Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine

Pretty guy, pretty guitar… and he plays it pretty, too.

Coffeetime, November 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa [alt take] / Riverside [unissued] / 5.11.61 
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Cool Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Village Gate / 5.61 
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / Carvin’ the Rock / Blue Note / 6.9.53
George Olsen & his Music / Who / Victor / 11.6.25 / vocal = Olsen, Bob Rice, Fran Frey, & Jack Fulton
Helen Humes / It’s Better to Give Than to Receive / Philo / LA 12.22.45 
Blossom Dearie / Once Upon a Summertime / Manhattan / Verve / 9.58

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

set 2
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / The Wind / Atlantic / summer 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Shout
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Octet / Paich-Ence / GNP / Hollywood 2.55 
Jutta Hipp & Zoot Sims / Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims / These Foolish Things / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.28.56 
Bing Crosby / I’m Thru with Love / Brunswick / 6.12.31
Savannah Churchill & her All Star Seven / Tell Me Your Blues and I Will Tell You Mine / Gennett / 1942 / Jimmy Lytell & his All Star Seven: Lytell cl, Russ Case t, Will Bradley tb, Frank Signorelli p, Carmen Mastren g, Haig Stevens b, Chauncey Morehouse d
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Love Is a Wonderful Thing / United / Chicago 9.51
Rosemary Clooney / Tenderly / The Lady Is a Tramp / Columbia / 1955

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / The Tender Gender / Cadet / 4.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Cherry Point / Blue Note / 10.21.63 
Sacha Distel / Nuages / French TV / 1959 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / No Love No Nothin’ / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1943 / vocal = Phyllis Lane
The Du Droppers / Chain Me, Baby (Blues of Desire) / Robin / 8.52 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / That Old Feeling / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, [Tommy Flanagan p,] Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Conrad Gozzo / Goz the Great! / Do That Again Daddy / RCA Victor / LA 3.7.55 / Gozzo t, Murray McEachern tb, Paul Smith p, Tony Rizzi g, Sam Cheifetz b, Alvin Stoller d
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / Marooned in a Monsoon / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d
Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Herbie Mann – Sam Most Quintet / Let’s Get Away from It All / Bethlehem 10.55 / Herbie Mann, Sam Most fl, Joe Puma g, Jimmy Gannon b, Lee Kleinman d
King Cole Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Margie Day / One Steady Date / Dot / 3.51 / with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
Highway QC’s / There’s Something on My Mind / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968

Undisputed Truth / Girl You’re Alright / Gordy / Detroit 1972

If I Give My Playlist to You

Django, you couch potato, you!

Coffeetime, November 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Phinupi / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Sam Lanin & his Orchestra / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 6.11.28 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track, Baby / Decca / LA 12.8.47 / duet with Martha Davis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.61
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 6.9.53 
The Guitars, Inc / Soft and Subtle / Nature Boy / Warner Brothers / LA 1959 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) / RCA / Rome winter 1949 [Paris, April 16, 1947]
Fannie May Goosby / Fortune Teller Blues / Brunswick / Atlanta 4.28 / Goosby p
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Pug Nose / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Talkin’ Care / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Harry James & his Orchestra / Stardust / radio broadcast transcription / Roseland Ballroom, NYC 7.8.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Bars / If I Give My Heart to You / Josie / 1954 / with Billy Mure’s Orchestra [aka Sebastian Mure] 
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / Early Autumn / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Will You Still Be Mine / Verve / LA 1959
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / Jump It with a Shuffle / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.47
Bette McLaurin / Do You Know Why / Coral / 12.9.52 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Baby, Don’t You Quit Now / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; with Charlie Shavers t
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song
The Opals / You Can’t Hurt Me No More / Okeh [unissued alt take] / Chicago 5.26.64

When My Heart Beats Like a Playlist

BB can still smile despite his lost thrill.

Coffeetime, November 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Cute / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Infatuation / Victor / 3.12.34 / vocal = Barry Wells
Pete Brown’s Band / Sunshine Blues / Savoy / 8.1.44 / vocal = Pete Brown
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58

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

set 2
The Trio / The Trio / For Heaven’s Sake / Riverside/ 6.61
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar’s New Jazz / So Easy to Love / Swing / Paris 10.14.54
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust [alt take] / Decca [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.44
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pardon Me Pretty Baby / Parlophone / 6.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
The Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
B.B. King / When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / Kent / Memphis 1962

set 3
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / I Never Knew / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Wes Montgomery / Born to Be Blue / Riverside [unissued] / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley 6.25.62
Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / That’s All / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / Autumn Leaves / Contemporary / LA 11.23.60
George Jenkins & his All Stars / Drum Magic / Antipathy / Tampa / LA 1955
Peggy Lee / I Get the Blues (When It Rains) / V-Disc 682 / LA 1946 / with Les Paul Trio
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / My Time Is Expensive / Peacock / Houston 1.49 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / A Woman with Soul / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963
The Southern Sons / I Heard Zion Mourn / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
Bettye Swann / The Soul View Now! / Tell It Like It Is / Capitol / 1969

By the Light of the Silvery Playlist

Lovely necklace on a lovely woman.

Coffeetime, November 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactoveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Beepdurple / Prestige / 5.8.65
Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Albinia Jones / Evil Gal Blues / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas’s Swing Seven
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / My Old Flame / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Adrian Rollini / Georgia on My Mind / private recordings / early 1937 / with Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitars, vocal = Barry McKinley
Evelyn Knight / South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Decca / Hollywood 4.25.49
Viviane Greene / A Picture of You / Decca / LA 6.24.50
Danny Kaye / Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Decca / Hollywood / 12.14.47
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Same Old Saturday Night / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Princess / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / Long Beach, CA 4.10.61
Serge Chaloff Sextette / A Bar a Second / Savoy [unissued] / 3.5.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Marie / Victor / 1.29.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ The Darkest Hour / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Morning After / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Oh! Look at Me Now / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Swingin’ in the Moore Park / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Victor / 7.13.42 / with the Deep River Boys
Hadda Brooks / Don’t You Think I Ought to Know / Modern / Hollywood 1947
Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / Argo / Chicago 6.62
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / You’re All I Need / I Can’t Help But Love You / Tamla / Detroit 1968
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / If This World Were Mine / Tamla / Detroit 1967