Calling Dr. Playlist

I’ll never stop loving Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, June 30, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, Volume 1 / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 11.11.60 / announcer = deejay & wife of Blue Note owner Alfred Lion, Ruth Mason 
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Moods / Vocalion / 8.8.34
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr. Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
Etta Jones / This Is a Fine Time / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / I’ll Never Stop Loving You / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Missing You / Riverside / 1.5.59 
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Handful of Stars / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Benny Goodman / The Goodman Touch / Sweet Lorraine / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12.47 
Ruth Etting / Me! / Imperial / 9.9.31
Bobby Darin / The Shadow of Your Smile / The Breaking Point / Atlantic / Hollywood 12.14.65 

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Mr. Soul / Prestige / 4.10.62 / Marshall also uses bow on his bass 
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / So What / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60
The Basin Street Boys / Jumpin’ at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Fourtet: Beal p, Lucky Thompson ts, Al Norrisg, Charlie Drayton b, Stan Levey d 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’ve Been in Love Before / Decca / 10.23.40 / vocal = Roy Felton
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / So What / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Barney Kessel / Plays Carmen / Swingin’ the Toreador / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58 / second group
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.56
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Andrew Sisters / It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight / Decca / Hollywood 7.22.45 / with Les Paul and the Vic Schoen Orchestra 
B.B. King / Paying the Cost to Be the Boss / Bluesway / 1968 
The Bronzemen / My Lord Is Writing All the Time / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Puppy Love / Atlantic / 1963
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Ce Petite Playlist

There’s no crying when Lonnie plays.

Coffeetime, June 23, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One by One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63 
Harold Land / The Fox / One Second, Please / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Red & Miff’s Stompers / Slippin’ Around / Victor / 2.11.27 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Variety Stomp / Victor / 4.27.27 
Milt Shaw & his Detroiters / Breakaway / Columbia / 4.2.29 / vocal = Shaw & Johnny Morris 
Lovie Jordan’s Elks Rendez-vous Band aka Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Toodle-Loo on Down / Decca / 12.20.38 / vocal = Rodney Sturgis 
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / With Every Breath I Take / EmArcy / 4.21.55 / Georgie Auld ts, Gerald Wiggins p, Barney Kessel g, Red Callender b, Chico Hamilton d

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Come Sunday / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Thad Jones / Thad Jones, Volume 3 [1546] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.9.56 es
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / I Cover the Waterfront / Bethlehem / 3.17 & 18.55 
Lonnie Johnson / Playing with the Strings / Okeh / Memphis 2.21.28
Baby Doll & her Swingsters aka Thelma Cooper aka Dolly Cooper / Talk to Me Daddy / Coleman / 1950
Jean Sablon / Ces Petites Choses / Columbia / Paris 1936

set 3
Horace Parlan / On the Spur of the Moment / Ray C. / Blue Note / 2.18.61 
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Flamingo / Blue Note / 4.11.54 
Neal Hefti & his Orchestra / I Woke Up Dizzy / Keynote [EmArcy] / 12.18.46 
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / These Things You Left Me / radio transcription / Hollywood 1940 / vocal = Dolores Brandon
The Ravens / Once in a While / National / 9.11.47 
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Say It Isn’t So / Signature / 1960

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino/5 / Fine Shape / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Duffle Coat / Contemporary / London 9.21.55 / Feldman vb, Norman Stenfalt p, Lennie Bush b, Phil Seaman d
Kay Starr / My Future Just Passed / Standard transcription / 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio with Joe Venuti
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
The Four Internes / Who Will Your Captain Be / Federal / Cincinnati 3.2.53

last soulful song
The Diplomats / Love Ain’t What It Used to Be / Wand / 1965

Grab Me a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 159

Bob, Charles, and Walter pepper up our day!

Coffeetime, June 16, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Fuller / Volume 3 / Little Messenger / Blue Note / 12.1.57 
Jimmy Heath / Triple Threat / The More I See You / Riverside / 1.62 
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / If I Could Be with You / HRS / 4.6.40 / Muggsy Spanier cor, Sidney Bechet ss, Carmen Mastren g, Wellman Braud b
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / You’re Blasé / Columbia / 7.1.32 
Georgia Washboard Stompers / I’m Living in a Great Big Way / Decca / 7.3.35 / vocal = Jake Fenderson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Everything I Do Is Wrong / Specialty / LA 7.13.48
Dinah Washington / What a Diff’rence a Day Makes! / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / 1959 

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

set 2
Joe Newman / Joe’s Hap’nin’s / The Very Thought of You / Prestige Swingville / 5.9.61 / Newman tp, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, and Bill English d
Don Elliott / Mellophone / Summer Setting / Bethlehem / early 1955 
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Quartet / It Might as Well Be Spring / Vogue / Paris 10.15.53 
Hal Davis & his Orchestra / Throwin’ Stones at the Sun / Bluebird / 1.2.35 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Amos Milburn / Everything I Do Is Wrong / Aladdin / LA 12.13.46 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, rest unknown
Marlene Dietrich / Illusions / Decca / 1.21.49 / with Gorden Jenkins Orchestra 
Helen Thompson / Going Down to Big Mary’s / States / Chicago 1953

set 3
Freddie Roach / Down to Earth / Lujon / Blue Note / 8.23.62 / Percy France ts 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / Grooveyard / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p
The Be Bop Boys / Thriving from a Riff / Savoy / 11.26.45 
The Three Peppers / Get the Gold / Variety / Philadelphia 2.27.37 
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / Lamplight / radio transcription / 1948
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Grab Me a Freight / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Stan Getz / The Steamer / There Will Never Be Another You / Verve / Hollywood 11.24.56 
Vinnie Burke / East Coast Jazz/2 / Continental / Bethlehem / 1955 
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Mel Tormé / Sunday in New York / from soundtrack to the MGM movie Sunday in New York / Hollywood 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Golden Gate Spirituals / No Restricted Signs / 6.5.46 

last soulful song
The Superbs / Baby's Gone Away / Doré / 1965

A House Is Not a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 158

Everything’s better atop a piano.

Coffeetime, June 9, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Siam / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / I Love You / Bethlehem / 11.56 
Buster Bailey & his Seven Chocolate Dandies / Shanghai Shuffle / Columbia / 12.28.34 
The Kansas City Six / Good Mornin’ Blues / Commodore / 3.18.38 
Jack Pettis & his Band / That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness / Banner / c. 2.11.27 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot 
Ann Cornell / Mad About You / Sterling / 8.47 / with Skippy Williams Orchestra; more about Ann Cornell from Marv Goldberg 
Teal Joy / Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy / That Ole Devil Called Love / Bethlehem [AAMCO] / 1955

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.20.62 
Bill Evans / Explorations / I Wish I Knew / Riverside / 2.2.61 
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / De Nulle Part (Out of Nowhere) / Swing / Paris 9.11.41 
Chicago Loopers aka Willard Robinson & his Orchestra / Three Blind Mice / Perfect / 10.20.27 
Edgar Hayes Quintet / Old King Cole / Brunswick / 10.11.37 / vocal = Bill Darnell 
Bing Crosby & Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Your Socks Don’t Match / Decca / LA 7.26.44 
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / I Go for You / Decca / 2.18 & 19.57

set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Lil’s Blues / New Jazz / 6.17.61 
Big John Patton / The Way I Feel / The Rock / Blue Note / 6.19.64 
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Can’t We Take a Chance / United / Chicago 10.24.51 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / On Treasure Island / Victor / 9.26.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright 
Delta Rhythm Boys / How High the Moon / radio broadcast / c. 1948
Al Hibbler / Al Hibbler’s Favorites / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Norgran / 9.30.53 

set 4
Quincy Jones / I Dig Dancers / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 4.21.60
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Moon Song / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d 
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / Hollywood / 7.16.41 / with Wesley Prince b (“Of all the fools, I break the rules”)
Pearl Bailey / Pearl’s Pearls / A House Is Not a Home / RCA Victor / 1971 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; arranged by Benny Carter
Ever Ready Gospel Singers / I Can See My Savior / Sittin’ in With / 1948 / Willie Caston, Charles Graves, Elbert Green, & Frank Edwards 

last soulful song
The Vogues / Five O’Clock World / Co & Ce Records / Pittsburgh 1965

There’s No Playlist Like That Certain Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 157

The Striders enjoying that hipster fun!

Coffeetime, June 2, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / A Fickle Sonance / Lost / Blue Note / 10.26.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Noise in the Attic / Blue Note / 8.7.60 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Hittin’ the Ceiling / Decca / London 9.12.29
Gus Arnheim & his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / Go Home and Tell Your Mother / Victor / Hollywood 7.29.30 / vocal = Bobby Burns 
Danny Barker Sextette / Where’s Joe / Apollo [unissued] / vocal = Blu Lu Barker & ensemble 
Dorothy Dandridge / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Aaron Sachs / We Brought Our Axes / If You Are But a Dream / Bethlehem / 11.54  (magnify)
Ted Brown / Free Wheeling / Crazy She Calls Me / Vanguard / Hollywood 10.24.56
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57 
Teddy Wilson / Just a Mood, part 2 / Brunswick / LA 9.5.37 
The Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Get It Fixed / Harmony / 12.22.25 / vocal = Don Redman 8
Sophie Tucker / Golden Jubilee / There’s No Business Like That Certain Business / Mercury / 1953
Matt Monro / This Is the Life! / This Is the Life! / Capitol / Hollywood 1966 / arranged & conducted by Sid Feller

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / Hootchie-Koo / Columbia / 1961 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 / cover design by Marvin Israel  
Bea Wain / My Reverie / V-Disc 310B / with Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Hollywood 1944
The Striders / She Left Me for a Richer Man / Video Varieties short / early 1949
Jean Sablon / Two Sleepy People / Victor / Hollywood 10.12.38 / with the Lou Bring Orchestra 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Prohibido / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66 / Carter as, Bud Shank as, Teddy Edwards ts, Buddy Collette ts, Bill Hood bs, Barney Kessel g, Don Abney p, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d
Dick Garcia / A Message from Dick Garcia / If I’m Lucky / Dawn / 1956 / Gene Quill as, Terry Pollard p, Dick Garcia g, Bill Anthony b, Frank Isola d
John Graas / Coup de Graas / Van Nuys Indeed / EmArcy / LA 8.13.57 / Grass french horn, Red Callendar tuba, Art Pepper as, Bob Cooper ts & oboe, Buddy Collette bs & fl, Paul Moer p, Buddy Clark b, Larry Bunker d & percussion
Ethel Waters / I Ain’t Gonna Sin No More / Decca / 9.5.34 / Edgar Sampson violin, John Trueheart g e
King Cole Trio / Could-’Ja / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46
Little Milton / Someone to Love / Checker / Chicago 1962
Jubalaires / My Trouble is Hard / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Ooh-La-Dee-Dah / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967