Friday, October 29, 2021

I’ve Got a Pocketful of Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 80

King of the teddy bears.

Coffeetime, October 29, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [New Soil] / Formidable [aka Cape Millie] / Blue Note / 5.2.59 
Hank Mobley / [Curtain Call] / The Mobe / Blue Note / 8.18.57 
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / Cookin’ / Blue Note / 6.9.53
Carroll Gibbons & The Hotel Savoy Orpheans / From the Top of Your Head (To the Tip of Your Toes) / Vocalion / London 1935 / vocal = Brian Lawrence
Henry King & his Orchestra / The Lady Is a Tramp / Decca / 8.17.37 / vocal = Joe Sudy 
Floyd Dixon & his Band / She’s Understanding / Aladdin / LA 1951
Nancy Wilson / Something Wonderful / Guess Who I Saw Today / Capitol / Hollywood 5.60 

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

set 2
Bucky Pizzarelli / Green Guitar Blues / What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? / Monmouth Evergreen / 1972 
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58 
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Guitar Blues / Okeh / 5.7.29 s
Bing Crosby / I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams / Decca / Hollywood 7.11.38 / with John Scott Trotter & Orchestra 
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / Blame It on My Last Affair [Henry Nemo] / Columbia / 12.8.38
Jesse Cryor / Peculiah Beulah/ Coronet / Hollywood 11.2.45 / with Marvin Johnson & his Orchestra
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Me and My Teddy Bear / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1950
Little Johnny Taylor / Everybody Knows About My Good Thing / Ronn / Shreveport 1971

set 3
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / ’Tis Autumn [Henry Nemo] / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Duke Pearson / The Phantom / Say You’re Mine / Blue Note / 9.11.68 
Les Brown & Orchestra / ’Tis Autumn / Okeh / 1941 / vocal = Ralph Young
The Four Barons / Lemon Squeezer / Regent / 10.5.50 
Bobby Troup / The Songs of Bobby Troup / That Old Black Magic / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 4
Bob Cooper / Do-Re-Mi / Adventure / Capitol / Hollywood 2.61 
Bud Shank / The Bud Shank Quartet / Jubilation / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1.25.56 / cover drawing by Pauline Annon 
Peggy Lee / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
James Brown / Soul on Top / What Kind of Fool Am I? [Bricusse] / King / 1969 
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39 

last soul song
Satisfaction Unlimited / Think of the Children / Bright City Lights / Hot Wax / 1972

Friday, October 22, 2021

My Playlist Is Coming Down: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 79

Elegance: Hadda.

Coffeetime, October 22, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / At Newport / Splittin’ / Verve / Newport Jazz Festival 7.6.57 
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / Night Flight / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 
Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland/ The Golden Eight / The Golden 8 / Blue Note / live, Café Campi, Cologne 5.18 & 19.61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_8
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Time Out / Decca / 8.9.37 
Cass Hagan & his Hotel Manger Orchestra / Variety Stomp / Columbia / 5.24.27 
Bill Haid & his Cubs / Crazy Rhythm / Broadway / Chicago 8.28 / vocal = J. Allen 
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Wrong Neighborhood / Capitol / Hollywood 7.5.46 / vocal = Bob Merrell
Audrey Morris / Bistro Ballads / Guess Who I Saw Today / X / Chicago spring 1955 / Morris p, Johnny Pate b, Charles Walton d

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

set 2
Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie / Roy and Diz #2 / Ballad Medley: I’m Through With Love; Can’t We Be Friends; Don’t You Know; I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do; If I Had You / Clef / 10.29.54 / Eldridge & Gillespie t, Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Louis Bellson d
Bob Chester & his Orchestra / Easy Does It / Victor / Chicago 1.2.40 
Oscar Aleman y su Quinteto de Swing / Rosa Madreselva (Honeysuckle Rose) / Odeon / Buenos Aires 8.26.44 
Henry Busse & his Orchestra / Clouds / radio broadcast / 1935 / vocal = Carl Grayson
Cats & the Fiddle / The New Look Blues / Manor / 9.48 / lead vocal = Shirley Moore 
Goree Carter & his Rocking Rhythm Orchestra / My Love Is Coming Down / Freedom / Houston c. 49
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / Canoeiro / Verve / 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Samba

set 3
Bennie Green / Soul Stirrin’ / B.G. Mambo / Blue Note / 4.28.58 
John Hardee’s Sextet / River Edge Rock / Blue Note / 5.31.46 /Hardee ts, Bill Bivens vib, Sammy Benskin p, Jimmy Shirley g, Gene Ramey b, Big Sid Catlett d
Dodo Marmarosa / Bopmatism / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 12.3.47 / Marmarosa p, Harry Babasin b, Jackie Mills d
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Dream Weaver / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1950 / vocal = Johnny Amoroso
Ebonaires / Bye Bye, Bye Bye / MGM / Hollywood early 1948
Frank Sinatra / In the Wee Small Hours / I’ll Be Around / Capitol / Hollywood 2.8.55 

set 4
Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Ray Brown / Poll Winners Three! / Crisis / Contemporary / LA 11.2.59 
Gil Mellé / 5 Impressions of Color / Night Train to Wildwood / Blue Note / 2.27.55 / Mellé bs, Don Butterfield tuba, Lou Mecca g, Billy Phillips b, Vinnie Thomas d
Hadda Brooks / Bewildered / Modern / with the Ebonaires / LA 1949 
June Christy & the Kentones / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.13.45 
Jesse Pearson, Ann-Margret, & Bobby Rydell / Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1963
The Hightower Brothers / I Need You Lord / Lord’s Been Good to Me / Nashboro / Nashville 1963

last soul song
The Lornettes / His Way With the Girls / Gallio / Hollywood 1965

Friday, October 15, 2021

’Tis Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 78

Lovely Lena.

Coffeetime, October 15, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Bud Study / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Desert Sands / Riverside / 10.16.57 
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Active Ingredients / Riverside / 8.30.56 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / X Y Z / Bluebird / Chicago 10.6.39 
Tom Clines & his Music / Just a Little Closer / Brunswick / 7.17.30 / vocal = Jack Carney 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Inflation Blues / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Rosemary Clooney / I’ll Be Around / Columbia / 6.5.51 / with Stan Freeman on piano

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

set 2
Lou Donaldson / Gravy Train / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Blue Note / 4.27.61 
Kenny Drew / Kenny Drew and His Progressive Piano / Angie / Norgran / 1953 
Tab Smith / ’Tis Autumn / United [unissued] / Chicago 2.26.52 
The Black Pirates / Roll Up the Carpets / Broadway / Chicago 10.28 
Chuck Richards / A Rainbow Filled With Music / Vocalion / 12.19.34 / with Henry “Red” Allen on trumpet 
The Pied Pipers / Lily Belle / Capitol / Hollywood 1945
Peggy Lee & George Shearing / Always True to You in My Fashion / Capitol / live, Americana Hotel, Miami 5.29.59 

set 3
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Kiss Me Right / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate / 5.19 & 20.61 
Booker Little / Booker Little and Friend / Calling Softly / Bethlehem / summer 1961 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Serge’s Urge / Savoy /3.5.47
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Out of Nowhere / Columbia / 9.16.41 / vocal = Lena Horne
The Deep River Boys / Bewitched / HMV / London 1950
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / ’Tis Autumn / Coral / 1.26.62 

set 4
Mundell Lowe / Themes From Mr. Lucky The Untouchables And Other TV Action Jazz / Detectives Theme / RCA Camden / Hollywood 6.60 
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Trio / A Dandy Line / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / 3.29.49
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.7.46 
Freddie King / My Feeling for the Blues / Woke Up This Morning / Cotillion / 1970 / arranged by King Curtis
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Ananais / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soul song
The Rude Boys aka The Wailing Wailers aka Bob Marley & the Wailers / I'm Still Waiting / Studio One / 1964 / accompanied by The Soul Brothers



Friday, October 08, 2021

The Lonesomest Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 77

Jack AND Jerry: just too much goodness.

Coffeetime, October 8, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Coles / The Warm Sound / Room 3 / Epic / 4.61 / Johnny Coles tp, Kenny Drew p, Peck Morrison b, Charles Persip d
Sonny Rollins / Saxophone Colossus / Strode Rode / Prestige / 6.22.56 
Oscar Pettiford / Basically Duke / Mood Indigo / Bethlehem / 12.17.54 
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Seven / Potato Head Blues / Okeh / Chicago 5.10.27 ues 
Maynard Baird & his Southern Serenaders / Just for You / Brunswick / Knoxville 8.31.29 
Lionel Hampton Sextet / Homeward Bound / Keynote / 12.29.43 / vocal = Dinah Washington / Joe Morris tp, Rudy Rutherford cl, Arnett Cobb ts, Milt Buckner p, Vernon King b, Lionel Hampton d
Carmen McRae / After Glow / Guess Who I Saw Today / Decca / 3.6.57 

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

set 2
Bill Evans / At Shelly’s Manne-Hole / Isn’t It Romantic / Riverside / live, Hollywood 5.63 
Ike Quebec / Blue Monday / Blue Note / 7.1.59 
Vince Guaraldi / Oh Good Grief! / Great Pumpkin Waltz / Warner Brothers / San Francisco 3.22.68 
Cozy Cole’s All Stars / When Day Is Done / Continental / 1945 
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / I Know a Secret / Bluebird / 11.20.40 / vocal = Jimmy Mitchelle
Effie Smith & the Darby Hicks Selected Trio / Wee Baby Brother Blues / Gem / Hollywood 1945 / Devonia “Darby Hicks” Williams p, George “Red” Callendar b, Johnny Otis d, rest unknown
Yvonne Adair / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Original Broadway Cast Recording / I Love What I’m Doing / Columbia / 1949
Jackie Wilson / What Good Am I Without You / Brunswick / 1962

set 3
Red Holt / Look Out!! Look Out!! / My Favorite Things / Argo / Chicago / 12.61 
Dave Bailey / 2 Feet in the Gutter / Coffee Walk / Epic / 10.6.61 
The Four Clefs / The Jive Is Jumpin’ / Bluebird / 6.5.39 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / The Lonesomest Whistle / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1950 / vocal = Frances Irvin
The Spaniels / Trees / Vee-Jay / 10.17.58 / poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer  
Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / Isn’t It Romantic / Bethlehem / LA 8.55 / arranged by André Previn 

set 4
André Previn / Plays Songs By Jerome Kern / Go Little Boat / Contemporary / LA 3.10.59 
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Basie Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54 
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43
June Christy & the Kentones / How Long Has This Been Going On / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 8.1.46 
Jerry Orbach & Jill O’Hara / Original Broadway Cast Album for Promises, Promises / I’ll Never Fall in Love Again / United Artists / 1968 
Golden Gate Quartet / What Are They Doing in Heaven Today / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soul song
Laura Lee / Two Sides of Laura Lee / Guess Who I Saw Today / Hot Wax / Detroit 1972

Friday, October 01, 2021

A Peach of a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 76

Handsome man, handsome guitar.

Coffeetime, October 1, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Free / Shades of Stein / Argo / 12.26.62 / cover painting by Alex Bozickovic aka Alex Boz 
Art Taylor / AT’s Delight / Blue Interlude / Blue Note / 8.6.60 
Benny Carter / Night Hop / Decca / 5.20.40 
Johnny Dodds & his Chicago Boys / Melancholy / Decca / 1.21.38 
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / A Peach of a Pair / Okeh / Hollywood 5.29.30 / vocal = Russ Columbo 
Jay McShann’s Sextet / Shipyard Woman Blues / Premier / 1945 / vocal = Jimmy Witherspoon
Anita O’Day / Anita Sings the Most / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / Chicago 1.31.57 

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

set 2
Randy Weston / With These Hands… / I Can’t Get Started / Riverside / 3.56 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Autumn Nocturne / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra with Bix and Lang / Trumbology / Okeh / 2.4.27 
Walter Huston / September Song / Brunswick / 1938 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Perline Ellison / New That Ain’t Right / Decca / 3.9.44 
Frankie Laine / It Only Happens Once / Mercury / 1949 / with Carl Fischer’s Orchestra; with celeste! 
B.B. King / Live at the Regal / You Upset Me Baby / ABC-Paramount / live, Regal Theater, Chicago 11.21.64 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Night Dreamer / Black Nile / Blue Note / 4.29.64 
Lem Winchester / Another Opus / The Meetin’ / New Jazz / 6.4.60 
J.J. Johnson’s Boppers / J.J. Johnson with Sonny Stitt / Afternoon in Paris / Prestige / 10.17.49 / ​​J.J. Johnson tb, Sonny Stitt ts, John Lewis p, Nelson Boyd b, Max Roach d
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Coquette / Decca / 6.15.37 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Cap-Tans / Yes / Gotham / 1951 ​​
Yves Montand / Saltimbanques / Odeon / Paris 2.50 / with Bob Castella et Ses Rythmes

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Angel Eyes / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58 
Terry Gibbs / Swing Is Here / Bright Eyes / Verve / Hollywood 1960 / arranged by Bill Holman 
King Cole Trio / I’m a Little Ashamed / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.47
Betty Driver / The World Will Sing Again / Regal Zonophone / London 1942
Sugar Pie DeSanto / Going Back to Where I Belong / Veltone / Oakland 1960 / with The Pee Wee Kingsley Band 
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet Singers / This Old World Is in a Bad Condition / Decca / 8.23.39 

last soul song
Peter Keane / Blues | Ballads | Cowboy Songs / Almost Gone / 2021