Friday, January 17, 2025

Don’t Let that Playlist Get Away

Close up of young June Christy singing in 1945 at the microphone with the Stan Kenton Band in back. She's smiling as she sings.
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 / Oogum Boogum / The Oogum Boogum Song / Double Shot / LA 1967