Friday, December 01, 2023

A Woman Alone with the Playlist, Redux

A screenshot from a black and white film of Desi Arnaz and two of his bandmates playing congas while Desi sings. Desi is in a black formal suit and the bandmates have on white shirts with multi-ruffled sleeves.
Long-fingered, sharp-dressed Desi, even

Coffeetime, December 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Santa Tecla / Ricordi / 1961
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / It’s You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Expubidence / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / Glad Rag Doll / Okeh / Hollywood 1.17.29 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Cats & the Fiddle / Gang Busters / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book / All Too Soon / Verve / 6.27.57 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / P.S. I Love You / Savoy / 11.5.56 / Hank sits out
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Golden Gate Orchestra (California Ramblers) / (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous?) Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Paul Robeson / Lonely Road / HMV / London 1936
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Mama Don’t Allow / Capitol / Hollywood 6.16.47   
Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia! / Manhattan / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Something Blue / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / On the Trail / Verve / 3.19.61
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Annie Laurie / Victor / 2.3.38 / vocal = Jack Leonard Quartet 
Five Red Caps / Somebody’s Lyin’ / Beacon / 3.44
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nevertheless / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Easy Living / Verve / LA 1959
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Triton / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / La Cumparsita / RCA / LA 1947
King Cole Trio / The Best Man / Capitol / 8.19.46 / NKC p & vocal, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Jack “The Bear” Parker d
Amos Milburn / Sad and Blue / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47 / Maxwell Davis ts
Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / A Woman Alone with the Blues / Verve /10.16.61
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ’Round / Motown / Detroit 1969
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / When We’re Together / Motown / Detroit 1969