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

Friday, February 17, 2023

Got the Bench, Got the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 143

Screenshot from a 1946 Soundie of Valaida Snow singing and holding up her trumpet
High hat, trumpet, and Valaida!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Down / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Accident / Savoy / 6.7.60 
James Moody & his Swedish Crowns / Andrew Got Married / Metronome / Stockholm 1951 
The Casa Loma Orchestra / San Sue Strut / Columbia / 2.11.30 / listed as O.K. Rhythm Kings on Parlophone 
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra / Got the Bench, Got the Park / Brunswick / 2.24.31 / vocal = Noble Sissle 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / Look Out for Tomorrow Today / Aladdin / LA 7.24.50 / with Maxwell Davis ts
Carol Sloane / Out of the Blue / Little Girl Blue / Columbia / 12.20.61 

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

set 2
John Wright / Makin’ Out / Kitty / Prestige / 6.23.61 
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Song for Ruth / Prestige / Stockholm 10.12.56 
Danny Polo Trio / Montmartre Loan / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Fred Rich & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Columbia / 10.20.30 / vocal = Paul Small; listed as Harold Lem & his Orchestra on Okeh 
Fred Astaire / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / with Johnny Green (p) & his Orchestra; for the RKO movie Shall We Dance [not Swing Time as I said last week]  
Valaida Snow, The Queen of Trumpet / High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm / Parlophone / London 9.6.36 / featuring The Six Swingers  
Wessel Ilcken / His Voice, His Drums, and His Combo / If You’re So Smart, How Come You Ain’t Rich / Philips / Hilversum, The Netherlands 6.5.57 

set 3
Grant Green / Nigeria / Airegin / Blue Note / 1.13.62 
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus / Moon River / Fantasy / San Francisco 1961 
Louis Bellson’s Just Jazz All Stars / The Jeep Is Jumpin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.52 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Nightingale / Victor / 4.7.42 
The Four Buddies / Heart and Soul / Savoy / 8.23.51 
Dean Martin / Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder / Capitol / Hollywood 1948 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 4
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Way Cross Town / Dootone / LA 1955 
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Tongue Twister / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.55 
Peggy Lee / I Get a Kick Out of You / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / This Is Always / Capitol / 11.4.58 
Alphabetical Four / Get on Board, Little Children / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee Jay / 6.62



Friday, February 10, 2023

Jumpin’ with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 142

Screenshot from a 1943 soundie with Hazel Scott playing Taking a Chance on Love on the piano, wearing a black, sequinned gown with spaghetti straps.
Taking a chance on Hazel!

Coffeetime, February 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / [Sonny Clark Quintets] / Little Sonny / Blue Note / 12.8.57 
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Beauteous / Blue Note / 5.19.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Bill’s Mill / Victor / Hollywood 1.3.47 
Nat Brandwynne & his Stork Club Orchestra / It’s You I’m Talkin’ About / Brunswick / 4.13.36 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Gladys Bentley Quintette / Lay It on the Line / Excelsior / LA 1945 
Anita O’Day / Anita O’Day & the Three Sounds / My Ship / Verve / 10.12–15.62 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / Central Park West / Atlantic / 10.24 & 26.64 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Tuma / EmArcy / 1.4.55 
Hazel Scott / Relaxed Piano Moods / Like Someone in Love / Debut / 1.21.55
Oscar Calle / Rumba Guajira / Parlophone / Paris mid-1930s
The Three Flames / Open the Door, Richard! / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = George “Tiger” Haynes 
Herb “Flamingo” Jeffries / At Least You Could Save Me a Dream / Excelsior / LA / with Eddie Beal Trio and Three Shades of Rhythm https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/0010000101
The Modernaires / Alice in Wonderland / Coral / 1951
George “Tiger” Haynes / New Faces of ’56 / The Washingtons Are Doin’ Okay / RCA Victor / 1956 

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Carpsie’s Groove / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 
Herb Ellis / Nothing But the Blues / Pap’s Blues / Verve / Hollywood 11.11.57 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / Buzzin’ Cool / Motif / Hollywood 11.8, 16.56 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 175A / late 1944
The Big Three / Hard Notch Boogie Beat / Columbia / 1949
Abe Lyman & his Californians / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Decca / 4.12.37 / vocal = Rose Blaine 
The Loumell Morgan Trio / Whatcha Know, Joe? / Hollywood 1943 / From the Monogram movie Melody Parade / Loumell Morgan p, James Jackson g, Lynwood Jones b 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / They Didn’t Believe Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Don Fagerquist / Eight By Eight — Music to Fill a Void / Easy to Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.14.57 / cover cartoon by Bill Box 
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Lightly / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
King Cole Trio / Jumpin’ with the Mop / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / Wesley Prince b
Johnny Mercer / They Didn’t Believe Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1942 / with the Mellowaires: Bobbie Canvin, Patty Morgan, Sally Sweetland, Tony Paris, & Lee Gotch
Kathryn Beaumont / Soundtrack: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland / All in the Golden Afternoon / Disneyland / Hollywood / 1957 / with the Camarata Chorus & Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Atom and Evil / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Monticellos / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Red Cap / Detroit 1967