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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