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| 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
