Keep a Twinkle in Your Playlist

Matchmaking is tough work!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wicks Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Columbia / 12.9.40
John [Jack] Jackson / I’m Playing with Fire / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Love for Sale / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man / Verve / LA summer 1959
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Chartreuse / Debut / 9.55
Lonnie Johnson / I’m Nuts About That Gal / Okeh / 8.12.32
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV / London 9.15.36 / vocal = Fayard Nicholas, tap dancing = Harold Nicholas
Jimmy Witherspoon / Miss Miss Mistreater / Federal / Cincinnati 12.24.52 
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Gypsy in My Soul / Bethlehem / 1955

set 3
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Unforgettable / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Down By the Riverside / Prestige / 10.25.57
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Dick Haymes / Begin the Beguine / AFRS #333 / Hollywood 9.10.50
The Blenders / Please Take Me Back / MGM / 3.27.53 / lead vocal = Ollie Jones
Joe Mooney / September Song / Decca / 11.8.46 / Mooney accordion, Jack Hotop g, John “Gate” Frega b, Andy Fitzgerald d 

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Soft as Spring / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55 / composed by Alec Wilder
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Jo Stafford / I Remember You / V-Disc 328B / rehearsal recording for NBC radio, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop, Hollywood 7.20.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / When You Walk Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / (NYC) 11.4.47 / NKC piano & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kay Renolds / Been a Long Day / soundtrack to the United Artists movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / United Artists / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Lee Charles / I Never Want to Lose My Sweet Thing / Bamboo / Chicago 1969

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

You ARE pretty, Smithy!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / The End of a Love Affair / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Clark Terry / In Orbit / In Orbit / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
The Chocolate Dandies / Once Upon a Time / Decca / 10.10.33 / Benny Carter on trumpet & alto 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Can You Tell By Looking At Me / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Thad Jones / [The Magnificent Thad Jones] / Something to Remember You By / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.9.56 / duet between Jones t & Kenny Burrell g
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / I’ve Found a New Baby / Okeh / 11.12.30 
Sophie Tucker / If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with The Winter Gardens Theatre Orchestra and Ted Shapiro p
Benny Morton & his Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen
Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950
Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Just Because / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / The Pot’s On / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.24.47
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / The End of a Love Affair / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Smokey Joe / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / Live the Life I Sing About / Score / 4.13.49

last soulful song
George Tindley / So Help Me Woman / Wand / 1969

We’re Gonna Make It: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 167

Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
The Knickerbockers aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Columbia / 6.1.28 / vocal = Vaughn De Leath
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / LA 1958 / with celeste!

set 3

Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen / Soulful Brass #2 / Soulful Strut / Flying Dutchman / LA 2.22.69 

Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47 
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / With Plenty of Money and You (Oh Baby, What I Couldn’t Do) / Brunswick / 10.26.36 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.36 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65