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