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