Friday, August 26, 2022

Just Say Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 121

Please don’t say goodbye, Esther.

Coffeetime, August 26, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / All of You / Riverside / 5.57 / Jaspar ts, George Wallington p, Wilbur Little b, Elvin Jones d
Miles Davis / Bag’s Groove / Airegin / Prestige / 6.29.54 
Joe Roland / Joltin’ Joe Roland / Deedee’s Dance / Savoy / 1.17.50 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Riff Romp / AFRS Jubilee Show #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Sweet Summer Breeze / Victor / 9.4.31 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp / composed by Rudy Vallée 
The Robins / Our Romance Is Gone / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band 
Carmen McRae / Bittersweet / Come Sunday / Focus / 5.20.64 / thanks to longtime listener Candis for this suggestion 

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

set 2
Benny Carter / BBB & Co. / You Can’t Tell the Difference When the Sun Goes Down / Prestige Swingville / 4.10.62 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / For Heaven’s Sake / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Eddie Walters / Makin’ Whoopee! / Columbia / 3.12.29 
Ida James / I Won’t Say I Will / AFRS Jubilee Show 32 / Hollywood spring 1943 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman & Count Basie & his Orchestra 
The Ballenaires / Have You Seen My Baby / Gotham [unissued] / Philadelphia mid-1950s / named for label owner Irvin Ballen

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / The Spoiler / When the Sun Comes Out / Blue Note / 9.22.66 
Grant Green / Just Friends / Blue Note [unissued] / 11.26.60 
Hadda Brooks / Swingin’ the Boogie / Modern / LA 1945
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky / Brunswick / 2.19.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / It Never Entered My Mind / Columbia / 3.40 / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Four Barons / Lemon Squeezer / Regent / 10.5.50
Bobby Troup / Baby, Baby All the Time / Stars of Jazz #39 on KABC TV / 4.1.57 / with Al Viola g, Jim Aton b

set 4
Dave Brubeck / Time Out / Everybody’s Jumpin’ / Columbia / 1959 
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Airegin / Contemporary / LA 3.14.59 
Doris Day / Young at Heart / Imagination / Columbia / LA 11.47
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / You’re Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 9.14.56 / with Willie Smith on alto 
Esther Phillips / Just Say Goodbye / Atlantic / 1965 / arranged by Oliver Nelson
Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / Working on the Building / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959

last soulful song
Rick Nelson / Love and Kisses / I Should Have Loved You More / Decca / LA 1965

Friday, August 19, 2022

I Talk to the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 120

Looking good is Willie Smith’s business.

Coffeetime, August 19, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Yeah! / Blue Note / 7.9.60 
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Muezzin’ / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Coffee Light / Sesac Transcription / Hollywood 7.57 
Dixie Jazz Band aka Billy James Dance Orchestra / I’ve Got the San Francisco Blues / Jewel / c. 4.29 / vocal = William Stanley
Jimmie Lunceford & his Dance Orchestra / Rhythm Is Our Business / Vitaphone “Melody Masters” short / 1936 / vocal = Willie Smith
Floyd Dixon / San Francisco Blues / Aladdin / LA 1950 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers; Dixon p, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ethel Ennis / Eyes for You / Angel Eyes / RCA Victor / 1964

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

set 2
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / I Talk to the Trees / Riverside / 7.21.59
Teddy Charles / 3 for Duke / Sophisticated Lady / Jubilee / 5.29.57 
Jean Goldkette’s Book-Cadillac Hotel Orchestra / Don’t Be Angry with Me / Victor / Chicago 9.28.26 
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / I Only Have Eyes for You / Decca / The Hague 2.4.35 / vocal = Annie de Reuver
Mildred Bailey / Jenny / Decca / 2.14.41 / with the Delta Rhythm Boys 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Nobody But Me / V-Disc 513B / 12.7.45

set 3
Jimmy Forrest / Soul Street / Soul Street / New Jazz / 9.9.60 
Jimmy Smith / At the Organ, Vol. 1 / Summertime/ Blue Note / 2.12.57 / with Lou Donaldson as
Dexter Gordon & his Boys / Dextrose / Savoy / 12.22.47 
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Just Dream of You / Decca / 7.16.37 
Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Capitol / Hollywood 2.14.45
Frank Sinatra / Sings for Only the Lonely / Angel Eyes / Capitol / Hollywood 5.29.58 

set 4
Cal Tjader / Latin Kick / Manuel’s Mambo / Fantasy / LA 11.56 / Tjader vib, Manuel Duran p, Carlos Duran b, Luis Miranda congas, Bayardo Velarde timbales
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Jazz Swings Broadway / Just in Time / World Pacific / Hollywood 2.18 & 19.58
Russ Freeman / Jazz Swings Broadway / The Party’s Over / World Pacific / Hollywood 8.12.57 / Freeman p, Monty Budwig b, Shelly Manne d
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 4.17.46
José Feliciano / Feliciano! / Nena Na Na / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / No Hiding Place / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Garland Green / Jealous Kind of Fella / Uni / Detroit 1969

Friday, August 12, 2022

Wave to Me, My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 119

Rest in peace, dear Pat Carroll, a Grant family favorite.

Coffeetime, August 12, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Pleasure Bent / Jazzland / 12.4.61 
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / I’ll Know / Columbia / 7.17.56 
Bunny Berigan & his Orchestra / Jelly-Roll Blues / Victor / 11.22.38 
Jack Smith, The Whispering Baritone / Crazy Rhythm / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.19.28
Jack McVea’s All Stars / Then I’ve Got to Go / Apollo [unissued] / LA 9.10.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie / Ella and Basie! / Dream a Little Dream of Me / Verve / 7.15 & 16.63 

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

set 2
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Summertime / Intro Records / Hollywood 1.14.57 
Urbie Green / Urbie Green & his Band / I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / Vanguard / 8.17.54 
Greta Keller / These Foolish Things / Decca / London 1936
Jack Whiting / On Your Toes / Columbia / London 3.4.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Dinning Sisters / Wave to Me, My Lady / V-Disc 659A / 1946 / with intro by co-writer, Former Sgt. William Stein
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Nobody But Me / V-Disc 513B / 12.7.45
Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64/ premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65

set 3
Freddie Roach / Mo’ Greens Please / Mo’ Greens Please / Blue Note / 3.11.63 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2 / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 12.5.58 
Buddy Collette Septet / Leonard Feather Presents: Best from the West, Vol. 2, Modern Sounds From California / No Love, No Nothing / Blue Note / LA 12.31.54 / a blindfold test record 
J.J. Johnson / J.J. Johnson’s Jazz Quintets / Boneology / Savoy / 12.24.47 
Mildred Bailey / Jenny / Decca / 2.14.41 / with the Delta Rhythm Boys 
Mills Brothers / Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You) / Decca / 1950
Joe Williams / Jump for Joy / My Last Affair / RCA Victor / 1963 / arranged & conducted by Jimmy Jones

set 4
Stan Getz / West Coast Jazz / Love Is Here to Stay / Norgan [unissued] / Hollywood 8.55 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Dance Session Album #2 / She’s Just My Size / Clef / 8.15.54 
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / Nevertheless / Capitol / 1.57
Nichelle Nichols / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Epic / Hollywood 12.16.66
Original Five Blind Boys aka Jackson Harmoneers / Jesus Is a Rock in a Weary Land / Peacock / Houston fall 1953 

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes / Get Out (And Let Me Cry) / Landa / Philadelphia 1965