Friday, June 26, 2026

I’ve Got a Playlist Filled with Love (For You Dear)

Close up screenshot of Ricky Nelson singing at a microphone with his eyes closed. He's holding a guitar and some of the guys in the band are behind him.
He’s so dreamy. That’s all.

Coffeetime, June 26, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Luminescence / Prestige / 4.20.67
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / On a Little Street in Singapore / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Sugar Is Back in Town / Decca [unissued] / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 6.2.29
Bert Firman’s Dance Orchestra / Together, We Two / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex, England 3.8.28 / vocal = Rudy Starita (vib, d)
Don Byas & Las Estrellas de “Ritmo & Melodia” / Janine / Gramophone / Barcelona 10.11.47 / vocal = Louie Williams
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Love, Look Away / Riverside / 10.59 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Lucky to Be Me / Riverside / 12.15.58 / piano solo
Bill Hardman / Jackie’s Pal / It Could Happen to You / Prestige / 8.31.56
Milt Bernhardt / Modern Brass / London in July / RCA Victor / 3.4.55
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Flapperette / Victor / 1.7.27
Lofner-Harris St. Francis Hotel Orchestra / I Got the Ritz (From the One I Love) / Victor / San Francisco 10.13.31 / vocal = Phil Harris
Al (Stomp) Russell Trio / Down the Road a Piece / DeLuxe / early 1946 
Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry, Baby (With a Gal Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / You Got Me (Where You Want Me) / Duke / 1958

set 3
Donald Byrd / Chant / You’re Next / Blue Note [unissued] / 4.17.61
Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quartette / Mean to Me / King / 6.14.58
Ben Webster Sextet / Randle’s Island / EmArcy / LA 12.27.51
Major Glen Miller & The Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / I’ve Got a Heart Filled with Love (For You Dear) / V-Disc #381A / 5.13.44 / with vocal = Sgt. Johnny Desmond & The Crew Chiefs
The Ravens / I’ll Be Back / EmArcy / 12.52
Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Baby, Baby All the Time / Regent / 1947 / vocal = Buddy Stewart

set 4
Conte & Pete Candoli / The Brothers Candoli / Fascinating Rhythm / Dot / LA 5.57 
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / All or Nothing at All / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.55
Dave Brubeck / Trolley Song / Fantasy / San Francisco 1954 
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / with celeste!
Ricky Nelson / Songs By Ricky / That’s All / Imperial / LA 6.9.59
The Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965

Friday, June 19, 2026

Makin’ Faces at the Playlist in the Moon

Close up of Maurice and The Radiants performing, wearing suits with bow ties, in front of a mic stand. Two of the exclamation marks from the show's title are on a vivid sign partially behind them. Maurice is smiling while The Radiants sing their part.
!!! Live, not lip-synch’d !!!

Coffeetime, June 19, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Bop / Cranky Spanky / Columbia / 12.56
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 3.7.57
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Daahoud (alt take) / EmArcy / 8.54
Savoy Bearcats / Hot Notes / Victor / 10.11.26 
Rube Bloom & His Bayou Boys / Mysterious Mose / Columbia / 4.9.30 / vocal = Roy Evans 
Four Tones & Eddie Beal Trio / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Bluebird / 10.10.41 
Ethel Ennis / Once Again… / One Man Woman / RCA Victor / 1964

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

set 2
Les Spann / Gemini / There Is No Greater Love / Jazzland / 12.8.60
Clark Terry / Duke with a Difference / Mood Indigo / Jazzland / 9.6.57 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / Body & Soul / Warwick / 1959 / Osborne g, Tommy Flanagan p, Tommy Potter b, Jo Jones d
Larry Adler / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / London 6.3.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
The Boswell Sisters / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Brunswick / 8.17.31 / with The New Yorkers (with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey)
Billie Holiday / As Time Goes By (take 2) / Commodore / 4.1.44 / with Eddie Heywood & his Orchestra
Osie Johnson & his Orchestra / A Bit of the Blues / All I Want Is My Clothes / RCA Victor / 1956 / vocal = Osie Johnson

set 3
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Tamra / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
John Wright / South Side Soul / Sin Corner / Prestige / 8.30.60 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Secret Love / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / 8.18.38
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / My Fantasy / Victor / 1940 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock and Count Basie / I’m Lost / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Imagination / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Hal McKusick / Cross Section – Saxes / The Last Day of Fall / Decca / 4.7.58 / McKusick as, Dick Hafer & Frank Socolow ts, Jay Cameron bari, Bill Evans p, Paul Chambers b, Connie Kay d
Oscar Moore / Presenting Oscar Moore / To a Wild Rose / Omegatape / LA 12.12, 14.56 / Oscar Moore rhythm guitar with overdubbed solo guitar, Leroy Vinnegar b
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Clary / Hooray for Love / Love Is a Simple Thing / Epic / 1956
The Wright Brothers Gospel Singers / Gospel Train / Okeh / Texas 1940

last soulful song
Maurice & the Radiants / You’ve Been Cheating / live, The !!!! Beat / Dallas 1966



Friday, June 12, 2026

When My Little Playlist Met Your Little Pekinese

Bob Fosse, Ann Miller, Bobby Van, and Tommy Rall in costume for Kiss Me Kate performing From this Moment On. Fosse has an impish look while he pulls Miller's arm his way, Van is on his knee with his head thrown back singing as Miller looks down at him with a smile and Rall scowls from behind.
I love Bobby Van even if Tommy Rall doesn’t!

Coffeetime, June 12, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / Karioka / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / Thadrack / Blue Note / 2.2.57
Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, IN 2.11.29
Al Bowlly / When My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese / HMV / London 5.10.33 / duet with Frances Day, with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / When I Meander in the Meadow / RCA Victor [unissued] / 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes / Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Dinah Washington / Crazy He Calls Me / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / with Clifford Brown All Stars

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Rainy Night / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Paul Desmond / Imagination / RCA Victor [unissued] / 3.15.62
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips – Buddy Rich Trio / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Clef / 12.14.52
Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / V-Disc 536A / Hollywood 8.13.45
Don Redman & his Orchestra / The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring / Victor / 3.23.39 / Eddie Williams voc & ts
The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade (When I’m Rollin’ My Last Cigarette) / Okeh / 7.7.41 
T-Bone Walker & his Band / The Hustle Is On / Imperial / LA 4.5.50
Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, & Tommy Rall / From this Moment On / MGM / Hollywood 6.18.53 / from film “Kiss Me Kate”

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Backlash / On the Que-Tee / Atlantic / 10.19.66
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Alpha / Savoy / 11.1.55
Julian Dash / Goin’ Along / Mello-Roll / 12.50
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Knows / transcription / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Savannah Churchill / That's My Affair / Victor / 12.51 / with The Striders
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Thou Swell / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / S’Wonderful / Savoy / LA 4.18.50
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & celeste!, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Larks / I Live True to You / Apollo / 2.18.52
Vikki Carr / It Must Be Him / Alfie / Liberty / LA 1967
The Soul Stirrers / He’ll Make a Way / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soulful song
Gladys Knight & the Pips / Neither One of Us / Soul / 12.72

Friday, June 05, 2026

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

Screenshot close up of Doris Day singing with her head tilted back and a smile in front of a large 1940s style microphone. Two soldiers are sitting in the background on her stage.
Doris, s’wonderful when you sing… or act!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Freddie Redd / San Francisco Suite / Minor Interlude / Riverside / 10.2.57
Sydney Kyte & his Piccadilly Hotel Band / Me / Regal / 1931 / vocal = The Three Ginx
Mel Walker / Sunset to Dawn / Savoy / LA 8.12.50 / with Johnny Otis Orchestra
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57

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

set 2
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / What Is There to Say / Riverside / 6.57
The 3 Sounds / Feelin’ Good / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 6.28.60
Django Reinhardt et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / Django’s Dream (Rêverie) / Vogue / Paris 1950
Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44
The Ramblers / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Want a Tall Skinny Papa / Decca / 2.18.42 / vocal = Sister Rosetta Tharpe & ensemble
Inez Jones / Have You Met Inez Jones? / Happy / Riverside / Berkeley 5.27.57 / with Oscar Moore g
Yves Montand / Yves Montand Sings / Tournesol / Decca / 1951

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Stanley Turrentine with The 3 Sounds / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Oz – The Wizard / Savoy / 3.30.55
Allen Eager / All Night All Frantic / Savoy / 7.15.47
Golden Gate Quartet / Shoo Shoo Baby / AFRS Jubilee radio broadcast / c. 1943
Doris Day & Buddy Clark / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48
Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / O Grande Amor / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = João Gilberto

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Be Deedle Dee Do / Contemporary / LA 8.58
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Sweet Lorraine / Bethlehem / 3.55 
King Cole Trio / Monday Again / Capitol [unissued] / 12.29.47 / NKC p, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Pretty Eyed Baby / RCA Victor / 1947 
Little Milton / Blues ’n’ Soul / Hard Luck Blues / Stax / Memphis 1974
Golden Gate Quartet / NBC Thesaurus radio broadcast / Show Me the Way / radio transcription / fall 1941

last soulful song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978