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| Whether on tenor or alto, Stitt is a hit. |
Coffeetime, February 26, 2021, Angelynn Grant
set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57
Gigi Gryce / A Night in Tunisia / broadcast / live, Birdland 8.19.61
The Ponce Sisters / Contented / Columbia [unissued] / 12.16.32 / Jimmy Dorsey (cor), Joe Venuti (vln), Ethel Ponce (p), Eddie Lang (g), unknown (b), unknown (vib), Ethel Ponce, Dorothea Ponce (vcl)
T-Bone Walker / I Got a Break, Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
Dinah Washington / For Those in Love / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Stuff Smith and the Oscar Peterson Quartet / Time and Again / Karusell [Mercury] / LA 3.7.57
Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / private recording / LA 6.54
Joe Venuti & his Blue Five / Jig Saw Puzzle Blues / Columbia / 2.28.33
Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone / Say It Isn’t So / Vocalion / London 1931
Hildegarde / Dîtes-moi / Decca / 6.15.49
Dean Martin / My Own, My Only, My All / Capitol / Hollywood 1949 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra; from the Paramount movie My Friend Irma
Jesse Cryor / My Baby Loves Me So Supreme / G&G / Hollywood 1946
Bobby Van / I’m Through with Love / soundtrack to the MGM movie The Affairs of Dobie Gillis / Hollywood 1953
set 3
Art Farmer & Benny Golson / Here and Now / Richie’s Dilemma / Mercury / 1962
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Propapagoon / Argo / Chicago 1958
Jack McVea & his All-Stars / Play It Over / Black & White / LA 1.46
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Here Comes Heaven Again / Musicraft / 1945 / vocal = Lynne Stevens
The Cardinals / Shouldn’t I Know / Atlantic / 1951
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / I Wish I Knew / Decca / 1.25.50 / vocal = Little Jimmy Scott
set 4
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Dancing on the Ceiling / live, Silver Supper Club, Las Vegas 1963
Mundell Lowe / Themes From Mr. Lucky The Untouchables And Other TV Action Jazz / Johnny Staccato’s Theme / RCA Camden / Hollywood 6.60
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays George Gerswhin / I Was Doing All Right / Clef / 12.52
Peggy Lee / How Long Has This Been Going On / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind
Johnnie Taylor / Raw Blues / That’s Where It’s At / Stax / Memphis 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / God’s Gonna Cut ‘Em Down / Bluebird / 1946
last soulful song
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose / Don’t Ever Be Lonely (A Poor Little Fool Like Me) / United Artists / LA 1972
set 3
Art Farmer & Benny Golson / Here and Now / Richie’s Dilemma / Mercury / 1962
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Propapagoon / Argo / Chicago 1958
Jack McVea & his All-Stars / Play It Over / Black & White / LA 1.46
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Here Comes Heaven Again / Musicraft / 1945 / vocal = Lynne Stevens
The Cardinals / Shouldn’t I Know / Atlantic / 1951
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / I Wish I Knew / Decca / 1.25.50 / vocal = Little Jimmy Scott
set 4
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Dancing on the Ceiling / live, Silver Supper Club, Las Vegas 1963
Mundell Lowe / Themes From Mr. Lucky The Untouchables And Other TV Action Jazz / Johnny Staccato’s Theme / RCA Camden / Hollywood 6.60
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays George Gerswhin / I Was Doing All Right / Clef / 12.52
Peggy Lee / How Long Has This Been Going On / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind
Johnnie Taylor / Raw Blues / That’s Where It’s At / Stax / Memphis 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / God’s Gonna Cut ‘Em Down / Bluebird / 1946
last soulful song
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose / Don’t Ever Be Lonely (A Poor Little Fool Like Me) / United Artists / LA 1972
