Friday, July 24, 2026

(Trouble Ends) Out Where the Playlist Begins

Still from 1957 French TV showing Lucky Thompson playing his tenor saxophone, slightly bent forward, and, behind him on drums, Kenny Clarke smiling.
Lucky, you’ve got an angel of a Klook on your shoulder.

Coffeetime, July 24, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Booker Little / Booker Little and Friend / Looking Ahead / Bethlethm / fall 1961
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Red Mckenzie & his Mound City Blowers / One Hour (If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight) / Victor / 11.14.29
Russ Columbo / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Tubby “Tab” Smith [Talmadge Smith] & his Orchestra / Morning Blues / Southern Records / c. 11.45 / vocal = Frank Galbreath 
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why / Prestige / 3.23.62

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / I Forgot to Remember / Prestige / 9.15.64
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Love Is for the Very Young / Contemporary / 12.4.56
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / As Time Goes By / Dawn / 1956
Les Paul Trio / All of Me / V-Disc 616A / 1946
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / (Trouble Ends) Out Where the Blue Begins / Decca / 9.27.36 / vocal = Perry Como
Willie Chinn Orchestra / (Follow the Sun On) Highway 101 / Oliver / Oakland 1945 / vocal = Jerome Richardson
Bette McLaurin / How Can I / Jubilee / 1954 / with Eddie Wilcox Orchestra
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Favela / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Father and Son / Blue Note / 12.27.62
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet / Assunta / Savoy / 10.18.61
Illinois Jacquet & his All Stars / It’s Wild / Aladdin / 9.10.47 / Jacquet ts, Sir Charles Thompson p, John Collins g, Al Lucas b, Shadow Wilson d
Melody Masters / Subway Cutie / Apollo / 1947
Jo Stafford / I’m So Right Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood / 5.9.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Tenderly / Bethlehem / 1956 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Baseball Theme / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / Poinciana / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Just a Thrill / Decca / 10.27.36
King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Alton Ellis / Sings Rock and Soul / Get Ready / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1967
Tom Jones / Once Upon a Time / Parrot / 1965
The Trumpeteers / So Many Years / Grand / Philadelphia late 1954

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Hello Stranger / Atlantic / 1.63