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Coffeetime, May 23, 2025, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Stix Trix / Riverside / 2.25.58
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Mumba Neua / Prestige / 9.15.64
Harry Carney’s Big Eight / Jamaica Rumble / HRS / 3.18.46
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep! / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio; with celeste!
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I Just Thought of You / Freedom / Houston c. 6.49
Sarah Vaughan / I’m Glad There Is You / EmArcy / 12.16.54
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / I Surrender Dear / Atlantic / 11.20.56 / with celeste!
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / After Hours on Dream Street / HRS / 11.5.45
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Bakiff / Victor / Hollywood 6.5.41
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Harry Barris, Al Rinker
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Joe (Everyday) Williams / Blow Mr. Low / Savoy / Chicago 1.23.53 / with Red Saunders & his Orchestra
set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Ray Charles Presents / Tin Tin Deo / Atlantic / 1959
Joe Newman / Soft Swingin’ Jazz / Scotty / Coral / 1.15.58
Howard McGhee / Turnip Blood / Dial / 12.3.47
The Mills Brothers / What’s the Reason (I’m Not Pleasing You)? / Decca / 2.20.35
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 1944
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / Welcome to the Club / Verve / London 7.19.61 / with Wally Stott & his Orchestra
set 4
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper / Sidewinder / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Up in Quincy’s Room / ABC-Paramount / 1956
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four Brothers / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / No One Else Could Be / King / 6.28.51 / vocal = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
Etta James / You Got It / Cadet / Muscle Shoals 8.68
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39
last soulful song
Nate Evans / Main Squeeze / Twinight / Chicago 1972
The Mark-Keys / My Sweet Baby / TCB / Chicago 1967