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