Friday, October 06, 2023

You Don’t Have to Drop a Playlist to Break It

Screenshot from 1974 video showing BB King holding up his guitar Lucille, with light flares from the stage lights looking like he has fairy bubbles around him. He's singing with a big smile. The camera angle is from below looking up at him and his guitar.
Joyful Lucille and her bf!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Harry Shalson / She’s Wonderful / Brunswick / London 5.8.29
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 2.26.29
Babe Mathews / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46 / with Joe Thomas’ Big Six
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Doing Time) / V-Disc 527B / 4.24.45 / with orch conducted by Mitchell Ayres; identical to Columbia recording
B.B. King / Early Every Morning / RPM / LA 1957

set 3
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Borderline / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Pumpernickel / Savoy / 3.5.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / If You Believed in Me / MGM / 1.9.47 / vocal = Henry Wells tb
The Ravens / You Don’t Have to Drop a Heart to Break It / Columbia / 10.19.50 / lead = Maithe Marshall; celeste!
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / My One and Only Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60
Buddy Collette / Soft Touch / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Remember I Knew You When / IRRA / Hollywood autumn 1947 / vocal = Miss Danna
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / WMGM, NYC 3.29.49 / NKC p, voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Laurence Naismith / Here’s Love, Original Broadway Cast Recording / Expect Things to Happen / Columbia / 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969