Friday, October 11, 2024

Looking at the World Thru Rose Coloured Playlist

Scene from the movie Reet, Petite, and Gone showing Louis Jordan playing his alto sax while two pretty women sit on the piano and the bass player is behind. The women are smiling.
Mr. Jordan – don’t scold us, play for us!

Coffeetime, October 11, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / Exhibit A / Prestige / 2.25.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / The One That Got Away / RCA Victor / 1.10.46
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Reaching for Someone / Okeh / 5.22.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Pompton Turnpike / Decca / 9.30.40 / Jordan as, Courtney Williams t, Kenneth Hollon ts, Arnold Thomas p, Charlie Drayton b, Walter Martin d
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Skylark / EmArcy / Hollywood 4.21.55

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / In Person / Goodbye / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / These Foolish Things / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Stéphane Grappelli / Dans la vie / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / My Pet / Victor / 4.22.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Put It Away / Vocalion / 12.14.39 / vocal = Willie Smith
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Signature / 1961
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Looking at the World Thru Rose Coloured Glasses / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62

set 3
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / My Groove Your Move / Blue Note / 11.13.60
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Blues In / Aladdin / Hollywood 12.28.56
Tadd Dameron’s Band / Anthropology / live, Royal Roost 1948
Billy Bissett & his Orchestra / Never in a Million Years / HMV / Mayfair Hotel, London 6.14.37 / duet with Alice Mann
Melody Masters / Subway Cutie / Apollo / 1947
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Skylark / Pacific Jazz / Forum Theatre, LA 9.13.56

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Autumn Leaves [alt take] / RCA Victor / 3.15.62
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Knee Deep / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Mae West / Pardon Me for Loving and Running / CBS radio broadcast (possible) / 1947 / Josef Cherniavsky & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee / I Should Care / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / The Meaning of a Sad Song / DeLuxe / 1969
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Swing Down Chariot / radio broadcast, Carnation Milk show on WDIA / Memphis 12.16.49

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads / Monkey Time ’69 / Volt / Memphis 1969