When I’m Not Near the Playlist I Love

Esther gets animated!

Coffeetime, March 13, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Thou Swell / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Straight Life / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Teddy Edwards / Teddy’s Ready! / Higgin’s Hideaway / Contemporary / LA 8.17.60
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Somebody Loves Me / Brunswick / 10.23.34
Whispering Jack Smith / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along / Victor / 4.28.26 / whistling = Carson Robison
Rosetta Howard / Ebony Rhapsody / Columbia / Chicago 6.10.47 / with the Big Three
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / My Ship / Capitol / LA 1959

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

set 2
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / There’s No You / Atlantic / 11.26.56
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Cabin in the Sky / Capitol / 1958
Tiny Grimes / Howlin’ Blues / Gotham / 1951
Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey / Toothache Blues, Part 2 / Okeh / 10.17.28
Jack Buchanan & his Orchestra / Everything Stops for Tea / HMV / London 1.19.36
Esther Williams / I Got Out of Bed on the Right Side / soundtrack to MGM film Dangerous When Wet / Hollywood 8.28.52 and 3.6.53 / with William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Whiting, Donna Corcoran
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula / Trumpet [unissued] / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54

set 3
John Coltrane / My Favorite Things / My Favorite Things / Atlantic / 10.60
Bing Crosby / Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (The Irish Lullaby) / Decca / Hollywood 7.7.44 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
The Larks / Lucy Brown / Apollo / 3.27.51
David Wayne / Finian’s Rainbow (Original Broadway Cast Recording) / When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love / Columbia / 1947

set 4
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / S’ Cool Boys / Metronome / Stockholm 3.23.51
The Modern Swedes / On with the Dance / Metronome Records / 1954
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Runnin’ Ragged / Okeh / 10.18.29
Dinah Washington / New York, Chicago, Los Angeles / Mercury / 3.4.49 / with Teddy Stewart's Orchestra
Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956
Golden Gate Quartet / Every Time That I Feel the Spirit / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 10.6.39

last soulful song
The Apollas (Leola, Ella , and Billie) / You’ll Always Have Me / Warner Brothers /1967

Comin’ In on a Wing and a Playlist

Learn to dance groovy with Jessica & Charlene

Coffeetime, March 6, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce / Speculation / Signal / 10.22.55
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Ebony Silhouette / Columbia / Chicago 1.16.41
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Dinah / CBS radio transcription, Fred’s Friendly Five / fall 1931 / announcer = David Ross
Jesse Belvin / Confusin’ Blues aka Jesse’s Blues / Specialty [demo] / LA 1952
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith / This Little Town in Paris / Roost / 1955

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / My Old Flame / Riverside / 5.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Sophisticated Lady / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Blue Keys / Apollo / 11.7.50
George Reneau / The Sinking of the Titanic / Vocalion / 1925
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Dulce Mujer / Decca / Paris c. late 1934
Oran Hot Lips Page & His Band / Good Old Bosom Bread / Decca / 3.10.38 /
Jones-Smith, Incorporated [aka Count Basie’s Blue Five] / Evenin’ / Vocalion [Columbia] / Chicago 10.9.36 / vocal = Jimmy Rushing

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Tall Polynesian / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / When the Sun Comes Out / Verve / LA 1959
Harry James & his Orchestra / Melancholy Mood / Brunswick / 7.13.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Vagabonds / Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer / Bluebird / 5.26.43
Fred Astaire / Now / I’ll Walk Alone / Kapp / Hollywood 1959

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Come Rain or Come Shine / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57
David Kaonohi & his Honoluans / In a Canoe / Victor / c. 1938
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / Something for the Boys / V-Disc / Hollywood 1943-1944 / vocal = Carol Bruce
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
The Dixie Nightingales / I Don’t Know / Chalice / 1966

last soulful song
The Friends of Distinction / Real Friends / It Don't Matter to Me / RCA / Hollywood 1970