Let's Have a Natural Playlist!

He's got his name on his pretty guitar!

Coffeetime, May 18, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Another Night at Birdland / JAMPH / Roost / live, Birdland 4.10.57
Lou Donaldson / Roccus / Blue Note / 6.20.52
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Hallelujah! / Columbia 9.12.39
Russ Columbo / Guilty / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Shangri-La / Atlantic / live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Young and Foolish / Riverside / 12.15.58
Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / I Should Care / Epic / 7.13.61
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / But Beautiful / Riverside / 5.21.57
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Idolizing / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal = Frank Bessinger
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cincinnati c. 4.46 / vocal with Bullmoose Jackson & ensemble
Albert King / The Big Blues / Let’s Have a Natural Ball! / Bobbin / 1960

set 3
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Back to Back / Riverside / 1.3.61
Lester Young / Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 / Ad Lib Blues / Norgran / 11.28.52
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / A-Tisket, A-Tasket / Brunswick / 7.29.38 / vocal = Nan Wynn
The Syncopators / River Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49
Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Sweet Lorraine / Capitol / Hollywood 8.15.56

set 4
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Flute Diet / EmArcy / LA 3.5 & 7.58
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Fascinating Rhythm / Contemporary / 8.6.56
Larry Adler / Lover, Come Back to Me / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Simple and Sweet / Decca / 9.27.36 / vocal = Perry Como
King Cole Swingsters / Sentimental Blue / Keystone / Hollywood 7.22.40 / vocal = Maxine Johnson
Thurston Harris / Tell Me So / Aladdin [unissued] / Hollywood 5.29.58
Anita Gillette & Frank Gorshin / Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording] / That Old Familiar Ring / RCA Victor / 1969
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet / If I Had My Way / Bluebird / Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Friends of Distinction / Check It Out / RCA / 1971

The Silver-Masked Playlist

Work of ART!: Little Milton on The! Beat!!! in 1966

Coffeetime, May 11, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / A Caddy for Daddy / 3rd Time Around / Blue Note / 12.18.65
Bill English / Bill English / 7th Avenue Bill / Vanguard / 1963
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Warmin’ Up / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.36
B.F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra / Moonbeam: Kiss Her for Me / Victor / 1.6.27 / vocal = The Silver-Masked Tenor [Joseph M. White]
Bette McLaurin / Ol’ Man River / Jubilee / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / I Wish I Didn’t Love You So / Capitol / Hollywood 1966

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Men at Work / I’m a Fool to Want You / Cadet / live, The Village Vanguard 1966
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Seldon Powell / Sextet / I’ll Close My Eyes / Roost / 1956
Frankie Newton & Orchestra / Minor Jive / Victor / 1.13.39
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Three Little Words / Victor / Hollywood 8.26.30 / with The Rhythm Boys
Cab Calloway & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Zaz Zuh Zaz / Victor / 11.2.33
Amos Milburn / Two Years of Torture / Aladdin / LA 5.18.50
Kay Starr / Movin’ On Broadway! / You’re Just in Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

set 3
Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / 4.23.62
Howard McGhee / Merry Lee / Vitacoustic [Savoy] / Chicago late 12.47
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / Musicraft / 12.18.44 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The 5 Red Caps / I’m Crazy ’Bout You / Beacon / LA 3.44
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Vibraphone Blues / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64

set 4
Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / Flyin’ Colors / Bethlehem / 6.13.60
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips – Buddy Rich Trio / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Clef / 12.14.52
Mildred Bailey / All the Things You Are / Vocalion / 11.30.39
Valerie Carr / Ev’ry Hour Ev’ry Day of My Life / While We’re Young / Roulette / 1959
Little Milton / Sacrifice / Checker / Chicago 3.26.64
Echoes of Zion / Evening Sun / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song
The Sapphires / Gonna Be a Big Thing / ABC-Paramount / 1965

A Sinner Kissed a Playlist

Rick's on drums! (Harriet & Ozzie sing “Mandy.”)

Coffeetime, May 4, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Armando Peraza Septet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / Wee Tina / Warwick / spring 1960
Yusef Lateef / Tracks in the Sand soundtrack / Cha Cha / 3.62
Young Men from Memphis / Down Home Reunion / Blue ‘N’ Boogie / United Artists / 4.15.59
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Polo-naise / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
The Revelers / Hallelujah! / Victor / 4.25.27
Red Callender Trio / Red Light / Black & White / LA 6.46
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / Suppertime / Mercury / 1954

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All the Way / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Wardell Gray / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
J. C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Don’t Cry, Honey / Brunswick / Chicago / 2.7.29 / vocal = J. C. Cobb
Una Mae Carlisle / Don’t Try Your Jive on Me / Vocalion / London 5.20.38
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / So Many Beautiful Men (So Little Time) / EmArcy / 4.21.55

set 3
Cedar Walton / Cedar! / Twilight Waltz / Prestige / 7.10.67
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Moods / Metaphor / Savoy / 4.6.57
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee [take 4] / Savoy / 5.8.47
Delta Rhythm Boys / Hey John (Keep Your Glasses On) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Lowell Martin’s Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Don’t Cry, Cry Baby / Decca / 4.28.49
David Allen / This Is My Lucky Day / Penthouse Serenade / Everest / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session! 2 / Will You Still Be Mine / LA overnight 11.12.56
Stan Getz / Tootsie Roll / Royal Roost / 12.10.50
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Haydn Gets Hep / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Am I Gonna Have Trouble with You? / radio transcription / Hollywood 1936 / duet with Harriet Hilliard
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Don’t Dream of Anybody but Me / Atco / 5.12.59
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Troubled, Lord I’m Troubled / Columbia / 12.49

last soulful song
Deena Johnson / I’m a Sad Girl / Simpson Records / 1966