Friday, June 20, 2025

Playlist of Honey

Screenshot of Orson Welles on the Dick Cavett show, scratching his eyebrow, but looking like he is pointing at his head. He's smiling. There is a multi-striped stage curtain behind him.
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 DistinguĂ© 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