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