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