Friday, August 07, 2026

My Kinda Playlist

Wes Montgomery in a suit and tie sitting on a stool on stage, playing his lovely hollow body electric guitar. He's looking down in this screenshot. So handsome.
Wes can carry good sounds directly to your soul.

Coffeetime, August 7, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
The Montgomery Brothers / The Montgomery Brothers & 5 Others / Sound Carrier / World Pacific / Indianapolis 12.30.57 / Freddie Hubbard’s recording debut 
Freddie Redd / Redd’s Blues / Now / Blue Note / 1.17.61 
Leonard Hayton’s Blue Four / Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere / Brunswick / 3.20.28 / Hayton p, Joe Venuti vn, Fud Livingston cl, & Carl Kress g
Linn Milford & his Hawaiian Singers / In the Moonlight (Think of You, Think of Me) / Regal / London 1.24.30 / duet = Al Bowlly & Len Allen
Cecil Gant Orchestra / Every Minute of Every Hour / Bullet / Nashville 1947
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / Crazy He Calls Me / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.61 

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

set 2
Barney Kessel / Solo / Alfie / Concord / San Francisco 1981
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / And I Still Love You / Impulse! / 2.22.65 
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Undercurrent / Darn That Dream / United Artists / 5.14.62 
Frankie Newton & his Café Society / Vamp / Vocalion / 8.15.39
Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra / My Kinda Love / Okeh / 1.26.29 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Jack Owens / You’re the Only One I Care For / Decca / 7.26.49 / with celeste!
Della Reese / Blue and Orange Birds (And Silver Bells) / Great Lakes / Detroit / 1954 / with Jimmie Hamilton & his Orchestra

set 3
Herbie Mann / Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann / Consolation (Consolaçao) / Atlantic / Rio De Janeiro 10.15.62 / Mann fl, Baden Powell g, Gabriel b
Wayne Shorter / Adam’s Apple / Footprints / Blue Note / 2.66 / Shorter ts, Herbie Hancock p, Reggie Workman b, Joe Chambers d
Teddy Edwards / Wonderful Work / Rex / Hollywood 1948 / Edwards ts, Herbie Harper tb, Hampton Hawes p, Robert “Iggie” Shevak b, Roy Porter d
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / Rain / radio transcription / 1948
The Four Knights / The Glory of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Frank Sinatra / Young at Heart / Someone to Watch Over Me / Columbia / Hollywood 9.23.54 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra; Bill Miller on celeste!

set 4
Jimmy Giuffre / The Jimmy Giuffre 3 / The Song Is You / Atlantic / LA 1957 / Giuffre ts, Jim Hall g, Ralph Peña b
Bob Brookmeyer / Bob Brookmeyer Quartet / Liberty Belle / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 7.54 / Brookmeyer v tb, John Williams p, Bill Anthony b, Frank Isola d
Aaron Sachs / Aaron Sachs Quintette / One Track / Bethlehem / 11.54 / Sachs ts, Danny Bank bs, Urbie Green tb, Barry Galbraith g, Clyde Lombardi b, Osie Johnson d
King Cole Trio / You Must Be Blind / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Baby (Is What He Calls Me) / Capitol / Hollywood 12.27.44 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra: Barbour g, Henry J. "Heinie" Beau, Harold Lawson, Maury Stein cl, Billy May t, Artie Shapiro b, Milt Raskin p, Nick Fatool d
Sam Fletcher / The Look of Love, The Sound of Soul / Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream / Vault / LA 6.67 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Harry Betts
The Bells of Joy / Do Lord Remember Me / Peacock [unissued] / mid-1950s

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You / Don't Let Me Lose This Dream / Atlantic / Muscle Shoals 1969