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