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