My Playlist's Mistreating Me

Please tell us things are gonna get easier….

Coffeetime, September 13, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Split Quick / Blue Note / 8.4.60
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s Message / Minor Disturbance / Prestige / 7.20.56
Neal Hefti / The Young at Bop / Sloppy Joe’s / EmArcy / 12.18.46
Jackie Sounder & his Orchestra / When Erastus Plays his Old Kazoo / Columbia / LA 6.29.28 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Roy Fox & his Band / Can’t We Talk It Over / Decca / London 4.13.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly 
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / My Baby's Mistreating Me / Modern [unissued] / LA late 1940s
Bette McLaurin / How Can I / Jubilee / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Hal McKusick / East Coast Jazz No. 8 / What’s New / Bethlehem / 2.17.55
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / A Room with a View / Fantasy / 1957 
Frank Wess Sextet / Pretty Eyes / Commodore / 8.54
Mills Blue Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time I Look at You / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / Stormy Weather / Victor / 2.28.33 / vocal = Harold Arlen & some mystery celeste at the end
Lavern Baker / See See Rider / Atlantic / 9.26.62
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ That’s All / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 3
Red Garland / Red in Blues-Ville / See See Rider / Prestige / 4.17.59
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Esther’s Melody / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Sometimes I’m Happy / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Hank Jones on celeste!, the rest of personnel unknown
The Dreams / I’m Losing My Mind / Savoy / 10.54

The Toppers / I’m Living for You / Savoy / 12.8.44
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Ordinary People / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You Nat / That’s All / Surrey / Burbank 4.65
Australian Jazz Quartet / Loose Walk / Bethlehem / 2.55
Lennie Niehaus / The Octet #2 / Cooling It / Contemporary / Hollywood 1.11.55
Stephane Grappelli / I Want to Be Happy / Barclay / Paris 4.10.56
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Dolly Cooper / I’d Climb the Highest Mountain / Savoy / 3.3.53 / with The Four Buddies 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Look Around / Roda / A&M / Hollywood 1967
The Trumpeteers / Milky White Way / Score / Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song
The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / You Make Me So Mad / Buddah / Chicago 1968 / featuring James III on lead

A Playlist on the Edge of Town

Looking good, Jymie!

Coffeetime, September 6, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Sweet Sakeena / Bethlehem / 10.11.57
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Lex / Blue Note / 1.25.60 
The Ramblers O.L.V. [onder leiding van] Theo Uden Masman / A Strange Fact / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37 / with Coleman Hawkins ts
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime / Columbia / 10.27.32
Amos Milburn / She’s Gone Again / Aladdin / LA 1.4.50
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / It Never Entered My Mind / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Jon Eardley / Hey There, Jon Eardley! / If You Could See Me Now / Prestige / 3.14.55
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In the Evening / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24 
Ernie Morris / In the Mood / radio transcription, AFRS Jubilee #9 / LA 1.43 / with Master of Ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Ray Charles / Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand / Swing / LA 11.24.50 / Charles celeste (!), Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Eartha Kitt / RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt / I Wanna Be Evil / RCA Victor / 1954 /with Henri René & his Orchestra
Sammy Davis Jr. / Sammy Davis Jr. Sings What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Reprise / LA 7.18.61 / with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Blue Note / 1.13.67
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Billy Taylor Quartet / Twinkle Toes / HRS / 6.47
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Weather Man / Bluebird / 07.12.35 / vocal = Dolly Dawn
Jubalaires / When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam / Standard Transcription / late 1940s
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Could Have Told You So / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Barney Kessel / Carmen / A Pad on the Edge of Town / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
Billy Taylor’s Big Four / Flight of the Bebop / HRS / 9.19.47
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & celeste!, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Billie Holiday / The Blues Are Brewin’ / Decca / 12.27.46 / with John Simmons & his Orchestra 
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / LA 1972
Jubalaires / Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Manhattans / Baby, I Need You / Carnival / 1966
Delegates of Soul / I’ll Come Running Back / Up Look / Philadelphia 1970