Friday, January 05, 2024

Playlist Petit Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 171

Black and white screenshot of Eartha Kitt singing on a TV set with fake tree limbs with little lights as background set decoration.

Coffeetime, January 5, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Grant Green / Nigeria / The Song Is You / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.62 
Gil Mellé / Gil’s Guests / Sixpence / Prestige / 8.24.56 / Kenny Dorham tp, Don Butterfield tuba, Hal McKusick as, Mellé bs, Joe Cinderella g, Vinnie Burke b, Ed Thigpen d
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / Falling Leaves / Bluebird / 9.3.40 
Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / At a Carnival in Venice / Brunswick / 1937 / vocal = Lee Sullivan
Little Esther / I'm a Bad, Bad Girl / Federal / 3.21.51 / duet with Mel Walker; with Johnny Otis’s Orchestra (listed on label as Earle Warren Orchestra)
Ella Fitzgerald / A Sunday Kind of Love / Decca / 3.19.47 / with vocals by the Andy Love Quintet 

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Workin’ Out / This Is All I Ask / Prestige / 10.21.64 
Urbie Green / East Coast Jazz/6 / On Green Dolphin Street / Bethlehem / 1.19.55 / celeste! 
Bill Evans / Interplay / When You Wish Upon a Star / Riverside / 7.16,17.62 
Ken “Goof” Moyer’s Novelty Trio / Mellophone Stomp / Domino / 11.19.26
Rudy Vallée / When Winter Comes / Decca / 6.12.39
Myra Taylor / Take It Easy Greasy / Mercury / 1946 / with Jimmy Keith’s Orchestra
B.B. King / Why Do Everything Happen to Me / Kent / LA 1958

set 3
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / The Blues and I / Blue Note [unissued] / 10.20.60 
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Town and Country / Dawn / 6.12.56 / Charlie Rouse ts, Julius Watkins fr h, Gildo Mahones p, Paul Chambers b, Ron Jefferson d
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Annie Laurie / Victor / 2.3.38 / vocal = “Quartet”
Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / Fools Rush In / Decca / 3.18.40 / vocal = Marion Mann 
Sam Cooke / Sam Cooke at the Copa / When I Fall in Love / RCA Victor / 7.7 & 8. 64 

set 4
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Goofin’ at the Coffee House / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Love for Sale / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b (played it a few weeks ago!)
Maxene Johnson / I’m a Perfect Fool Over You / Excelsior / Hollywood 7.22.40 / with King Cole & his Swing Trio (aka King Cole Swingsters): NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Robert Clary & Eartha Kitt / New Faces of 1952 / Bal Petit Bal / RCA Victor / 1952 
Brook Benton / Songs I Love to Sing / Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) / Mercury / 1960 
Soul Stirrers / Jesus Gave Me Water / Specialty / LA 3.1.51

last soulful song
Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972