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