Who Do You Know (That Made You the Playlist You Are)

Bobby, check my profile next… pleeze.

Coffeetime, August 29, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Ghana / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / The Rat Race Blues / New Jazz / 6.7.60
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / I’ve Found the Right Girl / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Jack Jackson
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Huggin’ Bug / Exclusive / LA 1946
Sylvia Syms / In a Sentimental Mood / In a Sentimental Mood / Movietone / 1965 / with Kenny Burrell g

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Wanted to Do One Together / How Long Has This Been Going On / Columbia / 6.7.62
Bill Holman-Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / 502 Blues Theme / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Wynton Kelly / Plays Interpretations, New Faces, New Sounds / Moonlight in Vermont / Blue Note / 8.1.51 / with celeste!
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Two Sleepy People / Bluebird / 10.13.38
Victoria Spivey / Sweet Peas / Decca / Chicago 7.7.36 / with Dot Scott’s Rhythm Dukes
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47
Joya Landis / Moonlight Lover / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1968

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61
Earl Zindars Sextet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / November Afternoon / Warwick / spring 1960
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Coleman Hawkins / Skippy / Clef / 8.29.49 / Hawkins ts, J.J. Johnson tb, Cecil Payne bs, Al Haig p, John Collins g, Nelson Boyd d
The Smoothies / I Must Have One More Kiss Kiss Kiss / Bluebird / 8.23.39 / with Hal Kemp & his Orchestra
Dixieaires / Long Lean and Lanky / Gotham / 1948
Yves Montand / Dis-Moi Jo / Odéon / Paris 11.05.53

set 4
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Summer Evening / Savoy / 3.30.55
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Plays The Composition Of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper And Jimmy Giuffre / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Bob Is My Guy / Specialty / Hollywood 8.50 / vocal = Candy Rivers
King Cole Trio / Who Do You Know (That Made You the Angel You Are) / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Bobby Darin / Twist with Bobby Darin / Irresistible You / Atco / 1961 / with Neil Sedaka p
Dixiaires [aka Dixieaires] / God Is the Greatest Creator / Sittin in With / LA 1951

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971

Cuando Calienta el Playlist

Talented and handsome Sam, we don’t see you nearly enough.

Coffeetime, August 22, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Jersey Lightning / Okeh / 9.6.29
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / Brunswick / 6.30.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Mabel Scott / Don’t Cry Baby / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 12.47
Julie London / All Through the Night / At Long Last Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Melancholee / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Midnight Call (Blues) / Okeh / 10.9.29
Cleo Brown / Boogie Woogie / Decca / 3.12.35
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / I Diddle / Mercury / 3.17.55
Vikki Carr / Discovery Vol. II / Cuando Calienta el Sol / Liberty / LA 1964

set 3
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Blue Train / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Tina / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Mildred Bailey / Sunday, Monday, or Always / V-Disc 105B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson
The Millionaires [The Blenders] / Kansas Kapers / Davis / LA 4.17.53 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Little Fishes / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Cabaletto / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It! / My Heart Stood Still / Contemporary / LA 1961
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Mathews
King Cole Trio / I Can’t Get Sentimental Over Nothing / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM [unissued] / 4.60
Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Theola Kilgore / This Is My Prayer / Serock / LA 1963
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971

(I’m Left With The) Playlist in My Heart

Oscar, can you order me a coffee?

Coffeetime, August 15, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Reunion / Riverside / 12.23.57
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Nitwit Serenade / Columbia / 8.16.34
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Show Boat / Victor / Biltmore Hotel, Kansas City MO 12.14.27 / vocal = Raymond “Pink” Porter, Myron Schultz, Harold Stokes
Amos Milburn / Operation Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.13.46 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, rest unknown
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.59 / with celeste!

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

set 2
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / What’s New / Riverside / 4.26.60
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / The Boy Next Door / Columbia / 12.1.58
Clifford Brown / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / 9.29.53
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Where the Lazy Daisies Grow / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Kicking the Gong Around / Brunswick / 10.27.31
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / A Wee Deoch an’ Doris / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.34
Marion Hutton & the Modernaires / Johnny Zero / V-Disc #4A (radio broadcast) / summer 1943
Gene Kelly & Georges Guetary / soundtrack to An American in Paris / S’Wonderful / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 7.25.50

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Alfredo / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I’m Left With The) Blues in My Heart / Prestige / 2.27.59
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Bess’s Boogie / Apollo / 12.13.49
Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Andy Russell radio show / Hollywood 5.5.45 / with Lou Bring Orchestra
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Frisco Club / United Artists / LA 1958
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Like the Likes of You / Riverside / 11.23.56
King Cole Trio / Laura / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.52 / NKC p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Bunny Shawker d
King Cole Trio / Laura / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / No Worry Blues / Black & White / LA 9.30.46 / with with Jack McVea & All-Stars
Rick Nelson / soundtrack to ABC TV production, On the Flip Side / It Doesn't Matter Anymore / Decca / LA 12.66
Alphabetical Four / Precious Lord, Hold My Hand / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Tyrone Davis / Was I Just a Fool / Dakar / 1972

Playlist Samba

Jackie’s shouting to the set decorator: “I’ve got FOUR points on my pocket square!”

Coffeetime, August 8, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Rigormortis / Blue Note / 8.11.64
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford – Volume 2 / Titoro / Bethlehem / 8.12.55
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Just a Mood / Pathé Marconi / Studio de l'avenue de la Grande-Armée, Paris 1.19.36 / with Herman Chittison on celeste!
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Sweet Summer Breeze / Victor / 9.4.31 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Roamin’ Blues / Decca / LA 11.24.47 / Jordan as, Aaron Izenhall tp, Eddie Johnson ts, Bill Doggett p, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Lonelyville / Riverside / 10.59

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

set 2
Les Spann / Gemini / Afterthought / Jazzland / 12.8.60
Billy Taylor / The New Billy Taylor Trio / Sounds in the Night / ABC-Paramount / 12.57
Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Prestige / 5.10.57
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Band / Knock-kneed Sal (On the Mourner’s Bench) / Decca / 9.9.38
Ella Mae Morse / Get Off It and Go / Capitol / Hollywood 5.7.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Boogie Woogie Seven
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Lost Child / King / Cincinnati 10.14.52 / vocal = Lavern Baker
Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / Manufacturers of Soul / My Girl / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.3-4.68

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Missile Blues / Riverside / 10.5.59
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Nostalgia / Savoy / 11.7.56 
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Stompin’ at the Savoy / transcription / 1945
Harry James & his Orchestra / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / Brunswick / 8.17.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Mel-O·Dots / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / Apollo [unissued] / 3.17.52
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Meu Vício é Você [My Addiction Is You] / RCA Victor / Rio de Janeiro 8.23.55

set 4
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Mr. Lucky / Capitol / Hollywood 9.62 
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / St. Thomas / Riverside / 7.59
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / The Song Is You / Verve / LA summer 1959
Una Mae Carlisle & her Jam Band / Mean to Me / Bluebird / London 5.20.38 
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Crickets / My Little Baby’s Shoes / Jay-Dee / 11.53 
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / Beach Samba / Verve / 6.9.67
Golden Gate Quartet / To the Rock / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / What Does It Take to Win Your Love / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1971

Drink to Me Only with Thine Playlist

Where’d ya get the cool frames, Sonny?

Coffeetime, August 1, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tina Brooks / David the King / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61 
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Hail to Dale / Fantasy / Chicago 6.55 / Ira Sullivan ts
Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Wonderful, Wonderful / Blue Note / 9.22.57
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / You’re Slightly Terrific / radio broadcast / live, Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland winter 1937
John [Jack] Jackson & his Orchestra / Sittin’ in the Dark / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Betty Hall Jones / Thrill Me / Capitol / Hollywood 8.2.49
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / My Old Flame / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56

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

set 2
Red Garland / Solar / The Very Thought of You / Jazzland / 1.30.62
John Coltrane / Stardust / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige / 12.26.58
Cliff Edwards / Halfway to Heaven / Columbia / 8.15.28
Bing Crosby / It’s Been a Long, Long Time / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / Strike While the Iron’s Hot / Coral / 2.4.53 / arrangements by Don Redman
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I’m a Woman (But I Don't Talk Too Much) / King [Federal] / 1961

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Buttercorn Lady / My Romance / Limelight / Hermosa Beach 1.66
Gene Ammons / Bad! Bossa Nova [Jungle Soul! (ca’ purange)] / Pagan Love Song / Prestige / 9.9.62
Joe Morris Orchestra / Wilma’s Idea / Manor / late 1947
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Do I Worry? / HMV / London 1940 / vocal = Dorothy Carless & George Evans
The Orioles / Forgive and Forget / Jubilee / 9.25.49
Anthony Newley / Tony / Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes / London / London 1961

set 4
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Playa del Rey / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
George Barnes & Carl Kress / Guitars Anyone? Why Not Start at the Top? / Blue Moon / Carney / 1963
King Cole Trio / It Only Happens Once / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription / 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / She Moves Me [alt take] / RPM / 1956
Sensational Golden Light Quartet of Philadelphia / Prodigal Son / Apex / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song

The Pretenders / It’s Everything About You (That I Love)/ Carnival [unissued] / 1980

Comin’ In on a Wing and a Playlist

Dean & Jerry having a barrel of fun.

Coffeetime, July 25, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Hub Cap / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / The Prophet / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Little Orphan Annie / Victor / Chicago 12.3.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Ella Fitzgerald / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! / Good Morning Heartache / Verve / LA 6.22.61

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

set 2
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / You Go to My Head / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56
Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / What’s New / Verve / 9.22.65
André Persiany / I Cover the Waterfront / Columbia / 7.17.57 / with Paul Quinichette
Lil Green / Now What Do You Think? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.17.45
The Cats & the Fiddle / When I Grow Too Old to Dream / Bluebird / 12.7.39 
Danny Kaye / Danny at the Palace / Hula Lou / Decca / 5.18.50 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Little Sylvia [Vanderpool] / Everything I Need But You / Jubilee / 1952 

set 3
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Little Me / Prestige / 1.24.63
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Joe’s Delight / Riverside / 11.17.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / The Hook / EmArcy / 10.5.51
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / You’re My Desire / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Golden Gate Quartet / Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer / Okeh / 5.19.43
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / It’s You Or No One / Prestige / 6.8.56

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Scandinavian Shuffle / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.60
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Summertime / Contemporary / LA 1.61
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay [Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings] / Hip Bones / Prestige / 12.3.54
King Cole Trio / Baby (Is What She Calls Me) / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Camille Howard / The Mood I’m In / Specialty / Hollywood 1949
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis / Every Street’s a Boulevard (In Old New York) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.20.54 / from Paramount movie Living It Up
Golden Gate Quartet / Run On / Okeh / 3.25.42

last soulful song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew / Philadelphia 1969

Music Playlist Please

Peggy can handle and impish Frank.

Coffeetime, July 18, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Chet Baker / Comin’ On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Comin’ On / Prestige / 8.65
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / Cubano Chant / Prestige / 2.25.57
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Someone / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 7.10.23 
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / My One and Only / HMV / Small Queen’s Hall, London 9.12.28 / vocal = Jack Jackson & Billy Ternent
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Wynonie Harris
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / Capitol / Hollywood 4.4.57 / with orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Nelson Riddle; with celeste! 

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / There Will Never Be Another You / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Ill Wind / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / I Can’t Get Started / Everest / 9.29.58
Lonnie Johnson / Steppin’ on the Blues / Okeh [unissued] / St. Louis, Missouri 4.25.27
The Boswell Sisters / It’s the Girl / Brunswick / 7.8.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Route 66 / Musicraft / 4.30.46 / vocal = Georgie Auld

set 3
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham / Callin’ the Blues / Grimes’ Times / Prestige / 7.18.58
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Chelsea Bridge / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Erskine Butterfield / Lighthouse / radio transcription / 8.17.44
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Away from It All / Okeh / 3.19.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Starlings / Music Maestro Please / Josie / 1954 
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / If I’m Lucky / Dawn / 1956

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Titmouse / Impulse! / LA 3.4.66
Jack Marshall & Shelly Manne / Sounds! / Am I Blue? / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Charlie Mariano / Let’s Get Away from It All / Fantasy / San Francisco 3.53
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
William Daniels & Barbara Harris / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / Wait Till We’re Sixty-Five / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / The Sun Didn’t Shine / King / 1949

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / Did My Baby Call / Volt / Memphis 1972
The Sapphires / Gonna Be a Big Thing / ABC-Paramount / 1965

Strike Up the Playlist

Maxwell and Amos… and the other guys.

Coffeetime, July 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Hank Mobley / [Another Workout] / Out of Joe’s Bag / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Noel Coward / World Weary / HMV / London 9.11.29 / with Carroll Gibbons p
Amos Milburn / Bewildered / Aladdin / Chicago 10.15.48 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, possibly Gene Phillips g
Julie London / Julie Is Her Name / I Should Care / Liberty / Hollywood 8.55 / with ​​Barney Kessel g, Ray Leatherwood b

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

set 2
Tadd Dameron / Fontainebleau / Fontainebleau / Prestige / 3.9.56
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Shadows / Crown / 1960
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Lush Life / French Columbia / 7.31.56
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Stringing the Blues / Columbia / 11.8.26

Ethel Waters / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 / with Ben Selvin’s Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
The Treniers / Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) / Okeh / 7.15.54 / for Willie Mays; with Quincy Jones & orchestra

set 3
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ The Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57

Don Byas / Don’s Idea / Savoy / 7.28.44
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I’m Playing Solitaire / Bluebird / 12.6.38 / vocal = Quentin Jackson
Johnny Otis Quintette / Double Crossing Blues / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / vocal = Little Esther & The Robins
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4

Charlie Persip’s Jazz Statesmen / Double Or Nothin’ / Wildwood / Liberty / LA 2.27.57

Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Mary Lou / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Strike Up the Band / Capitol / Hollywood 4.26.56
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; song written by Bobby Troup
Little Willie John / Inside Information / King / 9.13.63
Etta James / Tell Mama / Cadet / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 8.24.67
The Soul Stirrers / By and By, Part 2 / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
The Fascinations / Such a Fool / Mayfield / Chicago 1968

Always in My Playlist (Forever on My Mind)

Coffeetime, July 4, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / Capuchin Swing / Capuchin Swing / Blue Note / 4.17.60 
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Terrible “T” / Vee-Jay / 2.60 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige Swingville / 2.21.61 
Fred “Sugar” Hall & his Sugar Babies / Is It Possible? (That She Loves Me) / Okeh / 8.19.27 / vocal = Arthur Fields
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Evil Lover Blues / Aladdin [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones; Floyd Dixon p, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Carmen McRae / By Special Request / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / 6.56

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

set 2
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Angel Eyes / Jazzline / 1.12.62 / Pearson solo p
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Imagination / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Violets for Your Furs / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59
Mel Powell / On Piano / There’s a Small Hotel / Capitol / 1948
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / Always in My Heart (Forever on My Mind) / Columbia / London 1933
Ella Logan & Hoagy Carmichael / Two Sleepy People / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.14.38 / with Perry Botkin & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You / Roulette / 1962

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Dearly Beloved / Dearly Beloved / Blue Note / 6.8.61 / Turrentine ts, Shirley Scott org, Roy Brooks d
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Verve / spring 1966 / Evans p, Hall g
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Thad’s Blues / Impulse! / 5.8.62 / Paris g, Hank Jones p, George Duvivier b, Roy Haynes d
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Parker as, Miles Davis t, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Bobby Byrne & his Orchestra / If It Wasn’t for the Moon / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Jimmy DiPalma
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / Karen Lynn / Manor / 8.49 
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / There Goes My Heart [alt take] / Regent / 12.18.47 / with celeste!

set 4
Sam Most / East Coast Jazz/9: I’m Nuts About The Most....Sam / Tea for Two / Bethlehem / 1955 / Sam Most cl, Marty Flax bars, Bill Triglia p, Barry Galbraith g, Burgher Jones b, Bobby Donaldson d
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / Long Ago and Far Away / Mode / 6.57 
Stan Getz / Stan Getz Plays / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / 1953 
Benny Goodman Sextet / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / 3.10.42 / vocal = Peggy Lee; with celeste! 
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; “of all the fools, I break the rules”
Jimmy Ricks / Let Me Down Easy / Fury / 1962
R.H. Harris & his Gospel Paraders / Presenting Gospel Pearls / Somebody / SAR / 1962

last soulful song
Bobby Reed / The Time Is Right for Love / Bell / 1970

Rusty Dusty Playlist

So much talent…

Coffeetime, June 27, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Joe Newman / The Midgets / The Midgets / RCA Victor / 7.8.56
Phil Woods / Woodlore / Woodlore / Prestige / 11.25.55
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / He’s Pulling his Whiskers / Decca / 3.10.38
B.A. Rolfe & his Concert Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Edison / 10.16.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues) / Decca / Chicago 11.15.41 / Jordan as & voc, Eddie Roane t, Arnold Thomas p, Dallas Bartley b, Walter Martin d
Chubby Newsome & her Hip Shakers / Hard Lovin’ Mama (Anytime) / Regal / New Orleans 12.19.49 / with Howard Biggs Orchestra 
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor… Miss Helen Carr / I’m Glad There Is You / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Summertime / Savoy / 10.10.55 / Jordan solo p
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Stardust / Commodore / 11.10.38
Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 1.14.38 / with celeste!
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / It Happened in Monterey / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58
Albert King / The Big Blues / This Funny Feeling / King / 1963

set 3
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Meetin’ Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Subway Grate / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Kenny Clarke / Kenny Clarke / Skoot / Savoy / Hollywood 11.1.54
Louis Prima Orchestra / I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine / radio broadcast, Voice of America / late 1949 / vocal = Keely Smith
The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 2.3.56
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57
Stéphane Grappelli / Taking a Chance on Love / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Rhythm ’Bout Town / Vocalion / 10.25.37 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / LA 1972
Carolina Kings of Harmony / Going On Home to Glory / Trumpet / Raleigh NC 4.10.53

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / To Be True / Bad Luck / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

Playlist of Honey

Orson, you made me love you…

Coffeetime, June 20, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / [Six Pieces of Silver] / Tippin’ / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Melody for C / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Avalon / Bluebird / 10.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Jimmy Rushing / Jimmy’s ’Round the Clock / Excelsior / LA 9.13.45 / with Johnny Otis, his Drums & Orchestra
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57

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

set 2
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Taste of Honey / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / What Is There to Say? / Riverside / 12.15.58
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Orson Welles / You Made Me Love You / CBS radio broadcast, The Orson Welles Almanac / Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wilmington 7.5.44 
Larry Darnell / I’ll Get Along Somehow, Parts One and Two / Regal / 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band, Gayton on celeste!
B.B. King / King of the Blues / I’m King / Crown / Hollywood 10.26.59

set 3
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson / The Spirit of ’67 / Ja-Da / Impulse! / 2.14.67 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite! / Moonglow / Verve / 2.59 
Lester Young / The Sheik of Araby / Aladdin / 12.29.47
Howard McGhee / Dorothy / Dial / 12.3.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Harry Wells & Sy Oliver
The Charioteers / Oooh! Look A-There, Ain’t She Pretty / Columbia / 12.5.47
Joe Derise / Joe Derise Sings / It Might As Well Be Spring / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Hugo Hurwhey / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Norfolk Ferry / Bluebird / 11.6.40
King Cole Trio / I Think You Get What I Mean / Capitol / Hollywood 7.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mabel Mercer / Once in a Blue Moon / Sunday in New York / Atlantic / 1956 / with George Cory, arranger/conductor
Dixie Hummingbirds / Every Knee Surely Must Bow / Apollo / 2.46

last soulful song
Roger Hatcher / I’m Gonna Dedicate My Song to You / Excello / 1968

The Blues My Playlist Gave to Me

Fats and hats!

Coffeetime, June 13, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Little Chico / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / Blow Me Down / RCA Victor / 12.4.46
Whispering Jack Smith / Blue Skies / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 / Smith p & voc
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Dream Lucky Blues / Mercury / Kansas City summer 1945 / Lee p & voc, Ben Curtis b, Sam “Baby” Lovett d
Dakota Staton / Ballads and the Blues / Come Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Afraid of Love / Prestige / 1967
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra / The Blues My Baby Gave to Me / Victor / 1.13.39
Fats Waller / Fats Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, broadcast / 3.11.35
Gus Arnheim & his Ambassador Hotel Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Okeh / LA 4.14.28 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / It’s the Natural Thing to Do / Vocalion / 6.29.37
Johnny Otis Orchestra / Good Boogdi Googie / Excelsior / Hollywood fall 1945 / vocal = George Washington
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Old Man River / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 / RIP Al Foster d
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / Everest / LA 7.60
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / O.H. Blues / Mercury / 8.8.51
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / On the Island of Catalina / Decca / 10.5.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Aces / Put Your Cards on the Table / Trilon / Oakland late 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Some Like It Hot / Contemporary / LA 3.59
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Poly-Doodle / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
The Chocolate Dandies / That’s How I Feel Today / Okeh / 9.18.29
King Cole Trio / I Love to Make Love to You [aka Any Old Time] / V-Disc #455 (Army), #235 (Navy) / LA 2.27.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Al Jackson & his Band / Cloudy Weather Blues / Capitol / 1.49 / vocal = Dick Cole
Peggy Lee / Mink Jazz / I Could Write a Book / Capitol / Hollywood 2.5.63 
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / My Lord is Coming Back / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
The Marvellos / We Go Together / Loma / 1966

Just Another Playlist Wasted Away

Una Mae: a lovely and talented Coffeetime favorite.

Coffeetime, June 6, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Whistle Stop / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hippy / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Slow Burn / MGM / 1.9.47
The Rhythmic Eight / Just Another Day Wasted Away / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 2.6.28
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Okeh / 5.8.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Floyd Dixon / Pleasure Days / Aladdin / Houston c. 1949 / Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Bill Ellis ts, Sammy Benskin g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / All My Tomorrows / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / ZT's Blues / More Than You Know / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Warm Winds / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Sea Breeze / Verve / 12.17.57
Django’s Music / Tears / Swing / Paris 3.22.40
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / You’re Lucky to Me / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Big Three / I Feel Like Steppin’ Out / Columbia / Chicago 2.18.49
Dean Martin / French Style / C’est Magnifique / Reprise / Hollywood 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Matador / Blue Note / 5.20.65
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 7.14.67
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / radio broadcast AFRS Jubilee #91 / Hollywood c. 6.44 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA Victor / 1954

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Ruby / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 / Collette fl, Ernie Freeman on celeste!
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Val’s Pal / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Valve in Head / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.22.54
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio transcription, WEMP / The Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Gente / A&M / LA 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / A Look Away from Heaven / radio broadcast NBC Thesaurus #979 / 1941

last soulful song
Mary Wells / Stop Takin’ Me for Granted / 20th Century Fox /1964

George Benson / Turn Your Love Around / Warner Brothers / 1981

The Playlist (Keeps a Knockin’)

Stunning, as always: Miss Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, May 30, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Chi-Chi / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / The Cattin’ Toddler / New Jazz / 1.31.58 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Oh Lady Be Good! / Decca / 2.4.39 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Nocturne / Decca / 4.18.33 
Abe Lyman & his Orchestra / Singing a Happy Song / Brunswick / 1.17.35 / vocal = Phil Neely
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / The Masquerade Is Over / Capitol / 6.61 

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

set 2
Buddy DeFranco / In a Mellow Mood / Laura / Norgan / LA 8.10.54 / DeFranco cl, Sonny Clark p, Gene [Eugene “Senator”] Wright b and Bobby White d
The Kenny Clarke – Francy Boland Big Band / Now Hear Our Meanin’ / I’m Scared of Girls When They’re Good Looking / Columbia / Cologne 1.25–26.63 / Sahib Shihab bari 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / Late Evening / Prestige / 2.21.61 / Buddy Tate cl 
Lyda Roberti / College Rhythm / Columbia / 1934 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Eddie South & his Orchestra / Just an Old Banjo / ARC Test [unissued] / 11.23.34 
Faye Adams / The Hammer (Keeps a Knockin’) / Herald / 1956
Jean Paul Mauric / Sur le Chemin de Las Vegas / Festival Victory / Paris 1962 / avec Alan Gate et Son Orchestre

set 3
Larry Young / Young Blues / A Midnight Angel / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Forrest Fire / Dexter’s Deck / New Jazz / 8.9.60 
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Carl’s Blues / Dootone / LA 1955 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Lang-Worth Transcription / 12.21.43 / vocal = Dorothy Claire
The Pied Pipers / Ok’l Baby Dok’l / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Mills Brothers / You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Columbia / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / The More I See You / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / [Time Further Out] / Slow and Easy (aka Lawless Mike) / Columbia [unissued] / 5.25.61 / Brubeck p, Paul Desmond as, Eugene Wright b, Joe Morello d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Stella By Starlight / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 / Candoli t, Claude Williamson p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d
Peggy Lee / Trav’llin’ Light / Capitol Transcription / LA 4.4.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Inga Swenson, Johnny Laverty, John Reardon, Franca Baldwin, Suzanne Bernard, & Virginia Martin / New Faces of ’56 / Girls ’n’ Girls ’n’ Girls / RCA Victor / 1956 
The Coleman Brothers / Walls of Jericho / Coleman / 1951 

last soulful song
Darrow Fletcher / No Limit / Crossover [unissued] / 1978

After Hours on Playlist Street

Mel charming Peggy with humor.

Coffeetime, May 23, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Stix Trix / Riverside / 2.25.58
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Mumba Neua / Prestige / 9.15.64
Harry Carney’s Big Eight / Jamaica Rumble / HRS / 3.18.46
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep! / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio; with celeste! 
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I Just Thought of You / Freedom / Houston c. 6.49
Sarah Vaughan / I’m Glad There Is You / EmArcy / 12.16.54

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

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / I Surrender Dear / Atlantic / 11.20.56 / with celeste!
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / After Hours on Dream Street / HRS / 11.5.45
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Bakiff / Victor / Hollywood 6.5.41
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Harry Barris, Al Rinker
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Joe (Everyday) Williams / Blow Mr. Low / Savoy / Chicago 1.23.53 / with Red Saunders & his Orchestra 

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Ray Charles Presents / Tin Tin Deo / Atlantic / 1959
Joe Newman / Soft Swingin’ Jazz / Scotty / Coral / 1.15.58
Howard McGhee / Turnip Blood / Dial / 12.3.47
The Mills Brothers / What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasing You)? / Decca / 2.20.35
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 1944
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / Welcome to the Club / Verve / London 7.19.61 / with Wally Stott & his Orchestra

set 4
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper / Sidewinder / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Up in Quincy’s Room / ABC-Paramount / 1956
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four Brothers / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / No One Else Could Be / King / 6.28.51 / vocal = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
Etta James / You Got It / Cadet / Muscle Shoals 8.68
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39

last soulful song
Nate Evans / Main Squeeze / Twinight / Chicago 1972
The Mark-Keys / My Sweet Baby / TCB / Chicago 1967

Have a Little Playlist on Me

Come on, Bozzies.

Coffeetime, May 16, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / This is New / It’s You or No One / Riverside / 3.28.57
Art Pepper / Smack Up / Smack Up / Contemporary / 10.24-25.60
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Close to Five / Decca / 3.16.39
Anson Weeks & his Orchestra / Have a Little Dream on Me / Brunswick / San Francisco 8.26.34 / vocal = Kay St. Germaine & Ben Gage
Dinah Washington / My Lovin’ Papa / Apollo / LA 12.10-13.45
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Dear Ann / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / (Coffee in the Morning) Kisses in the Night / Bluebird / Chicago 12.12.33 / vocal = Jim Holstein
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / I’m My Own Grandpaw / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Little Milton / Somebody Told Me / Sun / Memphis 7.28.53

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Sonnymoon for Two / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Miles Davis / Little Willie Leaps / Savoy / 8.14.47
Boswell Sisters / Sleep, Come On and Take Me / Brunswick / 8.6.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Moments in the Moonlight / Victor / 2.26.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Shadow of Your Smile / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / The Fruit / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Bud Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Surf Pipers / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59 / Shank as, Billy Bean g, Gary Peacock b, Chuck Flores d 
King Cole Trio / Sunday / radio transcription King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio / Hollywood 3.6.48
Larry Darnell / Lost My Baby / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band
Bobby Darin / Oh! Look at Me Now / You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) / Capitol / LA 7.27.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Nashboro / Nashville 1951-52

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

Playlist in Calico

I’d never ever pass you by, Cary.

Coffeetime, May 2, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Yusef Lateef / Other Sounds / Minor Mood / New Jazz / 10.11.57 
Sonny Rollins / Saxophone Colossus / St. Thomas / Prestige / 6.22.56 sus
Six Jumping Jacks / Say Mister! Have You Met Rosie’s Sister? / Brunswick / 3.9.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks & ensemble 
Luke Jones & His Five Joes / Going Down Slow / Atlas / 1946 / vocal = George “The Blues Man” Vann 
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / Nobody’s Heart / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

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

set 2
Duke Jordan / East and West of Jazz / Yes, He’s Gone / Charlie Parker Records / 2.13.62 
Coleman Hawkins / Night Hawk / Night Hawk / Prestige Swingville / 12.30.60 
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Egyptian Fantasy / Victor / 1.8.41 
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / A Little Bit Independent / radio transcription / 1948
Alton Redd & his Low Down Blues Band / But She’s Not for Me / Black & White [unissued] / 1945
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Oops! / Decca / LA 11.23.51 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / Kenny’s Theme / Prestige / 4.7.64 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Red’s Good Groove / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Coleman Hawkins & his 52nd Street All Stars / Spotlite / RCA Victor / 2.27.46 
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Victor / 3.4.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / I Remember Clifford / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 4
Dave Pell / Love Story / Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.20.56 
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Gal in Calico / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / Spring Is Here / Prestige / 2.18.55 
King Cole Trio / For Once in Your Life / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.2.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / Prison Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 12.16.47
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Pass Me By / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / His Eye Is on the Sparrow / Decca / 3.21.44 

last soulful song
Kiki Dee / I Dig You Baby / World Pacific / LA 1966

Playlist Saving Time (There Ought to Be)

Coffeetime, April 25, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59
Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / It’s Alright with Me / Savoy / 8.25.59
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Blue Danube / Victor / 3.10.37
Mike Speciale & his Orchestra / Caressing You / Edison / 1.3.29
Ivory Joe Hunter / Blues at Sunrise / Exclusive / LA 1945 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Lover Man / Atlantic / 5.23.58

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

set 2
Grant Green / Green Street / ‘Round About Midnight / Blue Note / 1.1.61
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Epic / 7.2.56 
Emilio Caceres Trio / What’s the Use? / Victor / 11.5.37
Sam Ku West Harmony Boys [Sam Kulua West] / Sunkist Hawaii / Victor / Oakland 3.26.28
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / You’re in the Army Now / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Pee Wee Crayton / My Idea About You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Goin’ Home / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Red Norvo / Red Plays the Blues / Sunrise Blues / RCA Victor / LA 1.18.57
Pat Flowers & his Rhythm / Original Blues / Majestic / 8.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / You’ve Got to Eat Your Spinach, Baby / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Charioteers / Dinah / radio broadcast / 1942
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / I Wish I Knew / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large / In the Night / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14, 15.60
Blossom Dearie / Jazz Sweet / Moonlight Saving Time (There Ought to Be) / Barclay / Paris 1955
Ernie Felice / Cocktail Time / Shake Down the Stars / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / Oh Me! Oh My! / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”) & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Things Ain’t Like They Used to Went / Bethlehem / 1.60
Golden Gate Quartet / Found a Wonderful Savior / Bluebird / Charlotte 8.4.37

last soulful song
Honey & the Bees / Help Me (Get Over My Used to Be Lover) / Josie / Philadelphia 1970
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

The Playlist’s in Love with You

Dick will get her to smile… I *know* he will!

Coffeetime, April 18, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Scoochie / Warwick / 1960
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Bert Firman’s Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Hotel Commodore Dance Orchestra (Ben Selvin & his Orchestra) / Lucille / Columbia / 10.21.31 / vocal = Robert Wood
Jesse (Belvin) & Marvin (Phillips) / Daddy Loves Baby / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1.6.52 / arranged by Red Callender; Maxwell Davis ts, Callender b
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Angel Eyes / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / At Last / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Red Norvo / Russian Lullaby / Keynote / 10.10.44
Leo Parker & his Mad Lads / Solitude / Gotham / 12.28.50 
Maurice Chevalier / Louise / Victor / 3.14.29 / for the Paramount movie The Innocents of Paris 
The Nephews (The Spirits of Rhythm) / My Old Man / Brunwsick / 12.6.33 / lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Bernie Hanighen 
The Sultans / Blues at Dawn / Jubilee / 2.52
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Easy Street / Command / Hollywood 1963 / with the Ray Charles Singers

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / The Lady’s in Love with You / Clef / 9.13.54
Maxwell Davis / Hot Point / Aladdin / LA 2.18.53
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
The Ink Spots / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Decca / 10.13.41
Willie Bobo / Feelin’ So Good / Dichoso / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66
Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Street Swinger / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57
Anita O’Day / Tennessee Waltz / London / 10.26.50 / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1968
Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46

last soulful song
T.S.U. Toronadoes / Got to Get Through to You / Atlantic / 1969
Darrell Banks / Open the Door to Your Heart / Revilot / Detroit 1966

On a Misty Playlist

Lasso me next, Gene!

Coffeetime, April 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Tree of Hope / Victor / 10.16.41 
Al Bowlly / Falling in Love / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with New Cumberland Dance Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Drifting Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.12.45 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Why Was I Born? / Verve / LA 1.6.63

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

set 2
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Lydia’s Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / When Sunny Gets Blue / Blue Note / 11.11.60
Gene Ammons / It’s the Talk of the Town / Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Annette Hanshaw / It’s the Talk of the Town / Banner / 9.1.33
Gene Autry / Blue Hawaii / Okeh / 10.11.37
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love? / Manor / c. 1947 
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To? / Where Would You Be Without Me? / RCA / 1965

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Sunset / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery / Gone with the Wind / Riverside / 1.28.60
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Begin the Beguine / Savoy / 2.26.55
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49 
Kay Starr / A Woman Always Understands / Lamplighter / Hollywood 6.15.46 / with The Lamplighter Five
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Try to Remember / MGM / 1962

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Kenya / Tampa / LA 1954
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47 / with the Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Eddie Safranski b
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / Roulette / 1960
The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Right to the Tree of Life / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
LeRoy Hutson / Hutson II / I Think I’m Falling in Love / Curtom / Chicago 1976