Friday, May 19, 2023

I Guess I’ll Get the Playlist (And Go Home): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 155

John Collins wearing a red jacket sits playing guitar while Bobby Troup in a dark suit stands, facing the camera, holding a microphone. They're both wearing bow ties.
Bobby pays sweet tribute to John Collins.

Coffeetime, May 19, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Nica’s Dream / Blue Note / 7.8.60 
Bud Shank / Barefoot Adventure / Barefoot Adventure / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.61 
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford / Sextette / Bethlehem / 1.54 
Duke Ellington / Swampy River / Okeh / 10.1.28
The Goofus Five & their Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Okeh / 6.28.28 
Dallas Bartley / You’re the Greatest / Savoy / 1945 
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Little Joe from Chicago / AFRS Jubilee Show #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 / Master of Ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Chris Connor / Sings Lullabys for Lovers / He’s Coming Home / Bethlehem / 8.21.54 

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Thompson Plays for Thomson / medley: Sophisticated Lady & These Foolish Things / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 2.22.56 
Johnny Hodges / Collates / Blue Fantasia / Clef / 1.15.51 
Oscar Peterson / Plays George Gershwin / A Foggy Day / Clef / LA 12.52 
Jimmy Dorsey, Saxophone Specialty / Beebe / Okeh / 5.13.29 
Three Peppers / Swingin’ at the Cotton Club / Variety / Hollywood 2.27.37 / later performing this in 1943 in "A Lady Takes A Chance" starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur  
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / early 1940s / vocal = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard [Nelson]
Jane Russell / Love on the Rocks / MGM / Hollywood 1958

set 3
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Business Meetin’ / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Be Back Ta-Reckla / Savoy / 6.7.60 
Kai Winding Sextet / Sleepy Bop / Roost / 4.49 / Kai Winding tb, Brew Moore ts, Gerry Mulligan bs, George Wallington p, Curley Russell b, Max Roach d
Les Brown & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Get the Papers (And Go Home) / Columbia / 8.12.46 / vocal = Jack Haskell
The Charioteers / Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet / AFRS Jubilee Show #77 / Hollywood 5.1.44 / Master of Ceremonies = Lena Horne 
Bobby Troup / Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 4
Dave Pell / The Dave Pell Octet Plays Burke & Van Heusen / Suddenly It’s Spring / Kapp / Hollywood 5.21.56 / Don Fagerquist t, Ray Sims tb, Ronny Lang bs, Dave Pell ts, Claude Williamson p, Tony Rizzi g, Rolly Bundock b, Jack Sperling d
Lex Golden Jazz Octet / The Lex Golden Jazz Octet in Hi-Hi / Flip-Top / Superior / Hollywood 4.57 / Lex Golden t, Pete Carpenter tb, Abe Most as & cl, Gene Cipriano & Lester Pinter ts, Ray Sherman p, Ray Leatherwood b, Richie Cornell d
Les Paul Trio / Blue Skies / AFRS Jubilee Show #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 
Peggy Lee / Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.28.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
King Cole Trio / Loan Me Two Till Tuesday / Capitol Transcription [unissued] / NYC 12.4.45 / produced by Carl Kress & written by “Taps” Miller Robert Clary / Hooray for Love / Thou Swell / Epic / 1956
Gospel Vocalaires of Norfolk, VA / Jezebel [unissued] / Gotham / Norfolk 8.53

last soulful song
Gwen Guthrie / Ain't Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent / Polydor / 1986