Friday, November 10, 2023

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

Screenshot from the 1938 movie "Rawhide" showing Smith Ballew singing and looking into a hand mirror while dressed in sweats after practicing boxing with a punching bag.
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