Friday, April 21, 2023

Playlist Gets in Your Eyes: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 152

Screenshot from the 1932 Vitaphone short film, "Rambling ’Round Radio Row," of the Boswell Sisters sitting at a grand piano singing.
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