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| There’s no mystery: the 5 Red Caps are tops. |
Coffeetime, July 2, 2021, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Bill Evans / Interplay / I’ll Never Smile Again / Riverside / 7.16,17.62
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent J.J. Johnson, Volume 2 / “Daylie” Double / Blue Note / 6.6.55 / named for Chicago disc jockey Daddio Daylie
Elmo Hope / Vaun-Ex / Blue Note / LA 10.31.57
Isham Jones & his Orchestra / Jimtown Blues / Decca / 8.31.34
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Under a Blanket of Blue / Brunswick / 5.26.33 / vocal = Kenny Sargent; Joe Hall on celeste
Buddy Johnson & his Band / Baby, Don’t You Cry / Decca / 11.6.41 / vocal = Warren Evans
Clora Bryant / …Gal with a Horn / Little Girl Blue / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Vince Guaraldi / Oh Good Grief! / Rain, Rain Go Away / Warner Brothers / San Francisco 3.22.68
Milt Jackson / Love Me Pretty Baby / Hi-Lo / 1952
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto and Orchestra / [Under a] Blanket of Blue / United / Chicago 10.24.51
Sol Ho’opi’i & his Novelty Trio / Most of All I Want Your Love / Columbia / 1927
Bill Haid’s Thieves of Sleep / I’m Walking Between the Raindrops / Broadway / Chicago 7.28 / vocal = George Moore
Jack McVea’s All-Stars / Baby Make Up Your Mind / Black & White / LA c. 1.46 / vocal = Estelle Edson
The Barry Sisters & Jan Bart / Samson and Delilah / radio broadcast, Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1945 / with Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swingtet
Ray Charles / Baby, Don’t You Cry / ABC-Paramount / 1964
set 3
Donald Byrd / Up with Donald Byrd / Bossa / Verve / 12.16.64
Grant Green / His Majesty King Funk / That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) / Verve / 5.26.65 / Harold Vick on flute
5 Red Caps / I’m the One / Beacon / Hollywood 7.43
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I’m in Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So / Bluebird / 3.12.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Nelson Gonçalves / Nelson Gonçalves Em Hi-Fi / Dupla Traição / RCA Victor / Buenos Aires 1959
set 4
Dave McKenna & Hall Overton / Dual Piano Jazz / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Bethlehem / 1960
Lester Young / Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio / Ad Lib Blues / Norgran / 11.28.52
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 4.17.46
Dinah Washington / My Man’s an Undertaker / Mercury / late summer 1953
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis / Under a Blanket of Blue / Verve / Hollywood 8.16.56
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Trouble of This World / Columbia [unissued] / 1949
last soulful song
Bertha Tillman / Oh My Angel / Brent / LA 1962
