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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_O%27Day_%26_the_Three_Sounds

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