Coming in on a Wing and a Playlist

Ray!—the highlight of the show. (Photo by the great William Gottlieb.)

Coffeetime, August 21, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / [Another Workout] / Out of Joe’s Bag / Blue Note / 12.5.61

Booker Ervin / Cookin’ / Mister Wiggles / Savoy / 11.26.60 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Bakiff / V-Disc / Hollywood 9.17.41

Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / 1.28.26

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Any Old Place with Me / Exclusive / Hollywood 12.47

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

set 2

Sonny Rollins / Rollins Plays for Bird / I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face / Prestige / 10.5.56

Milt Jackson / Big Bags / If I Should Lose You / Riverside / 6.62

Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band! / The Gypsy / Mercury / 6.16.59 / solo = Phil Woods

Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Mighty Sweet / Perfect / 5.7.32 / vocal = Billy Banks 

Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / A Porter’s Love Song / Capitol / Hollywood 8.1.46

Rosemary Clooney & Bob Hope / Protection / RCA Victor / Hollywood 3.25.59 / with the Gus Levene Orchestra

Bobby Darin / Sings Ray Charles / What’d I Say / Atco / LA 1962

set 3

McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / Utopia / Blue Note / 12.1.67

Gildo Mahones / [I’m Shooting High] / I Never Knew [unissued] / Prestige / 8.15.63

Joe Thomas & his Orchestra / Artistry in Mood / King / 11.28.49

The Four Vagabonds / Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer / Bluebird / 5.26.43 

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Don’t You Know I Care / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4

Barney Kessel / Carmen / Flowersville / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58

Curtis Counce / [Sonority] / Origin (Roll On, Stealthy Fingers) [unissued] / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 

King Cole Trio [King Cole at the Piano] / I’m in the Mood for Love / McGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

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

Rick Nelson / soundtrack to ABC TV production, On the Flip Side / They Don’t Give Medals (To Yesterday’s Heroes) / Decca / LA 12.66

The Christland Singers / Sell Out to the Master / Nashboro / Nashville 1955 

last soul song

Stevie Wonder / Where I'm Coming From / If You Really Love Me / Tamla / 1971

What the Playlist Needs Now

You. You who have a lot, Tom Jones!

Coffeetime, August 7, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Bill Hardman / Jackie’s Pal / Dee’s Dilemma / Prestige / 8.31.56

Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Scrapple from the Apple / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Carolina Moon / Victor / 9.16.38

The Piccadilly Players / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Columbia / London 5.10.28 / vocal = unknown vocal

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Two Sleepy People / Victor / 10.13.38

Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / If It’s the Last Thing I Do / Atlantic / live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper, LA 1970

set 2

Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn / Blue Note / 10.2.63

Red Garland / A Garland of Red / What Is This Thing Called Love / Prestige / 8.17.56

Joe Venuti / Body and Soul / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / Hollywood 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)

The “Midnight Follies” Orchestra / Virginia / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.5.24

Gene Sedric Orchestra / Music to My Sorrow / Harmonia / 8.46

Wally Mercer / Tightwad / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54

Peggy Lee / I Like Men! / Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! / Capitol / Hollywood 10.17.58

set 3

James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi / Riverside / LA 10.11.60

Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Blues Oriental / Riverside / 10.28.58

Charlie Parker / Jazz Perennial / Blues / Verve / early 4.50

Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Homesick, That’s All / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45

The Four Vagabonds / Hoe Cake, Hominy, and Sassafrass Tea / Apollo / 11.13.46 

Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Everybody Loves Somebody / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 9.25.54

Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Diane / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / I’m Shooting High / RCA Victor / 1.18.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra

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

The El Dorados / Why Must I? / Vee-Jay [unreleased] / 11.6.57 

Tom Jones / I (Who Have Nothing) / What the World Needs Now (Is Love Sweet Love) / London 1970

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Job / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soul song

The Manhattans / It’s the Only Way / DeLuxe / 1972

Gabriel Found his Playlist

Jerry knows how to handle a heatwave!

Coffeetime, July 31, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / City Lights / Just by Myself / Blue Note / 8.25.57

Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Modal Mood / Blue Note / 5.9.61

Whispering Jack Smith / I’m Knee-Deep in Daisies (And Head over Heels in Love) / Decca / 4.16.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Me Love / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Lover Man / Atlantic / 5.23.58

set 2

Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / What’s New / Verve / 9.22.65

Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / Ghost of a Chance / EmArcy / Hollywood 8.5.54

Art Tatum Trio / Tea for Two / transcriptioin / Basin Street East, NYC 10.55

Ruth Etting / Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight / Banner / 3.1.33

The Treniers / Peace Bond Blues / Columbia [unreleased] / 12.15.55

Wade Flemons & the Newcomers / Here I Stand / Vee Jay / 1958

set 3

Jackie McLean / New Soil / Hip Strut / Blue Note / 5.2.59

Ruby Braff / Shoe Shine Boy / Storyville / Boston 1955

The Mills Brothers / Lambeth Walk / Decca / 8.23.38

Frank Sinatra / Oh! What It Seemed to Be / CBS radio broadcast dress rehearsal of “The Frank Sinatra Show” / V-Disc / Hollywood 11.14.45 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra

Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Speak Low / Bethlehem / 11.2.55

set 4

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Latin for Lovers / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56

Lester Young / I’ve Found a New Baby / Clef / LA spring 1946

Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Gabriel Found His Horn / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars / Boston 1952 / vocal = Al Bandini

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

Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / Taking a Chance on Love / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

The Bright Stars / Family Prayer / Nashboro / Nashville 1961

last soul song

Jerry Butler / Never Give You Up / Mercury / 1968

Our Playlist Will Come

Hey Ruby, can you lend me a guitarist?

Coffeetime, July 24, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Tina Brooks / Dhyana / Blue Note [Mosaic] / March 2, 1961

Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Sunrise in Mexico / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61

Benny Goodman / The Benny Goodman Trio Plays for the Fletcher Henderson Fund / Honeysuckle Rose / live broadcast, Washington DC, on Martin Block’s WNEW show “Make-Believe Ballroom” / 4.1.51

Billy Cotton & his Band / Who Made the Little Boy Blue? / Regal Zonophone / London 10.24.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Johnny Otis Band / Fool’s Gold / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker

Nancy Wilson / (You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am / The Boy from Ipanema / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

set 2

Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Don’t Explain / Riverside / 1.31.58

Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / I Should Care / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56

Charlie Parker / Out of Nowhere / WHDH radio broadcast / live, Storyville, Boston 9.22.53

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie / Decca / Amsterdam 6.20.35 / vocal = Wim Poppink

Ciro Rimac’s Rumba-Orchester / Te Quiero / Telefunken / Berlin 11.18.37 / vocal = Juanita Rodriguez

Thelma Carpenter & the Amory Brothers / Spirituals / Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho / Varsity / 12.47

set 3

Terry Gibbs / El Latino ! / Our Day Will Come / Roost / 1964

Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / Just a Riff / Riverside / live, Café Bohemia, 10.14.56

Chick Webb & his Orchestra / One Side of Me / Decca / 2.17.39 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald

The Harmonaires / Spirituals / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Varsity / 12.47

Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / LA 3.19.57

set 4

Art Pepper / Modern Art / When You’re Smiling / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56

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

King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 7.24.44

T-Bone Walker / T-Bone Blues / Why Not? / Atlantic / Chicago, 4.21.55

Ann Sothern / Sothern Exposure / Everybody’s Doin’ It Now / Tops / LA 1947

Shield Brothers / Savior, Don’t Pass Me By / home recording, Cleveland late 1940s

last soul song

Ruby & the Romantics / Till Then / What a Difference a Day Made / Kapp 1963 

Triflin’ Playlist

“Paul Robeson, you are SAFE," cries Louis Calhern!

Coffeetime, July 17, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

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

Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Theme: A Gem from Tiffany / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Yellow Fire / Bluebird / 8.20.41

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / I’ll Be Reminded of You / Victor / 10.28.29

Charles Brown / So There / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 

Ella Fitzgerald / soundtrack to Let No Man Write My Epitaph / I Cried for You / Verve / LA 4.19.60

set 2

Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60

Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Divertimento: 2nd Movement / Contemporary / LA 3.2.57

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Profoundly Blue / Atlantic / 12.29.47 / with George Kelly on celeste

Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 01.13.38 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra 

The Merry Macs / Let’s Sing a Song about Susie / V-Disc 356A / Hollywood 1944

Wynonie Harris & his Allstars / Triflin’ Woman / King / Cincinnati 10.24.50

The Letterman / Theme from “A Summer Place” / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

set 3

Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Summertime / New Jazz / 5.3.60

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Blues Up and Down / Layin’ on Mellow / Jazzland 6.5.61

Golden Gate Quartet / Shoo Shoo Baby / AFRS Jubilee radio broadcast / c.1943

Ina Ray Hutton & her Orchestra / Don’t Tech It / V-Disc 276B / Hollywood 1944

Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / No Love, No Nothin’ / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4

Marty Paich Quartet / The Marty Paich Quartet Featuring Art Pepper / Pitfall / Tampa / LA 8.9.56

Marty Paich et al / Jazz Studio Two / Paicheck / Decca / Hollywood 1954

Lil Green / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Victor / Chicago 7.31.46

King Cole Trio / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.44 

Bobby Darin / It’s You / It’s You or No One / Atco / LA 1960

Golden Gate Quartet / Found a Wonderful Savior / Bluebird / Charlotte 8.4.37

last soul song

Ambassadors / I Really Love You / Arctic / Philadelphia 1969

Liberty Playlist

Kay Starr! I love your voice! And your buddies.

Coffeetime, July 3, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Workout / Workout / Blue Note / 3.26.61

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Benny in Brussels, Vol. I / Hallelujah / Columbia / live, Brussels Fair 1958

George E. Lee & his Novelty Singing Orchestra / Paseo Strut / Brunswick / Kansas City circa 11.6.29 

Ruth Etting / It All Belongs to Me / Columbia / 8.30.27 / with Rube Bloom on piano, for Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Rock With It / RCA Victor / 7.20.49

Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / Mr. Blues / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messenger / A Night at Birdland, vol 1 / Once in a While / Blue Note / 2.21.54

Eddie Bert / Like Cool / In a Meditating Mood / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955 

Eddie Durham & his Band / I Want a Little Girl / Decca / 11.11.40 

Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals / Happy Pal Stomp / Okeh / 8.15.29

Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Bluebird / 10.26.33 / with Dick McDonough on guitar   

Peggy Lee / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra http://www.peggyleediscography.com/p/macgregor.php

Annisteen Allen & her Home-Town Boys / I’ve Got Big Bulging Eyes for You / Queen / 1945

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / The Tony Pastor Style / Five Salted Peanuts / RCA Victor / 1945

Mouseketeer Ensemble / Happy Birthday and Songs for Every Holiday / Liberty Tree / Disneyland / LA 1964

set 3

Billy Taylor / The New Billy Taylor Trio / Titoro / ABC-Paramount / 12.16, 17.57

Kenny Burrell / Beef Stew Blues / Blue Note / live, The Five Spot 8.26.59

Charlie Parker / Swedish Schnapps / K.C. Blues / Verve / 1.17.51

Kay Starr / After You’ve Gone / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars

Delta Rhythm Boys / The House I Live In / from Universal Pictures movie “Follow the Boys” [AFRS California Melodies] / Hollywood 1944 

set 4

Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Dot / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.54

The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Inside Sauter-Finegan / Finegan’s Wake / RCA Victor / 1954

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Benny in Brussels, Vol. I / Jubilee / Columbia / live, Brussels Fair 1958

King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44

Lula Reed & Freddy King / Boy-Girl-Boy / Why Don’t You Come On Home / King / 1955 

Susan Barrett / Listen to Somebody New! [A Little Travelin’ Music…] / A Little Travelin’ Music / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

Golden Gate Quartet / The Valley of Time / Bluebird / 12.26.39

last soul song

Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / Mail Call Time / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1 & 2.70

You Call It Madness, But I Call It Playlist

Smoothies in a Soundie

Coffeetime, June 26, 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’ / Pleasure Bent / Jazzland / 12.4.61

Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Capri / Prestige / 5.26.55 

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Hittin’ the Ceiling / Decca / London 9.12.29

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / After You’ve Gone / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon

Mildred Bailey / The Little Man Who Wasn’t There / Vocalion / 6.27.29 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Ivory Joe Hunter / Big Wig / 4 Star / San Francisco 1947

Carmen McRae / Bethlehem’s Best / Easy to Love / Bethlehem / 10.6.54 / with Matt Mathews Quintet

set 2

Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen / Prestige / 10.9.62

Hal McKusick / East Coast Jazz 8 / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Bethlehem / 1955

The Chocolate Dandies / Goodbye Blues / Columbia / 12.3.30 

The Smoothies / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / Bluebird / 9.5.39

Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Give Me All of You / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3

Jackie McLean / Lights Out / Lights Out / Prestige / 1.27.56

The Spirits of Rhythm / I’ve Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 9.20.33

Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / I Double Dare You / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain

Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Laughing Boy / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4

Hal Schaefer / Ten Shades of Blue / Caribbean Blues / United Artists / 1959 

Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Bethlehem’s Best [The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet] / Let’s Get Away From It All / Bethlehem / 10.17.55

Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Potter’s Luck / Roost / 8.15.51 

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

King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / MacGregor Transcription / LA 1.45

Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Capitol / LA 7.25.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Wade in the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song

The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / You Make Me So Mad / Buddah / Chicago 1968 / featuring James III on lead

When We're Alone (Playlist Serenade)

I like the way you lounge, Harold!

Coffeetime, June 19, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / Open Sesame (alternate take) / Blue Note [unreleased] / 6.19.60

Sonny Rollins / Sax Colossus / Strode Rode / Prestige / 6.22.56

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Happy as the Day is Long / Decca / 9.11.34 

Al Bowlly / Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with New Cumberland Dance Orchestra

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Disc Jockey Blues / Atlas / LA mid-1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander

Doris Day / soundtrack Warner Brothers movie Young Man With a Horn / Too Marvelous for Words / Columbia /  1.25.50 / Harry James & his Orchestra

set 2

Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / When Sunny Gets Blue / Epic / 7.13.61

Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Little Girl Blue / 3.13.56

George Wallington / Tenderly / Prestige / 9.4.52

Andy Kirk & his Seven Little Clouds of Joy / Gettin’ Off a Mess / 7.15.30

Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / There’s No Other Girl / Columbia / 9.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen 

King Cole Trio / When We’re Alone (Penthouse Serenade) / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.26.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day

Mel Tormé / Little White Lies / Musicraft / Hollywood 11.16.47 / with Hal Mooney & his Orchestra

Little Milton [Campbell] / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 1963

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Sidewinder / Totem Pole / Blue Note / 12.21.63

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Atomic Energy / Peacock / Houston early 1950 

Mills Brothers / Way Down Home / Decca / 1.25.39

Etta Jones / My Sleepy Head / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / Penthouse Serenade / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956

set 4

Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Curtain Call / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60

Benny Carter / Aspects / June Is Bustin’ Out All Over / United Artists / LA  late summer 1958 

Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954

King Cole Trio / No Love, No Nothing / MacGregor Transcription / LA 5.10.44 / vocal = Ida James

Steve Gibson & his Red Caps / My Tzatskele (My Little Darling) / RCA / 12.17.54 

Sammy Davis Jr / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / live, Sands Hotel 12.66 

The Soul Stirrers / He’s My Rock (Wait on Jesus) (take 2) / Specialty [unreleased] / Hollywood 7.8.53

last soul song

Roz Ryan / You’re My Only Temptation / Volt / Memphis 1970

Playlist in June

Yes. Ladies love Hoagy.

Coffeetime, June 12, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Phil Woods / Woodlore / Get Happy / Prestige / 11.25.55

Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Mambo Diane / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 

James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen / Joy-Mentin’ / Blue Note / 3.4.44 

Charles “Buddy” Rogers / (Up on Top of a Rainbow) Sweepin’ the Clouds Away / Columbia / 3.4.30

T-Bone Walker / Come Back to Me Baby Blues / Mercury / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young & his Orchestra

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / ’Round Midnight / Impulse! / 9.18.63

set 2

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60

Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Body and Soul / Capitol / 4.4-5.55 

Lee Konitz / Conception / Yesterdays / Prestige / 3.8.51

Thomas “Fats” Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29 

Ruth Etting / (I’m Still Without a Sweetheart) With Summer Coming On / Banner / 6.2.32

Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) / MGM / 8.8.47 / vocal = Sy Oliver

Frankie Laine & the Four Lads / Wa-Hoo / Columbia / 1954

set 3

Arnett Cobb / Party Time / The Slow Poke / Prestige / 5.14.59

Kenny Burrell / [At the Five Spot Café] / Beef Blues Stew / Blue Note / live, Five Spot 8.26.59

Tadd Dameron / A Be-Bop Carroll / Savoy / 10.28.47

The RAF Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / San Fernando Valley / ORBS (The Overseas Recorded Broadcasting Service) BBC radio broadcast, Top of the List / London circa late 1942 / vocal = Corporal Denny Dennis 

The Charioteers / Open the Door, Richard / Columbia / Hollywood 1.16.47

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56

set 4

Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Perkin’ / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55

Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / Bone Brother / EmArcy / 11.19.55

Eddie Cantor / In My Arms / radio broadcast, Eddie Cantor show / Hollywood spring 1943 / with Peter Van Steeden’s Orchestra

Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra

Gladys Knight & the Pips / You Broke Your Promise / Fury / 1961

The Sunset Travelers / On Jesus’ Program / Looking for a Better Place / Peacock / Houston 1964

last soul song

The C.O.D.’s / Cry No More / Kellmac Records / Chicago 1965

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

bed

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