The Playlist Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round)

Face it, girl… you’re amazing!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clark Terry / Top and Bottom Brass / Mili-Terry / Riverside / 2.59 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Excerent! / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Jean “Toots” Thielemans / Man Bites Harmonica / Fundamental Frequency / Riverside / 12.30.57 
Henry Busse & his Orchestra / When Day Is Done / radio broadcast / 1935 / Busse t
Will Osborne & his Orchestra / Perhaps / Columbia / 8.21.29
Mel Walker / The Last Mile / Mercury [unissued] / 6.11.52 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra 
Thelma Gracen / Night and Day / I’ll Get By / EmArcy / 1956

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / It’s the Talk of the Town / Prestige / 9.5.62 
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That’s Right! / Night After Night / Riverside / fall 1960 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Don’t Blame Me / Dawn / Paris 3.56
The Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Panama / Harmony / 12.22.25 
Revelers / Dinah / Warner Brothers Vitaphone short / 1927
Teddy Bunn / Bachelor Blues / Blue Note / 2.28.40
Four Chicks and a Chuck / The Turntable Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round) / MGM / 1947 / with Jack Miller & his Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No) / Decca / 8.25.50 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra

set 3
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / Ollie’s Caravan / New Jazz / 1.31.58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal/3:_Sounds
Tricky Lofton & Carmell Jones / Brass Bag / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / LA 3.26.62 
Mel Powell / Hallelujah / Capitol / 12.10.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / It’s a Blue World / Victor / Chicago / 12.29.39 / vocal = Anita Boyer
The Charioteers / Only Forever / Columbia / 9.40
Bobby Darin / Winners / What a Difference a Day Makes / Atco / 2.60 

set 4
Terry Gibbs / A Jazz Band Ball, Second Set / Where or When / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / subtitled “The Poor People of Beverly Hills” / cover cartoon by William Box 
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Movin’ Around / Verve / 5.12.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Cool
Eartha Kitt / New Faces of 1952 / Monotonous / RCA Victor / 1952 / book co-written by Mel Brooks 
Nancy Wilson / Face It, Girl, It’s Over / live, The Ed Sullivan Show / 11.24.68
The Charioteers / Oh! Dem Golden Slippers / radio broadcast, Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall / 12.17.42

last soulful song
The Jelly Beans / I’m Hip to You / Eskee / 1965 / Charles Thomas, Alma Brewer, Diane Taylor, Elyse Herbert, & Maxine Herbert

Pretty Little Playlist

When our heroes ride in on their saxophones.

Coffeetime, January 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Howard McGhee / The Return of Howard McGhee / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.22.55 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Just Coolin’] / Close Your Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.8.59 / Hank quotes It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
Johnny Marvin / At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) / Okeh / 3.28.27 / Marvin ukulele
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / In a Little Second Hand Store / Columbia / London 1933 
Cecil Gant Trio / It’s the Girl / Bullet / Nashville / 1947
Lorez Alexandria / Alexandria the Great / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 1964 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Traneing In / You Leave Me Breathless / Prestige / 8.23.57 
Jimmy Cleveland / A Map of Jimmy Cleveland / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 12.58 
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / The Last Time I Saw Paris / Verve / 9.10.58 
Stan Getz / Stan Gets Plays / Body and Soul / Clef / 12.52
Josephine Baker / Pretty Little Baby / Odeon/ Paris 1927 / with Jacob’s Jazz Band
Soul Stirrers / Mean Old World / Specialty / Hollywood 4.10.57 / Paul Foster, Sam Cooke, S. Roy Crain, R.B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley, T.L. Bruster; Willie Webb org, L.C. Cook d
Albert King / Born Under a Bad Sign / Oh, Pretty Woman / Stax / Memphis 1966 

set 3
Grant Green / Street of Dreams / Somewhere in the Night / Blue Note / 11.16.64 
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / That’s Where It’s At / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Charlie Parker / Cool Blues / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47
Les Brown & his Orchestra / You’re Different / radio transcription / 1950 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Goldie Boots & The Falcons / You’re the Beating of My Heart / Savoy / 8.20.51 
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Blame It on My Youth / Reprise / LA 2.61 

set 4
John Graas / Montrose aka Westlake Bounce / Decca / LA 1.23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Mel Lewis d
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Français du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / He’s My Guide [alt take 4] / Specialty / Hollywood 8.17.55 / Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, S. Roy Crain, R. B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley

last soulful song
The Superbs / One Bad Habit / Doré / LA 1968

Don’t Let that Playlist Get Away

Lovely June in January

Coffeetime, January 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Hidden Channel / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / Let’s Get Down / Prestige / 12.17.63
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / The Prophet / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.31.56
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Dinah / Victor / 1.28.26
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
June Christy / Love Turns Winter into Spring / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.57 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Serves Me Right / Riverside / 10.28.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Room with Skies / Ricordi / 1961
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53 / quotes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Tea for Two
Jesse Crawford / Dinah / Victor / 2.26.26 / Wurlitzer pipe organ
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Bonnie Lake & her Beaus / Thirteen Black Cats / 1.5.56 / Decca / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra
BB King [BB “Blues Boy” King & his Orchestra / Did You Ever Love a Woman / RPM / 1956
Chuck Willis / Search My Heart / Okeh [unissued alt take] / 4.15.55

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / So Do It! / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Cascades / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Mills Brothers / Tiger Rag / Brunswick / 11.5.31
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / radio transcription, WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, emcee = Bob Bach
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / You Are Too Beautiful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Honeysuckle Rose / Impulse! / 11.13.61
Phil Harris & Orchestra / One-zy Two-zy / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45 / duet with 3 year-old Alice Faye Harris
Barrie Sisters [Barry Sisters] / Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Guitars a là Lee / Sweet Happy Life / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.66 
The Zion Travelers / Jesus Said / Dootone / 1962

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / The Oogum Boogum Song / Double Shot / LA 1967

I’m the Playlist Who Loves You

This cover – photo, typography, the works – is outstanding. Who was the designer?

Coffeetime, January 10, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Way Down / Liza / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.5.62 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Rhodesian Rhapsody / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Louis Smith / Smithville / Bakin’ / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.30.58 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Duke’s Mixture / Columbia / 3.26.41
Tom Clines & his Music / Somebody Mighty Like You / Brunswick / 7.10.29 / vocal = Chester Gaylord
Floyd Dixon / Pretty Baby / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.6.49 / vocal = Sonnie Parker; Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d
Blossom Dearie / My Gentleman Friend / Someone to Watch Over Me / Verve / 5.21 & 22.59 

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio / Ballad Medley: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I Don't Know Why (I Just Do); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Can't Get Started; Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Just a Ballad for My Baby / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
The Red Heads (aka Red Nichols & the Five Pennies) / Here or There / Pathé Actuelle / 1.18.27 / vocal = Frank Gould
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Albinia Jones / I Have a Way of Lovin’ / Decca / 1.48 
Eddie Bo / Roll ’Em Back / Ace [unissued] / 1956

set 3
Lou Donaldson / The Natural Soul / People Will Say We’re in Love / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.9.62 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Passionova / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea & his Band / Flying (All the Way) Home / Rhythm Records [unissued] / San Francisco 1944 
Art Kassel & His Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra / I’ll Be Around / radio transcription / 1944 / vocal = Gloria Hart
Chris Powell & The Five Blue Flames / My Love Has Gone / Columbia / 5.51
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Jenny / Coral / 1.22.62 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / The Chinook That Melted My Heart / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d 
Una Mae Carlisle / I’m the One Who Loves You / Victor / 10.3.41 / Charlie Shavers t, William Bailey cl, Russell Procope ts, Billy Kyle p, John Kirby b, O’Neil Spencer d 
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / We’re Living Humble / Decca / 5.23.46 

last soulful song
Orthea Barnes / Your Picture on the Wall / Mickay’s Records / 1962