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| 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
