Friday, February 18, 2022

The Playlist Will Soon Roll By: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 96

The answer, Fred, is “Yes!!!”

Coffeetime, February 18, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Scoochie / New Jazz / 4.10.63 
Ronnie Scott & Tubby Hayes / The Jazz Couriers in Concert / The Serpent / Tempo Records / live, The Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London 2.16.58
Billy Cotton & his Band / The Clouds Will Soon Roll By / Regal / London 8.24.32 / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Your Socks Don’t Match / Bluebird / 12.26.41
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / The Blues Done Got Me (And Gone) / Queen / 12.45
Barbara Lea / Lea in Love / More Than You Know / Prestige / 4.26.57 / Johnny Windhurst tp, Dick Cary p, Ernie Caceres cl, Al Casamenti g, Al Hall b, Osie Johnson d

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Today and Now / Quintessence / Impulse! / 9.9.62 
Lou Donaldson / Sunny Side Up / Softly as in a Morning Sunrise / Blue Note / 2.5.60 
Benny Goodman Sextet / These Foolish Things / Columbia / LA 6.20.40 
Horace Henderson & his Orchestra / Ol’ Man River / Columbia / 10.3.33 / vocal = Heny “Red” Allen tp 
Fred Astaire / No Strings (I’m Fancy Free) / Brunswick / 6.26.35 / from the RKO movie Top Hat
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Flamingo / Victor / Chicago 12.28.40 / vocal = Herb Jeffries 
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Here’s the Man / 36-22-36 / Duke / Chicago 1962 

set 3
Sonny Stitt & Bennie Green / My Main Man / Flame and Frost / Argo / Chicago 3.10 & 11.64 
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Atlantic / 10.26.60 ​​
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Surgery / Signature / 5.4.46 
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / Till Then / Decca [9-172] / 1944
The Pied Pipers / The Trolley Song / Capitol / Hollywood 1944
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Moonlight in Vermont / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4
Zoot Sims / Zoot Sims with Bucky Pizzarelli / Take Ten / Classic Jazz / 1975
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / It Might As Well Be Spring / Jubilee / LA 1958 
June Christy & the Kentones / Lullaby in Rhythm / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 8.1.46 
The Pair Extraordinaire / It’s a Wonderful World / Love / Liberty / vocal =Carl Craig, Marcus Hemphill b
Pilgrim Travelers / I Never Knew Joy Before / Specialty / Hollywood 12.21.51

last soulful song
Glen Campbell / Bloodline / Don’t Pull Your Love Out on Me, Baby; Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.75 



Friday, February 11, 2022

It’s Easy to Blame the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 95

Martha’s thinking, “I really wanna sing with that cowboy!”

Coffeetime, February 11, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / Roll Call / Blue Note / 11.13.60 
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / How Did It Happen / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.30.59 
Savannah Syncopators aka Luis Russell & his Orchestra / Honey, That Reminds Me / Brunswick / 12.17.30 
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / Big Fat Butterfly / Decca / 5.22.41 
Amos Milburn / Anybody’s Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.18.47
Fran Jeffries / Fran Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Isn’t It a Pity? / Warwick / 1960

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / All Across the City / Verve / 4.7.66 
Herb Ellis / Ellis in Wonderland / It Could Happen to You / Norgran / Hollywood 1.56 
Teddy Wilson / I Got Rhythm / As Time Goes By / Verve / Chicago 3.5.56 
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five / A Monday Date / Okeh / Chicago 6.27.28 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / It’s Easy to Blame the Weather / Brunswick / 1.30.39 / vocal = Billie Holiday 
Martha Raye / If You Can’t Sing It (You’ll Have to Swing It) (Mr. Paganini) / from the Paramount movie Rhythm on the Range / Hollywood 1936 / accompanied by Bob Burns on his bazooka, Louis Prima, and The Sons of the Pioneers  
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Eddie Foy, Jr. & Reta Shaw / I’ll Never Be Jealous Again / from the Warner Brothers movie The Pajama Game / Hollywood 1957 

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / High Blues Pressure / Á Bientôt / Atlantic / 11.13.67 
Paul Desmond / Take Ten / Embarcadero / RCA Victor / 6.14.63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Ten Lucky Thompson / Scuffle That Riff / Downbeat / LA 9.13.46 [or 7.16.47] / Dodo Marmarosa p, Red Callender b, Jackie Mills d  
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / Polly Wolly Doodle / Decca / 1.6.36 / voc = trio from the band, most likely including Stew Pletcher who also was on trumpet 
Margaret Whiting / Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) / Capitol / Hollywood 1948 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra and studio directions and noise
Ray Charles / Losing Hand / Atlantic / 5.17.53 

set 4
Chet Baker / The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker / Russ Job / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.53 / cover painting by Bob Irwin 
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Stompin’ at the Savoy / Intro [Aladdin subsidiary] / LA 12.28.56 
Will Bradley & his Orchestra / There I Go / Columbia / 1940 / vocal = Jimmy Valentine
Peggy Lee / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four Of A 
Earl Gaines / The Door Is Still Open / DeLuxe / Hollywood 1968
Frank Sinatra & the Charioteers / Jesus Is A Rock (In the Weary Land) / Columbia / Hollywood 5.16.45 / with Axel Stordah & his Orchestra

last soulful song
Wee Willie Walker / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Goldwax [unissued] / Memphis 1967

Friday, February 04, 2022

Into Each Life Some Playlist Must Fall: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 94

Near-a with Nara…

Coffeetime, February 4, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / My Heart Stood Still / Atlantic / Hollywood 3.1.55 
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Thinking of You / Riverside / 4.61 
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / March of the Hoodlums / Brunswick / c. 9.20.29 
Arthur Lally & the Million-Airs / Hold My Hand / Brunswick / London 12.11.31 / vocal = Maurice Elwin 
The Robins / I’m Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / lead vocal = Bobby Nunn; with Johnny Otis Band 
Blossom Dearie / Give Him the Ooh-La-La / Like Someone in Love / Verve / 9.12, 13.57 

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Undiluted / My Ship / Verve / 2.5.65 
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Quintet [Moving Out] / Silk ’n’ Satin / Prestige / 8.18.54 
Bill Perkins / Just Friends / Sweet and Lovely / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 10.29.56 
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Old Folks / Savoy / 5.17.46
Ethel Waters / I Ain’t Gonna Sin No More / Decca / 9.5.34 
Bing Crosby / Swinging on a Star / Decca / Hollywood 2.7.44 / with The Williams Brothers Quartet; John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 
Marie Bryant / Little Boy / Lyragon / 3.53 / with the Mike McKenzie Quintet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McKenzie_(jazz_musician)
Nara Leão / Opinião de Nara / Mal-Me-Quer / Philips / Rio de Janeiro 1964

set 3
John Wright / Makin’ Out / Makin’ Out / Prestige / 6.23.61 
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Don’t Squawk / Atlantic / 6.14.55 
Howard McGhee / Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson / The Last Word / VitaCoustic [issued by Savoy] / Chicago late fall 1947 / vocal = Marcel Daniels  
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / There I Go / Bluebird / 1940
The Ink Spots / Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall / Decca / 8.30.44 / with Ella Fitzgerald 
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / Fun to Be Fooled / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet 

set 4
Bob Brookmeyer / The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer / Potrezebie / Prestige / 6.30.55 
Henry Mancini & his Orchestra / Gunn ...Number One! / Sky Watch / RCA / Hollywood 1967 
June Christy & the Kentones / What’s New / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 8.1.46 
The Four Rockets [The Trumpeteers] / Little Red Wagon / Aladdin / Hollywood 12.30.47
Lula Reed / What Makes You So Cold / Federal / Cincinnati 1961
Nat King Cole / Wild Is Love / Tell Her in the Morning / Capitol / Hollywood 3.60 
The Golden Echoes / Down on My Knees / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 4.5.49

last soulful song
Tim Maia / Over Again / Seroma / Rio de Janeiro 1976