It’s So Peaceful in the Playlist

Digging the gold miniskirts and the red pocket square!

Coffeetime, March 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Giantis / Blue Note / 8.14.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Omicron / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 8.47
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Good Evenin’ / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / Did I Remember / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Prelude to a Kiss / Savoy / 1.19.56
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Sea Breeze / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Boo Hoo / radio broadcast / 1938 / vocal = The Mullen Sisters
Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.45
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Oo-Wee / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All About Us / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Prestige / 8.65
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
John Kirby & his Orchestra / There I Go / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Have You Met Miss Jones? & I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin’ with Sandy Mosse / I’m Old Fashioned / Argo / Chicago 1959
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Four / Contemporary / LA 12.10.58
Stan Getz / Strike Up the Band / Roost / 3.1.51
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tonight I’m Alone / Exclusive / LA 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Dixieaires / You Better Run / Sunrise / 12.47

last soulful song
Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Motown / Detroit 1968

Waiting at the End of the Playlist

Dorothy, you lucky gal.

Coffeetime, March 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Hank’s Tune / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55 
Benny Goodman Quartet / Dinah / Victor / Hollywood 8.26.36
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / There’s a Wah Wah Gal in Agua Caliente / Columbia / 5.24.30 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Baby! I Can’t Forget You / Specialty / Hollywood 11.17.48
Clora Bryant / ...Gal with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Mode / Hollywood 5.57

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

set 2
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
The Big Three / Appetite Blues / Delta / Chicago 5.4.39

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Allen Eager Quartette / Vot’s Dot / Savoy / 3.22.46 
The Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / Victor / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Yours Alone / Mercury / live at Joe Pasternak’s house, Hollywood 3.24.58
Delta Rhythm Boys / A One Sided Affair / Decca / Hollywood Wednesday 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer / On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen / Decca / Hollywood 4.15.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / In My Savior’s Care / Nashboro / Nashville 1952 

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972
Ann Sexton & The Masters Of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy Seven] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971

I’ve Got a Playlistful of Dreams

Music is always better with a library and a spiral staircase… and Yves.

Coffeetime, March 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Sweet-Cakes / Riverside / 12.58
Pepper Adams / The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams / Seein’ Red / Savoy / 11.19.57
Trummy Young’s Big Seven / Johnson Rock / HRS / 9.3.46
Billy Cotton & his Band / Crazy Weather / Regal Zonophone / London 12.20.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / Double-Trouble Blues / Savoy / 9.12.44
Helen Carr / … Why Do I Love You / Lonely Street / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61
John Coltrane / Ballads / Too Young to Go Steady / Impulse! / 12.21.61
Stephane Grappelli / Slow en ré majeur (I’ll Be Around) / Barclay [unissued] / Paris 2.14 56
Larry Adler / Medley: Red Sails in the Sunset; I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again / Rex / London 10.35 / with Fred Hartley’s Orchestra
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace “Saxie” Dowell
Gene Autry & Smiley Burnette / Ridin’ Down the Canyon / Perfect / 10.18.35
Georges Guétary / Caballero / Pathé / Paris 1943 / with orchestra arranged & conducted by Marius Coste
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Ruben / RPM / LA 1956

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Stop and Listen / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Teddy Charles / Tentet / Green Blues / Atlantic / 1.11.56
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Stealin’ Trash / Savoy / 12.18.46
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Eddy Howard; with celeste!
The Charioteers / The Gaucho Serenade / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / No Love, No Nothin’ / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Carioca / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56 
King Cole Trio / Easy Listening Blues; I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Yves Montand / Faubourg Saint-Martin / Odeon / France 1955 / with orchestra conducted by Bob Castella
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / LA 1967
The Trumpeteers / Somehow / King / 1.24.50

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Where I’m Coming From / If You Really Love Me / Tamla / 1971
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972 (partial)