The radiant Elisabeth Welch. |
Coffeetime, March 12, 2021, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Joe Gordon / Lookin’ Good / Terra Firma Irma / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Deo-X / Bethlehem / 10.9.57
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Girls in Jazz: featuring America’s Greatest Feminine Jazz Musicians / Don’t Get it Twisted / Victor / 1948
Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40
Johnny Otis Band / Mistrustin’ Blues / Savoy / 8.12.50 / vocals = Little Esther & Mel Walker
Jackie Cain / Lovesick / You Really Started Something / Verve / 12.66
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Lover Man / Blue Note / 11.29.57
Melba Liston / Melba Liston & Her ’Bones / The Dark Before the Dawn / MetroJazz / 12.58
Mary Lou Williams / A Keyboard History / It’s the Talk of the Town / Jazztone / 3.55 / piano solo
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Begin the Beguine / Decca / 1.27.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld
Boswell Sisters / Sleep, Come On and Take Me / Brunswick [unissued] / 8.6.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Jumpin’ in a Julep Joint / Bluebird / 5.27.42 / vocal = Ida James
The Andrew Sisters / Only for Americans / Decca / LA 5.23.49
Billie Hayes / Broadway Cast Recording: New Faces of 1956 / I Could Love Him / RCA Victor / 1956
set 3
John Patton / Along Came John / Gee Gee / Blue Note / 4.5.63
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / Melba’s Mood / Blue Note / 3.23.58
Charlie Parker / Merry-Go-Round / Savoy / 9.24.48
Etta Jones / Osculate Me, Daddy / RCA Victor / 6.11.46 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
The Dinning Sisters / Love on a Greyhound Bus / Capitol / Hollywood 1946
Mel Tormé / I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! / I Like the Sunrise / Verve / LA winter 1961
set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Elbow Room / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / Little Orphan Annie / Mode / 6.57
Ethel Waters / You Can’t Stop Me from Loving You / Columbia / 6.16.31
Peggy Lee / You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.7.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind
Jackie & Roy / Storyville Presents Jackie & Roy / Thou Swell / Storyville / 1955
Clara Ward / Faith Moves Mountains / Gotham / Philadelphia 1953
last soulful song
The Festivals / Checkin’ Out / Blue Rock / 1968