Friday, July 25, 2025

Comin’ In on a Wing and a Playlist

Scene from movie Living It Up showing a stage set decorated like a street in New York City where Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, both in top hats and tails and black batons, are singing and dancing with a cardboard cutout of a presumably naked young woman in a red-striped barrel with a surprised look on her face. The barrel covers her from her armpits to her calves.
Dean & Jerry having a barrel of fun.

Coffeetime, July 25, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Hub Cap / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / The Prophet / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Little Orphan Annie / Victor / Chicago 12.3.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Ella Fitzgerald / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! / Good Morning Heartache / Verve / LA 6.22.61

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

set 2
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / You Go to My Head / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56
Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / What’s New / Verve / 9.22.65
André Persiany / I Cover the Waterfront / Columbia / 7.17.57 / with Paul Quinichette
Lil Green / Now What Do You Think? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.17.45
The Cats & the Fiddle / When I Grow Too Old to Dream / Bluebird / 12.7.39 
Danny Kaye / Danny at the Palace / Hula Lou / Decca / 5.18.50 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
Little Sylvia [Vanderpool] / Everything I Need But You / Jubilee / 1952 

set 3
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Little Me / Prestige / 1.24.63
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Joe’s Delight / Riverside / 11.17.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / The Hook / EmArcy / 10.5.51
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / You’re My Desire / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Golden Gate Quartet / Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer / Okeh / 5.19.43
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / It’s You Or No One / Prestige / 6.8.56

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Scandinavian Shuffle / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.60
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Summertime / Contemporary / LA 1.61
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay [Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings] / Hip Bones / Prestige / 12.3.54
King Cole Trio / Baby (Is What She Calls Me) / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Camille Howard / The Mood I’m In / Specialty / Hollywood 1949
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis / Every Street’s a Boulevard (In Old New York) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.20.54 / from Paramount movie Living It Up
Golden Gate Quartet / Run On / Okeh / 3.25.42

last soulful song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew / Philadelphia 1969



Friday, July 18, 2025

Music Playlist Please

Screenshot of Frank Sinatra in a black suit and Peggy Lee in a strapless white gown sitting on stage, smiling. Peggy has her head back about to start singing. Frank has a mischievous smile and she has a little side eye look and a smile.
Peggy can handle and impish Frank.

Coffeetime, July 18, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Chet Baker / Comin’ On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Comin’ On / Prestige / 8.65
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / Cubano Chant / Prestige / 2.25.57
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Someone / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 7.10.23 
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / My One and Only / HMV / Small Queen’s Hall, London 9.12.28 / vocal = Jack Jackson & Billy Ternent
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Wynonie Harris
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / Capitol / Hollywood 4.4.57 / with orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Nelson Riddle; with celeste! 

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / There Will Never Be Another You / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Ill Wind / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / I Can’t Get Started / Everest / 9.29.58
Lonnie Johnson / Steppin’ on the Blues / Okeh [unissued] / St. Louis, Missouri 4.25.27
The Boswell Sisters / It’s the Girl / Brunswick / 7.8.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Route 66 / Musicraft / 4.30.46 / vocal = Georgie Auld

set 3
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham / Callin’ the Blues / Grimes’ Times / Prestige / 7.18.58
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Chelsea Bridge / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Erskine Butterfield / Lighthouse / radio transcription / 8.17.44
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Away from It All / Okeh / 3.19.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Starlings / Music Maestro Please / Josie / 1954 
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / If I’m Lucky / Dawn / 1956

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Titmouse / Impulse! / LA 3.4.66
Jack Marshall & Shelly Manne / Sounds! / Am I Blue? / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Charlie Mariano / Let’s Get Away from It All / Fantasy / San Francisco 3.53
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
William Daniels & Barbara Harris / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / Wait Till We’re Sixty-Five / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / The Sun Didn’t Shine / King / 1949

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / Did My Baby Call / Volt / Memphis 1972
The Sapphires / Gonna Be a Big Thing / ABC-Paramount / 1965

Friday, July 11, 2025

Strike Up the Playlist

Screenshot from film of Amos Milburn, in a white tux sitting at a grand piano, turning to sing into a microphone, and his band, in black tuxes. Maxwell Davis is seen just over Milburn's shoulder, sitting and playing his tenor saxophone.
Maxwell and Amos… and the other guys.

Coffeetime, July 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Hank Mobley / [Another Workout] / Out of Joe’s Bag / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Noel Coward / World Weary / HMV / London 9.11.29 / with Carroll Gibbons p
Amos Milburn / Bewildered / Aladdin / Chicago 10.15.48 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, possibly Gene Phillips g
Julie London / Julie Is Her Name / I Should Care / Liberty / Hollywood 8.55 / with ​​Barney Kessel g, Ray Leatherwood b

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

set 2
Tadd Dameron / Fontainebleau / Fontainebleau / Prestige / 3.9.56
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Shadows / Crown / 1960
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Lush Life / French Columbia / 7.31.56
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Stringing the Blues / Columbia / 11.8.26
Ethel Waters / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 / with Ben Selvin’s Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
The Treniers / Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) / Okeh / 7.15.54 / for Willie Mays; with Quincy Jones & orchestra

set 3
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ The Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Don Byas / Don’s Idea / Savoy / 7.28.44
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I’m Playing Solitaire / Bluebird / 12.6.38 / vocal = Quentin Jackson
Johnny Otis Quintette / Double Crossing Blues / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / vocal = Little Esther & The Robins
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Charlie Persip’s Jazz Statesmen / Double Or Nothin’ / Wildwood / Liberty / LA 2.27.57
Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Mary Lou / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Strike Up the Band / Capitol / Hollywood 4.26.56
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; song written by Bobby Troup
Little Willie John / Inside Information / King / 9.13.63
Etta James / Tell Mama / Cadet / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 8.24.67
The Soul Stirrers / By and By, Part 2 / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
The Fascinations / Such a Fool / Mayfield / Chicago 1968

Friday, July 04, 2025

Always in My Playlist (Forever on My Mind)

Close up of a young Hoagy Carmichael from 1939 singing in a tuxedo with a white flower in his lapel. He's standing on a stage in front of a grand piano.

Coffeetime, July 4, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / Capuchin Swing / Capuchin Swing / Blue Note / 4.17.60 
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Terrible “T” / Vee-Jay / 2.60 
Claude Hopkins / Let’s Jam / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige Swingville / 2.21.61 
Fred “Sugar” Hall & his Sugar Babies / Is It Possible? (That She Loves Me) / Okeh / 8.19.27 / vocal = Arthur Fields
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Evil Lover Blues / Aladdin [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones; Floyd Dixon p, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Carmen McRae / By Special Request / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / 6.56

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

set 2
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Angel Eyes / Jazzline / 1.12.62 / Pearson solo p
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Imagination / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Violets for Your Furs / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59
Mel Powell / On Piano / There’s a Small Hotel / Capitol / 1948
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / Always in My Heart (Forever on My Mind) / Columbia / London 1933
Ella Logan & Hoagy Carmichael / Two Sleepy People / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.14.38 / with Perry Botkin & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You / Roulette / 1962

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Dearly Beloved / Dearly Beloved / Blue Note / 6.8.61 / Turrentine ts, Shirley Scott org, Roy Brooks d
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Verve / spring 1966 / Evans p, Hall g
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Thad’s Blues / Impulse! / 5.8.62 / Paris g, Hank Jones p, George Duvivier b, Roy Haynes d
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Parker as, Miles Davis t, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Bobby Byrne & his Orchestra / If It Wasn’t for the Moon / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Jimmy DiPalma
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / Karen Lynn / Manor / 8.49 
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / There Goes My Heart [alt take] / Regent / 12.18.47 / with celeste!

set 4
Sam Most / East Coast Jazz/9: I’m Nuts About The Most....Sam / Tea for Two / Bethlehem / 1955 / Sam Most cl, Marty Flax bars, Bill Triglia p, Barry Galbraith g, Burgher Jones b, Bobby Donaldson d
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / Long Ago and Far Away / Mode / 6.57 
Stan Getz / Stan Getz Plays / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / 1953 
Benny Goodman Sextet / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / 3.10.42 / vocal = Peggy Lee; with celeste! 
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; “of all the fools, I break the rules”
Jimmy Ricks / Let Me Down Easy / Fury / 1962
R.H. Harris & his Gospel Paraders / Presenting Gospel Pearls / Somebody / SAR / 1962

last soulful song
Bobby Reed / The Time Is Right for Love / Bell / 1970