Friday, October 28, 2022

Message from the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 130

a screenshot of Dusty Springfield performing Spooky on Dutch TV on April 2, 1971, smiling and in a black and yellow dress with a red butterfly choker necklace.
Neither spooky nor dusty, just pretty.

Coffeetime, October 28, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / Message from the Border / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Farewell Blues / Swing / Paris 3.7.38 
George Olsen & his Music / The Girl Friend / Victor / 4.22.26 / vocal = trio from members of the orchestra 
Jack McVea / Lonesome Blues / Black & White / LA 1946 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Sarah Vaughan / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / 10.10.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

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

set 2
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / I’m a Fool to Want You / Blue Note / 9.21.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / Sittin’ In / Medley: I'm Thru with Love; Without a Word of Warning; Sweet Lorraine; Love Walked In; September Song / Verve / 6.26.57 
Louise Brooks & Rina Ketty / J’Attendrai / Pathé / 1938
Bing Crosby & Mary Martin / Lily of Laguna / Decca / Hollywood 3.13.42 / with John Scott Trotter Orchestra 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Dean Martin / This Time I’m Swingin’ / Heaven Can Wait / Capitol / Hollywood 5.17.60 

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Soul Finger / Buh’s Bossa / Limelight / 5.12.65 
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 
Morris Lane / Ghost Town [partial] / Robin / 11.51
Fats Navarro & Eddie Davis / Stealing Trash / Savoy (Petit Savoy) / Paris 12.18.46 
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / That Old Black Magic / Victor / 7.15.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson & the Modernaires 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / LA 5.14.47
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It’s Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz 3 / How About You? / Bethlehem / 11.30.54 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliot vib, Vinnie Burke b, Ted Sommer d 
Lennie Niehaus / The Octet #2 / Blue Room / Contemporary / Hollywood 1.26..55 
Conte Candoli / Cool Gabriels / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Groove [RCA Victor subsidiary] / 6.56 / cover design by Andy Warhol 
King Cole Trio / I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 3.15.46
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / If You Really Love Me, Really Love Me / Atlantic / 1966
Frank Sinatra & The Charioteers / Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary Land / Columbia / Hollywood 5.16.45 

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

Friday, October 21, 2022

How Big Can You Get, Little Playlist?: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 129

screenshot of Paul Williams performing on the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, May 25, 1977
I’m just trying to look like Paul Williams.

Coffeetime, October 21, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1540] / Mobleymania / Blue Note / 11.25.56 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / With Apologies to Oscar / Savoy / 7.14.55 
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Moten Swing / Columbia / 3.2.36 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Louise / Decca / 7.9.29 / vocal = Eddie Gross-Bart
Seger Ellis / It’s a Lonesome Old Town / Brunswick / 12.22.30 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Them There Eyes / Specialty / Hollywood 7.47 / slightly slower version released earlier, 10.46, on Miltone 
Dinah Washington / Accent on Youth / EmArcy / 11.12.55 

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

set 2
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Cookbook, volume 2 / Stardust / Prestige / 12.5.58 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / That’s All / Motif / Hollywood 11.23.56 
Lester Young / Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Hoagy Carmichael & his Pals / Stardust / Gennett / 10.31.27 
Six Jumping Jacks / She’s Got “It” / Brunswick / 7.7.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / How Big Can You Get, Little Man? / Decca / 2.26.46 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 
Pee Wee Crayton / I Got News for You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55

set 3
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Howard Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Elmo Hope / Sounds from Rikers Island / Three Silver Quarters / Audio Fidelity / Rikers Island, NY (?) 8.19.63 / Hope p, Ronnie Boykins b, Philly Joe Jones d 
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Prestige / 5.24.57 
The Four Vagabonds / Choo-Choo / Apollo / 7.47 
Alice Babs / Kiss Me Sweet / Cupol / Södra flickläroverket [Southern Girls’ Education Agency], Stockholm 1.27.50 / with Putte Wickman & his Orchestra
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Art Pepper / Two Altos / Deep Purple / Regent / LA 8.25.54 
Hampton Hawes / Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes, vol. 3 / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 1.25.56 / Cover drawing and design by Robert Guidi/Tri-Arts 
King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Paul Williams / Life Goes On / I Won’t Last a Day Without You / A&M / Hollywood 1972 / Danny Kortchmar g 
Ink Spots / Somebody Bigger than You and I / Decca / 2.15.51 

last soulful song
The Pretenders / Broken Heart / Carnival [unissued] / 1971

Friday, October 14, 2022

Playlist in the Hay: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 128

Jane Russell singing Five Miles from San Berdoo in the movie His Kind of Woman
Jane sings one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite movies.

Coffeetime, October 14, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Frank Strazzeri / Yvette / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 1.63 / Carmell Jones t, Hadley Callman ts, Frank Strazzeri p, Red Mitchell b, Nick Martinis d
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa / Riverside / 5.11.61 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / That Naughty Waltz / Decca / 3.24.37 
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / You Have Taken My Heart / Decca / London 3.9.34 / vocal = Denny Dennis 
Six Jumping Jacks / Piccolo Pete / Brunswick / 7.22.29 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / My Heart Goes Out to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 9.24.51
Jane Russell / How Long Has This Been Going On? / MGM / Hollywood 1958

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

set 2
Thad Jones / Sonny Rollins Plays / Ballad Medley: Flamingo; If You Were Mine; I’m Through with Love; Love Walked In / Period / 12.24.56 / Thad Jones t, Frank Foster ts, Jimmy Jones p, Doug Watkins b, Jo Jones d
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Autumn Leaves / Atlantic / summer 1960 
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / 11.28.56
Joe Venuti & his New Yorkers / Doin’ Things / Okeh / 10.4.28 
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.27.37 / for the 20th Century Fox movie On the Avenue 
T-Bone Walker / First Love Blues / Capitol / LA 11.12.47
Tab Smith / Baby, Please Don’t Go / United [unissued] / Chicago 1954 / vocal = Ray King; Tab Smith ts, Sam Malone org, Lefty Bates g, Vernon King b, Walter Johnson d 

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / Tangerine [alt take] / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Freddie Hubbard / High Blues Pressure / High Blues Pressure / Atlantic / 11.13.67 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / I Cover the Waterfront / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon_in_Paris_(album)
Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street / Decca / 12.6.39 / vocal = Eddie Miller & Nappy Lamar 
The Dixiaires / Joe Louis Is a Fightin’ Man / Sittin’ in With / 12.47 
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Gerald Wiggins / The Loveliness of You / That Old Gang of Mine / Tampa / LA 1958 / Wiggins p, Eugene Wright b, Bill Douglass d
Gus Viseur / Ménilmontant / Barclay / Paris 5.3.55 / Gus Viseur accord; Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Lying in the Hay / Columbia / London 1933 
King Cole Trio / I Want to Thank Your Folks / NYC 12.18.46
Pat Moran / The Pat Moran Quartet / Two Sleepy People / Bethlehem / Hollywood 5.56 / Moran p & voc, John Doling b & voc, Johnny Whited d & voc, Bev Kelly voc, cover design = Leichman & Seide 
Bobby Rydell / Rydell at the Copa / Homesick That’s All / Cameo / live, Copacabana Club 7.4.61
Dixiaires / The Greatest Spirituals / Jesus Gave Me Water / Time / 1959

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

Friday, October 07, 2022

My Playlist Back Home: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 127

Screenshot of Diahann Carroll in a 1960 episode of Peter Gunn playing a jazz singer; she's standing in front of a combo with trumpeter and drummer.
Diahann with the stunning side-eye.

Coffeetime, October 7, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Child’s Play / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer’s Dream / Blue Note / 1.29.55 
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / Our Delight / Riverside / 3.9.62 
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Cried for You / Decca / 3.29.38
Henry Biagini / Accent on Youth / Melotone / 8.20.35 / vocal = Clyde Rogers
Martha Davis / What Good Am I Without You? / Coral / LA 12.10.51 
Diahann Carroll / I’m Through with Love / Peter Gunn, episode S02E03 (“Sing a Song of Murder”) / Hollywood 3.7.60 (air date)

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

set 2
Ben Webster / The Warm Moods / Accent on Youth / Reprise / LA 1.18 
Les McCann / Pretty Lady / Doreen Don’t Cry / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 3.13 & 15.61 
Dave Pell / Love Story / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Warwick / 1959 
Cliff Edwards / I’ll See You in My Dreams / Columbia / 2.5.30 
Trixie Smith / Jack, I’m Mellow / Decca / 5.26.38 
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis / We Belong Together / Trend / live, Tally-Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 / with Virginia (Ginny) Maxey
Lola Albright / Lola Wants You / Do What You Gotta Do / Kern / Hollywood 5.16.57 

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Bunny Rabbit / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Something New, Something Blue / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
The Mills Brothers / I’ve Found a New Baby / Decca / 9.14.34 
Ella Fitzgerald & her V-Disc Boys / I'll See You in My Dreams / V-Disc 730A / 10.12.45 
Jimmy Witherspoon / ’Spoon / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / Reprise / Hollywood 12.8-9.59 

set 4
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz, Vol. 3 / Liza / Bethlehem / 1955
Dave Pell / Love Story / I’ve Found a New Baby / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Vol. 1 / Disc Jockey Jump / Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57 
King Cole Trio / Can You Look Me in the Eyes (And Say We’re Through) / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.46
Bill Lee (dubbed in for John Kerr) & Mitzi Gaynor / My Girl Back Home / soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie South Pacific / Hollywood 1958  
The Kings / I’m a Little Liar / Gotham [unissued] / Baltimore 2.4.55 
The Trumpeteers / Babylon’s Fallen / Score [subsidiary of Aladdin] / Hollywood 1949

last soulful song
Thee Midniters / Making Ends Meet / Whittier / LA 1967