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Coffeetime, November 18, 2022, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Al Cohn / Al Cohn’s Tones / That’s What You Think / Savoy / 6.23.53
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor Sax / Tune for Tex / Urania / 1954 / arranged by Jimmy Hamilton; Lucky Thompson ts, Jimmy Hamilton cl, Billy Taylor p, Sidney Gross g, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / The Count / Decca / 11.7.40
Paul Specht & his Orchestra / Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella on a Rainy Day / Columbia / 1.4.28 / vocal trio = Johnny Morris, Charlie Spivak t, & Frank Leitner p
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / My Man / Columbia / summer 1961
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Hal Singer & Charlie Shavers / Blue Stompin’ / With a Song in My Heart / Prestige / 2.20.59
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59
Billy Butterfield / The Mellow Moods of Jazz / Pastel Blue / RCA Victor / 1956 / Billy Butterfield t, Urbie Green, Lou McGarity tb, Hal McKusick as, Moe Weschler p, Barry Galbraith g, Milt Hilton b, Osie Johnson d
Scott Wood & his Orchestra / Who Walks in When I Walk Out? / Regal Zonophone / London 1.4.34 / vocal = Sam Browne
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / I Go for That / Vocalion / 1939
Doris Day / Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) / Columbia / LA 1950
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / You Wanna Bet / Columbia / 1967
set 3
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook / Long Ago (And Far Away) / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Joe Roland / Joltin’ Joe Roland / I’ve Got the World on a String / Savoy / 5.10.54
The Be Bop Boys / Moody Speaks / Savoy / 1948
Chico Marx & his Orchestra / Here You Are / Hit / 6.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson https://www.marx-brothers.org/marxology/chicorch.htm
The Jones Boys Sing Band / Swing As You Work / MGM short film Streamlined Swing directed by Buster Keaton / Hollywood 1938
Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones / At Basin Street East / I’m Falling for You; Fool That I Am; Everything I Have Is Yours / EmArcy / live 10.1.61
set 4
Oscar Pettiford / Burt’s Pad / Vogue / Paris 3.21.54
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
King Cole Trio / It’s Only a Paper Moon / AFRS Jubilee Show #207 / Hollywood 3.45 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra and MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Kay Starr / Who Hit Me? / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1947
C.B.S. Trumpeteers / Lord Ease My Weary Mind / Nashboro / Nashville 1966
last soulful song
Jerry & Billy Butler / I Stand Accused / The Soul! Show / live 1970 https://youtu.be/xgetdF_7Ijw
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