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