A Winter’s Playlist

More like kitties and a tiple, amirite?

Coffeetime, January 16, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Tarriff / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Blue Lights / Prestige / 5.19.54
Jack Winn & his Dallas Dandies aka Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang / Loved One [2nd take] (aka I Like That) / Melotone / 6.6.30
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor / 4.10.29 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Blue Moon / Victor / 11.20.34 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Cats & the Fiddle / Part of Me / RCA Victor / 10.17.41 
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Laura / Contemporary / 12.4.56 / duet with Kessel g & Red Mitchell b
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49
The Three Keys / I’ve Found a New Baby / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
T-Bone Walker / Life is Too Short / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Louis Jordan / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Green Dolphin Street / Riverside / 3.10.59
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Geraldo & his Orchestra / I’m Old Fashioned / Parlophone / London 3.20.43 / vocal = Beryl Davis
Mills Brothers / After You / Decca / 5.29.47 
Frank Sinatra / The Moon Was Yellow / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.58

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Cheerful Little Earful / Contemporary / 10.15.56
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Swing Man / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Sammy Yates
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
The Trumpeteers / Handwriting on the Wall / Score / Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / Wake Up Everybody / live, Soul Train / 1975

Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Playlist in B Flat

I like this guitar, too, Frank.

Coffeetime, January 9, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis [alt take] / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.21.61
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Here’s a Little Package / Bluebird [unissued] / 6.23.32 / vocal = Chris Fletcher
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Ain’t Got No Blues Today / Capitol / 9.11.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Strong Man / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Paul Smith / Paul Smith Quartet / All for You / Skylark / Hollywood 11.13.53 / celeste!
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / I Had the Craziest Dream / New Jazz / 11.13.59
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky [alt take] / Brunswick [unissued] / 2.19.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Sonny Clark / Sonny’s Crib / News for Lulu / Blue Note / 10.9.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fool Am I / Okeh / 3.12.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile Again / Savoy / 10.12.50
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Beaux Arts / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Sonny Boy / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Kay Starr / So Tired / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.48
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Só Danço Samba / A&M / Hollywood 1967
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / Ruler of My Heart / Minit / 1963
The Sapphires / Your True Love / Swan / 1963

Walkin’ Away with My Playlist

Mr. King’s gotta pretty red guitar!

Coffeetime, January 2, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / 3.2.61 
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Life Is a Song (Let’s Sing It Together) / Bluebird / 1935 / vocal = Skeeter Palmer
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / New Year’s Resolution / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47
Max Bennett / Hence! / Do You Know Why? / Bethlehem / 1956 / vocal= Helen Carr

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Mr. Blues Pour Flirter / Once in A While / Brunswick / Paris 4.22.63 
Stan Getz / At Large / Amour / Verve / live, Kildevæld Church, Copenhagen, Denmark 1.60 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Harry Warren / Would You Like to Take a Walk / Clef / LA 11.15.54 / Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Donegal Cradle Song / Decca / 5.19.33 / Hughes, Benny Carter, Henry Red Allen, Wayman Carver, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Dicky Wells, Nick Rodriguez, Lawrence Lucie, Sid Catlett
Leon Belasco & his Orchestra / There’s a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / 1947 / vocal = Patty Andrews (of the Andrews Sisters); celeste!
The Four Southerners / Dan, the Back Door Man / Decca / 3.18.37
Suzi Miller & The Johnston Brothers / That’s All I Want from You / Decca / 1955 / with Johnny Douglas & his Orchestra and The Tony Kinsey Trio
Freddie King / Takin’ Care of Business / Federal / 1962

set 3
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / Gettin’ Around / Prestige / 6.17.60 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Park Avenue Patter / Black Velvet / Golden Crest / 4.11.57
Harry “Sweets” Edison / Sweets / Love Is Here to Stay / Clef / LA 9.4.56 / Herman Leonard, cover 
Kenny Clarke & his 52nd Street Boys / Bebop / Royal Roost / Victor / 9.5.46 
The Pied Pipers / Walkin’ Away with My Heart / Capitol / Hollywood 1946 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Four Blues / Bell Bottom Trousers / DeLuxe / 1945 
Bob Dorough / Devil May Care / I Had the Craziest Dream / Bethlehem / 10.56 / Dorough p & voc, Warren Fitzgerald t, Bill Takus b, Jerry Segal d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / Time Out / Kathy’s Waltz / Columbia [unissued] / 1959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)
Sal Salvador / I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / Bethlehem / 1957 / Salvador g, Phil Woods as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa vib, Johnny Williams p, Sonny Dallas b, Jimmy Campbelll d
Pauline & her Perils [Six Hits and a Miss minus two Hits] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.30.39 / with the King Cole Trio (a little celeste by Nat King Cole, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b) and vocal = Pauline Byrns with Vince Degen, Howard Hudson, Mack McLean, & Bill Seckler 
The Four Vagabonds / Move It Over / Standard Transcription / 1942
Chuck Willis / My Baby’s on My Mind / Columbia / 6.27.51
Willie Jones / Where’s My Money / Mr. Peacock Records / 1961
Golden Gate Quartet / Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel in the Valley) / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Esquires / Get On Up and Get Away / My Sweet Baby / Bunky / Chicago 1967