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| Lovely Leslie giving the thumbs up to handsome Jack Sperling. |
Coffeetime, January 26, 2024, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Golden Boy / Yes I Can / Colpix / 1963
Blue Mitchell / New Blue Horns / Studio B / Riverside / 1.5.59 / from the session that was released as Out of the Blue
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Brunswick / 6.1.37
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra / Why Can’t I Find Somebody to Love / Brunswick / 9.19.33 / vocal = Kenny Sargent
Bull Moose Jackson / Keep Your Big Mouth Shut / Super Disc / 1947
Nancy Wilson / Lush Life / (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young / Capitol / Hollywood 5.67 / featuring John Collins g
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Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Bill Evans / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Everybody Digs Bill Evans] / Peace Piece / Riverside / 12.15.58 / Evans p, Sam Jones b, Philly Joe Jones d
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Stairway to the Stars / Verve / 5.12.57
Eddie Lang / Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) / Okeh / 5.26.27 / with Arthur Schutt p
Tiny Parham & his Musicians / Bombay / Victor / Chicago 10.26.29
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / The Kid in the Three-Cornered Pants / World Broadcasting Systems (unissued) / 3.16.37 / written for Ozzie & Harriet by Lewis Harris & John Jacob Loeb for baby David Nelson
Harry James & his Orchestra / Baby Blues / Columbia / Hollywood 4.11.51 / vocal = Toni Harper (not quite 14 years old)
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Mas Que Nada / Pickwick [Liberty] / 1967 / she sings this in Spanish, not Portuguese which we’re more used to hearing from others (like composer Jorge Ben)
set 3
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out! / Trimmed in Blue / Blue Note / 5.27.63
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Queen / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rearin'_Back
Oscar Pettiford / E-Lag / Vogue / 3.21.54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford_Sextet
The Cabineers / Lost / Prestige / 7.2.51 / with the Mercer Ellington Quartet
Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians / In a Little Book Shop / Decca / 11.5.47 / vocal = Don Rodney
Bing Crosby / Say It Isn’t So / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies, but not used in final movie / Hollywood fall 1945
set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz & the Oscar Peterson Trio / Pennies from Heaven / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 / Getz ts, Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b
Buddy Collette / Buddy’s Best / Soft Touch / Dooto / Hollywood 2.17.58 / Collette fl [as, ts, cl] fl, Gerald Wilson tr, Al Viola g, Wilfred Middlebrooks b, Earl Palmer d
Timmie Rogers & his All Star Orchestra / Daddy-O / Regis / 2.26.45 / Don Byas ts
Leslie Uggams / Fascinating Rhythm; Slap That Bass / live, NBC TV: The Dean Martin Show / Burbank 1.12.67 / with Jack Sperling d
Nat King Cole / Nat King Cole at The Sands / My Kinda Love / Capitol / live, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas 1.14.60 / NKC voc, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d, and orchestra conducted by Antonio Morelli
Golden Gate Quartet / Lord I Am Tired and I Want to Go Home / Mercury / 4.49
last soulful song
Roddie Joy / He’s So Easy to Love / Red Bird / 1965
