You’ve Got the Right Eye But You’re Peeping at the Wrong Playlist

Coffeetime stalwart, MR. ART BLAKEY. [applause]

Coffeetime, March 30, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Phil Woods / Pairing Off / Cool Aid / Prestige / 6.15.56
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / S’Make It / Waltz for Ruth / Limelight / Hollywood 11.64
Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians / Waitin’ for Katy / Columbia / Chicago 3.22.28
Lolly-Pop Jones & Ethel Morris / Aviator Papa / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1948
Chris Connor / Chris / All About Ronnie / Bethlehem / 8.9-11.54 / with Ellis Larkins Trio

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

set 2
Bill Evans / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Everybody Digs Bill Evans] / Peace Piece / Riverside / 12.15.58
Bob Gordon / Moods in Jazz / Babette / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Johnny Sparrow Quintet / Serenade to Twins / National / 3.30.50
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Do Something / Decca / London 6.2.29
Bertha Idaho / You’ve Got the Right Eye But You’re Peeping at the Wrong Keyhole / Columbia / 5.22.28 / with Bob Ricketts on piano
Don Voorhees & his Orch / Baby’s Blue / Columbia / 9.10.27 / vocal = Lewis James
Myra Taylor / Booted / Mercury / Chicago 1947
Danny Kaye / There Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame / Decca / Hollywood 4.18.49 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra

set 3
Dick Morgan / See What I Mean? / See What I Mean? / Riverside / 10.31.60
Buddy Rich / The Swinging Buddy Rich / Me and My Jaguar / Norgran / 8.21.53
Gene Ammons / Idaho / Mercury / Chicago 6.19.47
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Let ’Er Go / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / I’ll Be Around / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Bobby Darin / Toot Toot Tootsie; Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / live, The Ed Sullivan Show 1962

set 4
John Graas / Jazz Studio Two / Graas Point / Decca / Hollywood 1954
Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Pasadena / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / The Right to Love (Reflections) / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.64
Highway QC’s / I’ll Trust His Word / Vee Jay / Chicago 5.22.55

last soulful song
Mitty Collier / Together / Chess / Chicago 1964

Look Down that Lonesome Playlist

Happiness is Aretha singing Day Dreaming *live* on Soul Train!

Coffeetime, March 23, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Heads Up! / Togetherness / Blue Note / 11.17.67
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Sweetnin’ / Prestige / 11.7.58
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Fine and Dandy / Brunswick / 3.31.37
Noel Coward / We Were So Young / HMV / London 8.15.35 / with Clifford Greenwood & his Orchestra
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Bring ’Em Down Front / Capitol / 9.11.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / Blue It Grows / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Standard Coltrane / Invitation / Prestige / 7.11.58
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet [5066] / My Sin / Blue Note / 3.27.55
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / Footlights Parade Selection, part 1 / Decca / The Hague, Netherlands 4.2.34
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Brunswick / 9.4.29 / with Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang
Eddie Cantor / The Eddie Cantor Story soundtrack [Warner Brothers] / Medley: Pretty Baby; You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby; Yes Sir, That’s My Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 12.25.53
Chuck Willis / It Were You / Okeh / 12.54

set 3
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Blue Room / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.25.57
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Battle of the Saxes / Prestige / 4.8.49
The Four Vagabonds / Lazy Country Side / Apollo / 8.47
Sarah Vaughan / I’ll Know / Columbia / 12.6.50 /with the Norman Leyden Orchestra
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / Look Down that Lonesome Road / Dawn / 1956 / with the Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Herbie’s Buddy / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell / All God’s Children / Prestige [103] / 1.26.50
Les Paul Trio / This Can’t Be Love / V-Disc 664A / Hollywood 7.46s
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Judy / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Bump on a Log / King / Cincinnati 2.6.54
“The Church Choir” / soundtrack to The Lost Man / He’ll Wash You Whiter Than Snow / Uni / Hollywood 1969 / written and arranged by Cora Martin

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Young, Gifted and Black / Day Dreaming / Atlantic / Miami 1972

There’s a Playlist in the Sky

Girls make passes at tenor players who wear glasses.

Coffeetime, March 16, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / [Clubhouse] / Clubhouse / Blue Note / 5.27.65
Jackie McLean & John Jenkins / Alto Madness / Pondering / Prestige / 5.3.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Manhattan Transfer / Columbia / 2.19.40
Russ Columbo / Save the Last Dance for Me / Victor / 2.29.31 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra
Jay McShann / Confessin’ the Blues / Philo / LA summer 1945 / vocal = Jimmy Witherspoon
Sylvia Syms / [In a Sentimental Mood] The Fabulous Sylvia Syms / Skylark / [Movietone] 20th Century Fox / 1964

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

set 2
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins, vol. 1 / How Are Things in Glocca Morra? / Blue Note / 12.16.56
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / The Wolf Wobble / Columbia / 9.10.31
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Rockin’ Chair / Victor / 7.14.39 / vocal = Ford Leary
Bing Crosby / Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral / Decca / Hollywood 7.7.44 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Big Jay McNeely / Insect Ball / Imperial / LA summer 1950
The Debonaires / May We Be on Better Terms / Dootone [unissued] / LA 1957

set 3
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Good Ole Soul / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Frank Wess Sextet / All My Life / Commodore / 8.54
Melvin “Sax” Gill & Orchestra / Dancer’s Delight / Gotham / Philadelphia 11.49
Mills Brothers / Rockin’ Chair / Decca / 3.8.32
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Well, All Right / Victor / 5.22.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Rockin’ Chair / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.13.56

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / In a Sentimental Mood / World Pacific / LA 1959
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / I’ll Know / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater, San Francisco 12.4.54
Al Cohn / Four Brass One Tenor / Every Time / RCA Victor / 5.55
Ella Logan / Finian's Rainbow (Original Broadway Cast Recording) / Look to the Rainbow / Columbia / 1947
Charles Brown / Rollin’ Like a Pebble in the Sand / Aladdin / LA 10.52
Nat King Cole / There’s a Gold Mine in the Sky / Capitol / Hollywood 1957
Jubalaires / He Understands, He’ll Say “Well Done” / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Lovelites / This Love is Real / Uni / 1970

Practicing the Playlist

Oh, goody! It's Women's Week.

Coffeetime, March 9, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Our Delight / Contemporary / San Francisco 9.22.59
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Galvanizing / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood early 1945
Zelma O’Neal / Do What You Do! / Brunswick / 4.29.29 / with Al Goodwin & his Orchestra
Willie Mae “Big” Mama Thornton / The Big Change / Peacock / Houston 1953
Dinah Washington / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Make the Man Love Me / Vee Jay / 7.20, 21.61
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Milt Jackson Sextet / I’m in the Mood for Love / Savoy / Chicago 2.48
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Floyd’s Guitar Blues / Decca / 3.16.39
Hildegarde (Loretta Sell) / A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody: Practising the Piano / Columbia / 1936
Shirley Booth / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio broadcast 1945
Una Mae Carlisle / Ain’t Nothin’ Much / Joe Davis / 5.23.44
Little Esther (Phillips) & Jimmy Ricks / Double Crossing Blues / Atlantic / 2.6, 7.64

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Can’t We Be Friends / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / Larue / Riverside / 5.21.57
Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Can’t We Be Friends / Prestige / 1.3.51
The Smoothies / Love for Sale / Bluebird / 5.19.39
The Dinning Sisters / Fun and Fancy Free / Capitol / Hollywood1947
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / I Wish I Knew / Impulse / 9.19.63

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / A Flower is  Lovesome Thing… / Like a Mighty Rose / Fantasy / LA 1957
Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pink Squirrel / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Jitterbug Waltz / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Peggy Lee / Fine and Dandy / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / You Irritate Me So / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet
The Elite Jewels / Standing on the Rock / Cleveland late 1940s

last soulful song
Belita Woods / My Magic Corner / Moira / Detroit 1969

Playlist for Jam

Scat Man and Redd making music, wearing sweaters.

Coffeetime, March 2, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactoveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / score to film The Proper Time / Happy Pool / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60
Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / At the Rug Cutter’s Ball / Brunswick / 4.1.36
Billy Merrin & his Commanders / We’ll Make Hay While the Sun Shines / Regal Zonophone / London, 1.26.34
Tiny Bradshaw / Newspaper Boy Blues / King / Cincinnati 2.27.52 / vocal = Tiny Kennedy
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

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

set 2
James Moody / Hey! It’s James Moody / Don’t Blame Me / Argo / Chicago 12.29.59
Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Riverside / 2.27.61
Coleman Hawkins & his Quartet / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Vogue / 8.25.50
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Money for Jam / Decca / London 10.1.37
Billy Cotton & his Band / Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s Forty / Regal Zonophone / London 11.21.34 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
Frank Sinatra & Gloria DeHaven / Some Other Time / soundtrack to RKO movie Step Lively / Hollywood 2.24.44
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64

set 3
Bob Brookmeyer / Bob Brookmeyer and Friends / Sometime Ago / Columbia / 5.26, 27.64
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / 6 M’s / Blue Note / 9.21.61
Charlie Parker’s Ree Boppers / Billie’s Bounce / Savoy / 11.26.45
Les Brown & his Orchestra / There’s No You / radio transcription / Hollywood (Palladium) 7.26.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The 5 Red Caps / Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night / Joe Davis / 5.44
“Scat Man” Crothers / Gone with “Scat Man” Crothers [Rock ’N Roll with “Scat Man” Crothers] / September Song / Craftsmen [Tops] / 1957

set 4
Stan Getz, Cal Tjader / For All We Know / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Stu Williamson / Jazz Swings Broadway / Love in a Home / World Pacific/Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.12.57
Art Tatum Trio / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / V-Disc 456A / 1.5.44
Oscar Alemán / Russian Lullaby / HMV / Paris 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers
Lulu / To Sir with Love (soundtrack) / Museum Outings Montage / Fontana / London 1967
Soul Stirrers / Mean Old World / Specialty / Hollywood 4.10.57

last soulful song
Staple Singers / Trippin’ on Your Love / Stax [unissued] / Memphis 1972