Friday, June 02, 2023

There’s No Playlist Like That Certain Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 157

Screenshot from a Video Varieties short film from 1949 showing the four Striders singing in front of a backdrop curtain pinned with signs of pancakes and other things found at a diner/soda shop. Two of The Striders have put on caps and round glasses as if to imitate hipsters of the time as they scat and take the tune uptempo for some bop singing.
The Striders enjoying that hipster fun!

Coffeetime, June 2, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / A Fickle Sonance / Lost / Blue Note / 10.26.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Noise in the Attic / Blue Note / 8.7.60 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Hittin’ the Ceiling / Decca / London 9.12.29
Gus Arnheim & his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / Go Home and Tell Your Mother / Victor / Hollywood 7.29.30 / vocal = Bobby Burns 
Danny Barker Sextette / Where’s Joe / Apollo [unissued] / vocal = Blu Lu Barker & ensemble 
Dorothy Dandridge / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Aaron Sachs / We Brought Our Axes / If You Are But a Dream / Bethlehem / 11.54  (magnify)
Ted Brown / Free Wheeling / Crazy She Calls Me / Vanguard / Hollywood 10.24.56
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57 
Teddy Wilson / Just a Mood, part 2 / Brunswick / LA 9.5.37 
The Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Get It Fixed / Harmony / 12.22.25 / vocal = Don Redman 8
Sophie Tucker / Golden Jubilee / There’s No Business Like That Certain Business / Mercury / 1953
Matt Monro / This Is the Life! / This Is the Life! / Capitol / Hollywood 1966 / arranged & conducted by Sid Feller

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / Hootchie-Koo / Columbia / 1961 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 / cover design by Marvin Israel  
Bea Wain / My Reverie / V-Disc 310B / with Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Hollywood 1944
The Striders / She Left Me for a Richer Man / Video Varieties short / early 1949
Jean Sablon / Two Sleepy People / Victor / Hollywood 10.12.38 / with the Lou Bring Orchestra 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Prohibido / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66 / Carter as, Bud Shank as, Teddy Edwards ts, Buddy Collette ts, Bill Hood bs, Barney Kessel g, Don Abney p, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d
Dick Garcia / A Message from Dick Garcia / If I’m Lucky / Dawn / 1956 / Gene Quill as, Terry Pollard p, Dick Garcia g, Bill Anthony b, Frank Isola d
John Graas / Coup de Graas / Van Nuys Indeed / EmArcy / LA 8.13.57 / Grass french horn, Red Callendar tuba, Art Pepper as, Bob Cooper ts & oboe, Buddy Collette bs & fl, Paul Moer p, Buddy Clark b, Larry Bunker d & percussion
Ethel Waters / I Ain’t Gonna Sin No More / Decca / 9.5.34 / Edgar Sampson violin, John Trueheart g e
King Cole Trio / Could-’Ja / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46
Little Milton / Someone to Love / Checker / Chicago 1962
Jubalaires / My Trouble is Hard / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Ooh-La-Dee-Dah / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Friday, May 26, 2023

In a Playlist by the Sea: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 156

Screenshot from the movie Lullaby of Broadway showing Gene Nelson singing (though his voice was actually dubbed for the movie), standing alongside a blue upright piano and the Page Cavanaugh Trio (piano, guitar, bass). They are all wearing dark suits with bow ties. Nelson has his arms outstretched as he is about to dance as well as sing.
Gene’s got his eye on that piano top!

Coffeetime, May 26, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58 
Chet Baker / Chet Baker & Crew / Jumpin’ Off a Clef / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 7.24.56 
Clifford Brown / Study in Brown / Gherkin for Perkin / EmArcy / 2.23-25.55 
Irene Beasley / Choo Choo Train / Victor / 5.3.28 
Horace Heidt & his Brigadiers / In a Mission by the Sea / Brunswick / 10.28.37 / vocal = Larry Cotton 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / If You Ever Had the Blues / Aladdin / LA 8.15.49
Anita O’Day / Trav’lin’ Light / Some Other Spring / Verve / Hollywood 1.18.61 / with Barney Kessel Sextet

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Solo Piano / A Sleepin’ Bee / Storyville / Zurich 1974 
Chet Baker / Baker’s Holiday / Ole Devil Called Love / 5.65 
Phil Woods / New Jazz Quintet / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 
Leroy Smith & his Orchestra / I’m a Broken Hearted Blackbird / Victor/ 4.2.28
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Are You Having Fun? / HMV / London 1940 / vocal = Dolly Elsie (Jack’s sister)
Hal Derwin (dubbing for Gene Nelson / Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart / soundtrack, Warner Brothers movie Lullaby of Broadway / Hollywood 1951 / with Page Cavanaugh Trio; with tapping by Gene Nelson and dialogue between S.Z. Sakall & Doris Day 
Yves Montand / La Bicyclette / La Bicyclette / Philips / Paris 1968 / Bob Castella p

set 3
Ike Quebec / Heavy Soul / Que’s Dilemma / Blue Note / 11.26.61 
Prestige All Stars / After Hours / Blue Jelly / Prestige / 6.21.57 
Al Haig / Yardbird Suite / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1954 
Bob Crosby / This Is a Lovely Way to Spend an Evening / AFRS Jubilee #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 / with the AFRS Trio aka Les Paul Trio; master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
The Ebonaires / I’ll Never Do It Again / Modern [unissued] / LA 12.47 
Jackie Paris / Can’t Get Started with You (Jackie… That Is!) / That Ole Devil Called Love / Mercury / 1956

set 4
Bill Perkins / Just Friends / Diane-A-Flow / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.12.56 / Bill Perkins ts, Art Pepper as, Jimmy Rowles p, Ben Tucker b, Mel Lewis d  
Gil Mellé / Quintet/Sextet / Under Capricorn / Blue Note / 1.31.53 / Mellé ts, Eddie Bert tb [called X. Kentonite on the label], Tal Farlow g, Clyde Lombardi b, Joe Morello d  
Hadda Brooks / This Will Make You Laugh / Modern [unissued] / LA 12.47 / with Teddy Bunn g  
King Cole Trio / Candy / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 8.15.56 / from the After Midnight session with Harry “Sweets” Edison
Peggy Lee / Then Was Then, Now Is Now! / Ev’rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.65 / with Sid Feller & his Orchestra 
Golden Gate Quartet / High, Low, and Wide / Columbia / 4.8.47 

last soulful song
The Lovelites / I’m Not Like the Others / Lock [unissued] / Chicago 1969

Friday, May 19, 2023

I Guess I’ll Get the Playlist (And Go Home): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 155

John Collins wearing a red jacket sits playing guitar while Bobby Troup in a dark suit stands, facing the camera, holding a microphone. They're both wearing bow ties.
Bobby pays sweet tribute to John Collins.

Coffeetime, May 19, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Nica’s Dream / Blue Note / 7.8.60 
Bud Shank / Barefoot Adventure / Barefoot Adventure / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.61 
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford / Sextette / Bethlehem / 1.54 
Duke Ellington / Swampy River / Okeh / 10.1.28
The Goofus Five & their Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Okeh / 6.28.28 
Dallas Bartley / You’re the Greatest / Savoy / 1945 
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Little Joe from Chicago / AFRS Jubilee Show #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 / Master of Ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Chris Connor / Sings Lullabys for Lovers / He’s Coming Home / Bethlehem / 8.21.54 

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Thompson Plays for Thomson / medley: Sophisticated Lady & These Foolish Things / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 2.22.56 
Johnny Hodges / Collates / Blue Fantasia / Clef / 1.15.51 
Oscar Peterson / Plays George Gershwin / A Foggy Day / Clef / LA 12.52 
Jimmy Dorsey, Saxophone Specialty / Beebe / Okeh / 5.13.29 
Three Peppers / Swingin’ at the Cotton Club / Variety / Hollywood 2.27.37 / later performing this in 1943 in "A Lady Takes A Chance" starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur  
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / early 1940s / vocal = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard [Nelson]
Jane Russell / Love on the Rocks / MGM / Hollywood 1958

set 3
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Business Meetin’ / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Be Back Ta-Reckla / Savoy / 6.7.60 
Kai Winding Sextet / Sleepy Bop / Roost / 4.49 / Kai Winding tb, Brew Moore ts, Gerry Mulligan bs, George Wallington p, Curley Russell b, Max Roach d
Les Brown & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Get the Papers (And Go Home) / Columbia / 8.12.46 / vocal = Jack Haskell
The Charioteers / Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet / AFRS Jubilee Show #77 / Hollywood 5.1.44 / Master of Ceremonies = Lena Horne 
Bobby Troup / Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 4
Dave Pell / The Dave Pell Octet Plays Burke & Van Heusen / Suddenly It’s Spring / Kapp / Hollywood 5.21.56 / Don Fagerquist t, Ray Sims tb, Ronny Lang bs, Dave Pell ts, Claude Williamson p, Tony Rizzi g, Rolly Bundock b, Jack Sperling d
Lex Golden Jazz Octet / The Lex Golden Jazz Octet in Hi-Hi / Flip-Top / Superior / Hollywood 4.57 / Lex Golden t, Pete Carpenter tb, Abe Most as & cl, Gene Cipriano & Lester Pinter ts, Ray Sherman p, Ray Leatherwood b, Richie Cornell d
Les Paul Trio / Blue Skies / AFRS Jubilee Show #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 
Peggy Lee / Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.28.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
King Cole Trio / Loan Me Two Till Tuesday / Capitol Transcription [unissued] / NYC 12.4.45 / produced by Carl Kress & written by “Taps” Miller Robert Clary / Hooray for Love / Thou Swell / Epic / 1956
Gospel Vocalaires of Norfolk, VA / Jezebel [unissued] / Gotham / Norfolk 8.53

last soulful song
Gwen Guthrie / Ain't Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent / Polydor / 1986



Friday, May 12, 2023

Ring, Playlist, Ring: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 154

Black & white screenshot of Fran Jeffries singing on the Ed Sullivan show from April 23, 1961, standing near the camera with a triangle-pattered set design in back of her with a man in a suit standing way in the background.
Yes, he’s still back there, Fran…

Coffeetime, May 12, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Walter Benton / Out of this World / Azil / Jazzland / 9.19 & 21.60 
Ray Draper / Tuba Sounds / Mimi’s Interlude / Prestige / 3.15.57 
Bert Lown & his Loungers / The Jazz Me Blues / Columbia / 4.5.29 
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / My Baby Just Cares for Me / Victor / 7.25.30 / vocal = Arthur Jarrett 
Leo Watson & his Orchestra / It’s the Tune That Counts / 8.22.39 
Rabon Tarrant / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / with Jack McVea & his All Stars 
Fran Jeffries / Fran Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Warwick / 1961 / arranged & conducted by Ralph Burns

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

set 2
Lee Konitz / The Real Lee Konitz / You Go to My Head / Atlantic / live, The Midway Lounge, Pittsburgh 2.15.57 
Billy Bauer / Plectrist / Night Cruise / Norgran / 1.23.56
Eddie South / Daybreak / Standard Transcription / c. 1944 http://abar.net/south.htm
Oscar Calle Cubana Orchestre / Au pays des rumbas / Odeon / Paris c. 1939
Baby Hines / This Is the End / Decca / 3.1.39 / with Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing
The Pied Pipers / In the Middle of May / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Kiss of Fire / Decca / Denver 3.19.52 

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Good Gravy! / Could You Forget / Contemporary / LA 8.23–25.61 / cover portrait painting by George Bartell 
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Angel Face / Verve / 5.10.66 
Allen Eager with the Be Bop Boys / Donald Jay / Savoy / 7.15.47 
The Ink Spots / Ring, Telephone, Ring / Decca / 12.23.40 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance / EmArcy / 1958 / with Pete Rug0lo & his All Stars

set 4
Chet Baker / Pretty/Groovy / But Not for Me / World Pacific / Hollywood 2.15.54 
Dave Brubeck / Lullaby in Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 1950 
King Cole Trio / Just You, Just Me / Capitol Transcription [unissued take] / Hollywood 3.20.46
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46
Bing Crosby / Bing with a Beat / Some Sunny Day / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.19–20.57 / with with Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band; arranged by Matty Matlock; solos by Dave Harris ts & Matlock cl 
Swanee Quintet / Well Done / Nashboro / Nashville 1953

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1970



Friday, May 05, 2023

The Better to Love You, My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 153

black & white screenshot of Ilene Woods in a white dress with puffy short sleeves and big skirt similar to Disney's Cinderella's, singing in front of a stage version of Cinderella's fireplace, from Perry Como Show in 1950
Ilene’s mice friends are just off screen!

Coffeetime, May 5, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Gonsalves / Cleopatra Feelin’ Jazzy / Action in Alexandria / Impulse! / 5.21.63 
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Bet / Savoy / 11.5.56 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Do Something / Decca / London 6.2.29 
Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Wonder How I Look When I’m Asleep / Columbia / 2.16.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Adrian’s Ramblers / The Better to Love You, My Dear / Brunswick / 5.3.34 / vocal = Chick Bullock 
Betty Hall Jones / Poor Spending Daddy / Combo / Hollywood 1951 
Ilene Woods / It’s Late / I’m Old Fashioned / Jubilee / 1957 / arranged & conducted by Bill Clifton p

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

set 2
Oscar Moore / Presenting Oscar Moore with Leroy Vinnegar / Tangerine / Omegatape [reel to reel] / Hollywood 12.12 & 14.56 / Moore g, Vinnegar b
Phineas Newborn Jr. / A World of Piano! / Lush Life / Contemporary / Hollywood 10.16.61 
Sonny Criss / Jazz – USA / More Than You Know / Imperial / Hollywood early 1956 
Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten / Hot Tempered Blues / Victor / 1.24.28 
Henry “Red” Allen / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / AFRS Jubilee #22 / LA 3.43  
Cee Pee Johnson / Your Wig Is Gone / Black & White / 1945 
Etta Jones / Hollar! / Reverse the Charges / Prestige / 3.30.61 

set 3
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / Easterly Winds / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Harold Land / Jazz Impressions of Folk Music / Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / Imperial / Hollywood 7.63 
Charlie Parker All Stars / Cheers / Dial / Hollywood 2.26.47 
Bunny Berigan & his Orchestra / I Can’t Get Started / Victor / 8.7.37 / vocal = Berigan 
The Four Vagabonds / Old Man Romance / Standard Transcription / 1943 
Johnny Pace / Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace / Crazy She Calls Me / Riverside / 12.23.58 

set 4
Curtis Counce / The Curtis Counce Group / Mia / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56 
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis Sextet / Jazz Goes to Siwash / Mode / Hollywood 6.5 & 6.57 
King Cole Trio / It Could Happen to You / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55 / Cole p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d
King Cole Trio / No Moon at All / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / Cole p & vo, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Noël Coward / At Las Vegas / A Room with a View / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra
Southern Sons / I’m Free at Last / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Percy Sledge / Warm & Tender Soul / Oh How Happy / Atlantic / 1966

Friday, April 28, 2023

A Playlist with a View

screenshot from White Christmas of Rosemary Clooney, in her red pajamas with her white coat over them, looking towards Bing Crosby while they sing Count Your Blessings
I won’t pass up this opportunity to show Rosemary looking so lovely with Bing.

Coffeetime, April 28, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swing Orchestra / The Bridegroom Special / radio transcription from the WHN radio show Yiddish Melodies in Swing / 1940
[Gene] Sedric & his Honey Bears / The Wall of Scromph / Vocalion / 11.23.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Joe Thomas, his Sax & his Orchestra / You’re Just My Kind / King / 4.26.51
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56 

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

set 2
Curtis Fuller / It’s Magic / medley: It’s Magic; My One and Only Love; They Didn’t Believe Me / Regent / 9.5.57 
Thomas “Fats” Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29 
Knites of Rhythm (aka The Southern Sons) / Baby Won’t You Fall in Love / Bluebird / 10.29.41 
Louis Jordan / Somebody Up There Digs Me / Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby / Mercury / 10.22.56 / Louis Jordan as & vo, Ernie Royal tp, Jimmy Cleveland tb, Sam “The Man” Taylor ts, Budd Johnson ts, bs, Ernie Hayes p, Mickey Baker g, Wendell Marshall b, Charlie Persip ds, Quincy Jones arr & dir
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.11.58

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / High ’n Low / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Uptown Manhattan / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wick’s Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Ooh, Hot Dawg / V-Disc 543B / 8.45 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / You Foolish Thing / Okeh / 3.29.51
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / Hollywood 7.64 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You, Nat / That’s All / Horizon/Surrey / Burbank 4.65
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Cherokee / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55 / Cole p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / Cole p & vo, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Noël Coward / At Las Vegas / A Room with a View / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra
Southern Sons / I’m Free at Last / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Debbie Taylor / Never Gonna Let Him Know; Let’s Prove Them Wtong  / GWP / 1969

Friday, April 21, 2023

Playlist Gets in Your Eyes: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 152

Screenshot from the 1932 Vitaphone short film, "Rambling ’Round Radio Row," of the Boswell Sisters sitting at a grand piano singing.
That’s what I like about the Bozzies.…they’re great!

Coffeetime, April 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out / Dotty’s Dream / Blue Note / 5.27.63 
Donald Byrd / Blows at Beacon Hill / If I Love Again / Transition / Cambridge, MA 5.7.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Ill Wind / AFRS Jubilee Show #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Blind Willie Dunn aka Eddie Lang / There’ll Be Some Changes Made / Okeh / 11.5.28 / with Frank Signorelli p 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / If I Love Again / Decca / London 1934 / vocal = Sam Browne
[Emmett] Babe Wallace / Git It (’Cause I Love to See You Wid It) / Decca / 9.10.41 / with Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / Some Other Spring / Columbia / summer 1961 

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Blues for Mother’s / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
Ike Quebec / Blue and Sentimental / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Blue Note / 12.61 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Lil Green / No Baby, No One but You / Bluebird / Chicago 4.17.45 / with Simeon Henry p, Sam Casimir g, Robert Montgomery b
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Brunswick / 2.26.39 / vocal = Irene Daye 
The Cats & the Fiddle / We Cats Will Swing for You / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Frank Sinatra / Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass / Pick Yourself Up / Reprise / Hollywood 4.10 & 11.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Neal Heft; cover portrait painting by Jim Jonson  

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / My One and Only Love / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Misty / Verve [unissued] / 9.22.65 
Brew Moore & his Playboys / Blue Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48 
Shep Fields & his New Music / Coffee Time / Victor / 1945 / vocal = Meredith Blake 
James Quintet / Remember When / Coral / 10.21.48 
Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / My Ideal / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Force_(Sonny_Rollins_album)

set 4
Stan Levey / This Time the Drum’s on Me / Day In, Day Out / Bethlehem / LA 9.27 & 28.55 / Conte Candoli t, Frank Rosolino tb, Dexter Gordon ts, Lou Levy p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Levey d 
Herb Geller / Herb Geller Plays / Kahagon / EmArcy / LA 8.6.54 / Geller as, Lorraine Geller p, Curtis Counce b, Larance Marable d 
Jackie Taylor & his Orchestra / That’s What I Like About You / Victor / 7.20.30 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Paramount movie soundtrack, Some Like It Hot / Hollywood 1939 / vocal = actors Rufe Davis, Wayne “Tiny” Whitt, & Harry Barris 
King Cole Trio / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / Capitol / Hollywood 3.15.46 / Nat King Cole p & voc, the great Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
João Gilberto / Chega de Saudade / Maria Ninguém [Maria “Nobody”] / Odeon / Rio de Janeiro 1959  
Five Gospel Stirrers [The Soul Stirrers] / Don’t Wonder ’Bout Him / 2oth Century Records / 1947

last soulful song
Jo Ann King / Don’t Play with Fire / Fairmont / 1966



Friday, April 14, 2023

This Is a Very Special Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 151

Screenshot of the Aug 7, 1956 episode of the Rosemary Clooney Show showing guest Joe Bushkin smiling at Clooney while they sing.
Special day for Joe on Peggy’s TV show!

Coffeetime, April 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Blue Stride / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Trombonology / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.47 
Helen Morgan / Why Was I Born? / Victor / 10.16.29  
Harry Roy & his Orchestra / You’re an Eyeful of Heaven / Parlophone / London 1936 / vocal = Billy Currie
T-Bone Walker / You're My Best Poker Hand / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.47
Dinah Washington / I Want to Be Loved / Mercury / spring 1947 / with Chubby Jackson’s Quartet 

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Johnny Lytle / Happy Ground / When I Fall in Love / Jazzland / 3.23.61 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Trio + One / They Didn’t Believe Me / Verve / LA 8.17.64 
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Stardust / Decca / 1.25.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld 
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Just an Echo in the Valley / Columbia / London 1933
Al Bowlly & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Shout for Happiness / HMV / London 2.19.31 
James Barton / Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast Album) / In Between / 1951 
Totie Fields / Put on a Happy Face / CBS TV broadcast, Ed Sullivan Show / 3.27.66

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
John T. Williams / The John Towner Touch / Zigeuner / Kapp / Hollywood 10.3.56 
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Bock to Bock (Back to Back) / Riverside / 1.3.61 
Lucky Thompson’s Quartet / Slam’s Mishap / Down Beat / Hollywood 9.13.46 
Raymond Scott & his New Orchestra / Half Way Down the Street / Columbia / 9.10.40 / vocal = Clyde Burke
The Four Tunes / Don’t Blame My Dream / Arco / c. 1945 [1950] 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52 

set 4
Bob Keene / Solo for Seven / A Lonesome Cup of Coffee / Andex / Hollywood 5.21.57 / Bob Keene cl, Milt Bernhart tb, Bill Hood bs, Red Norvo vb, Paul Moer p, Red Mitchell b, Shelly Manne d
Mel Powell / The Mel Powell Bandstand / Ezz-May / Vanguard / LA 12.1.54 
King Cole Trio / Naughty Angeline / NBC radio broadcast, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time / Hollywood 7.5.47 / guest = Woody Herman
Joe Bushkin / I Love a Piano / Atlantic / 1950 
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus 
Golden Gate Quartet / Won’t There Be One Happy Time / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
The Dramatics / Joy Ride / Richest Man Alive / ABC / 1976



Friday, April 07, 2023

Get Your Playlist Over: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 150

Screenshot from the December 17, 1951 episode of I Love Lucy where Desi performs and clutches a dancer.
Watch out, Desi… Lucy’s not far away!

Coffeetime, April 7, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Stanley Turrentine / That’s Where It’s At / Smile, Stacey / Blue Note / 1.2.62 
Jackie McLean / A Fickle Sonance / Enitnerrut / Blue Note / 10.26.61 
Hans Bund mit seinem Tanz-Orchester / Tanzfieber [Get Hot Foot] / Telefunken / Berlin 4.18.34
Hotel Pennsylvania Music (aka Jack Albin & his Hotel Pennsylvania Music) / Lucky Little Devil / Velvet Tone / 4.1.30 / vocal = Danford Sisters Charles Brown / Gee! / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook / Day Dream / Verve / Hollywood 1957 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 

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

set 2
Lou Donaldson / The Time Is Right / The Nearness of You / Blue Note / 10.31.59 
Lester Young / Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Johnny Hodges / Blues-A-Plenty / Gone with the Wind / Verve / 4.5.58 
Bob Hardaway / Lou’s Blue / Spring Is Here / Bethlehem / LA 1.21.55 
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor 4.10.29 
Tom Coakley & his Orchestra / Clean as a Whistle / Brunswick / 11.20.33 / vocal = Frank Barton
Bull Moose Jackson / Oh John / King / 1949
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps / RCA Victor / 12.9.47

set 3
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The End of a Love Affair / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / Taboo / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / All the Things You Are / Musicraft / 2.28.45 
Charlie Parker / Cheryl (short take 1) / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Miles Davis t, Charlie Parker as, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Orrin Tucker & his Orchestra / Keep an Eye on Your Heart / Columbia / 7.2.41 / vocal = Bonnie Baker & the Bodyguards 
The Four Blues / Jitterbug Sadie / Decca / 12.4.40 
Don Elliott / Music for the Sensational Sixties / What’s the Use of Wondr’in / Design / 1958

set 4
Bob Cooper / Kenton Presents Jazz - Bob Cooper / When the Sun Comes Out / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.54 
Si Zentner & his Orchestra / The Swingin’ Eye / I’m Always Chasing Rainbows / Liberty / LA 1960 
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / Fine and Dandy / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 
King Cole Trio / Mabel, Mabel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.24.46
Peggy Lee / Someday, Sweetheart / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Jamaica 1967 / with Tommy Cook & the Supersonics 
Alphabetical Four / Do Not Pass Me By / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969



Friday, March 31, 2023

When Playlists Fly: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 149

Screenshot from the 1948 movie "Boarding House Blues" of Annisteen Allen performing on stage in a white gown the song "Let It Roll" with Lucky Millinder smiling at her with his orchestra playing behind them.
He’s Lucky because he gets to perform with Annisteen!

Coffeetime, March 31, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon / Field Day / Jazzland / LA 10.13.60 
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Myzar / Jazzland / 12.4.61 
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Black and Blue Bottom / Columbia / 9.29.26 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / She’s Funny That Way / Victor / 1.17.29 / vocal = Van Fleming 
Ernestine Anderson / K.C. Lover / Black & White / LA 1948 / with Shifty Henry’s Orchestra 
Lucy Ann Polk / Lucky Lucy Ann / Sittin’ and A’Rockin’ / Mode / Hollywood 7.12.57 

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

set 2
Junior Mance / Happy Time / Azure-Te / Jazzland / 6.20.62 / composer = Wild Bill Davis  
Gil Evans / Out of the Cool / When Flamingos Fly / Impulse! / 11.60 
Victor Feldman / On Vibes / Sweet and Lovely / Mode / LA 9.57 
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / I Never Slept a Wink Last Night / Melotone / 5.1.34 
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / If It’s Good / Victor / 6.9.39 
Bing Crosby / Manhattan / CBS radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show / Hollywood 3.8.56 / with Buddy Cole Trio 
Annisteen Allen / Pardon Me / Decca / 6.7.57 

set 3
Big John Patton / Got a Good Thing Goin’ On / Soul Woman / Blue Note / 4.29.66 
Stanley Turrentine / Hustlin’ / Trouble (No.2) / Blue Note / 1.24.64 
Allen Eager / Rampage / Savoy / 3.22.46 
Charioteers / Why Should I Complain / Columbia / 7.20.39
Doris Day / My Darling, My Darling / NBC radio broadcast, The Bob Hope Show / Hollywood 12.7.48 
Beny Moré / Paré… Que Llego el Bárbaro [Stop… The Barbarian Has Arrived] / Que Me Hace Daño [What Hurts Me] / Discuba / Cuba 1958

set 4
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker / Reunion with Chet Baker / I Got Rhythm / World Pacific / 12.57 
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Move / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59 
King Cole Trio / But She’s My Buddy’s “Chick” / Capitol / Hollywood / Hollywood 12.4.45
Margaret Whiting / Songs From Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Capitol / Hollywood 4.7.49 / with the Jeff Alexander Singers & Frank DeVol & his Orchestra 
Sam Cooke / At the Copa / The Best Things in Life Are Free / RCA Victor / live, Copa Copacabana 7.7 & 8.64 
Dixie Hummingbirds / The Little Wooden Church / TV broadcast, WLS, Jubilee Showcase / live, Chicago 1964 / MC = Sid Ordower 

last soulful song
The Natural Four / The Natural Four / You Can’t Keep Running Away / Curtom / Chicago 1974







Friday, March 24, 2023

Did You Ever Love a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 148

Screenshot of video of Dean Martin performing in a tux on his TV show in 1966
You’re nobody ’til Dean loves you!

Coffeetime, March 24, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Compulsion / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17.60 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Swift / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Daahoud / EmArcy / Hollywood 8.54 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Jangled Nerves / Victor / Chicago 4.9.36 
Sam Lanin’s Famous Players / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 3.22.29 / vocal = vocal trio (Jack, Hank, & Phil)
Johnny Otis / Cool and Easy / Regent / 1950 / vocal = Redd Lyte, Pete Lewis g
Anita O’Day / Incomparable! / Easy Living / Verve / LA 8.23.60 / with Bill Holman’s Orchestra, Richie Kamuca ts 

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

set 2
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi-Fi / The Wind / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.4.56 / cover sculptor = Vito Paulekas  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Paulekas
Julius Watkins / I Have Known / Blue Note / 8.8.54 
Andre Previn / King Size! / It Could Happen to You / Contemporary / LA 11.26.58 / cover design & art = Robert Guidi, Tri-Arts 
Stuff Smith Trio / Don’t You Think / Asch / 9.8.44 https://www.discogs.com/release/6625189-The-Stuff-Smith-Trio-The-Stuff-Smith-Trio
Hollywood’s Four Blazes / The Big Leg Mama’s Fine / Excelsior / Hollywood 1.45  
Gatemouth Moore / Did You Ever Love a Woman / National / 11.14.45 
Dean Martin / I’d Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again / Capitol / Hollywood 8.12.54 / with Dick Stabile & Orchestra

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / [New Time Shuffle] / Pres Delight (Flying Jumbo) / Blue Note (unissued) / 6.23.67 
Paul Chambers / Bass on Top / Dear Old Stockholm / Blue Note / 7.14.57 
Dexter Gordon / Blow Mr. Dexter / Savoy / 10.30.45
Jo Stafford / It Could Happen to You / Capitol / Hollywood 12.3.43 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Dixieaires / Your Red Wagon / Continental / 1948 
Hollywood’s Four Blazes / I Never Had a Dream to My Name / Excelsior / Hollywood 1.45 / lead vocal = Connie Jordan

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Fourth Dimension / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.16.55
Tutti Camarata / Tutti’s Trumpets & Trombones / Tutti’s Trombones / Coliseum [Tutti’s own label] / LA 1966 
Greta Keller / Stairway to the Stars / Decca / 7.13.39 
King Cole Trio / You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Sweet Talk / Columbia / 1967
Swanee Quintet / Come On to this Altar / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
Gladys Knight & The Pips / Everybody Needs Love / Yes I’m Ready / Soul / Detroit 1967

Friday, March 17, 2023

Top o’ the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 147

screenshot from video of a performance from 1967 of Ernestine Anderson, close up, singing into a microphone

Ernestine live: so pretty & so groovy!



Coffeetime, March 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Consequence] / Vernestune / Blue Note / 12.3.65 
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Philly Twist / Blue Note / 1.15.61 
Benny Goodman Sextet / Breakfast Feud / Columbia / 1.15.41 
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Scratching in the Gravel / Brunswick / 6.25.40 
Noble Sissle & his Sissling Syncopators / Shout Hallelujah! Cause I’m Home / Parlophone / 5.5.28 / vocal = Sissle
Sonny Parker & his All Stars / Sad Feeling / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.7.49 / Parker voc, Gene Morris ts, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Floyd Dixon p, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d, composed by Gladys Hampton
Ernestine Anderson / My Kinda Swing / Trouble Is a Man / Mercury / late 1960 / co-wrote by eden ahbez 

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

set 2
Hank Crawford / After Hours / Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / Atlantic / late 1965 
Urbie Green / East Coast Jazz/6 / Love Locked Out / Bethlehem / 1.19.55 
Lou Mecca / Lou Mecca Quartet / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 3.25.55 
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.24.28 
Bing Crosby / Top o’ the Morning / Chesterfield radio show broadcast /Hollywood 9.21.49 / with The Rhythmaires and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Comedian Harmonists / Ach, Wie Ist’s Möglich Dann [Oh, How Is It Possible, Then] / Electrola / Berlin 1.9.33
Page Cavanaugh Trio / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / LA 1947 / celeste! 
Wynona Carr / If These Walls Could Speak / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 8.17.55

set 3
Grant Green / [Gooden’s Corner] / Two for One / Blue Note / 12.23.61 
Barry Galbraith / Mellow Moods of Jazz / Easy Now / RCA Victor / 1956 
Buddy Banks / Jazz De Chambre / Buddy Banks Blues / Le Club Français Du Disque [unissued] / Switzerland 1956
Teddy Edwards / Roy’s Boy / Rex / Hollywood 7.47 
Linda Ware / You’ll Never Remember / KJM radio broadcast, Charlie Ruggles Barrel Of Fun / Fresno 7.24.41 / with The Sportsmen Quartet 
5 Red Caps / Just for You / Beacon / Hollywood 7.43 
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Johnson Rag / RCA Victor / 1949 / vocal = Joe Derise & The Snowflakes
Bobby Troup / Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / Not Really the Blues / Atlantic / LA 3.55 
Dave Pell / Love Story / You Can’t Pull the Wool over My Eyes / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56 
King Cole Trio / Let’s Spring One / Capitol / Hollywood 3.1.43
Peggy Lee / Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
James Brown / Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things / Cottage for Sale / King / Cincinnati 1968 / featuring members of The Dapps & New York Studio Orchestra 
The Canaanites / I’ll Tell Him / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949 / with Joe Van Loan

last soulful song
Willie & West / At Their Best / Get Away from Me Girl / Stang / early 71 / Willie also recorded under Willie & the Magnificents

Friday, March 10, 2023

Playlist on My Mind: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 146

Screenshot from the Paramount short film "The Little Broadcast" showing The Mills Brothers performing "The Old Man in the Mountain." Screenshot is a close up of two of the brothers, John Jr. on guitar and Harry doing the human harmonica.
The Mills Brothers show how to do the human orchestra, including human harmonica!

Coffeetime, March 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Thermo / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62 
Jackie McLean / Capuchin Swing / On the Lion / Blue Note / 4.17.60 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Let Me See / Okeh / 3.19.40
Oscar Aleman y su Quinteto De Swing / Sweet Georgia Brown / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.21.41 
Annette Hanshaw / Don’t Blame Me / Banner / 9.1.33
Amos Milburn / Empty Arm Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.8.47
Chris Connor / Sings Lullabys of Birdland / All About Ronnie / Bethlehem / 1954 

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

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60 
McCoy Tyner / Reaching Fourth / Goodbye / Impulse! / 11.14.62 
Gerry Mulligan / Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet / Everything Happens to Me / EmArcy / 10.31.55 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / I Won’t Dance / Decca / London 8.2.35 / vocal = Jack Cooper
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / I Come from a Musical Family / Decca / 4.28.36 
Frank Sinatra / Swing Easy! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.7.54 
Ruth Brown / I Don’t Know / Atlantic / 3.7.59 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Adam’s Apple / 502 Blues  / Blue Note / 2.24.66 
Jimmy Smith / Six Views of the Blues / The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues / Blue Note / 7.16.58 
Milt Jackson & Ray Charles / Soul Meeting / Love on My Mind / Atlantic / 4.10.58
Tadd Dameron / Tadd Walk / live at the Royal Roost / late summer 1948 
The Mills Brothers / The Old Man of the Mountain / Paramount short film “The Little Broadcast” / 1933
Maxine Sullivan / The Same Old Story / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Evenin’ / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Herbie Mann / Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd / A Wonderful Day Like Today / Atlantic / 3.5.65 / Mann fl, John Hitchcock & Mark Weinstein tb, Dave Pike vb, Roger Kellaway p, Gene Bertoncini g, Earl May b, Bruno Carr d, Carlos “Potato” Valdes congas 
Buddy Rich / Blues Caravan / Late Date / Verve / 8.61 / Rolf Ericson t, Sam Most fl, Mike Mainieri vibes, Johnny Morris p, Wyatt Ruther b, Rich d 
King Cole Trio / Button, Button / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / Wesley Prince b; vocal = trio
Paul Weston & his Orchestra / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / vocal = Matt Dennis; tenor solo = Eddie Miller; composed by Johnny Mercer & Eddie Miller (Eddie Miller’s theme)
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / A Wonderful Day Like Today / RCA / 1965
The Pilgrim Travelers / I’ve Got a New Home / Specialty / Hollywood 1953

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / If You Love Her / Atlantic / 1965

Friday, March 03, 2023

Like a Playlist from the Blue: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 145

Screenshot of Jorge Ben playing his guitar and singing along with his Trio Moctoto on the Italian TV show Speciale Per Voi on June 2, 1970 (in black & white).
Handsome Jorge Ben… again!

Coffeetime, March 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bunky Green / My Babe / Counter Punch / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.28.60 
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet / Assunta / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / After You’ve Gone / Imperial / LA 7.56 
Glenn Miller’s Uptown Gang / Beatin’ the Hallelujah Drum / Personal recordings, perhaps broadcast / Paris 1.25.45 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Like a Bolt from the Blue / Brunswick / 12.11.34 / vocal = Chuck Richards
Sonny Thompson / Blue Piano / King / 1951 / vocal = Royal Trent
Jeri Southern / Southern Hospitality / You’re Nearer / Decca / LA 11.26.57 / with Dave Barbour Trio?

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Kelly at Midnite / Weird Lullaby / Vee-Jay / 4.27.60 
Benny Golson / Free / My Romance / Argo / 12.26.62 / cover painting by Alex Bozickovic aka Alex Boz  
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans / More Than You Know / Clef / LA 12.7.53 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Rocky Road / Victor / 11.3.30 / vocal = Don Redman 
Ella Fitzgerald & the Delta Rhythm Boys / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Decca / 3.27.45 
Johnny Mercer / They Didn’t Believe Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1942 / with the Mellowaires: Bobbie Canvin, Patty Morgan, Sally Sweetland, Tony Paris, & Lee Gotch {just played this a couple of weeks ago!}
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Phillips / Brazil 1963

set 3
Charlie Rouse / One for Five / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.22.65 
Horace Parlan / Headin’ South / The Song Is Ended / Blue Note / 12.6.60 
Stan Getz / Opus de Bop / Opus de Bop / Savoy / 7.31.46
Una Mae Carlisle / Beautiful Eyes / Victor / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young Orchestra 
The Striders / Hesitating Fool / Apollo / 11.14.49 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Winter Moon / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.13.56 

set 4
Herb Ellis / Ellis in Wonderland / Ellis in Wonderland / Norgran / Hollywood 1.56 
Jack Sheldon & his Exciting All-Star Big Band / Jack’s Groove / Brown Cow / GNP / LA 12.58 / Conte Candoli & Sheldon t, Vince De Rosa fr horn, Lennie Niehaus as, Billy Root bs, Stu Williamson v tb, Red Callender tuba, Pete Jolly p, Buddy Clark b, Mel Lewis d, Tiny Kahn arr
Sophie Tucker / He Hadn’t Up ’Til Yesterday / Columbia / London 8.28.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / Trompin’ / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 5.39 / Wesley Prince b
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss D / They Didn’t Believe Me / EmArcy / LA 12.5.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra
Selah Jubilee Singers / It’s Cool Down Yonder, By Chilly Jordan / Decca / 12.15.44

last soulful song
Willie Tee / First Taste of Hurt / Gatur / New Orleans 1972

Friday, February 24, 2023

Happy-Go-Lucky-You and Broken-Hearted Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 144

Screenshot from a Warner Brothers movie short of Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra where he is dancing with a woman who is not Harriet Nelson
Where’s Harriet?!

Coffeetime, February 24, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Al Cohn / Al and Zoot / The Wailing Boat / Coral / 3.27.57 
Yusef Lateef / The Sounds of Yusef / Buckingham / Prestige / 10.11.57 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Sometimes I’m Happy / Victor / 7.1.35 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Harlem Shout / Decca / 10.14.36 
Buddy Blue [ Smith Ballew] & his Texans / I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) / Crown / 5.31
The Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking, Baby / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Rita Reys / The Cool Voice of Rita Reys / My One and Only Love / Philips / Hilversum, Netherlands 6.25.56 / same arrangement by Horace Silver as on Stylings of Silver   

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

set 2
Bud Shank / New Groove / The Awakening / Pacific Jazz / LA 5.61 
Duke Pearson / Profile / Black Coffee / Blue Note / 10.25.59 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / In a Sentimental Mood / Victor / 6.15.36 
Carl Kress / Love Song / Decca / 7.26.39 
Charles Agnew & his Stevens Hotel Orchestra / Don’t Blame Me / Columbia / 7.25.33 / vocal = Stanley Jacobsen 
Bing Crosby / Happy-Go-Lucky-You and Broken-Hearted Me / Brunswick / 4.23.32 / with Isham Jones Orchestra
Betty Hutton / A Square in the Social Circle / I Wake Up in the Morning Feeling Fine / Capitol / Hollywood 1949
Little Milton / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63

set 3
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Goodies / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Howard Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Freddie Roach / Mo’ Greens Please / Unchained Melody / Blue Note / 3.11.63 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / Mary’s Goodbye Blues / Warwick / 1959
Don Byas’s Ree-Boppers / Red Cross / Barclay / Paris 1.27.47 
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / You’ll Be Reminded of Me / Bluebird / 4.8.38
The Mills Brothers / F.D.R. Jones / Decca / London 1939 
Charlie Parker Quartet / This Is Always / Dial / LA 2.19.47 / vocal = Earl Coleman 

set 4
Tal Farlow / The Interpretations of Tal Farlow / It’s You or No One / Norgran / LA 1955 
Frank Rehak / Trombone Scene / Hackin’ Around / Vik / 11.56 / Frank Rehak, Eddie Bert, & Urbie Green tb, Tom Mitchell bass tb, Elliot Lawrence p, Buddy Jones b, Sol Gubin d
King Cole Trio / F.D.R. Jones / Standard transcription / LA 10.38
Rosemary Clooney / Date with the King / Goodbye / Columbia /1956 / with Benny Goodman Sextet: Goodman cl, Buck Clayton t, Urbie Green tb, Dick Hyman p, Aaron Bell b, Bobby Donalsdon d
Evening Star Quartet / Lord Take My Hand / Apex / 1.49

last soulful song
Hill Sisters / Oh My Love, Sweet Love / Space Records / LA 1971