You're Such a Beautiful Playlist

Mavis, who painted your portrait? I love it!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Work Time / There’s No Business Like Show Business / Prestige / 12.2.55

Horace Silver / Six Pieces of Silver / Señor Blues / Blue Note / 11.10.56

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Victor / 10.36

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Sunshine and Roses / Columbia / London 1.8.32 / vocal = Cyril Grantham

Cats & the Fiddle / Gone / Bluebird / 12.7.39

Mavis Rivers / Listen to Somebody New [Mavis Rivers Sings About the Simple Life] / Walkin’ By the River / Capitol / Hollywood 3.8, 11, 23.60

set 2

Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 3.23.67

Art Pepper / Gettin’ Together! / Why Are We Afraid? / Contemporary / LA 2.29.60

Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / If I Had You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.28, 31 & 6.4.56
Alex Combelle et son Orchestra / Weekend Stomp / Swing / Paris 2.20.40

Chick Daniels & his Royal Hawaiians / Little Brown Gal / Brunswick / Hollywood fall 1935

Martha Raye / My Melancholy Baby / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Louisville Lodge Meeting / Decca / Hollywood 6.5.51

Bobby Parker / You Got What It Takes / Vee Jay / 1957

set 3

George Benson / It’s Uptown / Eternally / Columbia / 1965

Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 / Senator Whitehead / Impulse! / 3.22.62

Charlie Parker / On a Slow Boat to China / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.12.49

Margaret Whiting / My Ideal / Capitol / Hollywood 1943 / with Billy Butterfield & his Orchestra

The Robins / I’m Through / Savoy / LA 2.13.50

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / How Sweet It Is to Be in Love / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4

Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Bones for Jones / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball’s Sharpshooters / If I Love Again / EmArcy / 3.6.58

Roy Brown / Dreaming Blues / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Learnin’ the Blues / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62

Silver Echo Quartet / Rock My Soul / Manor / 1948

last soul song

Archie Bell & the Drells / You’re Such a Beautiful Child / Atlantic / 1968

A Playlist for a Teacher

Young, pouty, and handsome. Sings, too.

Coffeetime, May 29, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Avila & Tequila / Blue Note / 11.23.55

Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Two Guitars / radio transcription / 1946

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Stars Fell on Alabama / 9.11.34 / vocal = Tony Sacco

James Moody & his Orchestra / Monday Blues / Vogue / Zurich, Switzerland 5.1.49 / vocal = Al “Fats” Edwards

Morgana King / For You, For Me, For Evermore / If You Could See Me Now / EmArcy / 3.29.56

set 2

Jimmy Smith / I'm Movin’ On / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Blue Note / 1.31.63

Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi Hat / If I Should Lose You / Roost [unissued] / live , Hi Hat, Boston 2.11.54

Art Tatum Trio / Flying Home (theme) & I Cover the Waterfront / radio transcription / from Basin Street club, NYC 10.56 / with Slam Stewart and Everett Barksdale

Helen Proctor / Let’s Call It a Day / Decca / 10.13.39

Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Bing and Connee / An Apple for a Teacher / Hollywood 6.22.39 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / What Can It Be? / MGM / 1962

set 3

Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays / If I Should Lose You / Roost / 12.16.55 

Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Man / Verve / 2.17.59

Joe Thomas & his Orchestra / Tearing Hair / King / 5.21.49

Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Moonlight Serenade / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass

The Ink Spots / No Wonder / NBC radio broadcast, “The Home Cookin’ Boys from Up Harlem Way” / Philadelphia 7.12.39

Buddy Greco / Buddy & Soul / But Beautiful / Columbia / 1962

set 4

Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Sweet Lorraine / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58

Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / I’m Thru with Love / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59

Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown / radio transcription / 1934

King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Ann Cole / I’ve Got a Little Boy / Baton / 3.59 / with the Suburbans & Orchestra

Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / Canoeiro / Verve / 6.9.67 

The Southern Harmonizers / What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? / Specialty / Hollywood late 1947

last soul song

The Incredibles / Crying Heart  / Audio Arts! / Hollywood 1966 

Dans ma Playlist

I'm tuckered out, too, Jane. Too much late night TV.

Coffeetime, May 22, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Movin’ Out / Swingin’ for Bumsy / Prestige / 8.18.54

Max Roach / Max Roach + Four on the Chicago Scene / Sporty / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Takin’ My Time / Bluebird / 11.19.40

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep / Columbia / 9.9.32

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Groovy Movie Blues / Exclusive / Hollywood 1947

Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss “D” [I Wanna Be Loved] / You’re Crying / EmArcy / 12.5.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra

set 2

Horace Silver / Songs for my Father / Lonely Woman / Blue Note / 10.26.64

Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / All of You / Prestige / 7.2.55

Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / How Deep Is the Ocean / Dawn / 1956 

Freddy Jenkins’ Harlem Seven / Nothin’ But Rhythm / Bluebird / 8.26.35

Freddy Johnson & Lex van Spall & their Orchestra / I Want to Dance (take 1) / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 11.29.34 / vocal = Rosie Poindexter

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / [The Hot Canaries] / As Long as I Live / Columbia / Hollywood 1947 / vocal = Jane Russell

The Delegates aka The Kool Gents / I’m Gonna Be Glad / Vee-Jay / 7.56 / with Al Smith’s Orchestra

set 3

Grant Green / Green Street / Green with Envy / Blue Note / 1.1.61

Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi Hat / Flyin’ Home / Roost [unissued] / live , Hi Hat, Boston 2.11.54

Jack Teagarden / You’re the Moment in My Life / Brunswick / 6.23.39 / vocal = Linda Keene 

The Four Vagabonds / Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans / Apollo / 11.13.46 

Yves Montand / Paris Recital / Dans ma Maison / Philips / live at Le Theatre D’Etoile, Paris 1964

set 4

Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi / The Ghost / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / Hollywood 1.4.56

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / As Long as I Live / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Hattie McDaniel / I Thought I’d Do It / Okeh / Chicago 12.14.27 

The Dinning Sisters / The Iggedy Song / Capitol / Hollywood 1946

Sammy Davis Jr / When the Feeling Hits You / There Will Never Be Another You / Reprise / Las Vegas (“recorded wild in…”) 4.30.64 / with Sam Butera & the Witnesses

Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soul song

Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Goin’ Through the Motions / Rocky Road Records / 1974

Button Up Your Playlist

Jack explains all…in song!

Coffeetime, May 15, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Beauteous / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Cannonball Adderley / The CA Quintet at the Lighthouse / Exodus / Riverside / Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach 10.16.60

Nat Brandwynne & his Stork Club Orchestra / Take My Heart / Brunswick / 5.25.36 / vocal = Buddy Clark

Eddie Cole & his Gang / That’s Right! / Gotham / Philadelphia c. 1948

Julie London / All Through the Night / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

set 2

Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Every Time We Say Goodbye / Verve / Chicago summer 1959

Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Here’s to My Lady / Blue Note / 6.16.57

Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Spring Is Here / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58

The Ramblers / Ragging the Fiddle / Decca / London 5.23.33

Sam Lanin & his Famous Players / If I Had You / Okeh /1.25.29 / vocal = Bing Crosby

The Big Three / Signifying Monkey / Columbia / Chicago 3.11.47

Dinah Washington / Don’t Come Knocking at My Door / Mercury / 1947 / with Teddy Brannon & his Quartet

B.B. King / soundtrack to For Love of Ivy / B.B. Jones / ABC / LA 3.68

set 3

Blue Mitchell / Boss Horn / Tones for Joan’s Bones / Blue Note / 11.17.66

Milt Jackson / Bags Meets Wes / Stairway to the Stars / Riverside / 12.18, 19.61

Johnny Otis Band / Preston Love’s Mansion / Excelsior / LA late 1945

Sarah Vaughan / Button Up Your Overcoat / Musicraft / 11.8.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

The Robins / If It’s So Baby / Savoy / LA 12.1.49

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / O Grande Amor / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = Joao Gilberto

set 4

Bud Shank / Shank’s Pranks / Nocturne / Hollywood 1954 

Cy Touff Octet / What Am I Here For? / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.4.55

Larry Adler & his Orchestra / St. Louis Blues / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35

Helen Forrest / Baby, What You Do to Me / Decca / Hollywood 2.11.46 / with Les Paul & his Trio

Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bing Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 02.13.46

Mel Tormé with The Meltones / Back in Town / Don’t Dream of Anybody But Me / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59

Spiritualaires / Heaven How Do You Do / United [audition] / Chicago 10.14.54 

last soul song

Minnie Riperton / Perfect Angel / Perfect Angel / Epic / 1974

Playlist Is the Root of All Evil

Looking good, Mr. Milton!

Coffeetime, May 8, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57 

Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / À la Mode / Felsted / 2.14.58

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / House of Morgan / Vocalion / Hollywood 5.10.40 

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Thou Swell / Vocalion / London 10.11.29 / vocalist = Lou Abelardo

Erskine Butterfield Quartet / Anything [aka Wee Baby Blues] / Super Disc / 1946 / vocal = Duke Jones

Nancy Wilson / Like in Love / Night Mist / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2

Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / It Never Entered My Mind / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

Lucky Thompson / Thompson Plays for Thomson / medley: Sophisticated Lady & These Foolish Things / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 2.22.56 

Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / Petite Fleur / Somerset / 1960

Miff Mole & his Little Molers / Feelin’ No Pain / Okeh / 8.30.27 

Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Memories of You /Bluebird / 7.23.41

Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950

The Five Keys / How Do You Expect Me to Get It / Aladdin / 9.23.53 

set 3

Willie Bobo / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Bobo’s Beat] / Bossa Nova in Blue / Roulette / 1962 

Mel Rhyne / Organ-izing / Shoo, Shoo Baby / Jazzland / 3.31.60

Machito & his Afro-Cubans / How High the Moon / live at the Royal Roost 4.23.49

The Mills Brothers / Asleep in the Deep / Decca / 6.20.38

Chick Webb & his Orchestra / It’s Summertime Along the Swanee / Decca / 3.2.39 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald

Cy Coleman / Cy Coleman Sings Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Columbia / 1974

set 4

Stu Williamson / Jazz Swings Broadway / Progress is the Root of All Evil / World Pacific/Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.12.57

Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again / Decca / Hollywood 7.15.57 

Oscar Moore / Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / Horizon / Burbank 4.65

King Cole Trio / All for You / Excelsior/Capitol / LA 11.11.42

Little Milton / If Walls Could Talk / Poor Man’s Song / Checker / Chicago spring 1969

Veteran Singers / On the Battlefield / States / Detroit 4.21.52

last soulful song

The Association / Greatest Hits! / Enter the Young / Hollywood 1967

A Playlist Is a Necessary Evil

Making good music together.

Coffeetime, May 1, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Late Show / Columbia / 4.5.56

Red Nichols & his Charleston Chasers / Five Pennies / Columbia / 9.6.27

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Until Today / Decca / Hollywood 8.6.36 / vocal = Perry Como

Jesse Stone & his Orchestra / Cole Slaw / RCA Victor / 4.19.49

Ella Fitzgerald / Bewitched / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

set 2

Bill Evans / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Everybody Digs Bill Evans] / Peace Piece / Riverside / 12.15.58

Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / My Ship / Blue Note / 10.18.62

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / After Hours / RCA Victor / 6.10.40

Cleo Brown / Is Jenny Getting Any, Anymore? / Hollywood Hot Shots / Hollywood circa 12.36 

Hoagy Carmichael / Ole Buttermilk Sky / Decca / Hollywood 4.7.46

Pearl Bailey / The One and Only Pearl Bailey Sings / A Man Is a Necessary Evil / Mercury / 1956

set 3

Pony Poindexter / [Pony’s Express] / Lanyop (alt take) / Epic / 2.16.62

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

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Please Be Kind / Bluebird / 3.9.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton

The Orioles / Tell Me So [version 2] / Jubilee / 4.49
Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August / Life Can Be a Hard Road to Travel / Columbia / c. 12.49 / with Billy Ford & his Musical V-8’s

Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / At Long Last Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Moten Swing / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Blowin’ Country  / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58

Peggy Lee / I Should Care / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away / Gotham [unissued] / mid-1950s

Anthony Newley / Newley Recorded / This Is the Beginning of the End / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1966

Kansas City Gospel Singers / Trouble All About My Soul / Swing Time / LA 11.50

last soulful song

The Drifters / Dance With Me / Atlantic / 1959

Ain't No Playlist Like One I've Got

I like *you*, Gene Kelly!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Curtis Fuller / Two Bones / Slide’s Ride / Blue Note / 1.22.58 

Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Bird House / Warwick / 3.2.61 

Rex Stewart’s Big Seven / Cherry / HRS / 7.23.40

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 

The Red Caps Trio / Get Off That Kick / Joe Davis / LA 2.45 

Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Speak Low / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

set 2

Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / These Foolish Things / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55

Kenny Dorham / The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album / Lazy Afternoon / [Xanadu] / 1.10.60

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Ol’ Man River / Mercury / 1960

Joe Venuti / Estrellita / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)

Turner Parrish / Trenches / Gennett / 1.13.32

Bing Crosby & the Merry Macs / Dolores / Decca / Hollywood / 3.5.41

Tubby “Tab” Smith aka Tab [Talmadge] Smith & his Orchestra / Trunk Packed Up / Queen / circa 9.45 / vocal = Hester Lancaster 

T-Bone Walker & his Band / I Walked Away / Imperial / LA circa 9.50

set 3

McCoy Tyner /  Today and Tomorrow / Three Flowers / Impulse! / 2.4.64

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Cotton Top / Savoy / 1.31.49

Betty Hutton / A Square in the Social Circle / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / from 1945 Paramount Pictures movie The Stork Club

The Charioteers / When I Grow Too Old to Dream / Columbia [Harmony] / 12.47

Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / These Foolish Things / Impulse! / 9.24.64

set 4

Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Makin’ Whoopee / Contemporary / LA 2.24.56

Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It's a Grand Night for Swinging / Riverside / 3.7.57

Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Forty Six West Fifty Two / Commodore / 11.10.38

Una Mae Carlisle / You and Your Heart of Stone / Joe Davis / 8.8.44 

Gene Kelly / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / I Like Myself / MGM / Hollywood spring, summer 1955

The Southern Sons / There’s a Leak in this Old Building / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soulful song

Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

Clownin' the Playlist

April showers bring…Guétary!

Coffeetime, April 17, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Joe Henderson / Mode for Joe / Granted / Blue Note / 1.27.66

Jackie McLean & John Jenkins / Alto Madness / Windy City / Prestige / 5.3.57

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Poor Little Rich Girl / radio transcription / 1947 

Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano

Linda Hopkins / Three Time Loser / Crystalette / LA 1954 / with the Red Callender Orchestra

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / The Ballad of the Sad Young Men / Verve /10.16.61 

set 2

Chet Baker / In Milan / My Old Flame / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59

Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / A Room with a View / Fantasy / 1957

Cozy Cole All Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44

Julia Lee / Won’t You Come Over to My House / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.8.29 / with = George Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra 

Boots [Clifford "Boots" Douglass] & his Buddies / Sweet Girl / Victor / San Antonio 2.25.36

Georges Guétary / Mon P’tit Bouquet de Fleurs / Pathé / Paris 1949

Flairs / (Why Do) I Love You? / Crown / LA 1963 

set 3

Gene Ammons / The Happy Blues / Can’t We Be Friends / Prestige / 4.23.56

The Ink Spots / Stairway to the Stars / radio broadcast, NBC affiliate WFIL / Philadelphia 7.12.39 

Jo Stafford & her Men of Jazz / I’m Comin’ Virginia / V-Disc 895A / 1945

Fred Astaire / Easy to Dance With / I Used to Be Color Blind / Verve / LA 3.27.57 / with Buddy Bregman’s Orchestra 

set 4

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Clownin’ the Frets / Okeh / 4.6.28

Oscar Alemán Trio / Dear Old Southland / Swing / Buenos Aires 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers

Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti

Elvis Presley / Elvis for Everyone! [also Elvis By Request] / Summer Kisses, Winter Tears / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.8.60 / unused song from 20th Century Fox movie Flaming Star 

The Sallie Martin Singers / He’s Able to Carry Me Through / Specialty / Hollywood 12.15.50

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Bright Lights and You, Girl / Mercury / 1970

My Heart is a Playlist

Dreamy…

Coffeetime, April 10, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Oliver Nelson / Screamin’ the Blues / The Drive / New Jazz / 5.27.60

Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out [alt take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58

Don Albert & his Orchestra / Deep Blue / Vocalion / San Antonio 11.18.36

Annette Hanshaw / If I Had a Boy [Girl] Like You / Harmony / 6.16.30

Mabel Scott / Wailin’ Daddy / Brunswick / LA 3.17.52

Dinah Washington / Dinah / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / 11.11.55

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Shadows / Crown / 1960

Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Leila / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58

Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / I’d Love It / Victor / 11.5.29 

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful / Victor / 11.29.35

Gene Phillips / I Owe Everybody / Combo [unissued] / LA 1953 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra

“Palmer” / Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad / Combo [unissued] / LA early 50s

Otis Rush / Three Times a Fool / Cobra / Chicago late 50s

set 3

Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Chant / Blue Note [unissued] / live, Half Note, 11.11.60

Milt Jackson Sextet / Fiesta / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Ella Mae Morse / Shoo-Shoo Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 10.20.43 / with Dick Walters & his Orchestra

The Ravens / Time Takes Care of Everything / Columbia / 10.19.50 

Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / I’ll Buy That Dream / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Delirium / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58

Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / My Heart Is a Violin / Angel / 1953

King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Martha Davis / Experience / Coral / 5.10.51

Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / Sunday in New York / Capitol / LA 9.17.64

The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Right to the Tree of Life / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song

Mad Lads / Make Room / Volt / Memphis 1968 

Playlist El Bongo

Mr. Milton is enumerating for us.

Coffeetime, March 27, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / Raggedy Ann / Jazzland / 1.24.62

Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Just in Time / Riverside / 3.11.63

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Swing / Paris 7.7.37

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Whispers in the Dark / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Eddy Howard

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Heed My Warning / Decca / 4.13.49

Dakota Staton / Dakota / The Masquerade is Over / Capitol / 1960

set 2

Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / These Foolish Things / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Blues by Budd / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60

Irene Dunne / Lovely to Look At / Victor / 4.4.35 / with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra

Camille Howard & her Orchestra / Shrinking Up Fast / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50

Judy Holliday / Trouble Is a Man / Where Have You Been? / Columbia / 3.31.58

Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia / Old Piano Roll Blues / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3

Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / The Maze / Blue Note / 5.28.62

George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / Tango El Bongo / Columbia / LA 8.1.56

Dick Hyman / Noel Coward—A Piano Portrait By Dick Hyman [Conversation Piece] / Poor Little Rich Girl / Classic Editions [Proscenium] / 1953

The Smoothies / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze  / Bluebird / 5.17.39 

The Big Three / Reno Blues / Columbia / Chicago 12.30.47

Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Oh, Baby It Scares Me / Bethlehem / 11.2.55

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / For Minors Only / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56

Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Something for Kenny / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60

Hadda Brooks / Tootsie Timesie / Modern / 1948

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Dance Parade / San / Columbia / 3.3.49 / with The Clooney Sisters

Little Milton / I Play Dirty / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Free at Last / Decca / 7.15.37 

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / Staighten Up Your Heart / Atlantic / Chicago 7.9.63

Just Another Playlist

Guaranteed good times with Fats, no matter what the weather.

Coffeetime, March 20, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / The Rat Race Blues / New Jazz / 6.7.60

Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Jazznocracy / Victor / 1.26.34 

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Deep Night / Victor / 2.6.29

Tiny Bradshaw / Long Time Baby / King / Cincinnati 1.16.51

Sylvia Syms / [In a Sentimental Mood] The Fabulous Sylvia Syms / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / [Movietone] 20th Century Fox / 1964

set 2

Red Garland / Groovy / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 8.9.57 

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

The Ramblers / Consolation / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37

Benny Morton Orchestra / Fare Thee Well to Harlem / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Jerry Blake

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Honeysuckle Rose (take 2) / radio transcription / 8.7.39

Little Willie John / Person to Person / King / 6.13.57

set 3

Donald Byrd / [Chant] / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 4.17.61

Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Catwalk / Bethlehem / 12.60 

Ernie Fields & his Orchestra / 88 / Regal [unissued] / 11.29.49 

Charioteers / With Every Breath I Take / radio transcription / 1942

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Pass the Bounce / Okeh / 12.29.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day 

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / One for My Baby / Regal / Kansas City 12.50 

set 4

Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / A Wonderful Guy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Infinity Promenade / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53

Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Round ’Bout Town / Vocalion / 10.25.37 

Tony Mottola & Carl Kress / Fun on the Frets / radio transcription / 1941

King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44

Peggy Lee / Sugar ’n‘ Spice / I Believe in You / Capitol / 10.62 / with orchestra conducted by Benny Carter

The Famous Skylarks / Roll Jordan Roll / Nashboro / Nashville 1962

last soulful song

Mary Wells / I’m Sorry / 20th Century Fox / 7.16.65

What a Girl! What a Playlist!

Would it help if I pout?

Coffeetime, March 13, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Ernie Henry / Seven Standards and a Blues / I Get a Kick Out of You / Riverside / 9.30.57

John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz / Like Sonny / Atlantic / 12.2.59

Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Dead Heat / Prestige / 3.5.57

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / What a Girl! What a Night! / Victor / Chicago 11.20.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders 

Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August & his 4 Bars / Rock My Soul / Coleman Records / c. 1946

Julie London / London By Night / My Man’s Gone Now / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

set 2

Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / My Old Flame / Riverside / 5.27.57

Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Moonglow / Bethlehem / late 1958

Wardell Gray / The Man I Love / Sunset / Hollywood 11.23.46

Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Guitar Boogie / transcription / 1945

Joe Venuti – Eddie Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Brunswick / 10.22.31 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 

Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / It’s Me Again / RCA Victor / 7.20.50 / vocal = The Honeydreamers 

Laurel Watson / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Septette

Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Agnes Moorhead, Walter Huston, Denny Wilson, & Jackie “Butch” Jenkins / The Stanley Steamer / MGM movie soundtrack, Summer Holiday / Hollywood 7.26.46

set 3

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mosaic / Crisis / Blue Note / 10.2.61

Tadd Dameron’s Band / Anthropology / broadcast / live, Royal Roost 8, 9.48

The Four Vagabonds / I Can’t Make Up My Mind / Atlas / Hollywood 10.45 

Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45

Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Love Is a Now and Then Thing / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)

set 4

John Graas / Jazz Studio 3 / Symphony No. 1 in F Minor: Scherzo / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.54 

Shelly Manne / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars, Volume 3 / My Manne Shelly / Contemporary / LA 5.26.59

Una Mae Carlisle / Without You Baby / Joe Davis / 5.23.44

B.B. King / The Jungle / Kent / Memphis 1967

The Capitol City Stars / Jesus, I Live to Call Your Name / Tru-Sound / 5.3.62

last soulful song

Orpheus / Orpheus / Never in My Life / MGM / fall 1967

Playlist for One, Please James

The ol' over-the-shoulder pose…nice!

Coffeetime, March 6, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

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

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Cotton Tail / Impulse! / 11.13, 15.61

Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / South Rampart Street Parade / Decca / LA 11.16.37

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / That’s When I Learned to Love You / Victor / 7.15.29

Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry Baby (With a Guy Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Be My All / Atlantic / 4.8.58

set 2

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Early Morning / Prestige Moodsville / 8.23.60

Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / When Sunny Gets Blue / Blue Note / 11.11.60

Milt Jackson Sextet / I’m in the Mood for Love / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Fats Waller / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Victor / 8.2.29 

Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Coucou / Swing [unissued] / Paris 10.1.40 / vocal = Josette Daydé

Bob Range / I Found Out / Apollo / 9.30.49

The Ravens / My Baby’s Gone / Okeh / 10.30.50 

set 3

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenors / Save Your Love for Me / Jazzland / 11.4 & 10.60

Lee Morgan / [Standards] / This Is the Life / Blue Note / 1.13.67

Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / Dizzy Atmosphere / King / Cincinnati 1958

Boswell Sisters / Wha’d Ja Do to Me? / Brunswick / 3.19.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra

Harry James & his Orchestra / All or Nothing at All / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Dinner for One, Please James / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Belle of the Ball / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56

Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Night and Day / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54

Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Our Delight / Roulette / 6.3-4.57

Hoagy Carmichael / Ginger and Spice; Memphis in June / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)

Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto / Do I Make Myself Clear / Cadet / Chicago 9.65

Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Lord I’ve Tried / Columbia / 12.49

last soulful song

Loleatta Holloway / Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) / Aware / Atlanta / 1975

Just a Playlist Named Joe

A good hairdresser is hard to find.

Coffeetime, February 27, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Even Steven / Prestige / 4.20.67

Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hankerin’ / Blue Note / 11.13.54

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Peg O’ My Heart / Brunswick / 7.2.30 

Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees / P.S. I Love You / Victor / 9.9.34

Annie Laurie / Baby, What’s New? / Regal / New Orleans 9.49

Little Sylvia / Blue Heaven / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Body and Soul / RCA Victor / 1.18.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra

Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Isn’t It Romantic / Jubilee / 8.9.57

Art Farmer / The Art Farmer Septet / Evening in Paris / Prestige / 6.7.54

The Capitol Jazzmen / Sugar [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 6.7.44

Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies / Oh You Pretty Woman / Bluebird / San Antonio 4.4.34

Hildegarde / Cheek to Cheek / Columbia / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Angeline / Decca / Hollywood 12.9.41 / vocal = Perry Como

Aretha Franklin / Soul ’69 / Ramblin’ / Atlantic / 9.24.68 

set 3

Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / Malice Towards None / Jazzland / winter 1961-62

Cannonball Adderley / African Waltz / Kelly Blue / Riverside / 2.61

Kai Winding [Kai's Krazy Kats] / Grab Your Axe Max / Savoy / 12.14.45

The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / London 8.19.38

Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Green Eyes / Decca / 1941 / vocal = Helen O’Connell & Bob Eberle

Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire / A Fine Romance / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56 / with Marty Paich and his Dek-Tette

set 4

Eddie Harris / Bossa Nova / Lolita Marie / Vee Jay / 11.62 

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 4: Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / LA 9.56

Frank Sinatra & Doris Day / There’s No Business Like Show Business / radio transcription, Your Hit Parade / 10.4.47 / with the Hit Paraders

Freddy King / I’m Tore Down / Federal / Cincinnati 1.18.61

Astrud Gilberto / Windy / Lonely Afternoon / Verve / LA 1968

Joiner’s Five Trumpets / Freedom After Awhile / J.O.B. / Chicago 6.19.52

last soulful song

The Diplomats / Accept Me / Dynamo / 1969

En El Silencio de la Playlist

I'd like to back in time and have coffee with them in their kitchen.

Coffeetime, February 20, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Jazz Messengers / Infra-Rae / Columbia / spring 1956

Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / The Snow Is Green / New Jazz / 10.16.59

Rex Stewart’s Big Seven / Diga Diga Doo / HRS / 7.23.40

B.A. Rolfe & his Palais D’Or Orchestra / I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You) / Edison / 12.20.28

Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / I Would Do Anything for You / Decca / 1.23.40

Mildred Bailey / Gone on that Guy / Majestic / 11.20.47

set 2

Bill Evans / Sunday at the Village Vanguard / Jade Visions / Riverside / 6.25.61 

John Coltrane / Soultrane / I Want to Talk About You / Prestige / 2.7.58

Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / En El Silencio de la Noche / Decca / Paris c. summer 1936

Phil Harris & Orchestra / One-zy Two-zy / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45 / duet with 3 year-old Alice Faye Harris

Big Maybelle / I’ve Got a Feelin’ / Okeh / 1.20.54

set 3

Roland Kirk & Jack McDuff / Kirk’s Work / Kirk’s Work / Prestige / 7.11.61 

Wilbur Harden, John Coltrane / Mainstream 1958 / Wells Fargo / Savoy / 3.13.58 

Teddy Reig’s All Stars / O-Go-Mo / Savoy / 1.22.47

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Jeepers Creepers / Decca / 1.18.39 

El Dorados / My Loving Baby / Vee Jay / Chicago 6.30.54 

Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie’s Blues / Youth to You / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59 

set 4

Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus / Generique / Fantasy / 1961 

Chet Baker / Assorted Flavors of Pacific Jazz / Bockhanal / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood / 12.14.53 

Art Tatum / Deep Purple / Decca / 1939

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Blue Room / Okeh / 9.7.28 / vocal = Rube Bloom 

Edna McGriff / It’s Raining / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Orchestra

The Zion Travelers / The Death of Jesus / Dooto / 1956

last soulful song

Lesley Gore / Look of Love / Mercury / 1964 

The Playlist I Long For

Sell it, you handsome crooner you.

Coffeetime, February 13, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Myzar / Jazzland / 12.4.61

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Jazz Messengers / There But for You Go I / Vik / 3.13.57

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Rock Hill Special / Victor / Chicago 10.11.38 

Al Bowlly / You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with the New Cumberland Dance Orchestra 

Russell Jacquet & his Yellow Jackets / Blues Á La Russ / Jewel / 9.21.46

Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Cupid / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2

Chet Baker / New Blue Horn [Chet] / Early Morning Mood / Riverside / 1.19.59 

Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / We’ll Be Together Again / Savoy / 7.26.55

Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34

Lil Armstrong & her Chicago Boys / Rock It / Gotham / Chicago / 4.4.50 

Bing Crosby / A Musical Autobiography / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / with Buddy Cole & his Trio / Hollywood spring 1954

Sam Cooke / Encore / Running Wild / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 3

Duke Pearson / Sweet Honey Bee / Sweet Honey Bee / Blue Note / 12.7.66

Clark Terry / New Blue Horn [In Orbit] / Fluegelin’ the Blues / Riverside / 5.58

Delta Rhythm Boys / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / radio transcription / 1941

Connee Boswell / One Dozen Roses / Decca / Hollywood 3.4.42 / with Harry Sosnik & his Orchestra 

Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / A Fine Romance / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Mutual Admiration / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58

Thad Jones / Thad Jones / I’ll Remember April / Debut / 8.11.54

Baby Dodds Jazz Four / Careless Love / Blue Note / 12.26.45 

Mildred Bailey / The Love I Long For / V-Disc / 1944 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra

Nat “King” Cole / Sweet Lorraine / NBC, Nat King Cole Show, featuring JATP / 1956

http://youtu.be/TzlYSCiRCqA

Daisy Mae [Diggs] & The Hep-Cats / Lonesome Playgirl / Gotham / Philadelphia 3.31.55

The Radio Four / Heaven Is My Goal / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville 11.65 

last soulful song

John Gary Williams / Come What May / Truth / 1975

Wham Re Bop Boom Playlist

Four, count ’em.

Coffeetime, January 30, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

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

John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Mr. P.C. / Atlantic / 4.1.59

Johnny Guarnieri / Exercise in Swing (take 4)  / Savoy / 4.18.44

Russ Columbo / Call Me Darling / Victor / LA 11.18.31 / with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra 

Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / The Washboard Special / Specialty / Hollywood 12.27.47

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

set 2

Charlie Rouse / Yeah. / Stella by Starlight / Epic / 12.21.60

Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Turquoise / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62

John Hardee Sextet / Hardee’s Partee / Blue Note / 5.31.46

Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Somebody Loves Me / Pathé / 8.27.24

Johnny Mercer & the King Cole Trio / Save the Bones for Henry Jones (’Cause Henry Don’t Eat No Meat) / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47

Roy Brown / Hard Luck Blues / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 4.19.50

The 4 Most / The 4 Most Sing the Arrangements of Joe Derise / Ooh! Baby It Scares Me / Dawn / 1956

set 3

Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Brill’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57

Terry Gibbs / Swing Not Spring / Begin the Beguine / Savoy / 8.28.58

The Mills Brothers / Sleepy Head / Rex / San Francisco 3.29.34

Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Wham (Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) / Decca / 1.2.40 / vocal = June Richmond 

Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / It’s Mine After All / Dawn / 1956

set 4

Ben Webster / Soulville / Makin’ Whoopee / Verve / LA 10.15.57 

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Bernie’s Tune / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59

Port of Harlem Seven / Basin Street Blues / Blue Note / 6.8.39

Sophie Tucker / The Lady Is a Tramp / Decca / Hollywood 9.21.37 / with Harry Sosnik Orchestra

The Treniers / It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings! / Okeh / 5.21.51 

Highway QC’s / Teach Me / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song

The Topics / I Don’t Have to Cry / Carnival / 1967

You’re Getting to Be a Playlist with Me

Long gloves, a dog, and a pineapple. (Photo by William P. Gottlieb, 1946)

Coffeetime, January 30, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Mighty Moe and Joe [alt take] / Blue Note / 6.23.57

Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 / You Stepped Out of a Dream / Blue Note / 1957

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Sweet Mama / Brunswick / 10.12.29

Whispering Jack Smith / Me and My Shadow / Victor / 4.28.27 / with Dave Dreyer on piano

Harold Burrage / Way Down Boogie / Aladdin / Chicago 3.26.51 / with Jimmy Binkley & his Orchestra

Billie Holiday / Willow Weep for Me / Verve / live, Newport 7.6.57

set 2

Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Deacon Joe / Blue Note / 8.4.60

Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Deeds, Not Words / Riverside / 9.4.58

Lorenzo Holden / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Crown / LA 1954

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Troubled Waters / Victor / Hollywood 5.9.34 / vocal = Ivie Anderson 

Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Columbia / Hollywood 12.4.50 / Frank Comstock & Orchestra 

Louis Jordan / I Seen What’cha Done / Aladdin / 1.54

set 3

Prestige All Stars / Olio / Dakar / Prestige / 2.16.57 

John Wright / Mr. Soul / Strut / Prestige / 4.10.62 

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Just a Mystery / Savoy / 12.20.46

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Ain’t That Just Like a Man / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Teresa Harris; with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Gotham’s Four Notes / Away / Gotham / 1948

Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / If I’m Lucky / Dawn / 1956

set 4

Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Ask an Alaskan / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57

Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Tiny Capers / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54

King Cole Trio / Easy Listening Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44

Noel Coward / Imagine the Duchess’s Feelings / HMV / London 7.41 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano

Louis “Zooma Zooma!” Prima & his Orchestra / I Was Here When You Left Me / V Disc 500-B / 5.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol

El Dorados / Lights Are Low / Vee Jay / 11.6.57 

Jubalaires / Swing Down Chariot / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Major Lance / Please Don’t Say No More / Chicago 5.8.63

Playlist (Means Good Luck)

Swede sitting proper

Coffeetime, January 23, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Johnny Griffin / Introducing Johnny Griffin / Cherokee / Blue Note [unissued] / 4.17.56

John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird / Blue Note / 9.15.57

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Lullaby in Rhythm / Victor / 4.8.38

George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / I Never Saw a Better Night / Bluebird / 07.12.35 / vocal = Dolly Dawn & Sonny Schuyler

Jesse Price & his Blues Band / You Can’t Take It with You / Capitol / LA 10.17.46

Sarah Vaughan / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.16, 18.1954

set 2

Jimmy Smith / Open House / Embraceable You / Blue Note / 3.22.60

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Lotus Flower / Blue Note / 1.30.55

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / Day by Day / Contemporary / LA 7.9.54

The Capitol Jazzmen / In My Solitude / MacGregor transciptions / Hollywood 11.16.43

Cleo Brown / When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan / Decca / LA 11.20.35 

Jerry “Boogie” McCain / Stay Out of Automobiles / Trumpet / Jackson, MS 11.4.54

Peggy Lee / I Don't Know Enough About You / CBS radio transcription, The Summer Electric Hour / Hollywood, summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / I Believe in You / Reprise / LA 1964

set 3

JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Ka-Link / Blue Note / 10.21.56

Teddy Edwards / Roy’s Boys / Rex / 7.47

Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / My Sister and I / transcription / Chicago 1940 / vocal = Jimmy Castle

The Ravens / Mahzel (Means Good Luck) / National / 4.23 & 24.47 

Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / I’m Thru with Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4

Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Wes’ Tune / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58

Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / The Way You Look Tonight / Contemporary / LA 2.29.60

Nat Gonella & his Georgians / Jubilee / Parlophone / 1.27.38

Helen Humes / Helen’s Advice / Discovery LA / 11.20.50 [4.51?] / with Dexter Gordon’s Orchestra 

Nancy Andrews & Phil Leeds / Christine [original Broadway cast recording] / Freedom Can Be a Most Uncomfortable Thing [reprise] / Columbia / 1960

Swan Silvertones / My Rock / Jesus Is a Friend / Specialty / Hollywood 1953

last soulful song

Stevie Wonder / Talking Book / Tuesday Heartbreak / Tamla / 1973

Le Fête à Playlist

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Coffeetime, January 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / The Middle of the Road / Jazzland / winter 1961-62

Harold Land / The Fox / One Down / Contemporary / LA 8.59

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Victor / 10.18.35

Billy Cotton & his Band / Ole Faithful / Regal Zonophone / London 11.19.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & the band 

The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / 5.9.50

Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

set 2

Mal Waldron / Left Alone / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Bethlehem / 11.57

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Man with a Horn / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60

Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Five / Fascinating Rhythm / Decca / 1938 

Ruth Etting / Try a Little Tenderness / Banner / 2.8.33

Frank Sinatra / The Way You Look Tonight / V-Disc 116-B (CBS broadcast dress rehearsal of “Songs by Sinatra”) / 11.14.43 / with The Bobby Tucker Singers and Alex Stordahl & his Orchestra 

Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Sample Man / King / Cincinnati 2.6.54

Yves Montand / Les Grandes Chanson (Volume II) / Le Fête à Loulou / Columbia / 1960 / avec Christiane Legrand

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Rajah / Once in My Lifetime / Blue Note / 11.29.66

Ray Charles / The Genius After Hours / I Surrender Dear / Atlantic / 11.20.56

Gene Krupa / Showcase / Clef / 9.10.53 

Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Everyone But Me / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / vocal = Harriet Hilliard

The Robins / I’m Living O.K. / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / with the Johnny Otis Quintette 

Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / That’s for Me / Reprise / Hollywood 7.7.61 / with Marty Paich & his Orchestra 

set 4

Paul Horn / Jazz West Coast, Volume Five / Joe’s Tune / World Pacific / Hollywood 1959

Martial Solal / Verneuillade / soundtrack to movie L’Affaire d’une Nuit” / Columbia / Paris 1960

George Wallington / My Nephew and I / Prestige / 5.25.53

Boswell Sisters / Nights When I Am Lonely / New Orleans 3.25.25 / with Vitaly Jaques “Vic” Lubowski on piano 

Charles Brown / Get Yourself Another Fool / Aladdin / LA 11.11.48 / with Johnny Moore and Eddy Williams

Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / Fancy Meeting You Here / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.7.58

Paramount Singers / Work and Pray On / Duke / San Francisco 1955 

last soul song

Aretha Franklin / Runnin’ Out of Fools / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Columbia

When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Playlist

Coffeetime, January 2, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus [alt take] / Blue Note / 4.9.61

J.J. Johnson / The Playboy Jazz All Stars [volume 1] / Joey, Joey, Joey / Columbia / 1.31.57

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37

Broadway Bell-hops / Hello Bluebird / Harmony / 10.8.26 

Percy Mayfield / Strange Things Happening / Specialty / Hollywood 1950 

Julie London / All Through the Night / All Through the Night / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

set 2

Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large / The Thrill Is Gone / HMV [unissued] / Copenhagen 1.14-15.60

George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / LA 8.1.56

Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Elsa / Riverside / 2.27.61

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson

The Merry Macs / By-U, By-O (The Lou’siana Lullaby) / Decca / Hollywood 9.12.41 

The Griffin Brothers featuring Margie Day / The Clock Song (Let Your Pendulum Swing) / Dot / 1952 

Mr. Google Eyes (Joseph August ) / Love Me / Columbia / 12.1.49 / Billy Ford & his Musical V-8s 

set 3

Harry Edison / Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / Blues for Bill Basie / Verve / Hollywood 3.5.57

Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Dark Eyes / RCA Victor / 4.6.50

Maxine Sullivan / Behavin’ Myself for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace and His Orchestra

The Sultans / You Captured My Heart / Jubilee / 1951 

Mel Tormé / The Blues / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4

Oscar Moore / Kiss Me Again / Tampa / LA 1954

John Graas / Jazz Studio 3 / Mulliganesque / Decca / Hollywood winter 12.16.54 

John Kirby & his Orchestra / I Give You My Word / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940

Mae West / Willie of the Valley / soundtrack to Universal Pictures movie My Little Chickadee / Hollywood 1940

Betty Hall Jones / Frustration, Frustration / Combo / LA 1951

Peggy Lee / Sugar ’n‘ Spice / I Don’t Wanna Leave You Now / Capitol / 10.62 / with orchestra conducted by Benny Carter

Selah Jubilee Singers / Traveling Shoes / Decca / 4.28.39

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / Check Yourself / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1963

Dirt Dishin' Playlist

He seems like a good egg.

Coffeetime, January 2, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / How Deep Are the Roots / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59

Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Tin Ear / Columbia / 2.18.28

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Nasty Man / Victor / 3.5.34 / with the Do-Re-Mi Trio

Ella Fitzgerald & her Famous Orchestra / Betcha Nickel / Decca / 6.29.39

Calvin Boze & his All-Stars / Safronia B / Aladdin / LA 1.13.50 

Doris Day / Show Time / I’ve Grown Accustomed to his Face / Columbia / Hollywood 2.11-25.60

set 2

Joe Newman / Good ’n‘ Groovy / Li’l Darlin’ / Prestige Swingville / 3.19.61

Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 1.20.61

Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Somebody Loves Me / Brunswick / 10.23.34

Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / It’s Over Because We’re Through / Bluebird / 1.4.35  

Martha Raye / The Voice / Ooh, Dr. Kinsey / Discovery / 1950

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Who, Me? / Epic / 1955 / vocal = Abbe Lane

set 3

Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / This Night / Riverside / 11.12.58

Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / The Real McCoy / Prestige / 1.3.58

The Mills Brothers / Dirt Dishin’ Daisy / Brunswick / 11.21.32

Kay Starr / Don’t Do Something to Someone Else / radio transcription / Hollywood 1949 / with Billy Butterfield & his Orchestra

Jean Sablon / Ces Petites Choses / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1955

set 4

Stan Getz / Tour’s End / JATP / Hollywood 10.10.57

Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / At Home with Sweets / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56

Mildred Bailey / It's So Peaceful in the Country / radio transcription, The Morton Downey Show / spring 1951 / with Carmen Mastren on guitar

Kay Starr / When My Dreamboat Comes Home / Capitol / Hollywood 7.24.53

B.B. King & his Orchestra / Please Love Me / RPM / LA 1953

Echo Gospel Singers / I Want Jesus to Walk with Me / Gotham / 1954 

last soulful song

Billy Vera & Judy Clay / Really Together / Atlantic / 1.12.68