Friday, March 17, 2023

Top o’ the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 147

screenshot from video of a performance from 1967 of Ernestine Anderson, close up, singing into a microphone

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

Friday, March 10, 2023

Playlist on My Mind: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 146

Screenshot from the Paramount short film "The Little Broadcast" showing The Mills Brothers performing "The Old Man in the Mountain." Screenshot is a close up of two of the brothers, John Jr. on guitar and Harry doing the human harmonica.
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

Friday, March 03, 2023

Like a Playlist from the Blue: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 145

Screenshot of Jorge Ben playing his guitar and singing along with his Trio Moctoto on the Italian TV show Speciale Per Voi on June 2, 1970 (in black & white).
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