Friday, November 14, 2025

When My Heart Beats Like a Playlist

Screenshot of BB King singing "The Thrill Is Gone" at a microphone on a stage. His drummer is behind him and he's got his eyes closed and is smiling while singing and clapping the beat with his hands.
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