Friday, May 26, 2023

In a Playlist by the Sea: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 156

Screenshot from the movie Lullaby of Broadway showing Gene Nelson singing (though his voice was actually dubbed for the movie), standing alongside a blue upright piano and the Page Cavanaugh Trio (piano, guitar, bass). They are all wearing dark suits with bow ties. Nelson has his arms outstretched as he is about to dance as well as sing.
Gene’s got his eye on that piano top!

Coffeetime, May 26, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58 
Chet Baker / Chet Baker & Crew / Jumpin’ Off a Clef / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 7.24.56 
Clifford Brown / Study in Brown / Gherkin for Perkin / EmArcy / 2.23-25.55 
Irene Beasley / Choo Choo Train / Victor / 5.3.28 
Horace Heidt & his Brigadiers / In a Mission by the Sea / Brunswick / 10.28.37 / vocal = Larry Cotton 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / If You Ever Had the Blues / Aladdin / LA 8.15.49
Anita O’Day / Trav’lin’ Light / Some Other Spring / Verve / Hollywood 1.18.61 / with Barney Kessel Sextet

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Solo Piano / A Sleepin’ Bee / Storyville / Zurich 1974 
Chet Baker / Baker’s Holiday / Ole Devil Called Love / 5.65 
Phil Woods / New Jazz Quintet / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 
Leroy Smith & his Orchestra / I’m a Broken Hearted Blackbird / Victor/ 4.2.28
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Are You Having Fun? / HMV / London 1940 / vocal = Dolly Elsie (Jack’s sister)
Hal Derwin (dubbing for Gene Nelson / Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart / soundtrack, Warner Brothers movie Lullaby of Broadway / Hollywood 1951 / with Page Cavanaugh Trio; with tapping by Gene Nelson and dialogue between S.Z. Sakall & Doris Day 
Yves Montand / La Bicyclette / La Bicyclette / Philips / Paris 1968 / Bob Castella p

set 3
Ike Quebec / Heavy Soul / Que’s Dilemma / Blue Note / 11.26.61 
Prestige All Stars / After Hours / Blue Jelly / Prestige / 6.21.57 
Al Haig / Yardbird Suite / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1954 
Bob Crosby / This Is a Lovely Way to Spend an Evening / AFRS Jubilee #68 / Hollywood 3.6.44 / with the AFRS Trio aka Les Paul Trio; master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
The Ebonaires / I’ll Never Do It Again / Modern [unissued] / LA 12.47 
Jackie Paris / Can’t Get Started with You (Jackie… That Is!) / That Ole Devil Called Love / Mercury / 1956

set 4
Bill Perkins / Just Friends / Diane-A-Flow / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.12.56 / Bill Perkins ts, Art Pepper as, Jimmy Rowles p, Ben Tucker b, Mel Lewis d  
Gil Mellé / Quintet/Sextet / Under Capricorn / Blue Note / 1.31.53 / Mellé ts, Eddie Bert tb [called X. Kentonite on the label], Tal Farlow g, Clyde Lombardi b, Joe Morello d  
Hadda Brooks / This Will Make You Laugh / Modern [unissued] / LA 12.47 / with Teddy Bunn g  
King Cole Trio / Candy / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 8.15.56 / from the After Midnight session with Harry “Sweets” Edison
Peggy Lee / Then Was Then, Now Is Now! / Ev’rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.65 / with Sid Feller & his Orchestra 
Golden Gate Quartet / High, Low, and Wide / Columbia / 4.8.47 

last soulful song
The Lovelites / I’m Not Like the Others / Lock [unissued] / Chicago 1969