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