chip Monck / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Lex / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Zelma O’Neal / Do Something / Brunswick / 3.29 / with Al Goodman & his Orchestra
Jesse Belvin / Blues Has Got Me / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.12.52
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Gloomy Sunday / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / It Could Happen to You / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Howard McGhee / Maggie’s Back in Town!! / Willow Weep for Me / Contemporary / LA 6.26.61
Bennie Green / Bennie Green with Strings / Embraceable You / Prestige / Chicago 5.13.52
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Feeling My Way / Brunswick / 2.17.32
Cab Calloway & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Father’s Got His Glasses On / Victor / 11.2.33
Adelaide Hall / That Old Feeling / HMV / London 8.28.38 / with Fats Waller on organ
Frank Sinatra / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire / Capitol / Hollywood 4.20.56 / duet with Celeste Holm
Memphis Slim / The Comeback / Vee-Jay / Chicago 8.18.59

set 3
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Soul-Lo Blues / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / I Dig You the Most / Savoy / 3.30.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / You’ll Never Break My Heart Again / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Rhythm Aces / I Wonder Why / Vee-Jay [unissued alt take] / 11.2.54
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / … And Friends / Casaba / Fantasy / LA 1963
Lenny McBrowne / Swingin’ Like Sixty [Lenny McBrowne and the Four Souls] / Soul Sisters / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / Hollywood spring 1960
Hadda Brooks / Romance in the Dark / Modern / LA 1948
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Lugar Bonito / Verve / 12.65
Golden Gate Quartet / I’m a Pilgrim / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Medley: I Won’t Last a Day Without You; Let Me Be The One / Rocky Road Records / 1974



Friday, February 09, 2018

Serenade to a Playlist

Love this cover! Handsome men, handsome typography, groovy sweater!

Coffeetime, February 9, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Serenade / Nineteen Bars / Blue Note / 5.7, 8.63
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / Ostinato / New Jazz  / 10.30.59
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Hocus Pocus / Bluebird / 3.6.34
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Faithful Forever / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Alan Holmes
Ruby Smith / Port Wine Blues / RCA Victor / 1.8.47 / with Gene (Honeybear) Sedric & his Orchestra
Billie Holiday / He’s Funny That Way / Clef (Jazz at the Philharmonic) / LA 10.7.46

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

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / All My Yesterdays / Blue Note / 12.1.67
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Surrender Dear / Bluebird / 8.27.39
The Little Ramblers / I’m Shooting High / Bluebird / 12.27.35 / vocal = Bill Dillard
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Blue Can You Get? / RCA Victor / 6.20.49
Martha Raye / The Voice / The Boy Next Door / Discovery [DL-3010] / 1950
Gene Allison / My Heart Remembers / Vee-Jay / 1958                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                set 3
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / If I Were a Bell / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Curtis Fuller / The Opener / A Lovely Way to Spend the Evening / Blue Note / 6.16.57
Stan Getz / Crazy Chords / Prestige / 6.21.49
Alice Faye / I’m Shooting High / Melotone / Hollywood 1.4.36
The Four Buddies / Heart and Soul / Savoy / 8.23.51
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / Funny World / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / Serenade to an Alto / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / A Foggy Day / Clef / LA 11, 12.52
John Graas / Jazz-Lab-1 / Pick Yourself Up / Decca / 1956
Tommy Dean Orchestra / Recession / Vee-Jay / Chicago 5.27.58 / vocal = Joe Buckner
Charles Boyer / Where Does Love Go / Once Upon a Time / Valiant / Hollywood 1965
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Roulette / LA 1963
Swan Silvertones / Rock My Soul / Vee-Jay / 1960

last soulful song
The Vont Claires / Don’t Cha Tell Nobody / Double R Records / 1968

Friday, February 02, 2018

I've Got the Playlist on a String

Play it, Valaida! (And you look gorgeous!)

Coffeetime, February 2, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Minor Meeting / Blue Note / 3.29.59
Dave Bailey / Bash! / An Oscar for Oscar / Jazzline / 10.4.61
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / PDQ Blues / Columbia / 4.28.27
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Turn on the Heat / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Buddy Johnson & his Band / Stand Back and Smile (Say Ella) / Decca / 1.26.42 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Pearl Bailey / Songs of the Bad Old Days / I’ve Got the World on a String / Roulette / 1960

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

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Cry! – Tender / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Jimmy Heath / Really Big! / My Ideal / Riverside / 6.28.60
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Little Girl Blue / Savoy / 11.3.55
Les Paul Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Vocalion / 10.26.33 / with Dick McDonough on guitar
Danny Kaye / Anatole of Paris / Columbia / 1941
Valaida Snow / Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone / Derby / 1949 / with Jimmy Mundy’s Orchestra

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Stalking / Crown / 1960
Dave Bailey / Bash! / Like Someone in Love / Jazzline / 10.4.61
Ella Fitzgerald / (It’s Only a) Paper Moon / Decca / 3.27.45 / with the Delta Rhythm Boys
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / It’s Like Taking Candy from a Baby / Columbia / 10.30.47 / duet with Rosemary Clooney
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Wouldn’t It Be Loverly / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / I Got Rhythm / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / That’s Rich / Contemporary / 3.12.57
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends / Wise Guys (You’re a Wise Guy) / Capitol / Hollywood 6.11.47
Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Days Like This / Atlantic / 1965
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
Rising Star Gospel Singers / Moses / Cava-tone / San Francisco 1949

last soulful song
The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Never Tell the World / Project 3 / 1967