Mutiny in the Playlist

Keep your eye on the hands, Al.

Coffeetime, March 29, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Blowin’ for Dootsie / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55 
Max Roach / Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker / Tune-up / Mercury [unissued] / 12.20.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Rose Room / Bluebird / 1.31.39 
Seven Little Polar Bears aka Jimmy Johnston’s Rebels aka Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Love Her! / Cameo / 6.5.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks (drummer)
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Specialty / Hollywood 3.8.47
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / If You Were Mine / EmArcy / LA 4.21.55

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

set 2
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Prelude to a Kiss / Contemporary / LA 11.21.61
Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Night We Called It a Day / Fantasy / 1955 / Vince Guaraldi on celeste!
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Mess-a-Stomp / Vocalion / 11.7.29
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Lazy Weather / Decca / Chicago 5.15.36 / vocal = Perry Como 
The Dells / Jo-Jo / Vee-Jay / 5.21.56
Tina Louise / It’s Time for Tina / I Wanna Be Loved / Concert Hall / 1957 / with Buddy Weed & his Orchestra including Coleman Hawkins ts

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Pavanne / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Lil’ Darlin’ / Jazzland / 7.19.61
Charlie Parker / The Magnificent Charlie Parker / Si Si / Clef / 8.8.51 
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Red River Valley / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
Cap-Tans / I’m So Crazy for Love / Dot / 1950 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / When Your Lover Has Gone / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Billy May & his Orchestra / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Coolest Pad / UA / Hollywood 1963
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / Corner Pocket / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56
Hildegarde / Ten Pretty Girls / Columbia / London 8.30.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / Mutiny in the Nursery / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 10.38 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Yves Montand / Paris / C’est Si Bon / Columbia / 1964
Paramount Singers / Let the Healing Waters Move / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soulful song
Belita Woods / That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You / Karen / Detroit 7.69

Fool’s Fancy (aka Playlist)

Handsome man, handsome guitar.

Coffeetime, March 22, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Windmill / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61
Art Blakey Big Band / Pristine (take 6) / Bethlehem [unissued] / 12.57
Ziggy Elman & his Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me / Bluebird / 8.29.39 
Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Little Esther / Hold Me / Federal [unissued] / LA 1.4.52 
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / You’re a Joy / Riverside / 4.16.62 / vocal = Barbara Winfield

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Where Are You / Verve / LA 10.15.57
George Barnes & Carl Kress / Guitars Anyone? Why Not Start at the Top? / Memories of You / Carney / 1963
Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / Stardust / Everest / 9.3.58
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Brunswick / 12.13.34
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Hard to Get Gertie / Okeh / LA 4.6.28 
Mills Brothers / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Decca / 11.19.31 
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / I Shouldn’t Cry But I Do / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson
Peggy Lee / You Can Depend on Me / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / with Dave Barbour 
The Three Stooges / The Nonsense Songbook / Chickery Chick / Coral / 5.59

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Fried Pies / Riverside / 11.27.63
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
The Bebop Boys / Fool’s Fancy (aka Wail) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Maxine Sullivan / Cry, Buttercup, Cry / Apollo / 1948 / possibly with Larry Johnson & his Orchestra
Hi-Liters / Hello Dear / Vee-Jay / 11.10.55 
Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / LA 8.55 

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Tuffy / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Patti-Cake / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54
Sonny Criss / Sonny Criss Plays Cole Porter / Anything Goes / Imperial / LA 1956
Anita Boyer’s Tomboyers / I Dream of You / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 4.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Frank Sinatra & Van Johnson / Personality / CBS radio broadcast, Songs by Sinatra / AFRS #27 / Hollywood 3.20.46 
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / It’s a Good Day / Mainstream / 1965
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Mother Gone On / WDIA radio broadcast, Carnation Milk Show / Memphis 12.16.49

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Do It with All Your Heart / Blue Rock / 1.65

Three Handed Playlist

Best forehead crinkles in Hollywood!

Coffeetime, March 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Somethin’ Cute / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Fine and Dandy / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Will You, Won’t You Be My Baby? / Victor / Chicago 11.23.28
The Rhythmic Eight / She’s a Great Great Girl / Zonophone / 9.20.28 / vocal = Maurice Elwin /
Billy Valentine Trio / Three Handed Woman / Decca / 1950
Irma Curry / Don Elliott with Irma Curry / No Spring This Year / Columbia / 1.62

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

set 2
Dupree Bolton / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 6.30.63
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Eddie South / Sentimental Rhapsody / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1956
Fred Astaire / The Piccolino / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.15.35 / with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra; from the RKO movie Top Hat
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / I Wanna Be a Brat / Varsity / LA 1940
The El Dorados / Oh What a Girl / Vee-Jay / 11.6.57 
José Feliciano / Feliciano! / Nena Na Na / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968

set 3
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Amyable / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Two Songs / Dawn / 6.12.56
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Scotty Boo / King / 7.16.56
Gene Ammons / Hot Stuff / Prestige / 8.14.51
The Marshall Brothers / I Didn’t Know / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 
Evelyn Knight & The Jesters / Chicory Chick / V-Disc 566B; Decca / 1945 / with Bob Haggart’s Band
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Jimmy Rowles / Let's Get Acquainted with Jazz…For People Who Hate Jazz / Cheeta’s for Two / Tampa / Hollywood 6.20.58
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Night Watch / United Artists / LA 1958
Stéphane Grappelli / ’S Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Anita O’Day / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.26.45  / with the King Cole Trio
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake 
Little Milton / More and More / Checker / Chicago 10.67
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atco [Carla] / 1965

Sweet Potato Playlist

Lou Rawls, knockin’ drums, MCM set… love it!

Coffeetime, March 8, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Jazz Messengers / À la Mode / Impulse! / 6.14.61 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Chasm / Savoy / 6.26.55
Barney Wilen / Jazz sur Seine [soundtrack] / Swingin’ Parisian Rhythm / Fontana / Paris 2.13, 14.58
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Just One More Kiss / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal = Al Lynch
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Penthouse in the Basement / Decca / 3.13.40
Sarah Vaughan / Jim / EmArcy / 12.18.54

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

set 2
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / A Time for Love / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / How Deep is the Ocean / Savoy / 5.19.56
Georgie Auld / Plays the Winner / What’s New / Philips / Hollywood 4.2.63
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / Cross Patch / Bluebird / 6.3.36 / vocal = Willie Bryant
Dorothy Lamour / Sweet Potato Piper / from soundtrack to the Paramount movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
Cats & the Fiddle / That’s On, Jack, That’s On / Bluebird / Chicago 12.7.39 
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / I Like the Likes of You / ABC-Paramount / 1957

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / I Never Knew / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.14.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Lockjaw / Haven / 5.46
Mary Ann McCall / On Time / Columbia / LA 6.19.47
The Four Blues / The Vegetable Song / Apollo / 12.17.47
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Ralph Burns / Bijou / Echo of Spring / Bethlehem / 1956
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Lighthouse at Laguna / Blind Man’s Bluff / Laguna Beach 6.20.55
King Cole Trio / Those Things Money Can't Buy / radio transcription, King Cole Trio Time, AFRS edition / 12.6.47
Sammy Davis, Jr. / I’ve Gotta Be Me / I’ve Gotta Be Me / Reprise / LA 2.1.68
Jubalaires / Handwriting on the Wall / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing & In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / live, Ed Sullivan Theater 11.6.66