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