Friday, September 27, 2024

Zing-A-Zing-A-Zing-Playlist

Screenshot from movie This Is the Army from 1943 showing Joe Louis in his army uniform about to come on stage for a musical number (he does not sing). He's wearing boxing gloves and smiling.
Joe can help you win at Jeopardy.

Coffeetime, September 27, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Gettin’ With It / Blue Streak / New Jazz / 12.23.59 
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Study in Brown / If I Love Again / EmArcy / 2.23-25.55 
Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform a Tribute to Clifford Brown / Jordu / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Pavanne / NBC radio show One Night Stand / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1944
Dick Robertson / She’s Funny That Way / Edison / 12.6.28
Lowell Fulson / Blue Shadows / Swing Time / 1950 
Ella Fitzgerald / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Decca / 1952 / with orchestra conducted by Sy Oliver

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

set 2
Ron Jefferson / Love Lifted Me / Flamingo / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.27.61 
Don Wilkerson / Elder Don / Poor Butterfly / Blue Note / 5.3.62 
Benny Goodman Sextet / The New Benny Goodman Sextet #2 / I’ll Never Be the Same / Columbia / 7.29.52 / Goodman cl, Terry Gibbs vb, Teddy Wilson p, Mundell Lowe g, Sid Weiss b, Terry Snyder d
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Keep Smilin’, Keep Laughin’, Be Happy / Decca / 5.19.42 
The Dixiaires / Joe Louis Is a Fightin’ Man / Sittin’ in With / 1949 
The Jubilaires / As Summer Turns to Fall / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Dean Martin / Zing-A-Zing-A-Zing-Boom / Capitol / Hollywood 1950

set 3
King Curtis / The New Scene of King Curtis / Da Duh Dah / New Jazz / 4.21.60 
Roy Brooks / Beat / Soulin’ / Workshop Jazz / 1964
Sonny Stitt / Saxophone Supremacy / It’s You or No One / Verve / Hollywood 12.59 
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Raindrops / Atomic / Hollywood 1946
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World) / Decca / 1942 / vocal = Trevor Bacon
The Orioles / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Jubilee / 1952
Mel Tormé / I Dig the Duke, I Dig the Count / Oh, What a Night for Love / Verve / LA 1961

set 4
Bucky & Mary Pizzarelli / Playing the Piano Music of Bix Beiderbecke in Arrangements by Bill Challis / Stage Fright / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974
Don Fagerquist / Eight by Eight (Music to Fill a Void) / Aren’t You Glad You’re You / Mode / Hollywood 9.14.57
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / 1949 / with The Mellomen
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
James Brown / Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things / Talk to Me, Talk to Me / King / 12.68
The Dixiaires / Joshua / Lenox / 1949 

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / Think Nothing About It / Constellation / Chicago 1964