Friday, October 03, 2025

Playlist in Hand

Close of of Dinah Washington on stage as she sings a song. She's looking directly into the camera and has elegant makeup, hair, and dress.
Dinah, can you teach me how to get that glamorous eyeliner?

Coffeetime, October 3, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Groovin’ Higher / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 / Viscosity / Blue Note / 6.6.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Oh, Lady Be Good / Columbia / 12.9.40
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wanderer / HMV / London 1.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44 / with celeste!
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Little Girl Blue / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.61

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 2.62 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Melody Man’s Dream / Okeh / 10.21.27
Willard Robison & his Levee Loungers / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Columbia [unissued] / 3.12.29 / Robison p & voc, rest unknown
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash; with celeste!
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / ABC-Paramount / 1957
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Don’t Want No Woman / Duke / Memphis 1957 / with Bill Harvey Orchestra

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / Ugetsu / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
The Four Southerners / Dan, The Back Door Man / Decca / Chicago 3.18.37
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / That Old Feeling / Liberty / LA 9.55
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Walkin’ Home / Tampa / LA 1954
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) / Mercury / 3.60 / orchestra conducted by Belford Hendricks
The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44

last soulful song
Monique / If You Love Me (Show Me) / Maurci / Chicago 1966
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971