Friday, August 25, 2023

Keep Your Playlist on Your Heart: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 163

Screenshot from TV Show This Is Tom Jones from 1970 showing Dusty Springfield (in a multi-colored dress and her hair up in a large, curly bouffant hairdo) facing and singing with Tom Jones (who is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie). They are both smiling and holding small cylindrical microphones.
We feel your Tom-joy, Dusty!

Coffeetime, August 25, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Warming Up! / Day by Day / Vanguard / 1964
Gil Mellé / Quadrama / It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing) / Prestige / 4.26.57 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40 
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Columbia / London 10.33 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Somebody Stole My Break / Decca / 4.28.36 / dialogue with Rudy “Dutch” Smith 
Jimmy Rushing / Thursday’s Blues / Excelsior / Hollywood 1947 / with Jimmy Mundy’s Orchestra 
Donna Brooks / I’ll Take Romance / Love Is a Fool / Dawn / 1956 

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy / Outward Bound / Glad to Be Unhappy / New Jazz / 4.1.60 
Lem Winchester & The Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform A Tribute To Clifford Brown / A Message from Boysie / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Coleman Hawkins’ All American Four / Don’t Blame Me / Mercury / 5.29.44 / Hawkins ts, Teddy Wilson p, John Kirby b, Sid Catlett d
Cliff Edwards & his Hot Combination / I Want Somebody to Cheer Me Up (alt) / Perfect / 12.28.25
Ethel Waters / Don’t Blame Me / Brunswick / 7.18.33 / with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pat Valdelar aka Patsy Vidalia / Keep Your Hand on Your Heart / Mercury / New Orleans 1953 
Ann Henry / New Faces of ’56 / And He Flipped / RCA Victor / 1956

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.4 & 5.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / One O’Clock Jump (first version) / Blue Note / 10.14.63 
Lester Young / New Lester Leaps In / Aladdin / LA 1946 https://www.discogs.com/release/10914241-
The Boswell Sisters / Crazy People / Brunswick / 12.7.32 / Martha Boswell p, Dick McDonough g, Artie Bernstein b 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Get Me One of Those / Columbia / 1949 / vocal = Gloria Wood & Bob Carroll
David Allen / David Allen Sings Jerome Kern / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / World Pacific / LA 1958 / arranged & conducted by Johnny Mandel; celeste! guitar!

set 4
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Hank’s Holiday / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt 
Bernie Nerow / Bernie Nerow Trio / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Nerow p, Max Wayne b, Dick Stein d; cover design by Eva Diana Count Basie & his Orchestra / There’s a Small Hotel / Clef / 7.22 & 23.52 
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Hal Schaefer p, Phil Stephens b, Nick Fatool d
Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / from the ABC TV show This Is Tom Jones / Hollywood 1.22.70 (air date) 
The Luvenia Nash Singers / John the Revelator / Excelsior (unissued) / Hollywood 1946

last soulful song
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

Friday, August 18, 2023

My Playlist Is Rugged : Coffeetime Homebrew ep 162

Screenshot from a video of Jorge Ben sitting on a stool on stage playing his guitar and singing into a microphone. He's wearing a white shirt.
Jorge wants to forget…

Coffeetime, August 18, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis Sextet / Zig-Zag / Mode / Hollywood 6.5 & 6.57 
Lawrence Marable / Tenorman / Three Fingers North / Jazz:West / Hollywood 8.4.56 
Eddie Durham & his Band / I Want a Little Girl / Decca / 11.11.40 
Lew Stone & his Band / Thanks / Decca / London 10.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Effie Smith & Jimmie Grissom & The Blenders / Answer to RM Blues / Miltone / LA 1947 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella and Louis Again / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Man with a Horn / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Roy Eldrige / Musique Originale Du Film Les Tricheurs / Phil’s Blues / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58 
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / What’s New / Prestige / 2.18.55 
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five / Savoy Blues / Okeh / Chicago 12.13.27 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Columbia / London 4.21.33
Ruth Etting / That’s What Heaven Means to Me / Melotone / 5.9.32
Herb Jeffries / Jump for Joy / AFRS Jubilee #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman and the Eddie Beal Trio: Eddie Beal p, Ulysses Livingston g, Joe Comfort b 
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hello Sunshine / Trojan / Kingston, Jamaica 1969 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Phantom / Los Ojos Alegres (The Happy Eyes) / Blue Note / 9.11.68 
Paul Desmond / Glad to Be Unhappy / A Taste of Honey / RCA Victor / 7.14.64 
Jesse Price & his Jump Jivers / Creepin’ and Peepin (Tippin’ Out) / Miltone / LA 1948
The Three Keys / Song of the Islands / Vocalion / 8.16.33 
Harry James & his Orchestra / My Beloved Is Rugged / Columbia / 7.22.42 / vocal = Helen Forrest; written by Seger Ellis 
Frank Sinatra / In the Wee Small Hours / Glad to Be Unhappy / Capitol / Hollywood 2.8.55 / with Rhythm Section Conducted by Bill Miller: Miller p, Paul Smith celeste, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Alvin Stoller d, Nelson Riddle arr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wee_Small_Hours

set 4
Herbie Mann / Flamingo / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Bethlehem / 6.55 / Mann 4 different flutes overdubbed, Joe Puma g, Charles Andrus b, Harold Granowsky d; such a fun cover design by Burt Goldblatt 
Herbie Harper / Jazz in Hollywood: Herbie Harper / Now Playing / Nocturne / 1954 / Bud Shank bs, Harper tb, Marty Paich p, Harry Babasin b, Roy Harte d 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans / More Than You Know / Clef / LA 12.7.53 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Summertime / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.28.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Quero Esquecer Você [I Want to Forget You] / Phillips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / The Love of God / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
The Emotions / Sunshine / I Really Miss You / Stax / Stax / Muscle Shoals 1977 



Friday, August 04, 2023

Happy Go Lucky Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 161

Screenshot of a video of Johnny Hodges playing his saxophone from 1958. It shows a close up of his face and top of the sax.
There’s not much is smoother than Mr. Hodges.

Coffeetime, August 4, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus [alt take] / Blue Note / 4.9.61 
Red Mitchell & Harold Land / Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! / Triplin’ Awhile / Atlantic / San Francisco 10.14..61 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Swingin’ Uptown / Victor / 3.20.34 
Harry Reser’s Jazz Pilots / Happy Go Lucky Lane / Okeh / 6.25.28 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / Fool About You Daddy / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.1.50
Kitty White / A Moment of Love / Glad to Be Unhappy / Pacific Records / Hollywood 1954 / Corky Hale harp

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy & Booker Little / Far Cry / Left Alone / New Jazz / 12.21.60 
Ernie Royal / Accent on Trumpet / What Is There to Say / Urania / 11.26.55 / Royal t, George Barnes & Sydney Gross g, Billy Taylor p, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Joe Bushkin / Piano Moods / Everyday Is Christmas / Columbia / 1950
Clarence Williams’ Washboard Five / Have You Ever Felt That Way? / Okeh / 9.26.28 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / The Morning After / Lang-Worth Transcription / late 1940 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Helen Humes / Flippity Flop Flop / Mercury / early 1948 / with Buck Clayton’s Orchestra: Clayton t, Scoville Brown cl, Rudy Williams ts, Teddy Wilson p, Jimmy Butts b, (probable) Denzil Best d
Al Brown & his Tunetoppers / Sweet Little Love / Amy / 1960

set 3
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / Not So Dukish / Verve / 9.10.58 
Frank Strozier / Long Night / The Crystal Ball / Jazzland / 9.12.61 
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958 / Johnson p, Brooks p & cel, Teddy Bunn g, Bill Cooper b, Al Wichard d Bea Wain / Hello, My Lover, Goodbye / Bluebird / 12.10.41
The Three Riffs / Cherry in My Lemon and Lime / Apollo / 5.9.50 
Don Nelson / The Wind / It Happened Once Before / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / with Jimmy Rowles celeste, Leroy Vinnegar b, Stan Levey d

set 4
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Girl Talk / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Paul Togawa / Paul Togawa / Ben’s Blues / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / Gabe Baltazar as, Dick Johnston p, Ben Tucker b, Togawa d; cover portrait painting by Eva Diana
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses [master take] / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43
Peggy Lee / Georgia on My Mind / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
Ed Ames / Time, Time / What the World Needs Now Is Love / RCA Victor / 1967
Fairfield Four / Love Like a River / Dot / 10.50

last soulful song
The Impressions / The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story / Soulful Love / Curtom / Chicago 1969