When Playlists Fly: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 149

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

Did You Ever Love a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 148

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

Top o’ the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 147

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

Playlist on My Mind: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 146

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

Like a Playlist from the Blue: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 145

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