Keep a Twinkle in Your Playlist

Matchmaking is tough work!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wicks Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Columbia / 12.9.40
John [Jack] Jackson / I’m Playing with Fire / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Love for Sale / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man / Verve / LA summer 1959
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Chartreuse / Debut / 9.55
Lonnie Johnson / I’m Nuts About That Gal / Okeh / 8.12.32
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV / London 9.15.36 / vocal = Fayard Nicholas, tap dancing = Harold Nicholas
Jimmy Witherspoon / Miss Miss Mistreater / Federal / Cincinnati 12.24.52 
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Gypsy in My Soul / Bethlehem / 1955

set 3
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Unforgettable / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Down By the Riverside / Prestige / 10.25.57
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Dick Haymes / Begin the Beguine / AFRS #333 / Hollywood 9.10.50
The Blenders / Please Take Me Back / MGM / 3.27.53 / lead vocal = Ollie Jones
Joe Mooney / September Song / Decca / 11.8.46 / Mooney accordion, Jack Hotop g, John “Gate” Frega b, Andy Fitzgerald d 

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Soft as Spring / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55 / composed by Alec Wilder
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Jo Stafford / I Remember You / V-Disc 328B / rehearsal recording for NBC radio, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop, Hollywood 7.20.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / When You Walk Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / (NYC) 11.4.47 / NKC piano & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kay Renolds / Been a Long Day / soundtrack to the United Artists movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / United Artists / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Lee Charles / I Never Want to Lose My Sweet Thing / Bamboo / Chicago 1969

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

You ARE pretty, Smithy!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / The End of a Love Affair / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Clark Terry / In Orbit / In Orbit / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
The Chocolate Dandies / Once Upon a Time / Decca / 10.10.33 / Benny Carter on trumpet & alto 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Can You Tell By Looking At Me / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Thad Jones / [The Magnificent Thad Jones] / Something to Remember You By / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.9.56 / duet between Jones t & Kenny Burrell g
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / I’ve Found a New Baby / Okeh / 11.12.30 
Sophie Tucker / If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with The Winter Gardens Theatre Orchestra and Ted Shapiro p
Benny Morton & his Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen
Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950
Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Just Because / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / The Pot’s On / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.24.47
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / The End of a Love Affair / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Smokey Joe / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / Live the Life I Sing About / Score / 4.13.49

last soulful song
George Tindley / So Help Me Woman / Wand / 1969

We’re Gonna Make It: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 167

Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
The Knickerbockers aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Columbia / 6.1.28 / vocal = Vaughn De Leath
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / LA 1958 / with celeste!

set 3

Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen / Soulful Brass #2 / Soulful Strut / Flying Dutchman / LA 2.22.69 

Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47 
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / With Plenty of Money and You (Oh Baby, What I Couldn’t Do) / Brunswick / 10.26.36 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.36 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

Heigh Ho! Playlist Heigh-Ho!

Hand to heart: we love you, Jackie!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Salute to the Bandbox [aka Salute to Birdland] / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Stomp / Victor / 2.8.37 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Mabel Scott / Have You Ever Watched Love Die? / King [unissued] / 1950
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Julie Ann / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56 
Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) & his Hot Combination / Sunday / Perfect / 10.21.26
Ella Mae Morse / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription, AFRS Command Performance #27 / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra
Irene Reid / It’s Too Late / Big Spender / Verve / 1966 / arranged & conducted by Frank Foster

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Scufflin’ / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Gloomy Sunday / Victor / 3.3.40 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Four Brothers / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Frenesi / Victor / 3.3.40
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Basin Street Blues / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.25.37 
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Oh, But I Do / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Jackie Wilson / Lonely Teardrops / The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS / live 5.27.62 
R.H. Harris & the Soul Stirrers / Does Jesus Care? / Aladdin / 12.48  

last soulful song

Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

With the Wind and the Rain in Your Playlist

Cyd’s helping them count the votes for Speaker.

Coffeetime, October 20, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Sonny’s Mood / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Too Late / CBS radio transcription from Fred’s Friendly Five radio show / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp; announcer = David Ross
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige [unissued] / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Apple Blossoms / Okeh / 10.18.29
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Take My Heart / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Don’t Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood 10.47 / vocal = Charles Brown 
Cyd Charisse [singing dubbed by Carol Richards), & MGM Studio Chorus / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / Baby, You Knock Me Out / MGM / Hollywood 1.5.55 

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Dee Dee / Bethlehem / 12.60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornful_of_Soul
Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Foggy Nights / Felsted / 2.11.58
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49 / Shearing on accordion
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders 
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Keepin’ Myself for You / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Pemba / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / You Started Something / Regent / 1947 / with Ellis Larkin’s Trio
King Cole Trio / I Wanna Turn Out the Light / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee #91  / c. 1944 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ Let It Be Me / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67
The Coleman Brothers / One Day / Coleman / c. 1.48 

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday Night (Baby I’m Yours) / Blue Rock / 1.65

There Won’t Be a Shortage of Playlist

When you wish for a skit with Dean and Orson…

Coffeetime, October 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / City Lights / City Lights / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / Hard Groove / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Eleanor / EmArcy / 5.20.54
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You / United Artists / LA 7.58 / Chuck Wayne g, Ernie Furtado b, Johnny Cresci d

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers] / Sweet Man / Edison / 9.15.25 
Lil Green / You’re Just Full of Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 7.23.41
Otis Rush / Violent Love / Cobra / 1956
Dean Martin / Beau James / Capitol / Hollywood 5.22.57

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Murphy Man / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Apothegm / Prestige / 8.2.61
Dizzy Gillespie & his Quintet / Afro Paris / Vogue / Paris 3.27.52
The Charioteers / Calliope Jane / from the United Artists movie Road Show / Hollywood 1941 
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Orchestra / There Won’t Be a Shortage of Love / Elite / 2.42 
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Cal Tjader & Stan Getz / My Buddy / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Flute Diet / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / In the Name of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 6.26.64 / Lou Levy p, Bob Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts g, Chuck Berghofer b, Stan Levey d, Francisco Aguabella bongos, congas )
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Get Away Jordan / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67

You Don’t Have to Drop a Playlist to Break It

Joyful Lucille and her bf!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Harry Shalson / She’s Wonderful / Brunswick / London 5.8.29
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 2.26.29
Babe Mathews / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46 / with Joe Thomas’ Big Six
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Doing Time) / V-Disc 527B / 4.24.45 / with orch conducted by Mitchell Ayres; identical to Columbia recording
B.B. King / Early Every Morning / RPM / LA 1957

set 3
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Borderline / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Pumpernickel / Savoy / 3.5.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / If You Believed in Me / MGM / 1.9.47 / vocal = Henry Wells tb
The Ravens / You Don’t Have to Drop a Heart to Break It / Columbia / 10.19.50 / lead = Maithe Marshall; celeste!
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / My One and Only Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60
Buddy Collette / Soft Touch / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Remember I Knew You When / IRRA / Hollywood autumn 1947 / vocal = Miss Danna
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / WMGM, NYC 3.29.49 / NKC p, voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Laurence Naismith / Here’s Love, Original Broadway Cast Recording / Expect Things to Happen / Columbia / 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969

To To Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Vera, realizing that Gene is one handsome navy man!

Coffeetime, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / The Lady Is a Tramp / Riverside / 10.15.57 
Tina Brooks / [The Waiting Game] / One for Myrtle / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61 
Henri Renaud & Bobby Jaspar / Play Gigi Gryce Compositions With Jimmy Gourley / Schabooz / Vogue / Paris 11.2.53 
The Chocolate Dandies / Krazy Kapers / Okeh / 10.3.33 
Lew Stone & his Band / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Decca / London 12.29.33 / vocal = Joe Grossman & ensemble
Camille Howard / Sundays with You / Specialty / Hollywood 1948
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / I Know Why / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays Porgy & Bess / Oh Bess, Where’s My Bess? / Verve / LA 10.12.59 
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Coleman Hawkins Quartet / Imagination / Keynote / 2.17.44 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / (I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I’ll Be Happy / RCA Victor / 4.8.46
Jack Pettis & his Pets / Spanish Dream / Victor / 7.3.28 
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Don’t Let It Bother You / Victor / 8.17.34 / vocal repartee with drummer Harry Dial
Dean Hudson & his Orchestra / Once in Love with Amy / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1948 / vocal = The Sherry Sisters 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / I’ll Buy You a Star/ Columbia / 1960

set 3
Joe Alexander / Blue Jubilee / Blues Jubilee / Jazzland / 6.20.60 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World / Hi-Fly / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 
Charlie Parker / Ornithology / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Imagination / Victor / 3.25.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 
The Dixieaires / Keep Me with You / Gotham / late 1940s / with Tiny Grimes on guitar
Cal Bostic / Two Cities / CKPR – Lakehead Guest / Thunder Bay, Ontario 1964

set 4
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d 
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / How About You / Bethlehem / 11.56 / Socolow ts, as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa p, Sal Salvador g, Bill Takus b, Jimmy Campbell d 
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / To To Blues / Parlophone / 9.10.31 / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as, bari, Joe Venuti vln, Lennie Hayton p, cel, Eddie Lang g, Paul Graselli d 
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Gene Kelly & Vera-Ellen / Main Street / from the MGM movie On the Town / Hollywood 1949 
The Dixie-Aires / Movin’ Up King’s Highway / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Patti Drew / He’s the One I Love / Capitol / 1969

Lost & Found: How? (When My Playlist Belongs to You)

The great Curtis Mayfield on “the makings.”

Lost & Found, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
The Epsilons / Mind in a Bind / Hem / Washington, DC 1967
Billy Keene / Wishing and Hoping / Vault / LA 1968
Dandeliers / Walk On with Your Nose Up / Midas / Chicago 1967 / cha cha
The Admirations / Wait ’Til I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1967 / sounding like the 5 Stairsteps
LaBrenda Ben / Just Be Yourself / Gordy / Detroit 1963 / with The Andantes / cha cha
Barbara West / Congratulations, Baby / Ronn Records / Shreveport 1967
The Love Potion / This Love / Kapp / 1969 / cha cha

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
Tutti Hill / He’s a Lover / ARock / 1964 / cha cha
Mary Wells / Sings My Guy / How? (When My Heart Belongs to You) / Motown / Detroit 1964 / cha cha
The Stoppers / Come Back / Jubilee / 1966 / cha cha
Diane Ray / My Summer Love (Is Heading for an Early Fall) / Mercury / 1963 / cha cha
Ketty Lester / Please Don’t Cry Anymore / RCA Victor / 1964 / cha cha

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Wee Willie Walker / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Goldwax [unissued] / Memphis 1967
Thee Midniters / Giving Up on Love / Whittier Records / LA 1966
Syl Johnson / Diamond in the Rough / Could I Be Falling in Love / Hi Records / Memphis 1974
The Spinners / There’s No One Like You / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1974
Jackie DeShannon / Medley: You Keep Me Hangin’ On; Hurt So Bad / Imperial / LA 1970

bed
Santi Latora / Mo'plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Willie Tee / Reach Out for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1970
James Phelps / The Look on Your Face / Apache / Chicago 1971
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Show Me the Way to Go / Brunswick / 1968
Black Heat / Black Heat / Time Is Going to Catch You / Atlantic / 1972
The Vel-Vetts / You Really Never Know Till It’s Over / Doré / LA 1966
Joyce Kennedy / Does Anybody Love Me / Blue Rock / Chicago 1965

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
James Brown / Say It Loud – I’m Black and I'm Proud / Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye / King / 1968
James Dee & A Peace Of The Action & The Primettes / Jealous Over Love / Enrica / late-1960s
Henry Caldwell / A New World Is Just Beginning / Carnival / 1970
Curtis Mayfield / Curtis/Live! / The Makings of You / Curtom / recorded live at the Bitter End 1.71

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / McWest / LA 1972
The Natural Four / Heaven Right Here on Earth / Baby Come On / Curtom / 1975
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan / Sweet Thing / ABC Records / Chicago 1975
Lakeside / Something About That Woman / Solar / LA 1981

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969
The Four Shades / My World / Ronn / 1972
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

last found soulful song
Major Lance / Sweet Music / Okeh / Chicago 11.27.63
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Oh, Chuck It (In a Playlist)

The sweets hands of Mr. Edison.

Coffeetime, September 22, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Curtain Call / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Little Jack Little / I'm Going Shopping with You / Columbia / Hollywood 1.28.35
Goree Carter, his Guitar & his Rocking Rhythm Orchestra / Is It True / Freedom / Houston 1949
Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Someday Sweetheart / Vee-Jay / Las Vegas 1964 / Harry “Sweets” Edison t, Eric Dixon ts, Don Abney p & arr, Wyatt Ruther b, J.C. Heard d

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

set 2
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Such Is Life / Prestige / 12.23.68
The Jazztet & John Lewis / Featuring Art Farmer & Benny Golson / New York 19 / Argo / 12.20-21.60
The Three Keys / Mood Indigo / Columbia / 8.29.32
Adrian & his Tap Room Gang / Nagasaki / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Putney Dandridge & ensemble
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket) / Capitol / Kansas City 4.49 
Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / Sunday in New York / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.64

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Sunday in New York / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / A Smooth One / Prestige / 5.25.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Red Pepper / Savoy / 12.20.46
Mills Brothers / My Gal Sal / Decca / 9.13.34
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Poor Simple Simon / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Lazy Afternoon / MGM / 1962

set 4
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / September Song / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Sunday Afternoon / RCA Victor / 7.26.52
King Cole Trio / All for You / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Anthony Newley / This is Tony Newley / I’ll Walk Beside You / London / London 1962
The Dixie-Aires / Time’s Winding Up / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / The Truth Is Free / Stairway / Dallas 1972

Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Walter considers September over a pipe by the fire.

Coffeetime, September 15, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Smith / Smithville / Wetu / Blue Note / 3.30.58 
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Mr. P.C. / Atlantic / 4.5.59 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Warm Valley / Victor / Chicago 10.17.40 
Harry Reser & his Orchestra / Just the Same / Okeh / 4.13.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Chuck Willis / I Tried (To Get Along with You) / Okeh / 6.27.51 
Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Sings / You Go to My Head / Clef / 3.26.52 

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

set 2
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59 
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Going for Myself / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me [alt] / Verve / 2.7.58 
Smith-Glamann Quintet / Poinciana / September Song / Bethlehem / 8.1.54 
Charley Straight & his Orchestra / Minor Gaff / Vocalion / Chicago 5.28.26
Midge Williams & her Jazz Jesters / In Any Language / Vocalion / 11.23.37 
Maggie Hathaway & her Bluesmen / Nobody’s Business What I Do / Black & White / LA 3.22.47  
Dick Haymes / Richard, The Lion-Hearted – Dick Haymes, That Is! / Playboy Theme / Warwick / 1960

set 3
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / Do It / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi Fi / Topsy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56 
Flip Phillips / Collates / Cheek to Cheek / Clef / 1952 
The Four Vagabonds / Heart of My Heart / Apollo / 7.47  
Jo Stafford / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Capitol / Hollywood 11.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / I Cover the Waterfront / EmArcy / 12.27.57 / with Pete Rugolo & his All Stars

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Playboy’s Theme / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.60 / Johnny Williams harpsichord, Dick Nash tb, Larry Bunker on marimba, and cover design by Don Peters o
René Thomas / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 1954 / Thomas g, André Ross ts, René Urtregger p, Benoît Quersin b, Jean-Louis Viale d
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944
King Cole Trio / That’s a Natural Fact / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / She’s the No Sleepin’est Woman / Black & White / LA 12.18.47
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of ’66 / Once in Love with Amy / Reprise / 12.66 / from musical (and movie) Where’s Charley? (1952) starring Ray Bolger, music & lyrics by Frank Loesser
The Bronzemen / Every Time I Feel the Spirit / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
The Manhattans / Love Is Breakin’ Out (All Over) / Carnival / 1969

Breezin’ Along with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 165

The amazing – and handsome, not that that matters – Mr. Pepper.

Coffeetime, September 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Straight Ahead / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Sonny Red / Breezing / Breezing / Jazzland / 11.3.60 / quotes Happy Days Are Here Again 
Edgar Hayes & his Orchestra / Help Me / Brunswick / 2.17.38 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In My Merry Oldsmobile / Victor / 5.23.27 / vocal = Stanley “Doc” Ryker sax, Howdy Quicksell bj, & Ray Lodwig t 
Hot Lips Page Trio / Evil Man’s Blues / Victor / 12.10.40 / Page t & Teddy Bunn g & voc, Ernest Hill b 
Barbara Lea / Lea in Love / Will I Find My Love Today / Prestige / 4.26.57 / [Johnny Windhurst tp,] Dick Cary p, [Ernie Caceres cl,] Al Casamenti g, Al Hall b, Osie Johnson d

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

set 2
Bucky Pizzarelli / Green Guitar Blues / The Summer Knows / Monmouth Evergreen / spring 1972 / Bucky [& Mary] Pizzarelli g, George Duvivier b, [Don Lamond d] 
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / Indian Summer / Impulse! / spring 1965 
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Moon / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d Carl Kress / Helena / Decca / 6.9.39
Seattle Harmony Kings / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / Victor / 8.2.26 
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / Victor / 2.20.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Beverly Peer b 
Wally Mercer / If You Don’t Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54 
Bing Crosby / That’s What Life Is All About / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / United Artists / London 2.75 

set 3
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Indian Summer / Atlantic / 8.29.60 
Sonny Stitt / Now! / Lester Leaps In / Impulse! / 7.10.63 
Babe Russin / 5054 Whitsett / Keynote / LA 3.8.46 h
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Heart and Soul / Victor / 9.1.38 / vocal = Bea Wain 
The Four Buddies / My Summer’s Gone / Savoy / 1.13.51 / Leon “Larry” Harrison, lead tenor vocal; Gregory Carroll, 2nd tenor vocal; Bert Palmer, baritone vocal; Tommy Smith, bass vocal; with Harry Van Walls p, Rene Hall g, Carl Wilson b
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / Between an Old Love and a New Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, [Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl], Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / Hollywood 8.6.56 / Pepper as, Jack Sheldon t, Russ Freeman p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Shelly Manne d 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Steve Allen Theme / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18.58 / Bud Shank as, Bob Cooper ts, Claude Williamson p, Don Prell b, Chuck Flores d 
Gus Viseur / Chansons de Paris / Paris je t’aime (I Love Paris) [Cole Porter] / Barclay / Paris 5.55 / Viseur accordion, Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d, others unknown
King Cole Trio / How Does It Feel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Beny Moré / Paré… Que Llego el Bárbaro [Stop… The Barbarian Has Arrived] / Como Arrullo de Palma [Like the Lullaby of the Palm) / Discuba / Cuba 1958
Little Milton [Campbell] / Blind Man / Checker / Chicago 1963
Golden Gate Quartet / Do Unto Others / Columbia / 10.47

last soulful song
Ann Peebles / This Is Ann Peebles / Make Me Yours / Hi Records / Memphis 1968

Gravels in my Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 164

Lighting it up with Cy and Charlie!

Coffeetime, September 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Automation / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Lou Donaldson / Swing and Soul / Groove Junction / Blue Note / 6.9.57 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Jam Session / Victor / 11.5.36 
Irene Taylor / I Did Wanta, But I Don’t Wanta Now / Okeh / Dallas 9.25 / with Jack Gardner’s Orchestra 
Charles Brown & his Band / Soothe Me / Aladdin / New Orleans 9.4.56 / with Ernie Freeman’s Combo: Freeman p, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b, Ray Martinez d 
Al “Cake” Wichard Sextet / Gravels in My Pillow / Modern / LA 12.47 / vocal = Duke Henderson; Wichard d
Sarah Vaughan / The Divine One / Somebody Else’s Dream / Roulette / 10.60 

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

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / [Black Forrest] / These Foolish Things / [Delmark] / Chicago 12.59 
Wardell Gray / Sweet Lorraine / New Jazz / 11.11.49 
Slim Gaillard Trio / Tip Light / MGM / 12.12.49 / Gaillard g, rest unknown
Phil Ohman & Victor Arden / Manhattan / Brunswick / 11.11.25 / Ohman p & Arden bj, with the Regent Club Orchestra 
Chick Bullock & his Levee Loungers / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Perfect / 4.13.31
Marlene Dietrich / You Go to My Head / Decca / Hollywood 12.15.39 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Frankie Laine / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Mercury / 1946 / with Carl Fischer’s Swingtet

set 3
Frank Foster / Soul Outing! / Chiquito Loco / Prestige / 7.11.66 
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / Minor Strain / Roulette / 6.60 / Morgan t, Wayne Shorter ts, Bobby Timmons p, Jimmy Rowser b, Art Taylor d; Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars / Tunis / Apollo / 1947 
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / Shad Collins tp, Lester Young ts, Clyde Hart p, John Collins g, Nick Fenton b, Doc West d
The Charioteers / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Columbia / 6.3.47
Bobby Short / Bobby Short / Bedelia / Atlantic / 1956

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Chiquito Loco / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.53 / so many cool West Coast players 
Zoot Sims / In Hollywood / Toot No. 2 / New Jazz / 1954 / Sims ts, Stu Williamson t, valve tb, Kenny Drew p, Ralph Pena b, Jimmy Pratt d
King Cole Trio / The Man I Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1.17.44 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
King Cole Trio / I Tho’t You Ought to Know / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.45
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Columbia / 1967 / composed by Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields; for Broadway musical Sweet Charity 
Harmonizing Four / Farther Along / Vee-Jay / 1957

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Gimme Little Sign / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Keep Your Playlist on Your Heart: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 163

We feel your Tom-joy, Dusty!

Coffeetime, August 25, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Warming Up! / Day by Day / Vanguard / 1964
Gil Mellé / Quadrama / It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing) / Prestige / 4.26.57 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40 
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Columbia / London 10.33 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Somebody Stole My Break / Decca / 4.28.36 / dialogue with Rudy “Dutch” Smith 
Jimmy Rushing / Thursday’s Blues / Excelsior / Hollywood 1947 / with Jimmy Mundy’s Orchestra 
Donna Brooks / I’ll Take Romance / Love Is a Fool / Dawn / 1956 

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy / Outward Bound / Glad to Be Unhappy / New Jazz / 4.1.60 
Lem Winchester & The Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform A Tribute To Clifford Brown / A Message from Boysie / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Coleman Hawkins’ All American Four / Don’t Blame Me / Mercury / 5.29.44 / Hawkins ts, Teddy Wilson p, John Kirby b, Sid Catlett d
Cliff Edwards & his Hot Combination / I Want Somebody to Cheer Me Up (alt) / Perfect / 12.28.25
Ethel Waters / Don’t Blame Me / Brunswick / 7.18.33 / with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pat Valdelar aka Patsy Vidalia / Keep Your Hand on Your Heart / Mercury / New Orleans 1953 
Ann Henry / New Faces of ’56 / And He Flipped / RCA Victor / 1956

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.4 & 5.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / One O’Clock Jump (first version) / Blue Note / 10.14.63 
Lester Young / New Lester Leaps In / Aladdin / LA 1946 https://www.discogs.com/release/10914241-
The Boswell Sisters / Crazy People / Brunswick / 12.7.32 / Martha Boswell p, Dick McDonough g, Artie Bernstein b 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Get Me One of Those / Columbia / 1949 / vocal = Gloria Wood & Bob Carroll
David Allen / David Allen Sings Jerome Kern / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / World Pacific / LA 1958 / arranged & conducted by Johnny Mandel; celeste! guitar!

set 4
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Hank’s Holiday / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt 
Bernie Nerow / Bernie Nerow Trio / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Nerow p, Max Wayne b, Dick Stein d; cover design by Eva Diana Count Basie & his Orchestra / There’s a Small Hotel / Clef / 7.22 & 23.52 
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Hal Schaefer p, Phil Stephens b, Nick Fatool d
Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / from the ABC TV show This Is Tom Jones / Hollywood 1.22.70 (air date) 
The Luvenia Nash Singers / John the Revelator / Excelsior (unissued) / Hollywood 1946

last soulful song
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

My Playlist Is Rugged : Coffeetime Homebrew ep 162

Jorge wants to forget…

Coffeetime, August 18, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis Sextet / Zig-Zag / Mode / Hollywood 6.5 & 6.57 
Lawrence Marable / Tenorman / Three Fingers North / Jazz:West / Hollywood 8.4.56 
Eddie Durham & his Band / I Want a Little Girl / Decca / 11.11.40 
Lew Stone & his Band / Thanks / Decca / London 10.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Effie Smith & Jimmie Grissom & The Blenders / Answer to RM Blues / Miltone / LA 1947 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella and Louis Again / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Man with a Horn / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Roy Eldrige / Musique Originale Du Film Les Tricheurs / Phil’s Blues / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58 
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / What’s New / Prestige / 2.18.55 
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five / Savoy Blues / Okeh / Chicago 12.13.27 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Columbia / London 4.21.33
Ruth Etting / That’s What Heaven Means to Me / Melotone / 5.9.32
Herb Jeffries / Jump for Joy / AFRS Jubilee #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman and the Eddie Beal Trio: Eddie Beal p, Ulysses Livingston g, Joe Comfort b 
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hello Sunshine / Trojan / Kingston, Jamaica 1969 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Phantom / Los Ojos Alegres (The Happy Eyes) / Blue Note / 9.11.68 
Paul Desmond / Glad to Be Unhappy / A Taste of Honey / RCA Victor / 7.14.64 
Jesse Price & his Jump Jivers / Creepin’ and Peepin (Tippin’ Out) / Miltone / LA 1948
The Three Keys / Song of the Islands / Vocalion / 8.16.33 
Harry James & his Orchestra / My Beloved Is Rugged / Columbia / 7.22.42 / vocal = Helen Forrest; written by Seger Ellis 
Frank Sinatra / In the Wee Small Hours / Glad to Be Unhappy / Capitol / Hollywood 2.8.55 / with Rhythm Section Conducted by Bill Miller: Miller p, Paul Smith celeste, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Alvin Stoller d, Nelson Riddle arr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wee_Small_Hours

set 4
Herbie Mann / Flamingo / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Bethlehem / 6.55 / Mann 4 different flutes overdubbed, Joe Puma g, Charles Andrus b, Harold Granowsky d; such a fun cover design by Burt Goldblatt 
Herbie Harper / Jazz in Hollywood: Herbie Harper / Now Playing / Nocturne / 1954 / Bud Shank bs, Harper tb, Marty Paich p, Harry Babasin b, Roy Harte d 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans / More Than You Know / Clef / LA 12.7.53 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Summertime / 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 
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Quero Esquecer Você [I Want to Forget You] / Phillips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / The Love of God / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
The Emotions / Sunshine / I Really Miss You / Stax / Stax / Muscle Shoals 1977 

Happy Go Lucky Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 161

There’s not much is smoother than Mr. Hodges.

Coffeetime, August 4, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus [alt take] / Blue Note / 4.9.61 
Red Mitchell & Harold Land / Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! / Triplin’ Awhile / Atlantic / San Francisco 10.14..61 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Swingin’ Uptown / Victor / 3.20.34 
Harry Reser’s Jazz Pilots / Happy Go Lucky Lane / Okeh / 6.25.28 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / Fool About You Daddy / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.1.50
Kitty White / A Moment of Love / Glad to Be Unhappy / Pacific Records / Hollywood 1954 / Corky Hale harp

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy & Booker Little / Far Cry / Left Alone / New Jazz / 12.21.60 
Ernie Royal / Accent on Trumpet / What Is There to Say / Urania / 11.26.55 / Royal t, George Barnes & Sydney Gross g, Billy Taylor p, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Joe Bushkin / Piano Moods / Everyday Is Christmas / Columbia / 1950
Clarence Williams’ Washboard Five / Have You Ever Felt That Way? / Okeh / 9.26.28 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / The Morning After / Lang-Worth Transcription / late 1940 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Helen Humes / Flippity Flop Flop / Mercury / early 1948 / with Buck Clayton’s Orchestra: Clayton t, Scoville Brown cl, Rudy Williams ts, Teddy Wilson p, Jimmy Butts b, (probable) Denzil Best d
Al Brown & his Tunetoppers / Sweet Little Love / Amy / 1960

set 3
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / Not So Dukish / Verve / 9.10.58 
Frank Strozier / Long Night / The Crystal Ball / Jazzland / 9.12.61 
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958 / Johnson p, Brooks p & cel, Teddy Bunn g, Bill Cooper b, Al Wichard d Bea Wain / Hello, My Lover, Goodbye / Bluebird / 12.10.41
The Three Riffs / Cherry in My Lemon and Lime / Apollo / 5.9.50 
Don Nelson / The Wind / It Happened Once Before / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / with Jimmy Rowles celeste, Leroy Vinnegar b, Stan Levey d

set 4
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Girl Talk / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Paul Togawa / Paul Togawa / Ben’s Blues / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / Gabe Baltazar as, Dick Johnston p, Ben Tucker b, Togawa d; cover portrait painting by Eva Diana
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses [master take] / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43
Peggy Lee / Georgia on My Mind / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
Ed Ames / Time, Time / What the World Needs Now Is Love / RCA Victor / 1967
Fairfield Four / Love Like a River / Dot / 10.50

last soulful song
The Impressions / The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story / Soulful Love / Curtom / Chicago 1969 

I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Playlist): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 160

The radiant (other) Billie.

Coffeetime, July 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill Hardman / Saying Something / Capers / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Smoothie / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Muggsy Spanier & his Ragtime Band / Relaxin’ at the Touro / Bluebird / 11.22.39 
The Captivators aka Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Somebody to Love Me / Brunswick / 10.22.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert 
Lloyd Glenn & his Joymakers / That Other Woman’s Gotta Go / Imperial / LA 12.47 / vocal = Geraldine Carter; Jake Porter t, Marshall Royal as, Gene Porter ts, Glenn p, Gene Phillips g, Art Edwards b, Bill Street d
Billie Poole / Confessin’ the Blues! / God Bless the Child / Riverside / 1962 / Junior Mance p, Kenny Burrell g, Bob Cranshaw b, Mickey Roker d

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

set 2
Billy Bauer / Plectrist / It’s a Blue World / Norgran / 1.23.56 / Bauer g, Andrew Ackers p, Milt Hinton b, Osie Johnson d
Oscar Peterson / We Get Requests / My One and Only Love / Verve / 10.20.64 
Howard McGhee / The Man with a Horn / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 / feature for Rudy Williams ts 
Yale Hawaiian Trio / One Summer Night / Brunswick / 4.23.27 
Lena Wilson / I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Man) / Diva [Columbia] / 2.6.30 / Cliff Jackson p
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dance with Les Brown / Rock Me to Sleep / Columbia / 1954 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Sam Cooke / At the Copa / Try a Little Tenderness; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; You Send Me / RCA Victor / live, Copa Copacabana 7.7 & 8.64 

set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Dorman Road / New Jazz / 6.17.61 
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / Morning of the Carnival (from Black Orpheus) / Philips / fall 1962 
Randy Hall / Sweet Sue, Just You / AFRS Jubilee #70 / Hollywood 3.13.44 / Hall on tin whistle with the Armed Forces Radio Trio aka Les Paul Trio; master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Griff Williams & his Orchestra / You’re Wonderful / radio broadcast / 1946 / vocal = Bob Kirk
The Syncopators / River Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49 
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / I Could Have Told You / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Hurry Burry / Prestige / Stockholm 10.10.56 / Mann fl, Åke Persson tb, Knud Jorgenson p, George Riedel b, Joe Harris d 
Lyle “Spud” Murphy / New Orbits in Sound / Slightly Off Center / GNP / Hollywood 9.30.57 / Milt Bernhart, Dick Nash tb, Russ Cheever ss, Buddy Collette as, Morrie Crawford ts, Bill Ulyate bs, Curtis Counce b and Larry Bunker d
King Cole Trio / Bedtime / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 11.40 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43 / now Johnny Miller b
Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / Hollywood 12.6.44 / with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Ray Walston, Thurl Ravenscroft, & the Ken Darby Singers / There Is Nothing Like a Dame / soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie South Pacific / Hollywood 1958 / Ravenscroft dubs for Ken Clark playing Stewpot
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Cilla Black / Images / Make It with You / Parlophone / London 1971