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| Nat knows that the best way to cap off the summer is in your pastel finery at a French café. |
Coffeetime, September 18, 2026, Angelynn Grant
set 1
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / The Spirit-Feel / Atlantic / live, Herndon Stadium, Atlanta 5.28.59
Benny Golson / Groovin’ with Golson / The Stroller / New Jazz / 8.28.59
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Galvanizing / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood early 1945 / with intro by master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / My Extraordinary Gal / Victor / 4.7.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Lionel Robinson / I Can’t Go On Without You / Gotham / 6.49
Julie London / Bethlehem’s Girl Friends / You’re Blasé / Bethlehem / 1955 / celeste!
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Blue Mitchell / Heads Up! / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Blue Note / 11.17.67
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Skylark / Prestige / 10.21.66
John Coltrane / Ballads / I Wish I Knew / Impulse! / 11.13.62
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I’m Shooting High / Pathé Marconi / Paris 5.5.36 / vocal = Adelaide Hall
Johnnie “Geechie” Temple / Fix It Up and Go / Decca / 9.23.40
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I Wish I Knew / radio transcription / live Palladium, Hollywood 8.16.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Mary Is Fine / Peacock / Houston 1.49
set 3
Stanley Turrentine / ZT’s Blues / I Wish I Knew / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Casey’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Sonny Sounds / Prestige / 2.25.52
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Blue Moon / V-Disc 569B / 4.19.45
The Five Keys / Too Late / Aladdin / 3.22.51
Noël Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Sail Away / Columbia / 1956
set 4
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Out of Nowhere / Savoy / 4.18.50
Chico Hamilton / The Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi-Fi / Sleepy Slept Here / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56
Larry Adler / Ritual Fire Dance / Columbia / London 2.35 / with orchestra conducted by Carroll Gibbons
King Cole Trio / Embraceable You / V-Disc 365B / Hollywood 12.15.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra
Highway QC’s / Child of God / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956
last soulful song
The Pretenders / I Call It Love / Carnival / 1970
