Little Playlist Blue

Sassy makes it seem easy!

Coffeetime, August 5, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet / Swingin’ the Samba / Blue Note / 1.31.59

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / The Hand of Love / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / All Too Soon / Victor / Hollywood 5.4.40

The Seven Blues Babies / Give Your Little Baby Lots of Lovin’ / Edison Diamond Disc [unissued lateral] / 1.2.29 / vocal = Jack Kaufman

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / When My Sugar Walks Down the Street / Bluebird / 9.6.39

Sarah Vaughan / Swingin’ Easy / Body and Soul / EmArcy / 4.2.54

set 2

Donald Byrd / Free Form / Night Flower / Blue Note / 12.11.61

Oscar Peterson / Plays the George Gershwin Song Book / Summer Time / Verve / summer 1949

James Moody / James Moody / Little Girl Blue / Argo [Cadet] / 8.59

California Ramblers / Clementine (From New Orleans) / Edison Diamond Disc / 9.27.27 / vocal = Ed Kirkeby

Harry Hudson & his Melody Men / My Wife Is on a Diet / Edison Bell / London 1930 / vocal = Leslie Sarony 

Jay McShann’s Kansas City Stompers / Come On Over to My House / Capitol / Kansas City 11.1.44 / vocal = Julia Lee

Ray Charles / Genius Hits the Road / New York’s My Home / ABC-Paramount / 3.25 & 29.60

set 3

Lee Morgan / [Standards] / Blue Gardenia / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.67

Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Moon and Sand / Verve / 12.64, 4.65 

Camille Howard & her Orchestra / Unidentified Boogie #2 / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 9.24.51

Mills Brothers / Loveless Love / Brunswick / Hollywood 4.14.32

Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum  / The Big Voice of / Sweet Sue – Just You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960

set 4

Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / The Merry Go Round Broke Down / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Wildwood / Liberty / LA 2.27.57

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Ill Wind / Victor [unissued] / 10.16.41

King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / My One and Only Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1962

Alphabetical Four / Shake My Mother’s Hand / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song

Jackie Moore / Sweet Charlie Babe / If / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1973

Every Man to His Own Playlist

The great Jim Flora capturing the joy in music.

Coffeetime, July 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / Just You, Just Me / Prestige / 9.7.56

Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57

Russ Columbo / Prisoner of Love / Victor / LA 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Every Man to His Own Profession / Decca / 4.23.47

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Decca / 9.12.50

set 2

Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61

Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / Just for a Thrill / Reprise / Hollywood 1961

Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946

Jack Teagarden / Blues to the Dole / Brunswick / 7.19.39 

Irene Bordoni / Don’t Look at Me That Way / Victor / 6.24.28 / with Irving Aaronson & his Commanders 

Jack McVea / New Worried Life Blues / Rhythm / LA spring 1945 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant

Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / I Couldn’t Care Less / Charlie Parker Records / Hollywood 1962

set 3

Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / The Lady Is a Tramp / Argo [Cadet] / 6.7.63 

Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #10 / They Can’t That Away from Me / Clef [Verve] / LA 1953 

The Four Vagabonds / If I Were You / RCA Victor / 5.13.45 

Toni Harper / Sam’s Song (The Happy Tune) / Columbia / LA 5.31.50 / with Four Hits & a Miss

Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / You Make Me Feel at Home / Jubilee / 1958

set 4

Les Spann / Gemini / Blues for Gemini / Jazzland / 12.8.60

Lou Stein Quartet & Octet / Eight for Kicks, Four for Laughs / That Old Feeling / Jubilee / 1956 

Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s

King Cole Trio / You’ve Changed / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.5.47

Raphael Muñoz & his Orchestra / Top Pops of Latin America / Muchos Besos / RCA Victor / 1955

Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / Photograph / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65

The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song

Minnie Riperton / Perfect Angel / The Edge of a Dream / Epic / 1974

Just a Playlist Named Joe

Raft, Sinatra… Janet Blair gets all the guys.

Coffeetime, July 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / News / Blue Note / 6.23.57

Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60

The Revelers / In a Little Spanish Town (’Twas on a Night Like This) / Victor / 1.20.27

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Rose of the Rio Grande / Swing / 6.7.38 / vocal = Ivie Anderson

Roebie Kirk / Don’t Want to Play in the Kitchen (Let’s Go Upstairs) / Harlem / LA c. 8.45 / with Tab Smith’s Orchestra 

Patti Page / The West Side / Here I’ll Stay / EmArcy / Hollywood 1.21.58 

set 2

Tony Scott / Scott’s Fling / Requiem for “Lips” / RCA Victor / 1.7-12.55 

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / The Boy Next Door / Roost / 3.18.57 

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

Lonnie Simmons / Lonnie’s Blue / Parrot / Chicago 10.15.53

Oscar Aleman / Nobody’s Sweetheart / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38 

Milton Brown & his Brownies / Down By the O-H-I-O / Decca / Chicago 1.27.35

Frank Sinatra & Janet Blair / Lucky Strikes Presents Light Up Time radio show / Some Enchanted Evening / 12.13.49

Delta Rhythm Boys / In Sweden / Perdido / Jubilee [Metronome] / Stockholm 1956 

set 3

Lonnie Smith / Think! / Slouchin’ / Blue Note / 7.23.68

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One By One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63

The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / 8.18.38

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / A Ghost of a Chance / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45 / vocal = Hal Stevens

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55

Phineas Newborn Jr. / The Artistry of Phineas Newborn Jr / Dahoud / Atlantic / 5.3, 4.56

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Daahoud / Mercury / 1960

Prince Cooper / It’s a Hit Baby / Aristocrat / 9.1.47 

Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roulette / Hollywood 1959

The Soul Stirrers / Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long [alt take] / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / The First Minute of a New Day / Ain’t No Such Thing as a Superman / Arista / Maryland, summer 1974

I've Got My Playlist Working for Me Now

Mr. Lunceford, you are the definition of elegant!

Coffeetime, July 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Gettin’ and Jettin’ / Blue Note / 12.5.61 

Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / They All Laughed / New Jazz / 6.28.60

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Liza / Vocalion / 9.14.39

Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / She’s a Great, Great Girl / Brunswick / 3.7.28

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Why Do I Get Those Blues? / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander

Rosemary Clooney / Thanks for Nothing / Black Coffee / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 2

Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / With Malice Toward None / Bethlehem / 6.13.60

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Born to Be Blue / Prestige / 5.18.60

James Moody / James Moody’s Moods / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Prestige / 1.28.55

Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29 

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

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / My Old Flame / Columbia / 10.2.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee

The Showmen / 39-21-46 / Minit / New Orleans 2.4.63

set 3

James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi [take 5] / Riverside / LA 10.11.60

Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Sonia / Time / 3.23.60

Dizzy Gillespie / Groovin’ High / Guild / prob 2.28.45 

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Blue Afterglow / Columbia / 12.23.40 / vocal = Dan Grissom

Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Time Miss Lucy / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s

Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum / The Big Voice of / Baby, Baby, Baby (All the Time) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960

set 4

Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Airegin / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 

Steve Allen / Monday Nights / Rosetta / Signature / 1956

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Walkin’ [alt take 1] / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59 

King Cole Trio / By the River St. Marie / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38

Bing Crosby & Billy DeWolfe / I’ve Got My Captain Workin’ for Me Now / V Disc 820A, from the soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood c. fall 1945 

Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington in the Land of Hi-Fi / If I Were a Bell / EmArcy / 4.24.56

Soul Stirrers / Christ is All (the World to Me) / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.28.50

last soulful song

Betty Wright / All Your Kissin’ Sho’ Don’t Make True Lovin’ / Alston / 1970

A Very Proper Playlist

Cozy couple

Coffeetime, June 24, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Top Shelf / Riverside / 9.28.59

Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Catharsis / Riverside / 2.25.58

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / Limehouse Blues / Bluebird / 6.19.39 

Debroy Somers Band / You’re an Old Smoothie / Columbia / London 1933 / vocal = Dan Donovan 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Orchestra / Have You Got the Gumption / Decca / Hollywood 11.24.47

June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Make Love to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 2

McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62

Teddy Charles / On Campus: Ivy League Jazz Concert / Yesterdays / Bethlehem / live, Yale 11.21.59

Seldon Powell / Sextet / A Flower is a Lonesome Thing / Roost / 1956

Louis Armstrong & his Stompers / Chicago Breakdown / Columbia / Chicago 5.9.27  

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Knock, Knock, Who’s There? / Victor / Chicago 8.4.36 / vocal = Roy Eldridge & Edward Cuffee 

Annisteen Allen / Trying to Live Without You / King / 1.28.53

Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Like? You Like? / Bravo! / 1959

Little Milton / You’re Welcome to the Club / Checker / Chicago 2.16.65

set 3

Joe Newman / Jive at Five / Cuein’ the Blues / Prestige / 5.4.60

Paul Chambers / Go / Julie Ann / Vee-Jay / Chicago 2.2.59

Howard McGhee Sextet / Midnight at Minton’s / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46

Helen Ward / Too Good to Be True / Victor / Chicago 4.27.36 / with Benny Goodman Trio

Dolly Cooper / I’d Climb the Highest Mountain / Savoy / 3.3.53 / with the Four Buddies

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

set 4

Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / When Your Lover Has Gone / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55

Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Jazztone / 12.3.54

Dexter Gordon Quintet / Rosetta / Clef / LA 6.43

King Cole Trio / Rosetta / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.26.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / A Very Proper Town / MGM / 1958

The Five Trumpets / Tone the Bell Easy / Coral / Atlanta 1.31.50

last soul song

Brenda & the Tabulations / California Soul / Top and Bottom Records / Philadelphia 1970

Was That the Playlist Thing to Do

Mae eyes some candy

Coffeetime, June 17, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Freedom Rider / Blue Lace / Blue Note / 5.27.61

Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Free Flight / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56

Glen Gray Orchestra / Casa Loma Stomp / Victor / 2.17.33 

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Was That the Human Thing to Do / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Bill Moreing

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Orchestra / Why’d You Do It, Baby / Hollywood 12.8.47

Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / You Don’t Know My Mind / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2

King Curtis / The New Scene of King Curtis / Willow Weep for Me / New Jazz / 4.21.60

Duke Pearson / Hush! / Friday’s Child / Jazzline / 1.12.62

Secco Selichson / Gyspy Violin / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.38

Mae West / A Guy What Takes his Time / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.7.33 / from the Paramount Picture, She Done Him Wrong

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Used to Be Color Blind / radio broadcast / live, Blue Room at the Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38 / vocal = Tony Pastor

Danny Kaye / Let’s Not Talk about Love / Columbia / 1941 / from the Broadway musical Let’s Face It

Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / Manufacturers of Soul / Uptight / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.3-4.68

set 3

Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Fever / Verve / 7.25.63

Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / No Heat / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58  

Max Roach Quartet / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49

Basin Street Boys / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orchestra

Margaret Whiting / You’re an Old Smoothie / Capitol / LA 11.25.47 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra

Matt Monro / Blue and Sentimental / My Old Flame / London [Decca] / Glasgow 1957 / with Malcolm Lockyer & his Orchestra

set 4

Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large  / Land’s End / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14-15.60

Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / An Air for the Heir / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57

Ethel Waters / I Surrender Dear / radio transcription /  12.15.32

B.B. King / The B.B. Jones / soundtrack to Palomar Pictures, For Love of Ivy / ABC Records / LA 3.68

The Charioteers / In My Savior’s Care / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s

last soul song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / To Be True / Where Are All My Friends / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1974

Burnt Playlist and Black Coffee (Redux!)

Don't look at me like that, señor.

Coffeetime, June 10, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Pullin’ Strings / Contemporary / live at The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Chick Webb & his Orch / Harlem Congo / Decca / 11.37
Al Bowlly / Save the Last Dance for Me / Durium / 3.32 / with Roy Fox & his Band; Durium were cardboard records you could buy at a newstand
Ella Mae Morse / The Patty Cake Man / Capitol / 6.21.44 / with Paul Weston Orchestra
The Robins / I’m Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / I Didn’t Know About You / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2
Charlie Rouse & Paul Quinichette / The Chase Is On / When the Blues Come On / Bethlehem / 9.8.57
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Gone With the Wind / Prestige / 4.13.56
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Body and Soul / Commodore / 11.10.38
Bette Davis / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / soundtrack, Warner Brothers movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / Hollywood 1943
Delta Rhythm Boys / La Cucaracha / radio transcription / 1941
Mike Pedicin / Burnt Toast and Black Coffee / King / 1961

set 3
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Work Song [alternate take 3] / Riverside / 2.1.60
Frank Foster / No Count / Serenata / Savoy / 3.5.56
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee [original take 4] / Savoy / 5.8.47
Betty Hutton / What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & “male quartet”
The Ravens / I’ve Been a Fool / National / 12.49
Yves Montand / France’s Formidable Yves Montand / Sanguine (Joli Fruit) / Odéon / Paris early 1954

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Mexican Passport / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Just Imagine / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Ben Smith / Travelin’ Papa / Apollo / 10.46
Linda Hopkins / Shiver and Shake / Atco / 6.12.57
Dean Martin / Dino Latino / Tangerine / Reprise / arranged & conducted by Don Costa / LA 1963
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / I Got It Within Me / Peacock / 1974

last soul song
Maxine Brown / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me / Wand / 5.31.66

 

Too Many Irons in the Playlist

By hip cover illustrator and artist Ed Renfro

Coffeetime, June 3, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / Potpourri / Prestige / 4.19.57 

Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Onion Head / Jubilee / 8.9.57

Taft Jordan & the Mob / Night Wind / ARC / 2.21.35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Jordan

Annette Hanshaw / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Harmony / 2.20.31 

Chuck Higgins & his Mellotones / Motor Head Baby / Combo / LA 11.52 / vocal = John Watson (later known as Johnny “Guitar” Watson) http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/chuckhiggins.htm

Lee Wiley / Dave Garroway Presents The Wide, Wide World Of Jazz / Stars Fell on Alabama / RCA Victor / 6.12.56 / with Deane Kincaide’s Dixieland Band 

set 2

Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60

Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53

Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 1) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946

Teddy Bunn / Bachelor Blues / Blue Note / 2.28.40

The Mills Brothers / Too Many Irons in the Fire / Decca / 1944

Jimmy Witherspoon / It / Federal / LA 6.4.53

Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia! / Dindi / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3

Wayne Shorter / Juju / Yes or No / Blue Note / 8.3.64

Cal Tjader / A Night at the Blackhawk  / Stompin’ at the Savoy / Fantasy / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco winter 1958-59
Charlie Parker / Leap Frog / Clef / 6.6.50

Mildred Bailey / Don’t Dally with the Devil / Vocalion / 9.21.39 / with Alec Wilder & his Orchestra and The Charioteers

The Four Aces / Ain’t It a Cryin’ Shame / Trilon / San Francisco 7.47 

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / There’s a Small Hotel / MGM / 1962

set 4

Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Mountain Greenery / Contemporary / LA 12.4.56  

Clifford Brown & Art Farmer / Clifford Brown Memorial / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / Stockholm 9.15.53 / with the Swedish All Stars
Charlie Parker & his Orchestra / Leap Frog / Clef / 6.6.50

Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton / Jazz Spec / Roses of Picardy / Columbia / 10.25.55 

Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968

The Soul Stirrers / The End of My Journey / Specialty / 2.27.53

last soulful song

Al Green / Let’s Stay Together / What Is This Feeling / Hi / Memphis 1971

I Want Some Playlist Baby

Dreaming of Hoagy…

Coffeetime, May 27, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Gene Ammons / The Happy Blues / Madhouse / Prestige / 4.23.56

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer’s Dream / Blue Note / 1.29.55

Bernard Addison & his Rhythm / Toledo Shuffle / Bluebird / 8.26.35

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Harlem Madness / Victor / 3.6.34 / vocal = Charles Holland 

Paul Gayten Orchestra / I Ain’t Gonna Let You In / Regal / 2.50 / duet with Annie Laurie 

Dinah Washington / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54

set 2

Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / You’ll Never Know / Jazzland / 7.19.61 

Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Dinky’s Mood / Prestige / 5.25.59

Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / I Can’t Get Started / Everest / 9.29.58

Napoleon’s Emperors / Anything / Victor / 5.23.29 

Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Doin’ the Suzie-Q / Decca / 10.27.36

The Blenders / You’ll Never Be Mine Again / Jay-Dee / 4.17.53 

Hoagy Carmichael / My Resistance Is Low / Decca / 3.1.51 / duet with Beverly Mahr, with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra and chorus

set 3

Chuck Jackson [Bobby Scott Orchestra] / Tribute to Rhythm and Blues, Volume 2 / Theme to the Blues #2 / Wand / 1966

John Jenkins & Donald Byrd / Jazz Eyes / Rockaway / Savoy / 9.10.57

Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / In the Middle of May / Columbia / 9.26.45 / vocal = Buddy Stewart & Anita O’Day

Bobby Short / Jump for Joy / I’m Confessin’ That I Love You / Atlantic / 1969

set 4

Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Mercury / 1959

Art Pepper & Conte Candoli / Mucho Calor / That Old Black Magic / Andex / Forum Theater, LA 4.24.58

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie Plays Hefti / Late Date / Roulette / 1958

Anita Boyer’s Tomboyers aka King Cole Trio / I’m Confessin’ / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44

Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly / Take Me Out to the Ballgame / from the MGM movie Take Me Out to the Ballgame / Hollywood 7.22.48

Tommy Ridgley / I Want Some Money Baby / Johen / New Orleans 01.09.64

Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Chuck Jackson / Tribute to Rhythm and Blues, Volume 2 / Every Man Needs a Down Home Girl / Wand / 1966

Playlist in the Moonlight

Nice hat, handsome.

Coffeetime, May 20, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Thermo / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62 

Curtis Fuller / New Trombone / Vonce #5 / Prestige / 5.11.57

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Nona / Bluebird / 11.6.40

New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Harmony Heaven / HMV / London 4.28.30 / vocal = Wally Vernon

The Clovers / Skylark / Atlantic / 2.22.51

Annie Ross / I’m Beginning to Think You Care for Me / Dee Gee / 4.1.52

set 2

The Modern Jazz Quartet / Medley: They Say It’s Wonderful; How Deep is the Ocean; I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; My Old Flame; Body and Soul / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57

Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Thursday Night Blues / Modern / Hollywood 1949 

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Dicky Wells Blues / Swing / Paris 7.12.37

Bob Howard & his Orchestra / You Hit the Spot / Decca / 1.28.36

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / You Too, You Too? / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Stuart Foster

T-Bone Walker / T-Bone Blues / Papa Ain’t Salty / Atlantic / Chicago 4.21.55

set 3

James Moody / James Moody / Yesterdays / Argo [Cadet] / 8.59 

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

Stan Getz / Prezervation / New Jazz / 6.21.49

Martha Raye / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944 / with Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones

The Opals / My Heart’s Desire / Apollo / 5.13.54 

Bobby Darin / Love Swings / Skylark / Atco / 1961

set 4

Gerry Mulligan / Mulligan Plays Mulligan / Roundhouse / Prestige / 8.27.51

Chet Baker / In Milan / Look for the Silver Lining / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59

Johnny Kaonohi Pineapple & his Islanders / Tricky Fingers / radio transcription / c. 1942

Gene Autry / Paradise in the Moonlight / Vocalion / Hollywood 4.13.39 / from Republic film Rovin’ Tumbleweeds

Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Toys / Liberty / LA 1967 

Gospel Five / He Woke Me Up This Morning / Cajalco / LA 1966

last soulful song

The Knight Brothers / Temptation ’Bout to Get Me / Checker / Chicago 1965

Playlist for Simon the Lionhearted

Play on, kitty.

Coffeetime, May13, 2016, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56

Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / I’m a Fool for Loving You / Victor / Chicago 4.8.36 

Harry Roy & his Bat Club Boys / Pussy! / Oriole / The Bat Club, London 1931

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / At the Swing Cat’s Ball / Decca / 3.29.38

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ll Never Smile Again / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61

Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57 

Fats Waller / Poor Butterfly / Associated radio transcription / 8.7.39

Sophie Tucker / The Man I Love / Okeh / Chicago 3.9.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra

The Cats & the Fiddle / I Miss You So / Bluebird / 12.7.39

Frank Sinatra / Over the Rainbow / V-Disc 822A: CBS radio broadcast rehearsal for “The Frank Sinatra Show” / 1.2.46 / with Axel Stordahl & orchestra, Ken Lane Singers

Bill Kenny / That’s How I Know You’re Mine / Vik / 1957

set 3

John Coltrane / Dakar / Cat Walk / Prestige / 4.20.57

Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Day Dreaming / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57

Red Rodney’s Be-Boppers / The Young at Bop / Elevation / EmArcy / 1.29.47 

Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / If Anything Happened to You / Decca / 4.21.39

The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra 

Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Sail Away / Columbia / 1956

set 4

Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Playa del Rey / Mode / Hollywood 9.57

Shorty Rogers & André Previn / Collaboration / Ev’rything I’ve Got (Belongs to You) / RCA Victor / 3.30.54 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Keep Cool / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1954 / vocal = Mauri Jones

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Toyland / Columbia / 1955

The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s

The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones Are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song

The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Playlist)

“Woo-eee, this gal does a good radio show!”

Coffeetime, May 6, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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set 1

Lee Morgan / A-1 / Savoy [unissued] / 11.5.56

Art Farmer / Meet the Jazztet / It’s All Right with Me / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60

George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / Our Delight / Prestige / 1.20.56

California Ramblers / Song of the Blues / Edison Diamond Disc / 8.1.29 

Annette Hanshaw / If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain) / Harmony / 10.19.28

Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / This Time the Dream’s on Me / Verve / LA 1.15.61

set 2

Paul Desmond / Imagination / RCA Victor / 3.15.62

Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Too Late Now / Riverside / 10.6.59

Sir Charles Thompson / Under the Sweetheart Tree / Vanguard / 8.16.54

Joe Venuti / April in Paris / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / Hollywood 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Molly Malone / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan

Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Taking a Chance on Love / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 3

Howard Roberts / Whatever’s Fair! / The Shadow of  Your Smile / Capitol / LA 1966

Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / 5.11.60

Flip Phillips–Howard McGhee Boptet / Cool / Mercury / LA 10.47 

Mills Brothers / Shine / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.16.32 / with Bing Crosby

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter / Musicraft / LA 11.8.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / This Time the Dream’s on Me / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)

set 4

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.29.56

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson featuring Oscar Pettiford Vol.1 / OP Meets LT / ABC-Paramount / 12.11.56

Ethel Waters / Shadows on the Swanee / Brunswick / 7.18.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Peggy Lee / Oh! You Crazy Moon / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49

Pee Wee Crayton / You Know Yeah / Imperial / LA 10.21.54

Dean Martin / I Ain’t Gonna Lead This Life No More / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

Hightower Brothers / Jesus Will Fix It / Nashboro / Nashville 1959

last soulful song

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

There Ain’t No Sweet Playlist That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

Couch singin’ with Damita & Steve (dig that guitar)

Coffeetime, April 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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set 1

Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Minority / Riverside / 7.1.58

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Hey Doc! / Bluebird / 8.8.41

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / You’re Mine, You! / HMV / London 6.16.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly

King Porter & his Orchestra / Charlie the Boogie Man / Imperial / LA c. 12.19.47 / vocal = ensemble 

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / The Night We Called It a Day / Atlantic / 3.13.58

set 2

Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Sonny Boy / Prestige / 10.9.62

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Peter Gunn” / Dreamsville / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59

Ike Quebec Quintet / Blue Harlem / Blue Note / 7.18.44

Fats Waller / Turn on the Heat / Victor / 12.4.29 

J. C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Once or Twice / Vocalion / Chicago 10.24.29 / vocal = Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon 

The Merry Macs / Deep in the Heart of Texas / Decca / Hollywood 1942

Rhapsody with June Cole’s Orchestra [Miss Rhapsody aka Viola Wells] / Groovin’ the Blues / Savoy / 7.6.44

Little Milton [Campbell] / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63

set 3

Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Favela / Blue Note / 10.5.62

Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / The Lady Is a Tramp / Savoy / 1956

Herbie Fields Hot Seven / Run Down / Savoy / 5.4.45

Roy Fox & his Orchestra / Rockin’ the Town / radio broadcast / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee

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

Nat King Cole / L.O.V.E. / Thanks to You / Capitol / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Tynan Time / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56

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

Hadda Brooks / Say It with a Kiss / Modern [unrelease] / 1948

Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / When You Come Back to Me / RCA Victor / 6.18.51 

Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / There Ain’t No Sweet Girl That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

Soul Stirrers / How Far Am I from Canaan? / Specialty [unissued] / 3.1.51

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965

Blowin’ Your Playlist Out

Dapper. And can sing.

Coffeetime, April 22, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Butch and Butch / Impulse! / 2.23.61

Sam Jones / The Chant / Four / Riverside / 1.13.61

Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Moon-a-Tic / Riverside / 8.10.60

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Sneakin’ Out / RCA Victor / 4.24.46

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / As Time Goes By / Victor / 7.25.31

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

Peggy Lee / I’m a Fool to Want You / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.62 

set 2

Kenny Burrell / Men at Work / I’m a Fool to Want You / Cadet / live, The Village Vanguard 1966

Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58

John Kirby & his Orch / Night Whispers / Victor / 10.7.41

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Stringin’ the Blues / Columbia / 11.8.26 

Phil Harris / I Got the Ritz from the One I Love (I Got the Big Go-By) / Victor / San Francisco 10.13.31 / with the Lofner-Harris St Francis Hotel Orchestra 

Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / Please Keep Me in Your Dreams / Vocalion / 1.12.37

Wynonie Harris / Blowin’ Your Brains Out / King / 12.23.47

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Jumpin’ Jupiter / Blue Note / 5.22.61

John Coltrane / Dakar / Mary’s Blues / Prestige / 4.20.57

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Maternity / Savoy / 12.20.46

Connee Boswell / Carioca / Brunswick / 4.27.34 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra

The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love? / Manor / c. 1947 

George Sanders / The George Sanders Touch: Songs for the Lovely Lady / As Time Goes By / ABC-Paramount / LA 1958

set 4

Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / Look Who’s Dancing / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.28, 31 & 6.4.56 

Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / Speak Low / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.10.61

Teddy Wilson & his Band / The Sheik of Araby / broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show / 1.5.45

Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Ol’ Man River / Banner / 8.8.34 / vocal = Sonny Woods 

The Treniers / This Is It / Okeh / LA 1.9.52

Peggy Lee / Miss Peggy Lee – In Love Again! / The Moment of Truth / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / This World Is in a Bad Condition / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 2.2.39

last soulful song

The Impressions / Grow Closer Together / ABC-Paramount / 1962

 

Playlist Bounce

White tie jive harmonies!

Coffeetime, April 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Philly Joe Jones / Blues for Dracula / Tune-Up / Riverside / 9.17.58

Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Night Tide / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961

The Ramblers / Duke’s Holiday / Decca / Hilversum, Netherlands 12.33

Little Jack Little / I Don’t Want to be President / Columbia / Hollywood 12.7.34

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes

Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

set 2

Red Garland / Red Alone / These Foolish Things / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60 

Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Stars Fell on Alabama / Tampa / LA 6.15.55 

Lou Donaldson / The Things We Did Last Summer / Blue Note / 6.20.52

Joe Marsala & his Orchestra / Don’t Let It End / Black & White / 11.29.44

Edythe Baker / Where’s That Rainbow? / Columbia / 7.27

Adrian’s Tap Room Gang / Weather Man / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Putney Dandridge 

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / The Sound of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Love Is a Simple Thing / RCA Victor / 1954 / vocal = Joe Mooney & the Doodlers [Sally Sweetland & Lillian Clark] 

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / She Moves Me / RPM / 1956 

set 3

Jimmy Smith / Prayer Meetin’ / Picnickin’ / Blue Note / 2.8.63

Sonny Stitt / Personal Appearance / Original / Verve / 5.12.57

Jay Jay Johnson / Opus V / Prestige / 5.26.49

The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)

Doris Day / Day Dreams / If I Could Be With You / Columbia / 2.49

Yves Montand / [Á Paris, volume 3] / Dis-Moi Jo / Odéon [King] / Paris 11.05.53

set 4

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Sweet Georgia Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.29.56

Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / Midnight Sun / Everest / 9.29.58

Coleman Hawkins & Leonard Feather's Esquire All Stars / Esquire Bounce / Commodore / 12.4.43

Dick Haymes / Comme Ci, Comme Ça / Decca / Hollywood 1.16.49

Edna McGriff / I Love You / Jubilee / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Orchestra

Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Coxsone / Jamaica 1970

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Jonah in the Belly of the Whale / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song

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

Playlist on the Lowlands

Looking at ya. Singing to ya.

Coffeetime, April 8, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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set 1

Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Columbia / 7.17.56

Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Madison Avenue / Prestige / 8.23, 25,29.65

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / After Hours / Bluebird / 6.10.40 

Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / I Woke Up Too Soon; Dancing with My Shadow / Bluebird /12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / It’s a Lowdown Dirty Shame / Decca / 7.21.42

Ella Fitzgerald / The Cole Porter Songbook / I Get a Kick Out of You / Verve / Hollywood 2.9.56 

set 2

Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / Body and Soul / Coral / LA 1955

Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57

Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / The Things We Did Last Summer / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Moonrise on the Lowlands / Victor / Chicago 4.9.36 

Hildegarde / I’m in the Mood for Love / Columbia / London 1934

Beny Moré / Sin Razón Ni Justicia (Without Reason Nor Justice) / RCA Victor / 1951 / with Orquesta Chucho Rodriguez

Amos Milburn & his Band / House Party / Aladdin / LA 7.25.55

set 3

Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Sunday in New York / Blue Note / 6.3.64

Wes Montgomery / Full House / S.O.S. / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62 

Tadd Dameron Sextet / Dameronia / Blue Note / 9.26.47 

Charioteers / Ridin’ Around in the Rain / radio transcription / 1942

Teddy Wilson & his Big Band / Stairway to the Stars / radio broadcast, BBC’s America Dances / 8.10.39 / vocal = Thelma Cooper 

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Our Time / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Big Foot / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56

Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Finders Keepers / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54

Jo Stafford / The Things We Did Last Summer / Capitol / Hollywood 7.25.46

Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc 147A / early 12.43

last soulful song

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / The New Religion / The Entertainer / Pye [Atco] / 1966

I Kiss Your Playlist, Madame

Happiness is a hot guitarist.

 Coffeetime, April 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / [Curtain Call] / On the Bright Side / Blue Note / 8.18.57

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Minor Run-Down / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Oran Hot Lips Page & his Band / Jumpin’ / Bluebird / 4.24.38

Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / I Kiss Your Hand, Madame / Victor / 3.18.29 / vocal = Ran Weeks

Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / Sweet Man / Savoy / 11.21.44

Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye / Mercury / 1956 

set 2

Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Yesterdays / New Jazz / 10.16.59

Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Don’t Blame Me / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60

Doc Cheatham & his Trio / Doc’s Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 1.21.50

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds Roll Away) / Decca / 9.12.34

Ethel Waters / Don’t Blame Me / Decca / 7.18.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra

Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / A Stranger in Town / Decca / LA 10.5.44 / with Eddie LaRue’s Quartet

Floyd Dixon / Is It True? / Cat / 4.28.54

Patty Duke / Sings Songs from Valley of the Dolls / Give a Little More / United Artists / 1967

set 3

The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Li’l Darlin’ / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60

Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61

Charlie Parker / Jazz Perennial / The Bird / Norgran [Verve] / 2.10.49

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Red Wagon / radio transcription / 7.9.40 / vocal = Dandridge Sisters

The Ravens / I Don’t Know Why I Love You Like I Do / National / 9.11.47 

Anthony Newley / Tony / You’re Free / London / 1961 

set 4

William Donati / Presents Something Different / Firefly / Tampa / c. 1955

Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / Marie / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.24.61

Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Sittin’ In / Commodore / 11.10.38

Helen O’Connell / Oh, You Crazy Moon / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio 

T-Bone Walker / Travelin' Blues / Imperial / LA 4.5.50

Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / Don’t Blame Me / Argo / Chicago 6.27, 29.62

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song

The Emotions / Flowers / You’ve Got the Right to Know / Columbia / Chicago 1976

The Playlist Done Got Me (And Gone)

She sings, she dances, she rocks!

Coffeetime, March 25, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Oliver Nelson / Straight Ahead / Straight Ahead / Prestige / 3.1.61

Elmo Hope / Hope Meets Foster / Fosterity / Prestige / 10.4.55

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

Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / That’s What Puts the “Sweet” in Home, Sweet Home / Victor / Chicago 11.21.28 / vocal = Harold Stokes

Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / The Blues Done Got Me (And Gone) / Queen / 12.45

Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / I Can’t Get Started / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.11.58

set 2

Dexter Gordon / [Clubhouse] / I’m a Fool to Want You / Blue Note / 5.27.65

Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring in Naples / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955

Jack McVea & his Band / Don’t Blame Me / Apollo / LA 8.45

Fats Waller / Carolina Shout / Victor / 5.13.41 

Ruth Etting / Button Up Your Overcoat / Columbia / 3.11.29

Belle Baker / Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen / Brunswick / 12.21.37 / with Gene Kardos & his Orchestra

The Moonglows / He Lied / Chess [unissued] / Chicago c. 1.55 

Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Oooh! Look-a-There Ain’t She Pretty / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3

McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / T ’n A Blues / Impulse! / 2.4.64

Stanley Turrentine / [Mr. Natural] / Shirley / Blue Note / 9.4.64

Julian Dash & his Orchestra / Creamin’ / Mello-Roll / 1950

Betty Hutton / It Had to Be You / Capitol / Hollywood 1944 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Cab Calloway Orchestra / Frosty Morning / Regal / 12.50

set 4

Dave Pell / Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) / Dance for Daddy / RCA Victor / Hollywood 5.28, 31 & 6.4.56 

Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Two-Part Contention / Decca / Hollywood 7.8.57 

Paul Smith / Paul Smith Quartet / All for You / Skylark / Hollywood 11.13.53 

King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43

The Mills Brothers / I Guess I’ll Get the Papers (And Go Home) / Decca / 1944

Irene Reid / It’s Too Late / Big Spender / Verve / 3.66 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank Foster

Golden Gate Quartet / He’s My Rock, My Sword, My Shield / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song

Dee Dee Warwick / I Can’t Wait to See My Baby’s Face / Atco / c. 1970

The Runaway Playlist

I’ve got a new crush.

Coffeetime, March 11, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Clark / Lover / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.5.58

Johnny Griffin / The Congregation / Latin Quarter / Blue Note / 10.13.57

Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Grand Central Getaway / V-Disc 391B / LA 3.45

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Nobody But You / Okeh / 5.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 

Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / My Man Stands Out / Capitol / Kansas City 4.49

Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Why Can’t I? / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

set 2

Ike Quebec / It Might as Well Be Spring / It Might as Well Be Spring / Blue Note / 12.9.61

Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / There Will Never Be Another You / Riverside / 7.2-3.58

Bert McLean’s Jazz Hounds / Calypso / Calaloo / Bluebird / Trinidad c. 2.37

Vernon Dalhart [Marion Slaughter] / The Runaway Train / Victor  / 3.4.25 

Jewish Art Quartet / Zaynin Mir Chasidimlach (We Are Hassidim) / Columbia [unissued demo] / 2.16.34

Rose Mitchell / Baby, Please Don’t Go / Imperial / New Orleans 1954

Jane Morgan / The Day the Rains Came / Bambino / Kapp / 1958

set 3

Jackie McLean / Consequence / Consequence / Blue Note [unissued] / 12.3.65

Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / The Preacher / Blue Note / 11.13.54

Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Sweet Georgia Brown / Regent / 1949

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’m Lost / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.44 / vocal = Dick Gray

The Vocaleers / Hurry Home / Red Robin / 1953 

Buddy Greco / My Buddy / Misty / Epic / live, Le Bistro, Chicago 1959

set 4

Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / No Moon at All / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

Henry Mancini / Combo! / Swing Lightly / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.17.60

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Chairman of the Board / Half Moon Street / Roulette / 4.28.58

Bing Crosby / Someone to Watch Over Me / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time, ABC radio / Hollywood 2.11.48 with Oscar Levant & Joe Venuti 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / John, Stop Teasing Me / Decca / 4.2.41

Peters Sisters / The Terrific Peters Sisters / Sing Baby Sing / Columbia / 1961

The Angelic Gospel Singers & The Dixie Hummingbirds / Dear Lord, Look Down Upon Me / Gotham / Philadelphia late 1950

last soulful song

Gladys Knight & the Pips / Giving Up / Maxx / 1964

(Love Is) The Tender Playlist

Strong woman!

Coffeetime, March 11, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / Domingos / Blue Note / 3.24.57

Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / Woody’n You / Verve / 2.17.59

Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / Let’s Misbehave / Victor / 3.1.28 / vocal = Phil Saxe & chorus 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The Green Grass Grows All Around / Decca / Chicago 11.22.41

Marlene Dietrich / Overseas: American Songs in German for the O.S.S. / Mein Mann Ist Verhindert [Miss Otis Regrets] / Columbia / late August 1944

set 2

John Coltrane / Olé / Aisha / Atlantic / 5.25.61

Oscar Peterson / Plays the George Gershwin Song Book / The Man I Love / Verve / summer 1949

Don Byas / Body and Soul / Prestige / Paris 12.4.46

Larry Adler / I Got Rhythm / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 /  with le Quintette du Hot Club de France

Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stay Out of Love / Pathé Marconi / Studio de l’avenue de la Grande-Armée, Paris 1.17.36 / vocal = June Cole

Danny Kaye / Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water / Just Imagine! / Capitol / Hollywood 1958

Bobby “Blue” Bland / His California Album / I’ve Got to Use My Imagination / Dunhill / LA 1973

set 3

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

Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Smokin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63 

Les Paul Trio / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 751B / Hollywood 1947

Woody Herman & his Orchestra / Woodchopper’s Ball! / Irresistible You / Decca / 3.23.44 / vocal = Frances Wayne

Delta Rhythm Boys / A One Sided Affair / Decca / Hollywood Wednesday, 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio

Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short: Second Town Hall Concert / Medley: What Is There to Say?; This Is Romance; Now / Atlantic / 5.18.69

set 4

Stan Getz / Imagination / Roost / 12.10.50

Jimmy Cleveland & his Orchestra / Cleveland Style / Long Ago and Far Away / EmArcy / 12.12.57

George Siravo Band / Polite Jazz / You’re an Old Smoothie / Kapp / 1956 

Pete Johnson / Goin’ Away Blues / radio broadcast, “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street” / 8.18.40 / vocal = Joe Turner

Peggy Lee / Imagination / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49

Frank Sinatra / This Is Sinatra! / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / Capitol / Hollywood 1955 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s the Way Love Is / Atco / Hollywood 12.19.58

The Pattersonaires / A Child of God; Till Jesus Comes / Chalice [unissued] / Memphis 1968

last soulful song

Bobby Vee / Charms / Liberty / 1963

This Playlist's Too Hip for Me

Ya gotta look at me like that, Bobby?

 Coffeetime, March 4, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Ghana / Blue Note / 1.25.60

Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Confirmation / Blue Note / 11.10.57

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / White Heat / Victor / 1.26.34

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Dinner at Eight / HMV / London 10.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly 

Jack McVea’s All Stars / Fightin’ Mama Blues / Melo-disc / Hollywood 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 

Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62 

set 2

Eddie Johnson / Indian Summer / Blue Star / Nessa / Chicago 6.24 & 7.2.81

Art Farmer / Modern Art / Darn That Dream / United Artists / 9.10, 11, 14.58

Howard McGhee / Body and Soul / Regent / Guam 1.17.52

Junie C. Cobb & His Grains Of Corn / Smoke Shop Drag / Vocalion / Chicago 2.9.28 / vocal = Junie C. Cobb 

Willie Bryant Orchestra / The Voice of Old Man River / Victor / 8.1.35

Betty Hall Jones / This Joint’s Too Hip for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49 

Lester Williams / Hey Jack / Duke / Houston 1950

Tom Jones / Close Up / Witch Queen of New Orleans / Parrot / London 1972

set 3

Stan Kenton / New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm / Improvisation / Capitol / Hollywood 9.8-16.52

George Barnes / Guitars Galore / Sugar / Mercury / LA 1961 

Red Prysock & his House Rockers / Jump for George / Red Robin / 5.52

Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39

Ella Mae Morse / Jam Session on The Red River Valley / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS Orchestra, Mel Tormé & the Mel-tones, and arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern 

Billy Eckstine / I Surrender Dear / I Surrender Dear / EmArcy / 1955

set 4

Georgie Auld / Plays the Winner / It’s a Good Day / Philips / Hollywood 4.2.63

The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four and One Moore / RCA Victor / 2.11.57

Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Soothe Me / Regent / 1949 / vocal = Buddy Stewart

Rafael Muñoz & his Orchestra / Top Pops of Latin America / Prisonero del Mar / RCA Victor / 1955

Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s the Way Love Is / Atco / Hollywood 12.19.58

Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song

Kid Creole & the Coconuts / I’m a Wonderful Thing, Baby / Sire / 1982