If I Had My Playlist to Live Over

Sweet smile, sweet guitaring, Bill!

Coffeetime, April 26, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / On the Ginza / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Groove / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Victor / 10.30.39
Noël Coward / London Pride / HMV / London 6.41 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Rock With It / RCA Victor / 7.20.49 / vocal = Billy Valentine
Sarah Vaughan / Wonderful Sarah / My One and Only Love / Mercury / 1954

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

set 2
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / My One and Only Love / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean / Inta Somethin’ / Lover Man / Pacific Jazz / live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 11.61
Louis Armstrong / Swing, You Cats / Bluebird / Chicago 1.28.33
Harold Arlen & Judy Garland / Over the Rainbow / NBC radio program, Maxwell House Good News / Hollywood 6.29.39 / with Yip Harburg
The Dinning Sisters / If I Had My Life to Live Over / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Big Maybelle / I’m Getting ’Long Alright / Okeh / 3.2.54
Ricky Nelson / Songs By Ricky / That’s All / Imperial / LA 6.9.59

set 3
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / This Can’t Be Love / Prestige / 4.18.61
Lou Donaldson / Mr. Shing-A-Ling / The Shadow of Your Smile / Blue Note / 10.27.67
Charlie Parker / Buzzy /  Savoy / 5.8.47
The Mills Brothers / The Love Bug Will Bite You / Decca  / 4.5.37
Harry James & his Orchestra / Ciribiribin (They’re So in Love) / Brunswick / 11.8.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Mel Tormé / I Cover the Waterfront / Musicraft / Hollywood 11.16.47 / with Hal Mooney & his Orchestra

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Full House / Come Rain or Come Shine / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus Quintet with Strings / Full House / Contemporary / LA 3.30.55
Clovers / Needless / Atlantic / 7.12.51
Stan Getz / Getz Au Go Go / It Might As Well Be Spring / Verve / live, Carnegie Hall 10.9.64 / vocal = Astrud Gilberto
Soul Stirrers / Lord Remember Me / Specialty / Hollywood 4.10.57

last soulful song
Elvin Spencer / Lift This Hurt / TwiNight/ 1971

There’ll Always Be a Happy Playlist

Vi gets vigorous!

Coffeetime, April 19, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Three Blind Mice / Plexis / United Artists / live, Renaissance Club, Hollywood 3.62
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Prestige / 5.8.65
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Vi Vigor / AFRS/film / 10.14.46
The BBC Dance Orchestra / The Song Is You / Columbia / London 4.4.33 / vocal = Les Allen
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / The “G” Man Got the “T” Man / Apollo / 11.2.45
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington / Don’t Say Nothing At All / Roulette / 11.27.62

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / It’s Magic / medley: It’s Magic; My One and Only Love; They Didn’t Believe Me / Regent / 9.5.57
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France avec Stéphane Grappelly / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Decca / London 2.1.46
Ciro Rimac’s Rumbaland Muchachos / Yo Me Ba / Columbia / London 3.26.36
Emmett Matthews & his Orchestra / There’ll Always Be a Happy Ending / Vocalion / 4.10.36
Little Esther & Mel / Ring-a-Ding Doo / Federal / 11.8.51
Yves Montand / Paris Recital / L’Enfant de Paris / Philips / live at Le Theatre D’Etoile, Paris 1964

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Blue Bash / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Frank Foster / No Count / Stop Gap / Savoy / 3.5.56
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Spinal / Savoy / 12.20.46
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Scatterbrain / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
Delta Rhythm Boys / Long Gone Baby / Victor / 1.31.53 / with Jack Pleis Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / Witherspoon, Mulligan, Webster at the Renaissance / How Long / HiFi Jazz / live, the Renaissance Club, Hollywood late 1959

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Sugar Blues / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Tenderly / Riverside / 12.15.58
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Swingtime / Paris 12.21.49
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood / 7.24.36
The Barry Sisters & Jan Bart / Manischewitz Matzo Commercial / WHN radio broadcast, Yiddish Radio in Swing / 1940
Judy Garland & Fred Astaire / Easter Parade / MGM film, Easter Parade / Hollywood 1/26.48 / with the MGM Studio Chorus
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
Cilla Black / Is It Love? / Anyone Who Had a Heart / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 1965

Playlist in a Mellow Mood

Well gallopin’ rattlesnakes, it’s the ukulele cowboy, Cliff Edwards.

Coffeetime, April 12, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Uncle Bud / Victor / 1.22.41
Little Jack Little & his Orchestra / You Oughta Be in Pictures / Columbia / 2.8.34
Dinah Washington / My Voot Is Really Vout / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
Ella Fitzgerald / Songs in a Mellow Mood / Stardust / Decca / 3.30.54 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson, vol. 1 / A Lady’s Vanity / ABC-Paramount / 12.12.56
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Little Girl Blue / Savoy / 11.3.55
Gene Ammons / Old Folks / Decca / 3.24.52
Joe Venuti / I Got Rhythm / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / Palm Springs 3.5.53
Benny Morton Orchestra / Get Goin’ / Columbia / 2.23.34
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Columbia / Hollywood 12.4.50 / with Gene Nelson, Frank Comstock & Orchestra
Freddie Mitchell Orchestra / Long Lean Daddy / Derby / 1951 / vocal = Sara Dean

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Fungii Mama / Blue Note / 7.30.64
Teddy Edwards / Back to Avalon [unissued] / Sweet Georgia Brown / Contemporary [unissued] / LA 12.60
Julian Dash / Long Moan / Mello-Roll / 12.50
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Bakery Blues / V-Disc 537B / 1945
The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Blue Moon / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / What’s Right for You / Tampa  / 2.20.57
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Larry Adler / Cheek to Cheek / Decca / London 10.35 / with Fred Hartley's Orchestra
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back to Me Now / CBS radio, The Mildred Bailey Show / c. 1943
Cliff Edwards / Ukulele Ike Sings Again / Sunday / Disneyland / LA 1946 / with the Wonderland Jazz Band
The Radio Four / If You Miss Me from Praying / Nashboro / Nashville 1955

last soulful song
The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

Nobody’s Playlist But My Own

Carmen is non-casually great.

Coffeetime, April 5, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / Fly Little Bird Fly / Blue Note / 11.24.64
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / Man of Moods / Savoy / 5.22.56
Buck Clayton’s Big Eight / Sentimental Summer / HRS / 7.24.46
Thelma Terry & her Playboys / Dusky Stevedore / Columbia / 9.27.28 / vocal = Joe Davis
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / Double-Trouble Blues / Savoy / 9.12.44
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / When I Fall in Love / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan & Hank Jones / Our Delights / A Child Is Born / Galaxy / 1979
George Benson / The New Boss Guitar / I Don’t Know / Prestige / 1964
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Nobody’s Blues But My Own / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Bud Ritchie & his Boys / Slappin’ the Bass / Champion / 10.10.30
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / You Might Have Belonged to Another / Capitol / Hollywood 1.6.41 / vocal = Frank Sinatra with Connie Haines & the Pied Pipers
Cal Bostic / Introducing…  Cal Bostic / Georgie Girl / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / High ’n Low / Blue Note / 1.30.61
The McGhee-Navarro Boptet / Double Talk / Blue Note / 10.11.48
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Goody Goodbye / Decca / 10.4.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Orioles / I Cover the Waterfront / Jubilee / 7.48
David Allen / This Is My Lucky Day / New in Town / Everest / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Howard Roberts / All-Time Great Instrumental Hits / Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune) / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.66
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Daddy-O / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55
Benny Goodman & his Sextet / Breakfast Feud / Columbia / 12.19.40
Peggy Lee / I’ve Had My Moments / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / On Second Thought / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / How I Got Over / Vee-Jay / 1959

last soulful song
The Ponderosa Twins + One / You Send Me / Horoscope / Cleveland 1971