Friday, July 27, 2012

Coffee in the Morning and Playlist at Night


Coffeetime, July 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Smack Up / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58 
Victor Feldman / Transatlantic Alliance / Four / Tempo / London 1.3.57 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Frenesi / V-Disc / Hollywood 1.15.41
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track Baby (But You’re Goin’ the Wrong Way) / Decca / Hollywood 12.8.47 / vocal = Martha Davis 
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Cal Tjader / Jazz Confidential [Jazz at the Blackhawk] / Crown [Fantasy] / Journey’s End [Land’s End] / live at the Blackhawk, San Francisco 1.20.57 
John Lewis & his Orchestra / A Milanese Story, Original Soundtrack / Finale / Atlantic / Turin 1.17.62 / with Quartetto di Milano 
Bennie Green / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Stardust / Prestige / Chicago 5.13.52 
The Ramblers / Black Heaven / Decca / London 11.8.32
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Unlucky Girl / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones 
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Spaniels / 100 Years from Today / Vee-Jay / 8.27.59 

set 3
James Moody / Great Day / Opales’ Que / Argo [Cadet] / Chicago 6.17, 18.63 
Oliver Nelson / Screamin’ the Blues / Three Seconds / New Jazz / 5.27.60 
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50 
Maxine Sullivan / Red River Valley / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
The Charioteers / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Columbia / 6.6.47
Buddy Greco / Buddy’s Back in Town! / You Better Go Now / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Just Friends / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Groovin’ High / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56 
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I Didn't Like It the First Time / Capitol / LA 11.13.47
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Lady Is a Tramp / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra  
Jubalaires / Swing Down Chariot / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

Friday, July 20, 2012

Playlistenium


Coffeetime, July 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Jodie’s Cha Cha / Riverside / 9.4.58 
Thad Jones / The Fabulous Thad Jones / Elusive / Debut / 8.11.54 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Get a Kick Out of You / Victor / 4.4.50 
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / The Continental / Columbia / London 12.34
Turner Layton / I Get Along Without You Very Well / radio transcripton? / 7.8.39
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / You Lovely You / Decca / 5.10.44 / vocal = Trevor Bacon 
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / This Is the Beginning of the End / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57 
Herbie Mann's Californians / Blues for Tomorrow / A Sad Thing / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Dizzy Gillespie / Stardust / Savoy / 10.25.51 
Ethel Waters with the Hermann Chittison Trio / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 
“Female Vocal Quartet” / How Deep Is the Ocean / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood 1945
Denny Dennis / Stardust / Rex / 5.2.40 
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49

set 3
Eddie Harris / Jazz for Breakfast at Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's / Vee Jay / 1961 
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cloudy / Crown / 1960
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Mush Mouth / Mercury / 9.53 
Connee Boswell / Sand in My Shoes / Decca / Hollywood 6.28.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
The Quintones / Harmony in Harlem / Vocalion / 1940
Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Warm Up / Tampa / LA 1954
Gerry Mulligan / Mulligan Plays Mulligan / Mullenium / Prestige / 8.27.51 
Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Blue Grass / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / Summertime / Mercury / 1954 
Nellie Lutcher / St. Louis Blues / Okeh / LA 8.25.53
Albert King / Had You Told Me It Like It Was (It Wouldn’t Be Like It Is) / King / 1963
Golden Gospel Singers / How I Got Over / Decca / 1951

last soulful song
Helene Smith / Pot Can’t Talk About the Kettle / Blue Star / Miami 1963 

Friday, July 13, 2012

Reina (My Lovely Playlist)




Coffeetime, July 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Cliff Craft / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57 
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra / Moten Swing / Victor / 12.13. 32 
Russ Columbo & his Orchestra / Living in Dreams / Victor / 6.16.32
Joe Thomas / Got to Have Her Lovin’ / King / Cincinatti 6.28.50
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Don’t Explain / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Time After Time / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Goin Home / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Paul Robeson / Lazy Bones / Victor / 1933
Mabel Scott / No More Cryin’ Blues / Coral / 5.22.51 
Sergio Franchi / Sings in Italian: Il Fantastico! / Gringo / 4 Corners of the World / Italy 1962

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / The Mercenary / Blue Note / 10.10.69 
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Gut Soul / Prestige Swingville [unissued] / 3.7.60
Jimmy Forrest / Coach 13 / United / 11.27.51 
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / You’ll Never Know / Standard transcription / 1943 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Reina (My Lovely Queen) / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = The Enchanters
Jimmy Witherspoon / The Day Is Dawning / Federal [unissued?] / LA 9.30.52

set 4
Lennie Neihaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Have You Met Miss Jones / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
Hoagy Carmichael / Memphis in June / V-Disc 550 / Hollywood 8.13.45 
Anita O'Day / This is Anita / Fine and Dandy / Verve / LA 12.6.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra 
Wynona Carr / Act Right / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.55 
Golden Gate Quartet / Gospel Train / NBC Thesaurus radio program #979 / 1941

last soulful song
The Fuzz / Leave It All Behind Me / Calla / 1971

Friday, July 06, 2012

The Playlist Becomes You




Coffeetime, July 6, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / The Baghdad Blues / Blue Note / 8.29.59 
Red Garland / All Mornin’ Long / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Prestige / 11.15.57 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / A Stranger in Paree / Victor / 4.13.38 / from Gold Diggers of Paris 
Floyd Dixon / Lovin’ / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 
Frances Faye / I'm Wild Again / He’s Funny That Way / Bethlehem / LA 1955 

set 2
Joe Henderson / Page One / La Mesha / Blue Note / 6.3.63 
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Easy to Remember / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55 
Candy & Coco / China Boy / Vocalion / LA 9.19.34
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Decca / The Hague, Netherlands 2.4.35
Bing Crosby / Moonlight Becomes You / Decca / Hollywood 6.12.42 / with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra, from Road to Morroco
Memphis Slim / Living Like a King / Peacock / Houston 1952

set 3
Bobby Timmons / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Easy Does It] / Pretty Memory / Riverside / 3.13.61 
Charlie Rouse / Yeah. / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Epic / 12.21.60
Ramp Davis / Bayou Bounce / Modern / LA 1951
Harry James & his Orchestra / You Go to My Head / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
The 5 Royales / With All Your Heart (aka Put Something in It) / Apollo / c. 5.54 
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Here’s That Rainy Day / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66 

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Crazy Rhythm / Riverside / 3.7.57 
Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Squeeze Me / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.24.44
Ann Cole / Brand New House / Sir / 1960
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / A Garden in the Rain / Mercury / Hollywood 2.18.64
Sallie Martin Singers / God Is a Battle Ax / Specialty demo / Hollywood 8.16.50

last soulful record
The Four Singing Avalons / She’s My Woman, She’s My Girl / Atco / 1968

Friday, June 29, 2012

This Playlist is Real




Coffeetime, June 29, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gene Ammons / Jammin' with Gene / Not Really the Blues / Prestige / 7.13.56 
Annette Hanshaw / I Cover the Waterfront / Banner / 6.3.33 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Roy Milton [Specialty] / LA late 1946 [1947] 
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / A Sleepin’ Bee / Reprise / LA 1961 /  arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / The Infants Song / Prestige / 5.26.55 
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / The Moors / Savoy / 7.9.57 
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Castle Rock / A Gentle Breeze / Verve [Norgran] / 3.3.51 
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Blue River / Edison Diamond Disc /  9.19.27 / vocal = Ed Kirkeby   
Delta Rhythm Boys / 9:20 Special / Mercury / Stockholm 8.24.51 / with Andrew Burman’s Band
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Let’s Get Away from It All / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

set 3
Horace Silver / Silver's Blue / The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Epic / 7.17.56 
Charlie Parker / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / WJZ broadcast / live, Birdland 4.7.51
Dorothy Lamour / It Had to Be You / Bluebird / 1.19.40
Deep River Boys / Don’t Ask Me Why / RCA Victor / 2.49
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Rénuncia / RCA Victor / c. 1956

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Taxi War Dance / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Contemporary / 9.13.55 
Bing Crosby / It's Been a Long, Long Time / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / That’ll Just ’Bout Knock Me Out / Decca / 7.21.42
Jerry Orbach / Original Broadway Cast Album for Promises, Promises / Half As Big As Life / United Artists / 1968
The Pilgrim Travelers / Move Up to Heaven / Specialty / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
The Lovelites / This Love is Real / Uni / 1970

Friday, June 22, 2012

My Playlist Comes Tumbling Down


Coffeetime, June 22, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / [Peckin’ Time] / High and Flighty [alt take] / [Blue Note] Mosaic / 2.9.58 
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / New Keep / Riverside / 10.30.59 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Yellow Fire / Bluebird / 8.20.41
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / It Was Only a Sun Shower / Victor / 9.8.27 / vocal = Dusty Roades
Billy Cotton & his Band / The Man from Harlem / Regal Zonophone / London 4.11.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & Teddy Foster 
Jesse Belvin / My Love Comes Tumbling Down / Recorded in Hollywood [unissued] / Hollywood 1.6.52 
Beverly Kenney / Sings for Playboys / What Is There to Say? / Decca / 1958

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Blue Note / 10.21.63 
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / No More / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62 
Milt Jackson / Statements / A Beautiful Romance / Impulse! / 12.14 & 15.61 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Redman Blues / V-Disc 104u [unissued?] / 1943
Adrian Rollini & his Tap Room Gang / Got a Need for You / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Jeanne Burns & Wingy Manone
Mildred Bailey / Scrap Your Fat / V-Disc 135B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / Encounters Ben Webster / La Rosita / Verve / 10.16.57
Charlie Ventura’s Big Four / After You’ve Gone / Verve / 8.8.51
Dexter Gordon / Bikini / Dial / Hollywood 6.12.47 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Everything Happens to Me / Columbia / 1941 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Ink Spots / You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling In Love) / Decca / 1948
Don Nelson / The Wind / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / Pink Lady / Contemporary / LA 4.22.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / This Time by Basie! / Moon River / Reprise / 1963
King Cole Trio / To a Wild Rose / Capitol / Hollywood 4.5.46
Luis Russell & his Orchestra / A Rainy Sunday / Apollo / vocal = Lee Richardson / 1946 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, #2 / New Sun in the Sky / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52 
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / Love or Affection / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s
The Bronzemen / Good News / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song
Ann Margret / Someday Soon / RCA Victor / 8.25.64 

Friday, June 08, 2012

Playlist on the Range


Coffeetime, June 8, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / True Blue / Prestige / 6.30.64 
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Buck’s Business / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58 
Bill English / Bill English / Heavy Soul / Vanguard / 1963
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Shivery Stomp / Okeh / 5.22.29  
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Victor / Chicago 3.24.32 / vocal = J.L. Sanders 
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Three Blue Notes
Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Bad Man Jackson, That’s Me / Queen / c. 12.19.45 
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / Goodbye / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61 

set 2
Sandy Mosse / "Relaxin" with … Sandy Mosse / Love Is for the Very Young / Argo / Chicago 10.13.58
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Invitation / Mercury / 1959 
Lester Young & Roy Eldridge / Jazz Giants ’56 / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans / 1.12.56 
Mabel Robinson / Search for Your Heart and See / Decca / 7.23.41 / with the Four Blackamoors
Kay Starr / What Goes Up Must Come Down / radio transcription / LA 1944 [49?] / with Les Paul, Joe Venuti, & Billy Butterfield
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I’ll Send You / Freedom / Houston c. 5.49
Pearl Bailey / Tired / Verve / 2.12.56 

set 3
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry’s Time / Candy / VSP Verve / Hollywood 8.1.57 
Illinois Jacquet & his Orchestra / Hot Rod / RCA Victor / 5.22.50 
Connee Boswell / Home on the Range / Decca / LA 11.13.37 / with Bob Crosby’s Bobcats
The Robins / Our Romance Is Gone / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Pete Kelly’s Blues / Atco / 5.12.59 

set 4
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Betty / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.54 
Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / Emaline / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Capitol / LA 9.46
Little Richard / Get Rich Quick / RCA Victor / Atlanta 10.16.51 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / Tim Dom Dom (Crim Dome Dome) / A&M / LA 1966
Dixie Hummingbirds / Search Me Lord / Gotham / 1949 

last  soulful song
The Masqueraders / I’m Just an Average Guy / AGP Records / 1968  

Friday, June 01, 2012

My Playlist's Reverie


Coffeetime, June 1, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / My Reverie / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57 
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Zec / Blue Note / W3.13.56 
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Indiana / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Alone / Victor / 11.7.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Way Over There by the Cherry Tree / Exclusive / Hollywood 1946
Pat Moran / While at Birdland / Lullaby of the Leaves / Bethlehem / 4.57 / vocal = Bev Kelly 

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Serenade in Blue / Blue Note / 5.5.62 
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / My Reverie / Contemporary / 10.15.56 
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / My Reverie / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Sugar Foot Stomp / Decca / 3.19.31
Bea Wain / My Reverie / V Disc 310B / with Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Hollywood 1944
Sherman “Blues” Johnson & His Clouds of Joy / Hot Fish / Trumpet / Memphis 9.30.52

set 3
Larry Young / Unity / Beyond All Limits / Blue Note / 11.10.65 
Paul Quinichette & his Band / Jazz for Hi-Fi Lovers [The Kid from Denver] / Start Here / Dawn / 7.16.56
Jay McShann’s Kansas City Stompers / [History of Jazz, Volume 4: This Modern Age] / Moten Swing / Capitol / 1945
The Larks / My Reverie / Apollo / 3.51 
Maxine Sullivan / Restless / Apollo / 1948 / with Larry Johnson & his Orchestra [prob]
Little Jimmy Scott / Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere / Specialty / live, Rip’s Playhouse, New Orleans 1951 / with Paul Gayten’s Band 

set 4
Frank Rosolino /Bethlehem’s Grab-Bag [I Play Trombone] / My Delux / Bethlehem / LA 5.56 
Herbie Mann / Bethlehem’s Grab-Bag [Herbie Mann Plays] / Scuffles / Bethlehem / 1956 
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / How About You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58
The Falcons / Please Don’t Leave Me Dear / Chess [unissued] / 1959
Jubalaires / Handwriting on the Wall / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Vicki Anderson / Wide Awake in a Dream / DeLuxe / Miami 4.17 & Cincinnati 5.4.66

Friday, May 25, 2012

Playlist Plaything


Coffeetime, May 25, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Somethin’ Cute / Blue Note / 9.29.66  
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugh! / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Sound Track / Majestic / early 1947
Al Bowlly / I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song / HMV / London 7.5.33 / with Ray Noble & his Orchestra 
Jimmy Witherspoon / That’s Your Red Wagon / Modern / LA 1948 / with Al "Cake" Wichard Sextette 
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / I’ll String Along with You / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58 

set 2
Sonny Criss / I'll Catch the Sun / Cry Me a River / Prestige / 1.20.69 
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / Poor Butterfly / Jubilee / 1962
Four French Horns Plus Rhythm / [Folk, Pops 'n Jazz Sampler ] / Come Rain or Come Shine / Elektra / 4.14.57 
Percival Mackey’s Band / I’m Looking for a Boy / Columbia / London 8.19.26 
King Cole Trio / I Lost Control of Myself / Keystone transcription / LA 1.14.39 / vocal = Bonnie Lake
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / I Ain’t Mad at You / Capitol / LA 10.17.46
Peggy Lee / Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee / Yes Indeed! / Capitol / 1.12.61 

set 3
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott / Jaws / Too Close for Comfort / Prestige / 9.12.58 
The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging "Guys and Dolls" / My Time of Day / Columbia / 11.4.59
Lester Young / Crazy over J.Z. / Savoy / 6.28.49 (Or did I play Exercise in Swing by mistake?)
The Boswell Sisters / It Don’t Mean a Thing / Brunswick / 11.22.32 
Earl Warren / Poor Little Plaything / Savoy / 4.18.44 
Anthony Newley / Tony / All by Myself / London / 1961 

set 4
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Sonar / Contemporary / London 8.19.55 
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / The Swingin' Sound / So Be It / Signature / 1959
Ella Fitzgerald & her Famous Orchestra / That’s All, Brother / Decca / 6.29.39
Ray Charles / At Newport / Talkin’ ’Bout You / Atlantic / Newport Jazz Festival 7.5.58
Golden Gate Quartet / My Time Done Come; Run On / Okeh [My Time was unissued] / 3.25.42

last soulful song
Archie Bell & the Drells / Go for What You Know / Atlantic / Philadelphia 11.1.68

Friday, May 18, 2012

Walkin' the Playlist


Coffeetime, May 18, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Chet Baker / Comin' On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Comin’ On / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 
Jimmy Cleveland & his Orch / Cleveland Style / Jimmie’s Tune / EmArcy / 12.12.57  
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955 
Carmichael’s Collegians / Walkin’ the Dog / Gennett / 5.5.28 
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / I Only Have Eyes for You / Decca / The Hague 2.4.35 / vocal = Annie de Reuver
Tiny Bradshaw / Walkin’ the Chalk Line / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50 
Betty Roché / Singin' & Swingin' / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 6.3.60 

set 2
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Don’t Squawk / Atlantic / 6.14.55 
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / Melba’s Mood / Blue Note / 3.23.58 
Benny Morton & His Orchestra / Tailor Made / Columbia / 2.23.34
The Four Blues / It Takes a Tall Brown Skinned Gal / Apollo / 1948 
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Jealous Love / King / Cincinnati 1954 
Frankie Laine / Rockin' / So Black and Blue / Columbia / LA 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Cup Bearers / Philips / 4.25.63
Arnett Cobb / Party Time / Flying Home / Prestige / 5.14.59 
Paul Quinichette / Blow Your Horn (7”) / The Heat’s On / Decca 9.25.53
The Five Jinks / Za Zu Swing / Bluebird / Charlotte Hotel, NC 2.20.37 
 Dizzy Gillespie / [Dizzy Gillespie] / He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped / [Allegro Elite] Prestige / 7.9.46 / vocal = Alice Roberts 
Babe Wallace / Whistlin' at the Chicks / Apollo / 10.46 / with Jerry Jerome Orchestra
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I Fall in Love Too Easily / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Topsy / Tampa / LA 8.8.55 
Mundell Lowe / Satan in High Heels soundtrack; Blues for a Stripper / Satan in High Heels  / MGM; Charlie Parker Records / LA 1962
Count Basie & his Orchestra / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! / Ain’t That Right / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62 
Little Esther / It’s So Good / Savoy / 2.19.59 
Rick Nelson / The Very Thought of You / Dinah / Decca / LA 1964 
The Bronzemen / Don’t Touch My Garment / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soul song
The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Gotta Let You Go / Uni / LA 1970

Friday, May 11, 2012

My Playlist, My Pony and Me


Coffeetime, May 11, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Earl Zindars Sextet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / Ping Pong Beer / Warwick / spring 1960 
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued CD bonus track] / 1.25.60 
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / In a Sentimental Mood / radio transcription / late 1930s
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Under the Moon It’s You / Columbia / 7.21.30 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Mason, Mac Ceppos Ballew  
Willie Bryant / Because Your Baby Is on Your Mind / Apollo / 10.46
Dinah Washington / Easy Living / EmArcy / 03.15.55 

set 2
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / Come Rain or Come Shine / Blue Note / 9.1.57 
Trio de Saxophones Alix Combelle / Reflets / Swing / Paris 12.18.40
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Get Cannibal / Bluebird / 6.23.32 
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Hop on the Skyliner! / Oh! Miss Jaxson / Decca / 7.17.42 / vocal = Peanuts Holland
Ann Cole / I've Got a Little Boy / Baton / 3.59 / with the Suburbans & Orchestra 

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Wes Montgomery Encores / Movin’ Along [alternate take from Movin’ Along] / Riverside / 10.12.60 
Mal Waldron / Impressions / C’est Formidable / New Jazz / 3.20.59 
Roy Brown / Drum Boogie / DeLuxe [unissued] / Cincinnati 6.23.50
Mills Brothers / Georgia on My Mind / Decca / London 7.7.39
Martha Raye / (I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She’s Funny That Way / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / I Married an Angel / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Urbie Green / [Slidin’ Swing] / Lullaby of Birdland / Vanguard [Jazztone] / 8.17.54  
Milt Hinton / Basses Loaded! / Fump / RCA / 2.1.55
The Big Three / Blue Because of You / Chicago 5.29.51
Dean Martin / Dino Latino / In a Little Spanish Town / Reprise / arranged & conducted by Don Costa / LA 1963
Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson / My Rifle, My Pony and Me / soundtrack Rio Bravo / 1959 
Dixie Hummingbirds / Don’t You Want to Join that Number / Apollo / 1.47

last soul song
Seventh Wonder / Ain’t Nothing Gonna Break Us Up / Abet / Nashville 1974

Friday, May 04, 2012

Marry a Playlist Uglier than You


Coffeetime, May 4, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Luminescence / Prestige / 4.20.67 
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Mack the Knife / Vee Jay / 9.9.59 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Voodte / Signature / 12.8.43 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 
Camille Howard / Try Try Again / Pan-American / LA 1946 / with James Clifford’s JazzGi Orchestra 
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (slow version) / United Artists / 7.58

set 2
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Lament for Booker / Blue Note / 10.10.62 
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Lullaby of Birdland / Mercury / 1960
Art Van Damme / [Cocktail Capers] / Dark Eyes / Capitol / 12.20.47 [1950] 
Fred Astaire / soundtrack to A Damsel in Distress / Things Are Looking Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.37
Duke of Iron aka Cecil Anderson / Marry a Woman Uglier than You / radio transcription, AFRS Jubilee #9 / Hollywood 1.43 / with introduction by MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Phil Harris / [That's What I Like About the South] / St James Infirmary / RCA Victor / 1950 [1958]

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / medley: Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today); The Prayer / Impulse! / 4.24-25.62 
Frankie Randall / More of Frankie Randall / Lullaby of Birdland / Roulette / 1965
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / Bolo Blues / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Blue Interlude / Bluebird / 8.8.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47 
Jackie Paris / That Paris Mood [Skylark] / Detour Ahead / Coral [Brunswick] / 1954 

set 4
Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Boy Meets Horn / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57
Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / Eard’s Word / Prestige / 1.13.56 / with wacky cover design by Gil Melle 
Kay Starr / Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Let Your Tears Fall Baby / Peacock / Houston 1951 / with Bill Harvey’s Orchestra 
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (fast version) / United Artists / 7.58
The Chosen Gospel Singers / I’m Going Back with Him / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
The Manhattans / Til You Come Back to Me / Carnival / 1969

Friday, April 27, 2012

ESP (Extrasensory Playlist)


Coffeetime, April 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Little [Max Roach] / Jazz Series, Vol. 8 [Award-Winning Drummer] / Variations on the Scene / Time / 11.4.58 
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary [Jazz Series, Vol. 8] / A Waltz / Time / 2.11.60 
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & hisOrchestra / Swingin’ on Lenox Avenue / Bluebird / 5.14.39
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Friendly / Columbia / London 5.5.31 / vocal = Sid Buckman
The Four Clefs / V-Day Stomp / Bluebird / Chicago 2.28.45 / lead vocal = Johnny Green
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / It Never Entered My Mind / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Note / 12.16.61 
Matty Matlock & his Jazz Band / Music from Jack Webb’s Pete Kelly’s Blues / Sugar / Columbia / 1955 
Art Tatum / Where or When / V-Disc [unissued] / Hollywood late 1.46
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Do You or Don’t You Love Me / Bluebird / 5.23.36 / vocal = Teddy Lewis
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Run Joe / Decca / Hollywood 1948
Chuck Willis / Baby’s on My Mind / Okeh [unissued] / 6.27.51

set 3
Machito / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz] / Congo Mulence / Roulette / 12.17, 19, 24.57 
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / ESP (Extrasensory Perception) / Blue Note / 11.24.64 
Terry Gibbs / T & S / Prestige / 3.14.49 
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #332 / Hollywood 3.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra and introduced by Dick Haymes
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / This Funny World / RCA / 1955

set 4
André Previn / Soundtrack for Two for the Seesaw / Everybody’s Got a Radio / United Artist / Hollywood 1962
Ben Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Soupsville / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / Skylark / Liberty / LA 9.55
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol / Hollywood 5.26.46
Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / English Diplomacy / National / 1965 
The Hightower Brothers / Lord I’m Running / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville early 1960s

last soulful song
Al Green / The Belle Album / Loving You / Hi Records / Memphis 1977

Friday, April 13, 2012

Rocks in My Playlist


Coffeetime, April 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / Olive Refractions / Riverside / 8.4 & 5.59 
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / LA 3.14.56 
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Hello Babe / Signature / 12.21.43 
Ruth Etting / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Banner / 3.29.33
The Basin Street Boys / Jumping at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio  
Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Darn that Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / vocal = Dinah Washington 

set 2
Clifford Brown / Best Coast Jazz / You Go to My Head / EmArcy / LA 8.11.54 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Malinda’s Wedding Day / Bluebird / 7.31.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Running Wild / Varsity / 12.47
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / My Ohio Home / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra 

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Linda Serene / Riverside / LA 10.11.60 
Cy Coleman / Pianorama / I Got Lost in His Arms / Capitol / 1961
Lennie Tristano / Wow / Capitol / 3.4.49 
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #7: Jazz Perennial / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Tadd Dameron & his Orchestra / Heaven’s Doors Are Open Wide / Capitol / 4.21.49 / vocal = Kay Penton 
The Robins / I’m Through / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Rocks in My Bed / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Elbow Room / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 
Pete Brown / Jazz Kaleidoscope / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Bethlehem / 11.16.54 
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Bluebird / 4.8.39 / vocal = Jimmy Mitchelle
Peggy Lee / The Old Master Painter / 11.16.49 / with Mel Tormé & the Mellomen
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Out of this World / Impulse / 9.18.63 
Jubalaires / I Declare the World Is in a Bad Condition / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

Friday, April 06, 2012

There's a Playlist at the Door


Coffeetime, April 6, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
John Coltrane / Settin’ the Pace / Rise and Shine / Prestige / 3.26.58 
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / Big Ben / Mode / 7.57 
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Columbia / London 6.10.38 / vocal = George Melachrino
Harry “Sweets” Edison & his Orchestra / Ain’t Cha Gonna Do It? / radio transcription? / LA 10.45
Larry Darnell  / Don’t Go, Don’t Go / Regal / 1950 / with Paul Gayten’s Band 
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Left Alone / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Prestige / 10.25.57 
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Dream of You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Charlie Mariano / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Bethlehem / 7.11.55 
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful / Decca / LA 12.17.36 / with Andy Iona & his Islanders
Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 12.12.40
Elmer Christian & his Bar X Cowboys / A Rainy Sunday Night / Globe / Houston early 1946
Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man / Specialty / Hollywood 5.4.50

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63 
Hal McKusick / Bird Feathers / Con Alma / Prestige / 12.27.57 
Flip Phillips Hiptet / Swingin’ for Popsie / Signature / 6.45
The Mills Brothers / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Decca / 7.19.38
Sarah Vaughn / Penthouse Serenade / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Teddy Wilson Octet
Nat King Cole / Top Pops / Funny! (Not Much) / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo

set 4
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Hey Sam / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 
Taft Jordan & The Mob / Louisiana Fairy Tale / Melotone / 2.22.35 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Could I Know? / RCA Victor / LA early 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / There’s a Man at the Door / Columbia / 12.23.47
Harmonizing Four / Come Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song
Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnival / 1968 

Friday, March 30, 2012

Vol Vistu Gaily Playlist


Coffeetime, March 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein  / Four Altos / Kinda Kanonic / Prestige / 2.9.57 
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / Minor Mishap / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / The Moon Got in My Eyes / Columbia / London 4.11.37 / vocal = Anne Lenner 
Wynonie "Mister Blues" Harris & his All-Stars / Ghost of a Chance / Aladdin / 7.47 / with the Harlemairs
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Yesterday’s Gardenias / Bethlehem / 1955 

set 2
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Everything Happens to Me / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Park Avenue Petite / Riverside / 9.28.59 
Willie Smith & his Orchestra / Willie Weep for Me / Keynote [EmArcy] / LA 5.2.45 
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Words of Love / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Night Wind / Victor / 1.5.35 
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / Vol Vistu Gaily Star / Victor / 8.28.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook / Manhattan / Verve / LA 2.8.56

set 3
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Minor Mishap / Prestige / 8.2.61
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Mo Mo / Musicraft / 6.14.46
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Bakery Blues / V-Disc 487A / 4.19.45
Rhythm Kings / Why My Darling Why / Apollo / 1951
Les McCann / Sings / On the Street Where You Live / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / ’Enry ’Iggins ’Ead / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Johnny Costa / Plays Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood / Did You Know? / Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Records / 1985
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / All the Jive Is Gone / Decca / 3.3.36 / vocal = Pha Terrell  
Pat Suzuki / Broadway '59 / Daddy / RCA / between 12.58 and 1.59
Solomon Burke / I’m Hanging Up My Heart for You / Atlantic / 1962
Davis Sisters / If Jesus Is Near / Gotham [unissued] / 5.49

last soulful song
Gerry & the Pacemakers / I Like It / Capitol / 1963 

Friday, March 16, 2012

It's My Playlist, Baby


Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Nieta / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58 
Jackie McLean / 4, 5, and 6 / Confirmation / Prestige / 7.20.56 
Harry Roy & his Orchestra / Build a Little Home / Parlophone / Mayfair Hotel, London 3.12.34 
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / Miss Jiveola Brown / Apollo [unissued] / 11.2.45
Barbara Lea / Modern Jazz Sampler [A Woman in Love] / I Didn’t Know About You / Riverside / 3.16.55 

set 2
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / If You Are There / Contemporary / LA 3.12.57 
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / West Coast Blues / Imperial / LA 2.24.56 
The Hollywood Hucksters / I Apologize / Capitol / LA 5.29.47 
Dick McDonough & his Orchestra / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / Melotone / 6.23.36 / vocal = Barry McKinley
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / That’s Not Cricket / Victor / 10.14.35 / vocal & taps = Eleanor Powell
Big Maybelle [Mabel Louise Smith] / How It Lies / Savoy / 3.16.59
Sammy Davis Jr / [Sings Forget-Me-Nots for First Nighters] / New York’s My Home / Decca / 10.2.56 [1963]

set 3
Thelonious Monk / Modern Jazz Sampler [The Unique] / Liza / Riverside / 3.17.56 
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Cleo’s Chant / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56 
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / How High the Moon / Savoy / 5.17.46 
Betty Hutton / Doin’t the Hard Way / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Four Aces / There’s a Rumor Going Around / Trilon / Oakland 1946 
Mel Tormé /Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Sing for Your Supper / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4
Milt Hinton / The Rhythm Section / Out of Braith / Epic / 1956
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / All the Things You Are / Contemporary / LA 11.26.56 
Pauline & her Perils aka Six Hits and a Miss / I Can’t Get Started / Standard transcription / Hollywood 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Slim Gaillard / I’m Confessin’ / Atomic / LA 1946
Bobby “Blue” Bland / It’s My Life, Baby / Duke / Memphis 1955
Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Victor / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Since I Don’t Have You / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Friday, March 09, 2012

Page Mr. Playlist


Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Bill English / Bill English / Sel’s Tune / Vanguard / 1963
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Marc V / Blue Note / 10.21.56 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Harlem Air Shaft / Victor / 7.22.40 
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Manhattan / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.25  
Seven Little Polar Bears aka Jimmy Johnston’s Rebels aka Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Love Her! / Cameo / 6.5.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks (drummer)
Dinah Washington / I Know How to Do It / Keynote / 12.29.43 
Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / There He Goes / Fantasy / 1.57 

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Someone to Watch over Me / Blue Note [unreleased] / 1.20.61 
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Pete Johnson’s Housewarmin’ / Page Mr. Trumpet [alt take] / National [unisssued] / 1.31.46 
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Edison / 10.16.28 
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Know How to Do It / Queen / 12.20.45 
Pee Wee Crayton / I Got News for You / Imperial / New Orleans 6.54 

set 3
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / Our Love is Here to Stay / Prestige / 2.27.64 
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Settin’ the Pace / Savoy / 12.11.47 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Afraid to Dream / Victor / LA 7.7.37 / vocal = Betty Van
Deep River Boys / I Left Myself Wide Open / Victor / 1947
Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Speak Low / Bethlehem / 11.22.55 

set 4
Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / Skippy / Jazztone [Vanguard] / 12.3.54
Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Don’t Be That Way / Tampa / LA 8.8.55 
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
The Trenier Twins / No Baby No! / Mercury / 9.47 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / O Pato / A&M / LA 1966
Coleman Brothers / We’ll Understand / Manor / 1945 

last soulful song
The Intruders / (Who’s Your) Favorite Candidate / Gamble / 1969

Friday, March 02, 2012

Playlist-Dee-Dah


Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Curtain Call / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57 
Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / Geo's Tune / New Jazz / 6.28.60 
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Sir Walter's Serenade / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Annette Hanshaw / Yes Indeedy (He Do) / Clarion / 10.21.30 
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / The Blues / Exclusive / LA 1946
Toni Harper / Toni / Like Someone in Love / Verve / LA 12.29.55 

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Missing You / Riverside / 1.5.59 
Benny Golson / Turning Point / Dear Kathy / Mercury / 11.1.62 
Nat Adderley / To the Ivy League from Nat Adderley / The Fat Man / Mercury / 2.23.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Got a Feelin’ for You / Okeh / 3.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from the MGM movie "Hollywood Revue of 1929"  
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Show Me Missouri Blues / Mercury / Kansas City 8.16.46 
Conrad Johnson / Fisherman’s Blues / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / Hey There / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.59 

set 3
Ronnie Mathews / Doin' the Thang! / The Orient / Prestige / 12.17.63 
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Walking Shoes / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57 
Morris Lane / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Coral / 5.15.52
The Three Keys / Wah-Dee-Dah / Brunswick / 9.21.32 
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Pretty Baby / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Yves Montand / [Á Paris, volume 3] / Le Vieux Canal / Odéon [King] / Paris 11.05.53

set 4
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Vampire Till Ready / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55 
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster / The Cat Walk / Verve / LA 12.2.59 
Fred Astaire / Bojangles of Harlem / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.36 / from the RKO movie “Swing Time” with Johnny Green & his Orchestra 
Flo Garvin / Let Me Keep You Warm / King / 1.11.52 / with Jimmy Coe & his Orchestra 
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Green Eyes / Signature / 1961
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Stay with Me Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 2.23.55

last soulful song
Esther Phillips / From a Whisper to a Scream / That’s All Right with Me / Kudu / 1972

Friday, February 24, 2012

1, 2, Button Your Playlist


Coffeetime, February 24, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / Take Twelve / Jazzland / 1.24.62 
Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Char's Blues / Vee Jay / 7.21.61 
Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Cherokee / Prestige / 12.15.50 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin' to Myself / Bluebird / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Billy Wright / This Love of Mine / Savoy [unissued] / Atlanta 5.1.51 
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Just Friends / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55 
Joe Newman / With Woodwinds / You're My Thrill / Roulette / 1958
Timmie Rosenkrantz and his 'Barons' / Blue at Dawn / Continental / 8.22.45 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Great Caesar's Ghost / Vocalion / 3.22.37
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Medley: Boo Hoo; 1, 2 Button Your Shoe; Trouble Don't Like Music; One in a Million / radio transcription / live, Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1.29 to 2.6.37
Billy Cotton & his Band / The Tattooed Lady / Regal Zonophone / London 11.27.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & chorus
The Four Tunes / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946 
La Sonora Matancera / Una Noche En Caracas / La Merenguita / Seeco / 1951 / vocal = Celia Cruz

set 3
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Gensel's Message / Atlantic / 4.23.62 
Roy Eldridge & Richie Kamuca / Comin' Home Baby / Sweet Sue / Pumpkin / 8.22.65
Norman Granz Jazz Concert / Rocker (I'll Remember April) / Norgran / Carnegie Hall, 9.16.50 2
Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Green Eyes / Okeh / 5.8.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day & Howard Dulany
Frank Sinatra / Melody of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 12.13.54 / with Ray Anthony & Orchestra 

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Sunset Eyes / GNP / LA 7.57
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Sometimes I'm Happy / Savoy / 1.23.56 
Mildred Bailey / A Bee Gezindt (As Long As You're Healthy) / Columbia / 1.25.40
Joe Tex / Cut It Out / Ace / 1958
Danny Kaye / That Great Come and Get It Day / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 12.63
The Hightower Brothers / Saved By the Blood of Jesus / Nashboro / Nashville 1962

last soulful song
The Wallace Brothers / Soul, Soul And More Soul / Who's Fooling Who / Sims / Muscle Shoals 1965

Friday, February 17, 2012

Playlist in Q


Coffeetime, February 17, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / Valse Hot / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57 
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Tyree and Lawrence / French Columbia / summer 1956
Jack Hulbert / What a Little Moonlight Can Do / HMV (from the movie Roadhouse) / London 9.13.34 / with Eddie (aka Brian Lawrence) & Rex 
Ida James / I Won’t Say I Will / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / with Count Basie & his Orchestra 
Julie London / London By Night / Nobody's Heart / Liberty / Hollywood  / 12.55

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet Will Excite / There Is No Greater Love / Verve / 2.17.59 
Teddy Charles / Tentet / You Go to My Head / Atlantic / 1.11.56
The Ramblers / Business in Q / Decca / London 11.8.32
Ethel Merman / Why Do They Call a Private a Private / V-Disc / Hollywood 1944 / with Freddie Rich’s Orchestra
Vocaleers / Oh! Where / Red Robin / 12.14.52 
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / I Could Be Happy with You / MGM / 1962

set 3
Hank Mobley / Thinking of Home / Gayle’s Groove / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.31.70 
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / In the Land of Hi-Fi / I Don’t Care / EmArcy / 6.18.56 
Flip Phillips / Bob’s Belief / Signature / c. 9.44
Ella Mae Morse & Johnny Mercer / Blues in the Night / radio broadcast, Command Performance #82 / Hollywood 9.9.43
The Ravens / I’m So Crazy for Love / Okeh / 11.7.50
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / 3.19.57 

set 4
André Previn / 4 to Go! / Like Someone in Love / Columbia / LA 1963
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / 12th Street Rag / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55 
Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Let’s Have a Jubilee / Vocalion / 10.19.34 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Minor Swing / RCA / Rome winter 1949 
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / This Could Be It / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Friendly Brothers / You Can't Win / Vee-jay / Cleveland 1959

last soulful song
Tony Joe White / …Continued / Woman with Soul / Monument / 1969

Friday, February 10, 2012

That Tired Routine Called Playlist


Coffeetime, February 10, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Sweet Sakeena / Bethlehem / 10.11.57 
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Yo-Ho / Prestige / 1.24.63 
Paul Whiteman & his Concert Orchestra / Slaughter on Tenth Avenue / Victor / 6.26.36 
The Revelers / Among My Souvenirs / Victor / 11.23.27
Joe Liggins & his Honey Drippers / Daddy on My Mind / Specialty / LA  late 1950 / vocal duet with Candy Rivers 
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Among My Souvenirs / EmArcy /
LA 4.21.55 

set 2
Shelly Manne & his Men / The Proper Time / The Proper Time / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60 
John Coltrane / Stardust / Time After Time / Prestige / 12.26.58 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Echoes of Harlem / transcription / live at the Cotton Club 1938
Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bring Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 02.13.46
BB King / You Upset Me Baby / Kent / 1960
Tina Louise / It’s Time for Tina / Let’s Do It / Concert Hall / 1957

set 3
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Casey’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60 
Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / It's Alright with Me / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56 
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Gate Walks to Board / Peacock / Houston c. 5.53
Blue Barron & his Orch / Love of My Life / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Savannah Churchill & the Striders / Walking by the River / RCA Victor / 10.52 
Frank D'Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Easy to Love / Riverside / 3.7.57 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / I’m Sorry I Made You Blue / Brunswick / 7.30.31 
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / LA 4.19.45
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / That Tired Routine Called Love / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 
Floyd Dixon / Tight Skirts / Swingin’ / Dallas 1960
Alden Bunn aka Tarheel Slim / Get on the Road to Glory / Gotham / Raleigh c. 7.49

last soulful song
Belita Woods / My Magic Corner / Moira / Detroit 1969

Friday, February 03, 2012

Stowaway Playlist


Coffeetime, February 3, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / Will You Still Be Mine / New Jazz / 9.25.59 
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / S'Posin' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 
Sandy Williams' Big Eight / Tea for Me / HRS / 6.2.46 
Whispering Jack Smith / The Song Is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 1.10.28
Mabel Scott / Subway Blues / King / 7.15.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Twelve Nights in Hollywood / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.20.61

set 2
Curtis Fuller & Art Farmer / Curtis Fuller - Art Farmer / It's Too Late Now / United Artists [Mosaic] / 12.1.57
Ike Quebec / Blue Friday / Blue Note [Mosaic] / 7.1.59 
George E. Lee & his Novelty Singing Orchestra / The Meritt Stomp / Meritt / Kansas City 1927 
Sophie Tucker / Follow a Star / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with Ted Shapiro & the Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / 1 Don't Care Who Knows It / radio transcription / mid- 1940s / vocal = Skip Nelson
Mel-O·Dots / One More Time / Apollo / 3.17.52

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61
Horace Silver / The Tokyo Blues / Too Much Sake / Blue Note / 7.14.62 
Harry Owens & his Orchestra / Stowaways in Paradise / radio transcription / Hollywood 1938 / vocal = Kenny Allen
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / That Man of Mine / transcription from Soundie / Hollywood 10.14.46 / vocal = Anna Mae Winburn
The Four Buddies / It Could Have Been Me / Savoy / 1.13.51 

set 4
Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Masquerade Is Over / Fantasy / 1955 
Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55
Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52 
Eddie Vinson & his Orchestra / Wandering Mind Blues & Lazy Gal Blues / Mercury / 6.26.47 & 4.16.47
Hoagy Carmichael / Billy-a-Dick & Look Out Below / home recording / 1951
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / No Hiding Place / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Passport / Rocky Road Records / 1974