I Want to Call You Sweet Playlist

Cliff teaches me uke

Coffeetime, August 23, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Scoochie / New Jazz / 4.10.63 

Donald Byrd / Fuego / Low Life / Blue Note / 10.4.59 

Benny Goodman / The Goodman Touch / Benny’s Boogie / Capitol / Hollywood 1947

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Something Had to Happen / Victor / 11.3.33 / vocal = Ramona Davies

Peanuts Holland & his Orchestra / Peanut Butter Blues / Swing / Paris 12.4.46 [10.18.46?] 

Sugar Pie DeSanto / Maybe You’ll Be There / Checker / Chicago 1960 / with Riley Hampton’s Orchestra

set 2

Rocky Boyd / Ease It: Introducing Rocky Boyd [Ease It!] / Stella by Starlight / Jazztime / 2.1.61 

John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Someone to Watch Over Me / Debut / 3.10.55 

Buddy DeFranco / Closed Session / Ballad Medley: Poor Butterfly; Where Or When; These Foolish Things / Verve / LA 10.30.57  

Cliff “Unkulele Ike” Edwards & his Hot Combination / I Want to Call You Sweet Mama / Vocalion / Hollywood 10.26.33 

The Smoothies / Pretty Baby / Bluebird / 1.3.40

T-Bone Walker / I’m About to Lose My Mind / Imperial / LA 1951

Lee Andrews & the Hearts / Glad to Be Here / United Artists / 1958 

set 3

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mosaic / Down Under / Blue Note / 10.2.61 

Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Tiger Lily / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]  

Boswell Sisters, Fran Frey, Frank Munn, Mills Brothers / OK America, part 2: My Romance; The Old Man of the Mountain / Brunswick / 4.14.42 / with Victor Young & The Brunswick Orchestra 

The Ink Spots / I Cover the Waterfront / Decca / 1946 

James Moody / Flute 'n' The Blues / I Cover the Waterfront / Argo / Chicago? 1956 / vocal = Eddie Jefferson

set 4

Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Wilbert’s Tune / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57 

Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60 

Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / The Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.53 

King Cole Trio / It Only Happens Once / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Marlene Dietrich / Dietrich in London / Marie Marie / Columbia / Queen's Theatre, London 12.12.64

Jubalaires / Alphabets of the Bible (John the Revelator) / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / There Was a Time! / Since You’ve Been Gone / Brunswick / 1968

Kickin' the Playlist Around

Coffeetime, August 16, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Plus 4 / Pent-Up House / Prestige / 3.22.56 

Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia / Mexico City / Blue Note / 5.31.56 

Whispering Jack Smith / A Faded Photograph / Decca / 9.13.40

Peggy Lee / That Old Gang of Mine / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

The 4 Vagabonds / That Old Gang of Mine / Apollo / 7.47 / their last session for Apollo 

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / My Ship / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2

Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Stardust / Riverside / 4.27.57 

Australian Jazz Quartet / Bethlehem’s Best / The Girl with the Flaxen Hair / Bethlehem / 2.21.55 

Jimmy Jones Big Four / Weeta / HRS / 8.47 

Fats Waller / Hallelujah / V-Disc/ Hollywood 1943 

Rollin Smith’s Rascals / Kickin’ the Gong Around / Perfect / 1.5.32 

Fred Astaire & ensemble / We Saw the Sea / from soundtrack to RKO movie, Follow the Fleet / Hollywood 1.30.36 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra

King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44

Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Good Man / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson 

Danny Kaye / Ballin’ the Jack / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 12.63

set 3

Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / H and T Blues / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66 

Oscar Pettiford / Scorpio / Bethlehem / 8.12.55 

Charlie Ventura / Avalon / Clef / 3.7.51 

The Basin Street Boys / I Want to Love and Be Loved / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / vocal = Judy Carol; with the Eddie Beal Trio

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Impulse! / 10.17.63 

set 4

Barney Kessel / Let's Cook! / Time Remembered / Contemporary / LA 11.11.57 

Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Over the Rainbow / Tampa  / LA 2.20.57 

Conte Candoli / Westcoasting with Conte Candoli and Stan Levey / Tune for Tex / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 

Brick Fleagle’s Rhythmakers / On You, It Looks Good / HRS / 5.5.47 / vocal = Chocolate Williams
Willie Parker / You’ve Got Your Finger in My Eye / M-Pac! / Chicago 1967

Anthony Newley / The Genius of Anthony Newley / There’s No Such Thing As Love / London / 1966

The Radio Four / I Feel the Spirit / Nashboro [unissued alt take] / Nashville 4.58 

last soulful song

Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Playlist, Etc.

Coffeetime, August 9, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Farmer / Modern Art / Mox Nix / United Artists / 9.10, 11, 14.58 

Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Deep Night / Blue Note / 1.5.58 

Jack Teagarden / Persian Rug / Brunswick / 4.14.39 

The Savoy Orpheans / What Did I Tell Ya? / HMV / Savoy Hotel, London 11.2.26 / vocal = Cyril Ramon Newton

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Modern / LA 1946 / vocal = Charles Brown

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / My Foolish Heart / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Les Spann / Gemini / Afterthought / Jazzland / 12.8.60 

Teddy Edwards / Sunset Eyes / I Hear a Rhapsody / Pacific Jazz / LA mid-1960

Oscar Moore / Presenting Oscar Moore / To a Wild Rose / Omegatape / LA 12.12, 14.56 

Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Stuff, Etc / Decca / 3.17.36 

Louis Armstrong / I Hate to Leave You Now / Bluebird / 12.8.32 

Mabel Scott / Mabel Blues / Parrot / Chicago c. 8.53 / with King Kolax Orchestra

Dean Martin / Love Me, My Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.15.59

Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Summertime / Signature / 1961

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / The Gigolo (alt take) / Blue Note / 7.1.65 

Flip Phillips & his Orchestra / Swinging With Flip / Salute to Pres / Clef / LA 2.52 

The Dinning Sisters / I Get the Blues When It Rains / Capitol / Hollywood 1947

Georgie Auld / Honey / Musicraft / 5.24.45

Sam Cooke / Night Beat / I Lost Everything / Abkco / LA 1963

set 4

Manny Albam & his Orchestra / More Double Exposure / My Blue Heaven; 720 in the Book / RCA Victor / LA 1961

Cannonball Adderley with Sergio Mendes / Cannonball's Bossa Nova [Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars] / Sambop / Riverside / 12.10.62 

King Cole Trio / To a Wild Rose / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.45

Billy Taylor / I Don’t Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun / HRS / 6.47 

Georgia Carr / Wasted Tears / Capitol / Hollywood 1953

Don Heitgerd & ensemble / The Prince Is Giving a Ball / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64 / premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65

Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song

Barbara Lynn / This Is The Thanks I Get / Atlantic / Grits & Gravy Studio, Jackson, Mississippi 9.13.67

It's Only a Playlist

Coffeetime, August 2, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Another Night at Birdland, volume / It’s You or No One / Roost / live at Birdland, 4.10.57 

Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / The Masquerade Is Over / Blue Note / 7.28.58 

Russ Columbo / Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear / Victor / LA 4.6.32 / with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra 

Gene Phillips & Jack McVea / Slipin’ and Slidin’ / Modern / LA 1950

Ella Fitzgerald / It’s Only a Man / Verve / LA 1.25.56 

set 2

Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / ‘Round Midnight / Riverside / 10.6.59 

Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / It’s a Beautiful Evening / Warwick / early 1961 

Don Byas / Don Wails with Kenny / More Than You Know / German Columbia / Köln 2.25.60 

Mezz Mezzrow & his Orchestra / Apologies / Victor / 5.7.34

King Cole Trio / You Must Be Blind / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.24.44

Tab Smith & his Orchestra / All Night Long / Coral / 5.10.44 / vocal = Trevor Bacon

Young Jessie / Chuck Jackson & Young Jessie / Well Baby / Crown / 1963

The Barry Sisters / The World of the Barry Sisters / In Meina Oigen Bistie Shain / Roulette / 1964

set 3

Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / A Little 3/4 for God & Co. / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61 

Charlie Parker / Leap Frog [partial alt take] / Clef / 6.6.50 

Ida James / You Must Be Blind / Decca / 2.8.45 / with Ellis Larkins Trio

The Four Buddies / Close to You / Savoy [unissued] / 5.23.51 

Jack Teagarden / Accent on Trombone / Stars Fell on Alabama / Urania / 1954

set 4

Curtis Counce / So Nice / Contemporary / 1.6.58 

Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Cycle / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56 

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56

Johnny Mercer / Strip Polka / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.42

Little Willie John / Are You Ever Coming Back? / King / 6.29.55

Elvis Presley / Elvis for Everyone! / In My Way / RCA Victor / Hollywood 11.7.60

Carolina Kings of Harmony / Going to Ride that Golden Chariot / Trumpet / Raleigh 4.10.53

last soulful song

The Four Puzzles / Especially for You Baby / Fatback / 1967

Playlistamarole

Coffeetime, July 26, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57 

Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / Lotus Blossom / New Jazz / 11.13.59 

Cozy Cole All-Stars / Father Co-Operates / Keynote / 2.22.44 

The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Your Sunny Disposition and Mine / HMV / London 6.20.30 / vocal = Jack Plant, directed by Ray Noble

Floyd Dixon / Rockin’ at Home / Aladdin [originally Peacock?] Houston late 1949 

Eugenie Baird / Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington / In a Sentimental Mood / Design / 1958

set 2

Lee Morgan / [Taru] / Haeschen / Blue Note / 2.15.68 

Barry Harris / Luminescence! / My Ideal / Prestige / 4.20.67 

Sil Austin / Plays Pretty for the People / Summertime / Mercury / 2.59 

Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Dulce Georgia Brown aka Sweet Georgia Brown / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.21.41 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Moan, You Moaners / Bluebird / 4.29.31 / vocal = George Bias

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / I’m Making Believe / V-Disc 338A / 1941 / vocal = Dotty Salters 

Kay Starr / So Tired / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.48

Vocaleers / Is It a Dream? / Red Robin / 1953 

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Look Around / Roda / A&M / Hollywood 1967

set 3

Barry Harris / Bull’s Eye / Barengo / Prestige / 6.4.68 

Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Ballad of Pancho Villa / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65

The Capitol International Jazzmen / Riffamarole / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.45 

The 4 Vagabonds / Slow and Easy / Bluebird / Chicago 12.17.41  

Pearl Bailey / Tired / Verve / 2.12.56 

or

Pearl Bailey / Tired / Hope & Crosby Paramount movie, Variety Girl / Hollywood 1947

Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / I Fall in Love Too Easily / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56 

set 4

Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Albatross / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54  

Count Basie & his Orchestra / On My Way & Shoutin' Again! / Rose Bud / Verve / 11.2, 3, 5.62 

Gigi Gryce / Nica's Tempo / Kerry Dance / Savoy / 10.22.55 

Hildegarde [Hildegarde Loretta Sell] / I Was in the Mood / British Pathé short / London 1933

Little Milton [Campbell] / Losing Hand / Checker / St. Louis 6.20.62

The Southern Sons / When They Ring Them Golden Bells / Bluebird / 8.28.42

last soulful song

Theola Kilgore / This Is My Prayer / Serock / LA 1963

Playlist from Ipanema

Coffeetime, July 19, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Venita’s Dance / Blue Note / 1.30.55 

Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Nita / Blue Note / 9.21.56 

Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / Every Day Is Spring with You / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58 

Annette Hanshaw & Her Sizzlin’ Syncopators / Little White Lies / Clarion / 7.21.30 

Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Peter Blue and Jasper Too / Deluxe / New Orleans 1947

Julie London / Julie is Her Name / It Never Entered My Mind / Liberty / 12.55

set 2

Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Body and Soul / Blue Note / 12.27.62 

Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Old Folks / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58 

Duke Ellington / Variations on Mood Indigo / radio broadcast: Wildroot Cream Oil Presents King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio, AFRS Edition / Cincinnati 12.6.47

Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Miss Hannah / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 

Griffin Brothers Orchestra / I Wanna Go Back / Dot / 1951

Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / Brazil / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.28.58

set 3

Grant Green / Matador / Matador / Blue Note / 5.20.65 

Howard McGhee / Meciendo / Blue Note / 1.23.50 

Anita O'Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48

Mills Brothers / Cielito Lindo / Soundie / Hollywood c. 1943 

Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Sophisticated Lady / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Octavia / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 

Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Nice Day / Vergara / 1961 

Red Norvo / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Little White Lies  / Savoy / Chicago 10.13.50 

King Cole Swingsters / Sentimental Blue / Savoy / Hollywood fall 1938 or 7.22.40 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan 

Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Girl from Ipanema / Atlantic / 1965

Jubalaires / Sampson and Delilah / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Bobby Patterson / It's Just a Matter of Time / Everything Good To You (Doesn’t Have to Be Good for You) / Paula / 1972

Isn't This a Lovely Playlist?

Coffeetime, July 5, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Curtis Amy / Katanga! / A Shade of Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963

Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / If I Should Lose You / Riverside / early 1964 

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / Comanche War Dance / RCA Victor / 1955

Fats Waller / Rediscovered Early Solos [piano rolls] / 18th Street Strut / [Riverside] / 3.26

The Happiness Boys [Ernest Hare & Billy Jones] / I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana / Regal / 1926 

Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Shut Your Big Mouth (Girl) / Mercury [unreleased] / 7.2.54 / vocal = Ricky Harper

Doris Day / (What Every Girl Should Know) / My Kinda Love / Columbia / 1960 

set 2

Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / My One and Only Love / EmArcy / 11.19.55 

Benny Goodman / The Benny Goodman Story, Volume 2 / Moonglow / Decca / Hollywood 1956

Alix Combelle & his Swing Band / Nerves and Fever / Swing [unreleased] / Paris 2.20.40 

Woody Herman & his Orchestra / Lover Man / V Disc #552 / 8.22.45 / vocal = Frances Wayne

Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Straighten Up and Fly Right / Regis / 1944

Yves Montand / Les Grandes Chanson (Volume II) / Je sais que vous êtes jolie / Columbia / 1960 / avec Christiane Legrand

set 3

Harold Mabern / Rakin' and Scrapin' / Rakin' and Scrapin' / Prestige / 12.23.68 

Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Strong Man / Riverside / 1.31.58 

The Ravens / The House I Live In / National / 1.27.49  

Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine / A Musical Portrait of New Orleans / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / Columbia / Hollywood spring 1953

Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, vol 1 / Isn't This a Lovely Day? / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / For Miles and Miles / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56 

Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson & his Buffalo Bearcats / Hold Him Joe / King / Cincinnati 8.45

Martha Raye / Summertime / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Push Ka Pee Shee Pie (The Saga of Saga Boy) / Decca / 4.12.49

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Lazy River / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.11.56 

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Swing Down Chariot / radio broadcast, Carnation Milk show on WDIA / Memphis 12.16.49

Hey Now, Let's Playlist

Coffeetime, June 28, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Cannonball Adderley / The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco / You Got It! / Riverside / The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 10.18, 20.59 

Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / The Back Beat / Blue Note / 5.8.57 

Dexter Gordon / I Blowed and Gone / Clef / LA mid-40s

Al Bowlly / Adeline / Imperial / London 10.30 / with Jay Wilbur & his Band

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey Now, Let’s Live / V-Disc #376 [recorded but unreleased by Decca] / 4.3.44

Jeri Southern / The Southern Style / Too Marvelous for Words / Decca / 1955

set 2

Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Summertime / Contemporary / San Francisco 9.22.59 

Johnny Smith / “Jazz at NBC Series” / Moonlight in Vermont / Roost / 3.11.52 

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Musicraft / LA 6.13.46 / vocal = Kitty Kallen

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Million Dollar Smile / AFRS Jubilee #104 / LA 10.16.44 / vocal = Dinah Washington 

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Take the U Car / Atlas / LA c. 1948

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Here’s the Man / 36-22-36 / Duke / Houston 1962

set 3

Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / Dear Old Chicago / Jazzland / winter 1961-62 

Doug Watkins / Soulnik / André’s Bag / New Jazz / 5.17.60 

Delta Rhythm Boys / Rigoletto Blues / Soundie / Hollywood 1941

Peggy Lee / I Get the Blues (When It Rains) / V-Disc #682 / LA 1946 / with Les Paul Trio

Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / Easy Come, Easy Go / Atlantic / 1958

set 4

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Who’s Sleepy / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55 

Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Jump for Me / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54

Jimmy Hamilton/ Jazz Kings / Salute to Charlie Parker / Urania / 10.54 

Connee Boswell & her V-Disc Men / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / V-Disc #555B / LA 1945

Cast / You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown / Happiness / MGM King Leo Series / 1966

The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44 

last soulful song

Jackie Moore / Darling Baby / Atlantic / 1972

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Playlist

Coffeetime, June 14, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Jackie McLean / New Soil / Sweet Cakes / Blue Note / 5.2.59 

Blue Mitchell / New Blue Horns / Studio B / Riverside / 1.5.59 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Deep Forest / Bluebird / 2.13.40

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / You’re My Everything / Columbia / 1.15.32 / vocal = Helen Rowland

Jesse “Tiny” Kennedy / Early in the Mornin’, Baby / Trumpet / Memphis 9.25.52 / with Elmer, The Disc Jockey Rooster

Doris Day / soundtrack “Young Man With a Horn” / With a Song in My Heart / Columbia /  1.27.50 / Harry James & his Orchestra

set 2

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Indestructible / When Love Is New / Blue Note / 4.24.64 

Stan Getz, Cal Tjader / I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58 

Joe Newman with the Count’s Men / Swing Lightly / Alone in the Night / Jazztone / 11.55

Eddie South / Honeysuckle Rose / Brunswick / Hilversum, Holland 3.13.38 

Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orchestra / Foo-Gee / Bluebird / 9.1.41

Spike Jones & his City Slickers / McNamara’s Band / V-Disc / 1946

Lloyd Price / How Many Times / KRC / 1957 

                                                                                                                                                                      

set 3

Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / Ammon Joy / Prestige / 1.3.58 

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Brunswick / 4.23.37 / vocal = Helen Ward

The Robins / All Night Baby / RCA / Hollywood 1.21.53 

Jackie Paris / Skylark / I Had a Talk with a Daisy / Brunswick / 1954 

set 4

Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / Open House / Jazztone / 12.3.54 

Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Begin the Blues / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55 

Fats Waller / Vipers Drag / HMV / 11.16.34 

Cleo Brown / (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie / Decca / 3.12.35

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / More / Reprise / LA 1964

Kansas City Gospel Singers / My Soul Is a Witness / Swing Time [unissued] / LA 11.50

last soulful song

Jenny Luna / Non Mi Pentirò / Arc / Italy 1964 / with Luis Enriquez Orchestra

I Carry the Playlist for You

Coffeetime, June 7, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Harold Land / In the Land of Jazz / Speak Low / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58 

Jon Eardley / The Jon Eardley Seven / On the Minute / Prestige / 1.13.56 

Elmer “Sonny” Dunham & his Orchestra / Memories of You / Bluebird / 7.23.41 

The Duncan Sisters [Rosetta & Vivian] / I’m Following You / MGM film “It’s a Great Life” / Hollywood 1.4.30 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra

Roy Brown / Wrong Woman Blues / Deluxe / Cincinnati 1.16.51 

Jo Ann Miller / …Unrestrained! / When the World Was Young / Audio Fidelity / 1958 / with Benn Arden & his Palmer House Orchestra

set 2

Grant Green / Green Street / ‘Round About Midnight / Blue Note / 1.1.61 

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Time on My Hands / Vogue / Paris 4.15.50

Lester Young / The Man I Love / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Standard transcription / Hollywood 9.17.41 / vocal = Herb Jeffries 

Dick Powell / Honey Bun / radio transcription / Hollywood 1949

The Four Bars / Grief by Day, Grief by Night / Josie / 1954 / with the Sid Bass Orchestra

Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee! / Dance Only with Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1960 

set 3

Leo Parker / Let Me Tell You 'Bout It / Parker’s Pals / Blue Note / 9.9.61 

Herbie Mann / Love and the Weather / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Bethlehem / 3.56 

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49 

The Delta Rhythm Boys / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / radio broadcast, AFRS California Melodies #31 / Hollywood 4.22.44

Maxine Sullivan / I Carry the Torch for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace & His Orchestra

Tommy Wolf / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Fraternity / Chicago 1957 

set 4

Shelly Manne & His Men / Swinging Sounds / Slan / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56 

Art Pepper / Smack Up / Smack Up / Contemporary / LA 10.24-25.60 

Frank “Fat Man” Humphries / After You’ve Gone / Pick-Up / fall 1945 

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Walking Blues / Peacock / Houston 10.54 

The Lord’s Messengers / Testify / Silver Cross / Boston 1963

last soulful song

Willie Tee / Dedicated to You / Atlantic / 1965

Angelynn Fills in for Lindsay!

I Love a Parade, May 31, 2013, Angelynn Grant

Luck Thompson / Over the Rainbow

set 1

Miss Tess / If You Wanna Be My Man Sweet Talk / Signature

Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles / Stop And Think It Over / live on Three Ring Circus, WMBR

Eileen Jewell / Gotta Get Right / Boundary County

Roy Sludge / If You Can't Rock Me

Jenny Dee & The Delinquents / You're the Best Thing

The Cranktones / Rocket

set 2

Sonny Boy Williamson / Help Me / Chess

Dave Hannon & Band / Sugar Daddy / Blues Canon

Die Zorros / Good Bye Baby / Voodoo

The Lost & Wandering Blues & Jazz Band / Smooth Road, No Detour / live

Peter Keane / Get Yourself Another Fool / Milton Street

Liz Lannon Band / The Same Thing / Blue on Blue

Tift Merrit / Keep You Happy / live on Three Ring Circus, WMBR

set 3

Girls Guns & Glory / Root Cellar

The Dukes of Hamburg / Gotta Move / Voodoo

Duke Levine / The Stars Look Down

Mark Elf / I Won't Dance Swingin' / Jen Bay Jazz

Les Paul & Mary Ford / I'm Sitting on Top of the World

Elizabeth Mitchell / Little Liza Jane You Are My Little Bird / Smithsonian Folkways

Laura Gold / Golden Moments Between Us Two / Voga

last soulful song

Reverend Beat-Man / I'll Be There for You / Squoodge

(Gotta Get Some) Playlist

Coffeetime, May 31, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Blues Inn / Blue Note / 1.18.59 

Julian Priester / Keep Swingin' / Julian’s Tune / Riverside / 1.11.60 

Benny Carter & his Harlem Club Orchestra / Symphony in Riffs / Columbia / 10.16.33 

Annette Hanshaw / I Hate Myself (For Falling in Love with You) / Harmony / 4.30.29 

Floyd Dixon / Call Operator 210 / Aladdin / Hollywood 2.12.52 

Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2

Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / What’s New / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 

Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Medley: My Funny Valentine; Don’t Worry 'Bout Me; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Might as Well Be Spring / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 

Valaida [Snow], Queen of the Trumpet / I Wish I Were Twins / Parlophone / London 1.18.35 / with Billy Mason & his Orchestra

Donald Novis / Deep Purple / radio transcription / Hollywood 1939

Toni Harper / The Dish Rag (Rub a Dub Dub) / Columbia / Hollywood 5.31.50 / with Manny Klein’s Dixieland Band

Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Snaggle Tooth Ruth / King / Cincinnati 9.28.50

set 3

Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Judyful / Savoy / 6.7.60  

Rene Hall / Two Guitar Boogie / RCA Victor / 3.10.53 

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Cherokee / Savoy / 1.31.49 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (Gotta Get Some) Shut-eye / Victor / 2.1.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton

Bill Johnson & Musical Notes  / Let’s Be Sweethearts Again / RCA Victor / 1947 / “vocal refrain by Gus Gordon & Quartet” 

Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They All Laughed / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4

Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / On Mike / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55 

Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Evil Eyes / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 

Ida James / No Love, No Nothing / MacGregor Transcription / LA 5.10.44 / with the King Cole Trio

Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / I Come From New York / RCA Victor / 4.30.47

Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA / LA 1957

Rising Star Gospel Singers / His Eyes Are on the Sparrow / Pacific / Berkeley 8.46 

last soulful song

Lou Johnson / Walk On By / Big Top / 1966

Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit Bag

Coffeetime, May 24, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60 

Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53 

Buster Bailey & his Chocolate Dandies / Call of the Delta / Vocalion / 12.28.34 

Russ Columbo / I See Two Lovers / Brunswick [unissued] / LA 8.31.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra 

Little Esther [Phillips] / Cherry Wine / Federal / Cincinnati 3.11.53

Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / How Can You Face Me / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 2

Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Serenity / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 

Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy / 9.29.55 

George Van Eps / Once in a While / Jump / Hollywood 6.19.49 

Sophie Tucker / I’m the Last of the Red Hot Mamas / Victor / Hollywood 3.25.29

Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / Cincinnati 12.20.45

Seymour Rechtzeit & Sam Medoff / Surrey Mit a Fringe afn Top; Oy, S’iz a Sheyne Fremorgn / radio broadcast, WEVD / 1948

Earl Gaines / Little Boy Blue / Starday-King [unissued] / Cincinnati late-1960s

set 3

Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Stuffy / Blue Note / 10.20.61 

Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Ornithology / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58

J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / Coastin’ with J.C. / Apollo / 5.48

The Five Red Caps / Gabriel’s Band / Beacon / 10.44 

Ella Mae Morse / Mr. Five By Five / radio broadcast, Command Performance #40 / Hollywood 11.3.42 

Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / The Way You Look Tonight / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Frank Rosolino / Swing Not Spring / Sweet and Lovely / Savoy / Detroit 9.52 

Bob Crosby & his V-Disc Bobcats / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (And Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil!) / Navy V-Disc #260-A / 4.3.45

Viola Watkins / It Must Be Love / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952

The Pilgrim Travelers / I’m Going Through [take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soulful song

Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Hush Little Baby / Atco / 1964

Old Fashioned Playlist

Coffeetime, May 17, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out / Blue Note / 2.9.58 

Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Philly Mignon / Blue Note / 12.27.62 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Savage / radio transcription / mid-1940s

Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26

Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Move Your Hand Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Lonely Woman / Impulse! / 9.18.63 

set 2

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Velvet Moon / Prestige / 5.18.60 

Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Ballad to the East / Savoy / 7.9.57 

Barney Kessel / The Man I Love / Rex / 6.7.45

Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Miss Liza / Odeon / Paris 5.3.32 

Het Ramblers Quintet aka The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Zuiderzee Blues / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 11.15.38

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / The Peanut Vendor / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Nat King Cole / A Mis Amigos / Fantastico / Capitol / Rio de Janeiro 1959

set 3

Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Time’s Up / Time / 1.19.60 

Kenny Clarke / Detroit Jazz Men / You Turned the Tables on Me / Savoy / 5.9.56 

Max Roach / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49 

The Mills Brothers / The Song Is Ended / Decca / 6.13.38 / with Louis Armstrong

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Just a Gigolo / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Stumpy Brown

Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve 9.27.66 

set 4

Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Old Fashioned Love / Contemporary / LA 6.11.57 

Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Bugle Blues / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57

Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Oopy Doo / EmArcy / 12.19.51 

Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Harris / Camelot [movie soundtrack] / What Do the Simple Folk Do? / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 1967

The Gospel Harmonettes / Camp Meeting / Now I’m Ready / Vee Jay / 1963 

last soul song

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

Grant Avenue Playlist

Coffeetime, May 3, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57 

Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / The Goof and I / Capitol / Hollywood 3.14.56  

Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Collegiate / Edison Diamond Disc / 6.23.25  

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Three Little Words / Victor / 8.20.30 / vocal = The Rhythm Boys: Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Girl Fifteen / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / vocal = Floyd Dixon & Mari Jones

Dinah Washington / My Song / Mercury / Chicago summer 1952 / with Jimmy Cobb Orchestra

set 2

Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 

Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Savoy / 12.17.59 

Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #1: Night and Day / I Can’t Get Started / Clef / 3.25.52 

Freddy Johnson & Lex Van Spall & their Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me (take 2) / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 11.29.34 / vocal = Rosie Poindexter

Bing Crosby & the Rhythmaires / Love Is So Terrific / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time #63 / Hollywood 3.31.48 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 

Ann Cole / I'm Waiting for You / Baton / 1956 

set 3

Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / You’ve Changed / Prestige / 1.31.68 

Manny Albam & his Orchestra / More Double Exposure / Rio Rita; I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / RCA Victor / 1961

Red Prysock & his Orchestra / Rock 'n' Roll / Happy Feet / Mercury / 3.26.54 

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Blue Boogie / transcription / 1945

Harry James & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Night / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 

The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 

Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4

Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Grant Avenue Suite / Fantasy / San Francisco 1958

Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3 / Who Cares / Offbeat / 9.60 

Eddie Bush & his Society Islanders / Nami Waimea / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s

Conrad Johnson & his Orchestra / Howling on Dowling / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 

Tom Jones / Tom Jones Live! At The Talk of the Town / Land of a Thousand Dances / Parrot / London 1967 

The Soul Stirrers / The Lord Laid his Hands on Me / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Spend a Little Time / Atlantic / Chicago 1963 / with the Dells

Spiritus Playlist

Coffeetime, April 26, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / Spiritus Parkus / New Jazz / 3.13.62 

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Just in Time / Prestige / 5.8.65 

King Cole Trio / Three Little Words / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Close Shave / Victor / 7.25.41

The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Any Time’s the Time to Fall in Love / HMV / London 6.20.30 / vocal = Jack Plant, directed by Ray Noble

Wynonie Harris / Rebecca’s Blues / Apollo / LA fall 1945 

Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / Born to Blow the Blues / Fantasy / 1.57 

set 2

Horace Parlan / Speakin' My Piece / Oh So Blue / Blue Note / 7.14.60 

Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Minor Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58 

Larry Adler & his Orchestra / Solitude / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35

Horse Collar Williams Orchestra / You Ain’t Nothin’ Daddy / Chicago [label] / early 1945 / vocal = Etta Jones

Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell / radio broadcast / Apollo Theater c. 1952

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / Say Si Si / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Abbe Lane

set 3

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Bob’s Blues / Prestige Moodsville / 8.23.60 

Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Gershwin’s Prelude #2 excerpt / Verve / 4.12.65 

Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Linda Flor / Blue Note / 10.5.62 

Teddy Edwards / R.B.’s Wig / Rex / 7.47

The Four Vagabonds / When the Old Gang’s Back on the Corner / Mercury / 2.46

Mary Ann McCall / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Discovery / LA 12.27.48 / with Phil Moore & his Orchestra 

Dean Martin / I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.28.50 / from Paramount movie My Friend Irma Goes West

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Knee Deep / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Oscar Pettiford / The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two / Somewhere /  ABC-Paramount / 8.30.57

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; I Won’t Tell a Soul; Nightmare theme / radio broadcast / live, Carnegie Hall 12.2.38 / vocal = Helen Forrest

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Those Lonely, Lonely Nights / RPM / LA 1955

The Trumpeteers / Trials Get Harder / Gotham? / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song

Mary Wells / He’s a Lover / 20th Century / 6.65

Got to Get My Hands on a Playlist Before I'm Too Old

Coffeetime, April 12, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Beauteous / Blue Note / 10.21.56 

John Coltrane / [7105] / Time Was / Prestige / 5.31.57 

Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Wild Fire / soundtrack from Columbia Pictures film Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra, Film Vodvil - series 1, no. 2 / 6.43  

Little Jack Little / I'm In the Mood for Love / Columbia / 6.28.35

Annisteen Allen / I Don’t Want No Substitute / King / 5.25.53 

Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Please Be Kind / Vee Jay / 1964

set 2

John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57 

Lennie Tristano / Yesterdays / Capitol / 3.14.49 

Rex Stewart’s Big Four / Madeleine (alt take) / HRS [unissued] / 7.47 

Eddie South / Black Gypsy / Swing / Paris 1938

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / I’ve Got the World on a String / Columbia / 2.15.33 / vocal = Ivie Anderson

Charles Trenet / Boum! / soundtrack film La Route Enchantée / Paris 1938

Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron

Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3

John Coltrane / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / Birdland, 10.8.63 

Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / I’ll Remember April / Roost / 8.53

James Moody's Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chino Pozo

Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / I’m So Right Tonight / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Betty Bennett

The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 

Mel Tormé / Swingin’ on the Moon [Verve’s Choice! The Best of…] / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / LA 8.3.60 

set 4

Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / ‘Round About Midnight / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Coop de Graas / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 

Fats Waller / African Ripples / Victor / 11.16.34 or Bluebird / 3.11.35 

Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 

Ethel Waters / Shades of Blue / I Shoulda Quit When I Was Ahead / Remington [Continental] / 4.19.46 / with JC Heard & his Orchestra

Ann Richards / The Many Moods of Ann Richards / I’m Late / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

The Sons of the South / Didn’t It Rain Children / Nashboro / Nashville 1954

last soulful song

The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

I Talk to the Playlist

Coffeetime, April 5, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Clifford Brown / More Study in Brown / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 2.17.56 

Ray Draper / A Tuba Jazz / I Talk to the Trees / Jubilee / 11.58 

The Piccadilly Players / Blue Grass / Columbia / London 1.11.29 / vocal = Barrie Oliver

King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45

The “5” Royales / All Righty! / Apollo / 1952 / with Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson & his Orchestra

Chris Connor / Blame It on My Youth / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

set 2

Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61 

Kenny Clarke / I Married an Angel / Savoy / 1.30.56 

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Song of India [concert version] / Columbia / 4.25.29 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Lovie Joe / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Mabel Robinson

Kay Starr / Frying Pan / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars

The Ravens / I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with Your Love Letters / National / 3.50 

Billy “The Kid” Emerson / You Never Miss Your Water / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957  

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65

Charlie Parker & his All Stars / How High the Moon / radio broadcast , WJZ / Birdland 3.31.51

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Through with Love / Musicraft / 7.18.46 / with George Treadwell & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Long, Lean and Lanky / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Joe Derise / Bethlehem’s Best / My Romance / Bethlehem / 3.10.55

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57 

Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / All the Things You Are / Tampa  / 2.20.57 

Morris Lane / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Coral / 1952

Bing Crosby / I Surrender Dear / Victor / Hollywood 3.2.31

Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone

The Southern Sons / Live So God Can Use You / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soulful song

Barbara Mills / Try / Hickory Records / Nashville 1966

My Playlist Waits (O Meu Playlist Espera)

Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Where You At? / Blue Note / 7.8.60 

Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 10.25.54 

Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / The Stroller / Blue Note / 8.21.54 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Wabash Blues / Victor / Kansas City, Missouri 12.13.27 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon 

Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I Can’t Go for You / Decca / 3.12.40 / vocal = Red Richards 

Mari Jones / It Just Wasn’t True / Modern / Hollywood c. 1953 / with Johnny Moore’s Blazers 

set 2

Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Serenade in Blue / Epic / 1956

Duke Jordan / Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet / Sultry Eve / Signal S / 10.10.55 

Lee Konitz / Duet for Saxophone and Guitar / Prestige / 3.13.51 

Art Tatum Trio / Exactly Like You / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36

Broadway Bell-Hops / There Ain’t No Land Like Dixieland to Me / Harmony / 9.29.27  

Chris Connor / Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Rock On! / Mercury / 1.3.57 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) / Blue Note / 9.13.67 

Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Ko-Ko / Argo / Chicago 1960

Charlie Parker / The Jazz Scene / The Bird / Clef / Carnegie Hall 12.47 

The Mills Brothers / Darling Nelly Gray / Decca / 4.7.37 / with Louis Armstrong 

Maxine Sullivan / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / 8.28-30.55 

set 4

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / The Floater / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 

Stan Levey / West Coasting / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54 

King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47

Mae West / They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk / Brunswick / 1933

Little Milton [Campbell] / Spring / Checker / Chicago 2.69

Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Decca / 2.21.41

last soul song

Leon Haywood / It’s Got to Be Mellow / Decca / 1968

A Certain Kind of Playlist

Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59 

Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / Blue Dots / Prestige / 5.10.57 

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / How High the Moon / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56 

Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / After School Swing Session (Swinging with Symphony Sid) / Decca / 1940

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / When Your Lover has Gone / Blue Note / 12.21.58 

Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 

Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / More than You Know / Riverside / 5.28.63 

Blu Lou [Louisa Dupont ] Barker with Danny Barker’s Fly Cats / I Don’t Dig You, Jack / Decca / 11.17.39 

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Stop, You’re Breaking My Heart / radio transcription / late 1930s / vocal = Stan Noonan

Noel Coward / Noel Coward New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956

set 3

Wes Montgomery / Portrait of Wes / Dangerous / Riverside / 11.27.63 

Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Macedonia / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 

The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unreleased] / 8.50

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Don’t Do Something to Someone Else / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk

Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Dedicated to You / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 

Frank Foster / No Count / Casa de Marcel / Savoy / 3.7.56 

Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / The Old Man of the Mountain / radio broadcast / 1933 

Elmore James / Coming Home / Vee Jay / 1957

Dionne Warwick / Make Way for Dionne Warwick / Reach Out / Scepter / 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Dip Your Fingers in the Water / Okeh / 2.25.42

last soulful song

The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Certain Kind of Lover / Uni / LA 1970

Playlist Lullaby

Coffeetime, March 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Soultrane / Russian Lullaby / Prestige / 2.7.58 

Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58 

Paul Fenoulhet with The Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / Swingin’ on Lennox Avenue / HMV / London late 1940s

Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

The Robins / Rockin’ / Modern / LA 3.51 

Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2

Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / How Deep Is the Ocean / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]  

The Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, Vol 1 / Alone Together / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 

Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / These Foolish Things / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56 

Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948

Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Come On Let’s Boogie / Freedom / Houston c. 4.50

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Swings Lightly / Gotta Be This or That / Verve / LA 11.23.58 

set 3

Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Miss Fine / Verve / 3.26.63 

Curtis Fuller & Tommy Flanagan / Jazz… It’s Magic! / Soul Station / Savoy / 9.5.57 

Charlie Parker / East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) / WNBC Hear America Swingin’ broadcast / live, Birdland 8.27.54

The Spirits of Rhythm / That’s What I Hate About Love [That’s What I Like About You] / Brunswick / 1934 

Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti

Charles Brown / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Aladdin / LA 12.21.50 

set 4

Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / A Nice Day / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58

Barney Kessel / Carmen / If You Dig Me / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58

Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie / soundtrack to MGM movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / No You, No Me / Hollywood 1943

Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / I Love Being Here with You / Epic / 4.19-21.61

Swan Silvertones / Is God Satisfied with Me? / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song

Baby Washington / I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face / Sue / 1962

Playlist Is Going to Ruin Me

Coffeetime, March 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / The Quest / We Diddit / New Jazz / 6.27.61 

John Coltrane / [7105] / Straight Street / Prestige / 5.31.57 

Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of '67 / I’m Coming, Virginia / Impulse! / 2.15.67 

Jackie Souders Orchestra / Maybe Sometime / Columbia / LA 2.16.27  / vocal = Walton McKinney

T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Old Swing Master / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra 

Dinah Washington / In Love / I Didn’t Know About You / Roulette / 1962

set 2

Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / 7.58 

Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964 

Max Roach / Max Roach + Four on the Chicago Scene / My Old Flame / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58 

Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Medley: Rainbow; Silver Bells / radio transcription / 1945

Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / What’s the Use? / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 

The Flamingos / Jump Children aka Vooit-Vooit / Chance / Chicago 12.24.53 

set 3

John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57

Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Cross Fire / EmArcy / 10.5.51 

Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Back to Back / Victor / 6.1.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright

The Four Aces / I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder, part 2 / Trilon / Oakland 12.46 

Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56 

set 4

Conte & Pete Candoli / Two for the Money / Willow Weep for Me / Mercury / LA 1959 

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / No Such Luck / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

Sax Gill / Dancer’s Delight / Gotham / 1950

Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / It Seems Like Old Times / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass

Wayne King & his Orchestra / Time Was / Victor / 6.21.41 / vocal = Buddy Clark

Jackie Wilson / The Greatest Hurt / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1.21.62

Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down / Coral / San Francisco 1952

sat soulful song

The Admirations / Wait Till I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1.14.63