Friday, September 06, 2024

A Playlist on the Edge of Town

Screenshot from video of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers performing in Belgium in 1958 showing Lee Morgan playing his trumpet, Jymie Merritt playing his bass, and Benny Golson playing his tenor saxophone.
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