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