Friday, November 15, 2024

I Hope Gabriel Likes My Playlist

Screenshot from the 1941 Soundie "Jack, You're Playing the Game" showing the four Delta Rhythm Boys in suits and hats singing with smiles in front of the sign for the Café Pom Pom on a brick wall.
Hanging with the Delta Rhythm Boys at the Café Pom Pom!


Coffeetime, November 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1 
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / ’S Make It / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / For Regulars Only / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Gene Krupa’s Band / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music / Victor / Chicago 2.29.36 
Andy Aiona’s Novelty Four / Keko / Columbia / Hollywood 1.14.29
Jack Jackson / Make Those People Sway / HMV / London 9.18.33 / vocal trio including Jackson
Betty Hall Jones / This Joint’s Too Hip for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49 
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Lost Love / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / I’m Old Fashioned / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Flip Phillips / But Beautiful / Mercury / LA 12.5.49
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Body and Soul / Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Alix Combelle & his Swing Band / Fast, Slow, Medium Tempo.  / Swing / Paris 2.20.40
Bon Bon & his Buddies / Seeing You Did Me No Good / Decca / 1.12.42
Mildred Bailey / Funiculi-Funicula / Mildred Bailey Show radio transcription / 1.12.45 / with Paul Baron Orchestra
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Me Love / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / They All Laughed / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / On the Street Where You Live / Prestige / 12.13.66
Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Out of Nowhere / Prestige / 3.5.57
Wardell Gray / Blue Gray / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
The Ravens / Time Takes Care of Everything / Columbia / 10.19.50 
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / The Secretary Song (Bibidi Bot Bot) / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Cy Coleman / Cy Coleman Sings Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Columbia / 1974

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / They Say It’s Wonderful / EmArcy / 11.4.59
Bobby Jaspar / Up in Quincy’s Room / Vogue / Paris 11.3.52
Delta Rhythm Boys / What Would It Take / Decca / Hollywood 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Alright, Okay, You Win / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
Little Milton / I’m Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66
The Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / 1977



Friday, November 08, 2024

Fundraising: Put Some Money in the Playlist

If Milton says we’re gonna make it, then I guess we are!

Coffeetime, November 8, 2024, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43
Lil Green / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / live / LA 1958
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45 


Friday, November 01, 2024

New Worried Playlist Blues

Screenshot from the movie The Harder They Come showing a close up of Jimmy Cliff wearing a yellow corduroy beret as he watches on in a recording studio.
And the Oscar goes to… best rebel song AND yellow beret.

Coffeetime, November 1, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with The Horace Silver Quintet / Cookin’ at the Continental / Blue Note / 1.31.59
JJR Monterose / JR Monterose / Bobbie Pin / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / Someday Sweetheart / Vocalion / 10.22.31
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Alone in the Rain / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders (lead) & Carleton A. Coon 
Jack McVea / New Worried Life Blues / Rhythm / San Francisco 1945 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Dinah Washington / Dinah! / Ill Wind / EmArcy / 11.12.55 

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

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 2.2.57
Jerome Richardson / Roamin’ with Richardson / Warm Valley / New Jazz / 10.21.59
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Somebody Loves Me / Perfect / 8.27.24
Ivory Joe Hunter / You’re Always Looking for More / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
B.B. King / Mean Ole Frisco / Kent / 1959

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Inception / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Duke Jordan / Les Liasons Dangereuse / No Problem #3 / Charlie Parker Records / 1.12.62
Hadda Brooks / Brook’s Boogie / Okeh / 12.12.52
The Three Keys / Wah-Dee-Dah / Brunswick / 9.21.32
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / duet = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / The Boy Next Door / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Swingin’ on a Star / Liberty / Hollywood 11.55 / Enevoldsen ts, Marty Paich p, Larry Bunker vb, Red Mitchell b, Don Heath d 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / A Romantic Guy/ Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 2.18-19.58
Lester Young Trio / I’ve Found a New Baby / Clef / LA spring 1946
Bing Crosby / Whose Dream Are You? / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Jimmy Cliff / The Harder They Come, soundtrack / The Harder They Come / Island / Kingston, Jamaica 1972
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.21.41

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore / Atlantic / Memphis 1968