A Playlist with a View

I won’t pass up this opportunity to show Rosemary looking so lovely with Bing.

Coffeetime, April 28, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swing Orchestra / The Bridegroom Special / radio transcription from the WHN radio show Yiddish Melodies in Swing / 1940
[Gene] Sedric & his Honey Bears / The Wall of Scromph / Vocalion / 11.23.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Joe Thomas, his Sax & his Orchestra / You’re Just My Kind / King / 4.26.51
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56 

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

set 2
Curtis Fuller / It’s Magic / medley: It’s Magic; My One and Only Love; They Didn’t Believe Me / Regent / 9.5.57 
Thomas “Fats” Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29 
Knites of Rhythm (aka The Southern Sons) / Baby Won’t You Fall in Love / Bluebird / 10.29.41 
Louis Jordan / Somebody Up There Digs Me / Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby / Mercury / 10.22.56 / Louis Jordan as & vo, Ernie Royal tp, Jimmy Cleveland tb, Sam “The Man” Taylor ts, Budd Johnson ts, bs, Ernie Hayes p, Mickey Baker g, Wendell Marshall b, Charlie Persip ds, Quincy Jones arr & dir
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.11.58

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / High ’n Low / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Uptown Manhattan / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wick’s Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Ooh, Hot Dawg / V-Disc 543B / 8.45 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / You Foolish Thing / Okeh / 3.29.51
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / Hollywood 7.64 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You, Nat / That’s All / Horizon/Surrey / Burbank 4.65
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Cherokee / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55 / Cole p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / Cole p & vo, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Noël Coward / At Las Vegas / A Room with a View / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra
Southern Sons / I’m Free at Last / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Debbie Taylor / Never Gonna Let Him Know; Let’s Prove Them Wtong  / GWP / 1969

Playlist Gets in Your Eyes: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 152

That’s what I like about the Bozzies.…they’re great!

Coffeetime, April 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out / Dotty’s Dream / Blue Note / 5.27.63 
Donald Byrd / Blows at Beacon Hill / If I Love Again / Transition / Cambridge, MA 5.7.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Ill Wind / AFRS Jubilee Show #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Blind Willie Dunn aka Eddie Lang / There’ll Be Some Changes Made / Okeh / 11.5.28 / with Frank Signorelli p 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / If I Love Again / Decca / London 1934 / vocal = Sam Browne
[Emmett] Babe Wallace / Git It (’Cause I Love to See You Wid It) / Decca / 9.10.41 / with Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / Some Other Spring / Columbia / summer 1961 

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Blues for Mother’s / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
Ike Quebec / Blue and Sentimental / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Blue Note / 12.61 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Lil Green / No Baby, No One but You / Bluebird / Chicago 4.17.45 / with Simeon Henry p, Sam Casimir g, Robert Montgomery b
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Brunswick / 2.26.39 / vocal = Irene Daye 
The Cats & the Fiddle / We Cats Will Swing for You / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Frank Sinatra / Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass / Pick Yourself Up / Reprise / Hollywood 4.10 & 11.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Neal Heft; cover portrait painting by Jim Jonson  

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / My One and Only Love / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Misty / Verve [unissued] / 9.22.65 
Brew Moore & his Playboys / Blue Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48 
Shep Fields & his New Music / Coffee Time / Victor / 1945 / vocal = Meredith Blake 
James Quintet / Remember When / Coral / 10.21.48 
Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / My Ideal / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Force_(Sonny_Rollins_album)

set 4
Stan Levey / This Time the Drum’s on Me / Day In, Day Out / Bethlehem / LA 9.27 & 28.55 / Conte Candoli t, Frank Rosolino tb, Dexter Gordon ts, Lou Levy p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Levey d 
Herb Geller / Herb Geller Plays / Kahagon / EmArcy / LA 8.6.54 / Geller as, Lorraine Geller p, Curtis Counce b, Larance Marable d 
Jackie Taylor & his Orchestra / That’s What I Like About You / Victor / 7.20.30 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Paramount movie soundtrack, Some Like It Hot / Hollywood 1939 / vocal = actors Rufe Davis, Wayne “Tiny” Whitt, & Harry Barris 
King Cole Trio / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / Capitol / Hollywood 3.15.46 / Nat King Cole p & voc, the great Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
João Gilberto / Chega de Saudade / Maria Ninguém [Maria “Nobody”] / Odeon / Rio de Janeiro 1959  
Five Gospel Stirrers [The Soul Stirrers] / Don’t Wonder ’Bout Him / 2oth Century Records / 1947

last soulful song
Jo Ann King / Don’t Play with Fire / Fairmont / 1966

This Is a Very Special Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 151

Special day for Joe on Peggy’s TV show!

Coffeetime, April 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Blue Stride / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Trombonology / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.47 
Helen Morgan / Why Was I Born? / Victor / 10.16.29  
Harry Roy & his Orchestra / You’re an Eyeful of Heaven / Parlophone / London 1936 / vocal = Billy Currie
T-Bone Walker / You're My Best Poker Hand / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.47
Dinah Washington / I Want to Be Loved / Mercury / spring 1947 / with Chubby Jackson’s Quartet 

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Johnny Lytle / Happy Ground / When I Fall in Love / Jazzland / 3.23.61 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Trio + One / They Didn’t Believe Me / Verve / LA 8.17.64 
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Stardust / Decca / 1.25.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld 
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Just an Echo in the Valley / Columbia / London 1933
Al Bowlly & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Shout for Happiness / HMV / London 2.19.31 
James Barton / Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast Album) / In Between / 1951 
Totie Fields / Put on a Happy Face / CBS TV broadcast, Ed Sullivan Show / 3.27.66

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
John T. Williams / The John Towner Touch / Zigeuner / Kapp / Hollywood 10.3.56 
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Bock to Bock (Back to Back) / Riverside / 1.3.61 
Lucky Thompson’s Quartet / Slam’s Mishap / Down Beat / Hollywood 9.13.46 
Raymond Scott & his New Orchestra / Half Way Down the Street / Columbia / 9.10.40 / vocal = Clyde Burke
The Four Tunes / Don’t Blame My Dream / Arco / c. 1945 [1950] 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52 

set 4
Bob Keene / Solo for Seven / A Lonesome Cup of Coffee / Andex / Hollywood 5.21.57 / Bob Keene cl, Milt Bernhart tb, Bill Hood bs, Red Norvo vb, Paul Moer p, Red Mitchell b, Shelly Manne d
Mel Powell / The Mel Powell Bandstand / Ezz-May / Vanguard / LA 12.1.54 
King Cole Trio / Naughty Angeline / NBC radio broadcast, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time / Hollywood 7.5.47 / guest = Woody Herman
Joe Bushkin / I Love a Piano / Atlantic / 1950 
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus 
Golden Gate Quartet / Won’t There Be One Happy Time / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
The Dramatics / Joy Ride / Richest Man Alive / ABC / 1976

Get Your Playlist Over: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 150

Watch out, Desi… Lucy’s not far away!

Coffeetime, April 7, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Stanley Turrentine / That’s Where It’s At / Smile, Stacey / Blue Note / 1.2.62 
Jackie McLean / A Fickle Sonance / Enitnerrut / Blue Note / 10.26.61 
Hans Bund mit seinem Tanz-Orchester / Tanzfieber [Get Hot Foot] / Telefunken / Berlin 4.18.34
Hotel Pennsylvania Music (aka Jack Albin & his Hotel Pennsylvania Music) / Lucky Little Devil / Velvet Tone / 4.1.30 / vocal = Danford Sisters Charles Brown / Gee! / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook / Day Dream / Verve / Hollywood 1957 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 

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

set 2
Lou Donaldson / The Time Is Right / The Nearness of You / Blue Note / 10.31.59 
Lester Young / Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Johnny Hodges / Blues-A-Plenty / Gone with the Wind / Verve / 4.5.58 
Bob Hardaway / Lou’s Blue / Spring Is Here / Bethlehem / LA 1.21.55 
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor 4.10.29 
Tom Coakley & his Orchestra / Clean as a Whistle / Brunswick / 11.20.33 / vocal = Frank Barton
Bull Moose Jackson / Oh John / King / 1949
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps / RCA Victor / 12.9.47

set 3
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The End of a Love Affair / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / Taboo / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / All the Things You Are / Musicraft / 2.28.45 
Charlie Parker / Cheryl (short take 1) / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Miles Davis t, Charlie Parker as, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Orrin Tucker & his Orchestra / Keep an Eye on Your Heart / Columbia / 7.2.41 / vocal = Bonnie Baker & the Bodyguards 
The Four Blues / Jitterbug Sadie / Decca / 12.4.40 
Don Elliott / Music for the Sensational Sixties / What’s the Use of Wondr’in / Design / 1958

set 4
Bob Cooper / Kenton Presents Jazz - Bob Cooper / When the Sun Comes Out / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.54 
Si Zentner & his Orchestra / The Swingin’ Eye / I’m Always Chasing Rainbows / Liberty / LA 1960 
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / Fine and Dandy / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 

King Cole Trio / Mabel, Mabel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.24.46
Peggy Lee / Someday, Sweetheart / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Jamaica 1967 / with Tommy Cook & the Supersonics 
Alphabetical Four / Do Not Pass Me By / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969