Friday, June 30, 2023

Calling Dr. Playlist

Screenshot of Nancy Wilson in a tight, gold, sequined gown singing at a microphone in front of a stage curtain on a 1966 episode of I Spy. She has a bouffant hairdo and has her arms raised up as she sings.
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

Friday, June 23, 2023

Ce Petite Playlist

Screenshot from a 1963 video of Lonnie Johnson playing his guitar and singing. He's wearing a suit and stands in front of a collage background on the stage.
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

Friday, June 16, 2023

Grab Me a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 159

Screenshot from a Vitaphone film showing The Three Peppers singing and smiling: Bob Bell on a white guitar, Charles "Toy" Wilson on piano, and Walter Williams on bass. They're all wearing light suits with black bow ties.
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

Friday, June 09, 2023

A House Is Not a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 158

Screenshot from the 1947 movie "Boy! What a Girl" where Ann Cornell is sitting on top of an upright piano and one of the other musicians is smiling while holding her and watching her sing.

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



Friday, June 02, 2023

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

Screenshot from a Video Varieties short film from 1949 showing the four Striders singing in front of a backdrop curtain pinned with signs of pancakes and other things found at a diner/soda shop. Two of The Striders have put on caps and round glasses as if to imitate hipsters of the time as they scat and take the tune uptempo for some bop singing.
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