Rusty Dusty Playlist

So much talent…

Coffeetime, June 27, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Joe Newman / The Midgets / The Midgets / RCA Victor / 7.8.56
Phil Woods / Woodlore / Woodlore / Prestige / 11.25.55
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / He’s Pulling his Whiskers / Decca / 3.10.38
B.A. Rolfe & his Concert Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Edison / 10.16.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues) / Decca / Chicago 11.15.41 / Jordan as & voc, Eddie Roane t, Arnold Thomas p, Dallas Bartley b, Walter Martin d
Chubby Newsome & her Hip Shakers / Hard Lovin’ Mama (Anytime) / Regal / New Orleans 12.19.49 / with Howard Biggs Orchestra 
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor… Miss Helen Carr / I’m Glad There Is You / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Summertime / Savoy / 10.10.55 / Jordan solo p
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Stardust / Commodore / 11.10.38
Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 1.14.38 / with celeste!
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / It Happened in Monterey / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58
Albert King / The Big Blues / This Funny Feeling / King / 1963

set 3
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Meetin’ Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Subway Grate / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Kenny Clarke / Kenny Clarke / Skoot / Savoy / Hollywood 11.1.54
Louis Prima Orchestra / I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine / radio broadcast, Voice of America / late 1949 / vocal = Keely Smith
The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 2.3.56
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57
Stéphane Grappelli / Taking a Chance on Love / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Rhythm ’Bout Town / Vocalion / 10.25.37 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jackie DeShannon / A Tribute to Burt Bacharach / To Wait for Love / Scepter / LA 1972
Carolina Kings of Harmony / Going On Home to Glory / Trumpet / Raleigh NC 4.10.53

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / To Be True / Bad Luck / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

Playlist of Honey

Orson, you made me love you…

Coffeetime, June 20, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / [Six Pieces of Silver] / Tippin’ / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Melody for C / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Avalon / Bluebird / 10.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Jimmy Rushing / Jimmy’s ’Round the Clock / Excelsior / LA 9.13.45 / with Johnny Otis, his Drums & Orchestra
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57

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

set 2
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Taste of Honey / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / What Is There to Say? / Riverside / 12.15.58
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Orson Welles / You Made Me Love You / CBS radio broadcast, The Orson Welles Almanac / Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wilmington 7.5.44 
Larry Darnell / I’ll Get Along Somehow, Parts One and Two / Regal / 1949 / with Paul Gayten’s Band, Gayton on celeste!
B.B. King / King of the Blues / I’m King / Crown / Hollywood 10.26.59

set 3
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson / The Spirit of ’67 / Ja-Da / Impulse! / 2.14.67 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite! / Moonglow / Verve / 2.59 
Lester Young / The Sheik of Araby / Aladdin / 12.29.47
Howard McGhee / Dorothy / Dial / 12.3.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Harry Wells & Sy Oliver
The Charioteers / Oooh! Look A-There, Ain’t She Pretty / Columbia / 12.5.47
Joe Derise / Joe Derise Sings / It Might As Well Be Spring / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Hugo Hurwhey / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Norfolk Ferry / Bluebird / 11.6.40
King Cole Trio / I Think You Get What I Mean / Capitol / Hollywood 7.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mabel Mercer / Once in a Blue Moon / Sunday in New York / Atlantic / 1956 / with George Cory, arranger/conductor
Dixie Hummingbirds / Every Knee Surely Must Bow / Apollo / 2.46

last soulful song
Roger Hatcher / I’m Gonna Dedicate My Song to You / Excello / 1968

The Blues My Playlist Gave to Me

Fats and hats!

Coffeetime, June 13, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Little Chico / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57
Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners / Blow Me Down / RCA Victor / 12.4.46
Whispering Jack Smith / Blue Skies / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 / Smith p & voc
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Dream Lucky Blues / Mercury / Kansas City summer 1945 / Lee p & voc, Ben Curtis b, Sam “Baby” Lovett d
Dakota Staton / Ballads and the Blues / Come Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Afraid of Love / Prestige / 1967
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra / The Blues My Baby Gave to Me / Victor / 1.13.39
Fats Waller / Fats Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, broadcast / 3.11.35
Gus Arnheim & his Ambassador Hotel Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Okeh / LA 4.14.28 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / It’s the Natural Thing to Do / Vocalion / 6.29.37
Johnny Otis Orchestra / Good Boogdi Googie / Excelsior / Hollywood fall 1945 / vocal = George Washington
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Old Man River / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 / RIP Al Foster d
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / Everest / LA 7.60
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / O.H. Blues / Mercury / 8.8.51
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / On the Island of Catalina / Decca / 10.5.39 / vocal = Perry Como
The Four Aces / Put Your Cards on the Table / Trilon / Oakland late 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Some Like It Hot / Contemporary / LA 3.59
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Poly-Doodle / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
The Chocolate Dandies / That’s How I Feel Today / Okeh / 9.18.29
King Cole Trio / I Love to Make Love to You [aka Any Old Time] / V-Disc #455 (Army), #235 (Navy) / LA 2.27.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Al Jackson & his Band / Cloudy Weather Blues / Capitol / 1.49 / vocal = Dick Cole
Peggy Lee / Mink Jazz / I Could Write a Book / Capitol / Hollywood 2.5.63 
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / My Lord is Coming Back / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
The Marvellos / We Go Together / Loma / 1966

Just Another Playlist Wasted Away

Una Mae: a lovely and talented Coffeetime favorite.

Coffeetime, June 6, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Whistle Stop / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hippy / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Slow Burn / MGM / 1.9.47
The Rhythmic Eight / Just Another Day Wasted Away / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 2.6.28
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Okeh / 5.8.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Floyd Dixon / Pleasure Days / Aladdin / Houston c. 1949 / Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Bill Ellis ts, Sammy Benskin g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / All My Tomorrows / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / ZT's Blues / More Than You Know / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Warm Winds / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Sea Breeze / Verve / 12.17.57
Django’s Music / Tears / Swing / Paris 3.22.40
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / You’re Lucky to Me / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Big Three / I Feel Like Steppin’ Out / Columbia / Chicago 2.18.49
Dean Martin / French Style / C’est Magnifique / Reprise / Hollywood 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Matador / Blue Note / 5.20.65
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 7.14.67
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / radio broadcast AFRS Jubilee #91 / Hollywood c. 6.44 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Wait ’Til You See Her / RCA Victor / 1954

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Ruby / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 / Collette fl, Ernie Freeman on celeste!
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Val’s Pal / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Valve in Head / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.22.54
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio transcription, WEMP / The Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Gente / A&M / LA 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / A Look Away from Heaven / radio broadcast NBC Thesaurus #979 / 1941

last soulful song
Mary Wells / Stop Takin’ Me for Granted / 20th Century Fox /1964

George Benson / Turn Your Love Around / Warner Brothers / 1981