Friday, March 25, 2022

Talkin’ All Out of My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 100

Handsome man, handsome guitar.


Coffeetime, March 25, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / You’re Not the Kind / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [1541] / Slightly Hep / Blue Note / 12.2.56 
Dardanelle [Breckenridge] & her Boys / Happy Cat / soundie / 1946 / Dardanelle p, Joe Sinacore g, Bert Nazer b 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Decca / 5.3.38
Seger Ellis / Without You Sweetheart / Columbia / 4.20.28 
Goree Carter / Sweet Old Woman’s Blues / Freedom / Houston 4.49 
Etta Jones / Hollar! / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Prestige / 9.16.60 

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62 
Curtis Fuller / Soul Trombone / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Impulse! / 11.15–17.61 
Eddie South / Solace / Standard Transcription / 6.14.44 / South vln, Billy Taylor p, Eddie Brown d
Teddy Wilson / Sweet and Simple / [CBS] / 5.22.34 
Greta Keller / Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear / British Pathé film / London 1932 
Lil Green & her Trio / What's the Matter with Love? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41 / with Big Bill Broonzy 
King Cole Trio / (I’ve Got Those) Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters 
Little Esther / Talkin’ All Out of My Head / Decca / 7.14.53 http://www.uncamarvy.com/LittleEsther/littleesther.html

set 3
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Birks Works / Prestige / 11.15.57 
Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins / Blues Groove / Soul Station / Prestige / 2.28.58 
Dizzy Gillespie / Birks Works / Savoy / 3.1.53 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Columbia / 2.15.33 / vocal = Ivie Anderson
The Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47
Joe Mooney / The Greatness of Joe Mooney / Happiness Is You / Columbia / 1963 

set 4
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Irving Berlin Song Book / Isn’t This a Lovely Day / Verve / Chicago / summer 1959 
Mundell Lowe / The Mundell Lowe Quartet / Cheek to Cheek / Riverside / 1955 
June Christy & the Kentones / Prelude to a Kiss / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 8.1.46 
Marvin Gaye / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Motown [unissued] / Detroit 1965
Harmonizing Four / Come Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song
The Notations / A New Day / Twinight / Chicago 1971



Friday, March 18, 2022

Variegated Angel of the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 99

Just try to keep up with Lock!

Coffeetime, March 18, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World / Just Coolin’ / Blue Note / 4.15.59 
Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven / Dickie’s Dream / Vocalion / 9.5.39 
Eddie South / Dark Angel of the Violin / Pardon Madame / Columbia / 6.10.40
Tom Clines & his Music / (You Were Only) Passing Time with Me / Brunswick / 9.29.30 / vocal = Jack Carney 
Duke Jenkins Aristocrats / Baby, I’m Sick of You / Aristocrat / Chicago 1949 / vocal = Freddie Jenkins as 
Etta Jones / Don’t Go to Strangers / If I Had You / Prestige / 6.21.60 

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

set 2
Billy Taylor / Sleeping Bee / Theodora / MPS / 4.69 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Lock, The Fox / The Good Life / RCA Victor / 1966 
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Undercurrent / I Hear a Rhapsody / United Artists / spring 1962 
The California Ramblers / On the Oregon Trail / Edison / 4.2.25
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / In a Little Second Hand Store / Columbia / London 1933 / vocal = Les Allen
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I’m Blowin’ My Top / Decca / 7.5.39 / vocal = Babe Wallace 
Tommy Steele / soundtrack: The Happiest Millionaire / Fortuosity / Buena Vista / Hollywood 1967 

set 3
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Lament / Blue Note / 10.4.59 
Johnny Griffin / The Kerry Dancers / Hush-A-Bye / Riverside / 12.21.61 
Fats Navarro / Barry’s Bop / Savoy / 12.5.47 
Golden Gate Quartet / Julius Caesar / V-Disc 021B / 8.43
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Any Time at All / Victor / 7.21.38 
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / If You Were the Only Girl (In the World) / Reprise / Hollywood 8.4.64 

set 4
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Thanks for the Memory / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / JH g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie Straight Ahead / Basie – Straight Ahead / Dot / Hollywood 10.68 
Peggy Lee / If You Were the Only Boy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.29.46 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra 
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island c. 1951
Kay Starr / Losers, Weepers / When a Woman Loves a Man / Capitol / Hollywood 1960 
Golden Gate Quartet / Toll the Bell Easy / Columbia / 12.3.41

last soulful song
The Presidents / I Want My Baby / Deluxe / 1969

Friday, March 11, 2022

Playlistido: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 98

Yes! Another spring, another feature for SDJr!

Coffeetime, March 11, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tina Brooks / The Waiting Game / Dhyana / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61 
Duke Pearson / Profile / Two Mile Run / Blue Note / 10.25.59 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Jazznocracy / Bluebird / 1.26.34 
Spike Hughes & his Decca-Dents / A Miss Is as Good as a Mile / Decca / London 3.12.30 / vocal = Val Rosning 
The Five Cousins [Spirits of Rhythm] / Rhythm / Brunswick / 9.20.33 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / Working with My Baby / Score / LA 1949
Carmen McRae / Birds of a Feather / Flamingo / Decca / 8.58 / with Ben Webster (listed on album as “tenorman” 

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

set 2
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Flamingo [unissued] / Dawn / 7.56 / solo accordion
Ben Webster/ Wanted to Do One Together / How Long Has This Been Going On / Columbia / 6.7.62
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Little Girl Blue / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 6.22.54
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / St. Louis Blues / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35
Eddie Lang / Add a Little Wiggle / Okeh / 3.29/28 / Frank Signorelli p 
Edgar Hayes Quintet / So Rare / Decca / 9.7.37 / vocal = Bill Darnell 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / He Ain’t Got Rhythm / Decca / 1.26.37 / Al Norris g 
Jesse Belvin / Where’s My Girl / Specialty / Hollywood 3.17.55

set 3
Randy Weston / With These Hands… / The Man I Love / Riverside / 3.56 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / Perception / Prestige / 2.1.57 
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz 3 / Loris / Bethlehem / 11.30.54 
Charlie Parker / Bloomdido / Clef / 6.6.50
The Ponce Sisters / A Million Dreams / Columbia / 12.16.32 / Jimmy Dorsey (cor), Joe Venuti (vln), Ethel Ponce (p), Eddie Lang (g), unknown (b), unknown (vib), Ethel Ponce, Dorothea Ponce (vcl)
Al Donahue & his Orchestra / Any Time at All / Vocalion / 7.20.38 / vocal = Paula Kelly
Jack Lemmon / Sings and Plays Music from “Some Like It Hot” / I’m Thru with Love / Epic / Hollywood 1959

set 4
Buddy Collette / Mrs. Potts / Challenge / Hollywood 5.13.57 
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / The Walrus / RCA Victor / 6.25.55 
Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin / People Will Say We’re in Love / Decca / Hollywood 1943 / with The Sportsmen Glee Club
June Christy & the Kentones / September in the Rain / Capitol Transcription / 12.27.45 / solo = Boots Mussulli 
Sammy Davis Jr. / Another Spring / live, Hamburg, Germany 7.18.65 
Swan Silvertones / Heavenly Light Shine On Me / Specialty [unissued] / LA mid-1950

last soulful song
The Manhattans / The Picture Became Quite Clear / DeLuxe / 1969



Friday, March 04, 2022

Playlist in the Absinthe House: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 97

Ooooo, look at me, Yves… look at *me*!

Coffeetime, March 4, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Mighty Moe and Joe / Blue Note / 6.23.57 
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / How Deep Are the Roots / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Oh Gee! Oh Joy! / Columbia / 1.28.28 / vocal = Lewis James; lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse, music by George Gerswhin for the Broadway musical Rosalie 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re Much Too Fat (And That’s That) / Decca / Hollywood 12.1.47
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / Hey There / Cook / New Orleans late 1954

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Philips / fall 1962 
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Angel Eyes / Atlantic / summer 1960 
Ex-Hermanites / Ex-Hermanites Featuring Bill Harris / Everywhere / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Ma (She’s Making Eyes at Me) / Columbia / 1.29.40 / vocal = Sully Mason
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Wanderin’ Blues / Victor / 3.21.40 / vocal = Mary Ann McCall https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200042991/BS-047989-Wanderin_blues
Dinah Washington / Mean and Evil Blues / Mercury / 8.11.46 / with Tab Smith & his Orchestra
Betty Garrett & Milton Berle / Ev’rything I’ve Got / RCA Victor / 1947 / with Lehman Engel & his Orchestra


set 3 
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / ESP (Extrasensory Perception) / Blue Note / 11.24.64 
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Grooveyard / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58 
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / Milk Train / United / Chicago 8.28.51 
Bob Chester & his Orchestra / You Lucky People, You / Bluebird / 2.4.41 / vocal = Bill Darnell 
The Charioteers / Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) / Columbia / 4.16.47
Yves Montand / Clopin-Clopant / Odeon / Paris 1960

set 4
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Groove Yard / Riverside / 1.3.61 
Gerald Wiggins / The Loveliness of You / Ma, She’s Making Eyes at Me / Tampa / Hollywood 1958
Barney Kessel / Kessel Plays Standards / Speak Low / Contemporary / LA 6.4.54 
Peggy Lee / All the Cats Join In / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.10.46 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / Berimbau / A&M / LA 1966 
Golden Gate Quartet / Troubles of the World / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 2.2.39

last soulful song
Major Lance / Sweet Music / Okeh / Chicago 11.27.63