Saturday, April 25, 2026

Give Me a Playlist

Screenshot from the 1957 TV show showing Louie Bellson in a suit and tie sitting behind his drum kit playing vigorously with a smile on his face.
Louie making happy sounds because Pearl’s on the show, too!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Zelma O’Neal / Do Something / Brunswick / 3.29 / with Al Goodman & his Orchestra
Julia Lee / Doubtful Blues / Capitol / LA 6.16.47
Toni Harper / Toni / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / LA 1.3.56 / celeste!

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

set 2
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / You’re Mine You / Blue Note / 3.23.58
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars, Vol. 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Lester Young / She’s Funny That Way / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46
The Rhythmic Eight / Heartbreaking Baby / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1928
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Leo “Snub” Mosley & his Band / Ol’ Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Mabel Scott / Give Me a Man / Exclusive / LA 12.48
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey + Louis Bellson = Happy Sounds / That Certain Feeling / Roulette / 1962 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Look Out! / Minor Chant / Blue Note / 6.18.60
James Moody / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Argo / Chicago 1956 
Howard McGhee / Bass C Jam / Savoy / Chicago 2.48
Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes / Time Out for Tears / Manor / 6.47
The Basin Street Boys / This Is the End of a Dream / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Just One of Those Things / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Stéphane Grappelli / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
The Ravens / Ol’ Man River / National / 4.24.47
Sammy Davis Jr. / Sammy Davis Jr. Sings What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers / What Kind of Fool Am I / Reprise / LA 7.18.61 / with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette
The Alphabetical Four / Rock My Soul / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / I Think You’ve Got Your Fools Mixed Up / Double Shot / 1967

Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnaval / 1968



Friday, April 17, 2026

Playlist Makes You Human

Screenshot from TV show of The Four Tops dancing and lead singer Levi Stubbs holding the microphone. They're wearing tan suits and the groovy set design in back are shapes blues and tans.
Dancing makes you human… and the tops!

Coffeetime, April 17, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Desert Sands / Riverside / 10.16.57
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / Roc and Troll / New Jazz / 5.18.57
The Washingtonians [Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra] / Jubilee Stomp / Brunswick / 3.21.28
Vaughn De Leath / Baby Your Mother (Like She Babied You) / Victor / 8.12.27 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Bye Bye Baby Blues / Specialty / Hollywood early 1950
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Easy Living / Prestige / 9.16.61

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

set 2
Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Barfly / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60
Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson / The Great Kai & J.J. / Georgia on My Mind / Impulse! / 11.8.60 
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Perfect / Okeh / 10.21.27
Brunswick Concert Orchestra [Victor Young & his Orchestra] / Star Dust / Brunswick [unissued] / 5.25.31 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Maxine Sullivan / I Carry the Torch for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace & his Orchestra
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Well Oh Well / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Heart & Soul / Wiggin’ / Contemporary / LA 4.24.62
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary / This Love of Mine / Time / 2.12.60
Illinois Jacquet & his Orchestra / Hot Rod / RCA Victor / 5.22.50
The 4 Vagabonds / Slow and Easy / Bluebird / Chicago 12.17.41 
Toni Harper & Herb Jeffries / You’re Too Tall and I’m Too Small / Columbia / LA 5.49 / with Jerry Gray & his Orchestra; celeste
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Stella Performance / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Baseball Theme / Fantasy / San Francisco 5.26.64
Peggy Lee / It’s All Over Now / Capitol / Hollywood 7.23.46 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
B.B. King / Bye Bye Baby / RPM / mid-1950s
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Love Makes You Human / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

Friday, April 10, 2026

I Need a Playlist

Close up of Nellie Lutcher, in profile, sitting at the piano singing. She has large, flat, pearl-like earrings and a large pearl necklace. There is a man playing a bass behind her. She's smiling as she sings.
Big pearls, big microphone for Nellie.

Coffeetime, April 10, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Wake Up! / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Julia [CD only] / Riverside / 11.17.59
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Minor Meeting / Time / 3.23.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Baltimore Bounce / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Sunny Side Up / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew; celeste!
Jack McVea & his All Stars / It Never Should Have Been This Way / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

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

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Teddy Bunn / Guitar in High / Blue Note / 3.28.40
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ll Never Be the Same / Brunswick / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Nellie Lutcher & Nat King Cole / Can I Come in for a Second / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970

set 3
Cedar Walton / Cedar! / My Ship / Prestige / 7.10.67
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
The Tadd Dameron Sextet / Our Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / What Do You Know About Love? / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / vocal = Ida James
Golden Gate Quartet / Dipsy Doodle / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 1.24.38
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Una Mae Carlisle / I Like It, ’Cause I Love It / Beacon / 5.23.44
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Time’s Winding Up / Columbia / 4.18.41

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967



Friday, April 03, 2026

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

Screenshot of Jeanne Aubert singing with many actors and actresses behind her, some in sequined costumes.She's singing, smiling, and wearing a white dress and headpiece covered in white feathers.
Jeanne, letting us all know that anything goes for her, especially feathers. Poor birds.

Coffeetime, April 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Leila’s Blues / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Art Taylor / AT’s Delight / Move / Blue Note / 8.6.60
Russell Procope’s Big Six / Four Wheel Drive / HRS / late 1946
Annette Hanshaw / Sweetheart Darlin’ / Banner / 6.3.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / We Can’t Agree / Decca / LA 11.24.47 / Jordan as & voc, Aaron Izenhall t, Eddie Johnson ts, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book / The Man I Love / Verve / Hollywood 1.5.59 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Lester Young / I Can’t Get Started / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
Lil Green / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Victor / Chicago 7.31.46
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
The Vocaleers / Be True / Red Robin / 1953
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / Free Flow / Blue Note / 10.10.69
Hank Mobley / Workout / Greasin’ Easy / Blue Note / 3.26.61
Don Byas / Free and Easy / Savoy / 7.28.44 / celeste!
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’m Lost / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.44 / vocal = Dick Gray
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Fallout / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / When You’re Smiling / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Just You, Just Me / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Francis Collinson
Peggy Lee / ’Tain’t So, Honey, ’Tain’t So / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d 
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I Know / King [Federal] / 1961
The Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Earl Gaines / Three Wishes for a Fool / DeLuxe / 5.5.67