This week, it’s Astrud giving us bossa nova from a hotel room. |
Coffeetime, July 23, 2021, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Horace Silver / Live at Newport ’58 / The Outlaw / Blue Note / Newport 7.6.58
Horace Henderson & his Orchestra / Kitty on Toast / Vocalion / Chicago 2.27.40 / featuring Ray Nance on violin
Eddy Duchin & his Central Park Casino Orchestra / Now You’ve Got me Worryin’ for You / Columbia / 7.1.32 / vocal = Frances Langford
Toni Harper / Miss Inbetween Blues / Columbia / 1949 / Toni was 12 years old
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / I Don’t Care Who Knows / Decca / 12.9.47 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Nina Simone / Little Girl Blue / He Needs Me / Bethlehem / 12.57
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / A Sleepin’ Bee / Prestige / 4.7.64
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Everything Happens to Me / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
George E. Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra / Ruff Scuffin’ / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.6.29
Larry Clinton & Orchestra / Old Folks / Victor / 9.1.38 / vocal = Bea Wain
The Four Knights / Take Me Right Back to the Track / Lang-Worth Transcription / LA 1945
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Bob Is My Guy / Specialty / Hollywood 8.50 / vocal = Candy Rivers
Esther Phillips / Confessin’ the Blues / Romance in the Dark / Atlantic / LA 10.14.66 / big band including Al Porcino t, Sonny Criss & Ray Triscari as, Teddy Edwards ts, Herb Ellis g
set 3
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / Mark One / Prestige / 4.7.64
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Moment’s Notice / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / You Might Have Belonged to Another / Victor / 1.6.41 / vocal = Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, & the Pied Pipers
Basin Street Boys / Summertime Gal / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orchestra
Sam Cooke / Summertime / Keen / 1957
set 4
William Donati / Presents Something Different / I Get a Kick Out of You / Tampa / c. 1955 / William Donati p, Fred Katz cello, Carson Smith b
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / That’s for Sure / Mode / 6.57
King Cole Trio / It Only Happens Once / Capitol [unissued] / LA 4.13.45
Big Maybelle / Big Maybelle Sings / I Could Make You Care / Savoy / 1956
Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / All That’s Left Is to Say Goodbye / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65
Mahalia Jackson / Come On Children, Let’s Sing / You Must Be Born Again / Columbia / 1960 / with the Falls-Webb Ensemble
last soul song
Grover Washington, Jr. / Winelight / Just the Two of Us / Elektra / 1980 / vocal = Bill Withers