The Most Beautiful Daisy in the World

Thank you, dear Jiminy, for leading the way across the threshold.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I'll Remember April / Clef / 7.5.50 
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / Over the Rainbow / Verve / LA 1.14.61 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
John Coltrane / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane / Little Brown Book / Impulse! / 9.26.62
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch: Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53
Eddie Lang / I’ll Never Be the Same / Parlophone / 9.27.28 / with Rube Bloom p
Noel Coward / I’ll See You Again / HMV / London 3.24.38
Delta Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / RCA Victor / 1952
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63 
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Calling Dr. Jazz / Savoy / 12.18.46 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Bing Crosby / It’s Easy to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 2.21.35 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, The Rhythmettes & Three Shades of Blue
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Oscar Moore / I'll Remember You / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / My One and Only Love / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
King Cole Trio / What’ll I Do / Capitol / Hollywood 8.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

I Want the Waiter (With the Playlist)

Elvis and his mini-me… on Coffeetime!

Coffeetime, February 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [aka 1541] / His Sister / Blue Note / 12.2.56 
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Monk’s Shop / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.1.59 / Pony Poindexter as, Buddy Montgomery p, Wes Montgomery g, Monk Montgomery b, and Louis Hayes d
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / Broadway / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Vanguard
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Zozoi / Decca / 10.22.34 
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / vocal = Paul Small
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Inflation Blues / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.5.55 / Don Fagerquist t, Charlie Mariano as, Donn Trenner p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d

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

set 2
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / I Need You / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b [Nat Adderley sat out]
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Why Was I Born / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Crazy People / Brunswick / 4.6.32 / with The Californians
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I Want the Waiter (With the Water) / Vocalion / 6.29.39 / vocal = Jimmie [Trummy] Young tb 
Cleo Brown / Baby, Let’s Make Some Love / Blue / 1949
Elvis Presley / Fever / Nashville 4.2.60 / RCA Victor [unissued] / with The Jordanaires 

set 3
Johnny “Hammond” Smith / All Soul / Easy Like / New Jazz / 9.11.59 
Nat Adderley / Branching Out / I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ / Riverside / 9.58 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Half Step Down, Please / Victor / 12.11.47 / written by Tadd Dameron 
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Honey / Decca / 4.21.37 / vocal = Beverly (Baby) White
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Standard transcription / 1943 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Down in the Depths / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee 

set 4
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / My Shining Hour / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / I Like That Kind of Carrying On / Cook / New Orleans late 1954
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Alphabetical Four / The Sun Didn’t Shine / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Hurting Me / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1969

A Playlist Kissed an Angel

Ladies and gentlemen, Pat and her cheekbones on a steel beam!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Sassy Ann / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Nat Adderley cor, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce / Sans Souci / Prestige / 10.21.55
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Tune Up / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / non sequitor: Ipana Toothpaste 
Tom Clines & his Music / Sweetheart’s Holiday / Brunswick / 8.29 / vocal = Jack Carney
Ressie Mae Jones [aka Bessie Mae Jones] & her Combo / Automatic Daddy / Tone [Dootone subsidiary] / 1952 / Dootsie Williams 
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / Moonlight in Vermont / Cook / New Orleans late 1954

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / I’m a Fool to Want You / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Night Owl / Brunswick / 1933
Kay Thompson & her Boys / You Let Me Down / Brunswick / 11.11.35 
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Inflation Blues / Exclusive / LA 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66

set 3
Little Brother Montgomery / Tasty Blues / Tasty Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 7.1 60 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Young Blues / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Sentimental Feeling / NBC radio show One Night Stand / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1944 / vocal = Don Darcy
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / More Than Anything in The World / Standard transcription / 1943 
Dick Haymes / Look at Me Now! / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Hollywood Records / Hollywood 1957 / with Cy Coleman p 

set 4
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / I Remember You / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Race for Space / Dooto / LA 4.8.58 
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Pied Pipers / Katrina / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 1949 / song from Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; with Paul Weston & His Orchestra
Pat Carroll / (Down in the Depths) On the 90th Floor / TV broadcast, The Red Skelton Show / 2.18.64  
The Alphabetical Four / I Can’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore / Decca / 4.7.41

last soulful song
Little Ann / What Should I Do / Ric-Tic [unissued] / Detroit 1969