Playlist in Hand

Dinah, can you teach me how to get that glamorous eyeliner?

Coffeetime, October 3, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Groovin’ Higher / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 / Viscosity / Blue Note / 6.6.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Oh, Lady Be Good / Columbia / 12.9.40
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wanderer / HMV / London 1.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44 / with celeste!
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Little Girl Blue / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.61

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 2.62 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Melody Man’s Dream / Okeh / 10.21.27
Willard Robison & his Levee Loungers / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Columbia [unissued] / 3.12.29 / Robison p & voc, rest unknown
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash; with celeste!
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / ABC-Paramount / 1957
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Don’t Want No Woman / Duke / Memphis 1957 / with Bill Harvey Orchestra

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / Ugetsu / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
The Four Southerners / Dan, The Back Door Man / Decca / Chicago 3.18.37
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / That Old Feeling / Liberty / LA 9.55
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Walkin’ Home / Tampa / LA 1954
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) / Mercury / 3.60 / orchestra conducted by Belford Hendricks
The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44

last soulful song
Monique / If You Love Me (Show Me) / Maurci / Chicago 1966
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971

Happy Playlist Stomp

Wonder what Jimmy and Frank said to you, Bobby…

Coffeetime, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Brooks / Beat / Soulsphere / Workshop Jazz / 1964 / Blue Mitchell t, Junior Cook ts, George Bohanon tb, Hugh Lawson p, Eugene Taylor b, Brooks d
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Something Easy / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals / Happy Pal Stomp / Okeh / Richmond, VA 8.15.29
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra (also issued under pseudonyms Chester Leighton & his Sophomores and Golden Terrace Orchestra) / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Rabon Tarrant / Opus Boogie / Apollo / LA 8.45 / with Jack McVea & his All Stars: Teddy Buckner t, Jack McVea ts, Bob Mosley p, Gene Phillips g, Frank Clarke b, Tarrant d & voc
Peggy Connelly / It Never Entered My Mind / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56 / with Russ Garcia & the Wigville Band; fabulous cover design by Burt Goldblatt (as with many Bethlehem records in this show) 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Theme for Ernie / Prestige / 2.7.58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soultrane
Dorothy Ashby / Hip Harp / Moonlight in Vermont / Prestige / 3.21.58 
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / When a Woman Loves a Man / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Walter Huston / September Song / Brunswick / 1938 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, & Bobby Long / I Believe / from the MGM movie It Happened in Brooklyn / Hollywood 1947 
Frankie Laine / One for My Baby / Necessary Evil / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman / Double Barrelled Soul / Sunny / Atlantic / 8.9.67 
John Wright / South Side Soul / South Side Soul / Prestige / 8.30.60 
Charlie Parker / Crazeology / Dial / 12.17.47 
Frank Masters & his Orchestra / Harbor of Dreams / Okeh / 1941 / vocal = Phyllis Myles
The Four Knights / A Few Kind Words / Capitol / 1953 / solo = Gene Alford 
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / How Long Has This Been Going On / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl, Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Max Bennett / Max Bennett / Rubberneck / Bethlehem / 12.14.55 / Charlie Mariano as, Frank Rosolino tb, Claude Williamson p, Bennett b, Stan Levey d; composed by Rosolino
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Pumatic / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d
Russ Garcia / Wigville / Then the Lid Blew Off / Bethlehem / 1955 
Peggy Lee / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with celeste!; with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole cel, Tommy Romersa d 
King Cole Trio / Too Marvelous for Words / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sam Cooke / My Kind of Blues / Exactly Like You / RCA Victor / 5.61
The Southland Jubilee Singers (aka The Four Knights) / You Go, I’ll Go with You / Lang-Worth Transcription / c. 1945

last soulful song
The Montclairs / Hung Up on Your Love / Paula / 1973

Lost & Found: Drowning in the Playlist of Love

Not many sparkle like Chaka Khan.

Lost & Found, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters / A Quiet Place / United Artists / 1964
Stacy Johnson / Remove My Doubts / Sony / 1963 / produced by Ike & Tina Turner; written by Ike
The Contours / That Day When She Needed Me / Gordy / 1964
Major Lance / Please Don’t Say No More / Okeh / 1964
The Ethics / Sad, Sad, Story / Vent / 1969
Ralfi Pagan / El Hijo De Mamá / Fania / 1969

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / I Want You ’Round / Tamla / 1964
The Lollipops / Step Aside Baby / Impact / 1966
Mary Wells / Your Old Stand By / Motown / 1963
The Joys of Life / Good Times Are Over / Columbia / 1967
The Independents / Lucky Fellow / Wand [unissued] / 1973

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Lori & Lance / I Don’t Have to Worry / Federal / 1969
The Soul Children / Give ’Em Love / Stax / 1968
Willie Mitchell / It’s Dance-Time With Willie Mitchell / Fever / Hi / 1965
The Marvellos / Don’t Play With My Heart / Warner Brothers / 1967
William Bell / I’ll Show You / Stax / 1963
The Presidents / I Want My Baby / DeLuxe / 1969

bed
Santi Latora / Mo’plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Ponderosa Twins + One / Bound / Astroscope / 1971
Charlene & the Soul Serenaders / Love Changes / Volt / 1970
The Dramatics / In the Rain / Volt / 1972
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / More Love / Tamla / 1967

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
Smokey Robinson & Mary Wells / I Want You ’Round / Tamla [unissued] / 1963
Friday, Saturday and Sunday / There Must Be a Better Way / Dig / 1971
Satisfaction Unlimited / Think of the Children / Let’s Change the Subject / Hot Wax / 1972
Darrow Fletcher / Those Hanging Heartaches / Revue / 1968
The Free Movement / I’ve Found Someone of My Own / Decca / 1971

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
The Constellations / I Don’t Know About You / Gemini Star / 1968
The Innersection / Let Me Love Yuh / Group 5 Records / 1975
The Friends of Distinction / Whatever / Check It Out / RCA Victor / 1969 / Tavares had the hit with this in 1973
The Independents / I Love You, Yes I Do / Wand / 1972

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
Jesse Anderson / Let Me Back In / Thomas / 1970
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good / Philadelphia International Records / 1975 / featuring Sharon Paige; written & produced by Kenneth Gamble And Leon Huff
Joe Simon / Drowning in the Sea of Love / Spring Records / 1971
Rufus / Street Player / Street Player / ABC Records / 1978 / featuring Chaka Khan

last found soulful song
Gene Chandler / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

Blame It on My Playlist

Billy, can I borrow those cool slacks sometime?

Coffeetime, September 19, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Modern Jazz Perspective / Stablemates / Columbia / 9.5.57
Eddie Cole’s Solid Swingers / Thunder / Decca / Chicago 7.28.36
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / 12.20.45
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / I Have a Reason for Living / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / Paris 12.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / The Infants Song / Prestige / 5.26.55
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Lover Man / Vanguard / 1955
Peggy Lee / Aren’t You Glad You’re You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.49
T-Bone Walker / I’m Still in Love with You / Comet / LA 12.29.47 / Walker g, Jack Trainor t, Bumps Myers ts, Willard McDaniel p, Billy Hadnott b, Oscar Lee Bradley d
Dean Martin / I’d Cry Like a Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 12.24.53 / with Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Me ’n’ You / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Bill Harris / Jazz Guitar [The Harris Touch] / Midnight Blue / Mercury [EmArcy] / 5.2.57 / composed by Harris & James Moody; Hank Jones celeste!
James Moody / Bootsie / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51
The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / CBS radio show, The Carnation Contented Hour (AFRS Melody Hour #332) / Hollywood 9.3.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Reminiscing / Prestige / 6.8.56

set 4
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Fourth Variation: Saturday Dance / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / No Bones at All / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Billy Taylor Quartet / I Don’t Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun / HRS / 6.47 / vocal = Taylor
Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Blame It on My Youth / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.56
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Come Out of the Wilderness / Vee Jay / 1959

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / 1967

I’m the Lonesomest Playlist in Town

Nat, where’s Oscar?

Coffeetime, September 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Epic / 7.17.56 
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [1541] / Latin Hangover / Blue Note / 12.2.56
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Little Jack Little / With Every Breath I Take / Columbia / 10.25.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / The Thrill Is Gone / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Max Roach / Max / That Ole Devil Love / Argo / Chicago 1.14.58 / produced by Holmes “Daddy-O” Daylie 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Goodbye / Dawn / 2.56
Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26 / with Abel Baer p
Ethel Merman / You’re a Builder Upper / Brunswick / 10.8.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
Ivory Joe Hunter / Mean Woman Blues / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Came to Say Goodbye / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / A-Drift / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Barry Harris / Preminado / My Heart Stood Still / Riverside / 1.19.61
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Side by Side / Columbia / 1.23.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47 
Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / Easy Come, Easy Go / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Bob Enevoldsen Quintet [Reflections in Jazz] / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Bud Shank / Blowin’ Country / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.21.58
The Charioteers / Careless Love / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 1942
Kay Starr / I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11.47
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Keep On to Galilee / radio transcription / 1941

last soulful song
Fontella Bass / Sweet Lovin’ Daddy / Checker / Chicago 1967
Peggy Woods / You Better Be Good to My Baby / Kent [unissued] / LA c. 1968

New Playlist in the Sky

Mickey’s happy to see he’s the featured image on the blog again.

Coffeetime, September 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Somethin’ Special / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Four / Prestige / 7.13.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Got a Feelin’ for You / Okeh / 3.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Little Esther / Other Lips, Other Arms / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51 / with Earle Warren Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

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

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / But Beautiful / Prestige / 12.13.66
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Reminiscing / Mercury / 11.10.60
Garland Wilson / Tenderly / HMV / London 3.16.51
Bandanna Girls [Mozelle France & Mae Hopkins] / Part Time Papa / Decca / 1.24.39
Jo Stafford / Smoke Dreams / Capitol / Hollywood 3.26.47 / with the Starlighters & celeste!
Honey Brown / Lonesome and Mistreated / Derby / 1951 / with Freddie Mitchell Orchestra
Fred Astaire / New Sun in the Sky / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 / Oscar Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Juju / Yes or No / Blue Note / 8.3.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / One Umbrella for Two / Victor / 10.18.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
The Ravens / You’re Always in My Dreams / Columbia / 10.30.50
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Nina Never Knew / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Basie Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54 / Rogers t & arr, Curtis Counce b, Bud Shank bs, 
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / It’s All Right with Me / Contemporary / 11.2.59
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 9.25.54 / Bud Shank fl, Bob Cooper oboe, Claude Williamson p, Rumsey b, Max Roach d
King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake
Percy Mayfield & his Orchestra / Strange Things Happening / Specialty / Hollywood 1950
Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Old Pharaoh Get Lost / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus #1044 / c. 2.42

last soulful song

Barbara Lynn / I'm a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

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