Saturday, August 23, 2025

Cuando Calienta el Playlist

screenshot of Sam Fletcher in 1962 in a black suit with a bow tie smiling as he takes a bow on a stage with a large orchestra behind him
Talented and handsome Sam, we don’t see you nearly enough.

Coffeetime, August 22, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Jersey Lightning / Okeh / 9.6.29
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / Brunswick / 6.30.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Mabel Scott / Don’t Cry Baby / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 12.47
Julie London / All Through the Night / At Long Last Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Melancholee / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Midnight Call (Blues) / Okeh / 10.9.29
Cleo Brown / Boogie Woogie / Decca / 3.12.35
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / I Diddle / Mercury / 3.17.55
Vikki Carr / Discovery Vol. II / Cuando Calienta el Sol / Liberty / LA 1964

set 3
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Blue Train / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Tina / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Mildred Bailey / Sunday, Monday, or Always / V-Disc 105B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson
The Millionaires [The Blenders] / Kansas Kapers / Davis / LA 4.17.53 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Little Fishes / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Cabaletto / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It! / My Heart Stood Still / Contemporary / LA 1961
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Mathews
King Cole Trio / I Can’t Get Sentimental Over Nothing / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM [unissued] / 4.60
Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Theola Kilgore / This Is My Prayer / Serock / LA 1963
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971