You've Got to Love Her with a Playlist

That guitar! Those smiles! That music…!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Skycoach / Prestige / 4.13.56
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59
Red Norvo & his Overseas Spotlight Band / Seven Comes Eleven / V-Disc 202B / 10.28.43
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Sherman “Blues” Johnson & his Clouds of Joy / Lost in Korea / Trumpet / Memphis 9.30.52
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Porgy / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / My Ideal / New Jazz / 11.13.59
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / I Want to Be Wanted / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Benny Goodman Quartet / Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider / Victor / 2.3.37
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Doing Things / Victor / 6.21.28
Mildred Bailey / More Than You Know / V-Disc 202A / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson on piano
Jaye P. Morgan / The RCA Victor Pop Shopper / They All Laughed / RCA Victor / 1955
Freddy King / You’ve Got to Love Her with a Feeling / Federal / Cincinnati 8.26.60

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Milt Jackson / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Volume 3 [Bag’s & Flutes] / Bag’s New Groove / Warner Brothers [Atlantic] / 5.21.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fightin’ Doug MacArthur / Okeh / 2.26.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unissued] / c. 1950
Mel Tormé /Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / When the Sun Comes Out / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Russ Freeman & Bill Perkins / Jazz West Coast, Volume III / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1956
Al Cohn & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 12.23.54
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / As Time Goes By / Dawn / 1956
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Swing Out to Victory / Bluebird / 7.13.42
Georgie Auld with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires / Manhattan / Early Autumn / Coral / 9.2.52
Perry Como / The RCA Victor Pop Shopper [So Smooth] / It’s a Good Day / RCA Victor / 1955
The Southern Sons / I Heard the Preaching of the Elders / Bluebird / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Chi-Lites / Stoned Out of My Mind / Brunswick / 1973

Turn on Your Playlist

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Coffeetime, November 3, 2017, Angelynn Grant – Fundraiser Show

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Chubby Newsome / Where’s The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Hildegarde / I’m Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Columbia / Hollywood 7.27.42
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

Old Playlist Moon

Put a spell on me, TJ. :)

Coffeetime, October 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Jamila / Savoy / 7.9.57
Sonny Stitt / Personal Appearance / I Never Knew / Verve / 5.12.57
Woody Herman Woodchoppers / Moon Burns / Jazztone [Dial] / 1950
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Where the Lazy Daisies Grow / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / Mysterious Mose / Columbia / 4.9.30 / vocal = Roy Evans
Daisy Mae & her Hepcats / Woman Trouble / Gotham / Philadelphia 1956
Sarah Vaughan / You’re Not the Kind / EmArcy / 12.18.54

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57
Jim Hall Trio / [Jazz Guitar] Jazz West Coast, Volume III / Things Ain’t What They Used To Be / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Castle Rock / A Gentle Breeze / Verve [Norgran] / 3.3.51
Alice Faye / According to the Moonlight / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.26.35
Paul Gayten Trio / True / DeLuxe / New Orleans early 1947
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I’ve Got News for You / Coral / Houston 5.15.51
Frankie Laine / Moonlight Gambler / Columbia / 1956

set 3
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / Robbins’ Nest / Coral / LA 1957
Charlie Parker’s New Stars / Relaxin’ at Camarillo / Dial / Hollywood 2.26.47
Toni Harper / Candy Store Blues / Columbia / LA 12.26.47
Cats & the Fiddle / Where Are You / Manor / 1947
Marty Bell / Modern Jazz Sampler [The Voice of Marty Bell  – The Quartet of Don Elliott] / S’posin’ / Riverside / 1.57

set 4
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Dominick Seventh / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55
Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / Am I Blue / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Shorty Rogers – André Previn Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / Hollywood 9.14.54
Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Women, Women, Women / San Antonio 11.4.37
Pauline & her Perils (aka Six Hits & a Miss) / Old Man Moon / Keystone transcription / circa 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Tom Jones / Close Up / Witch Queen of New Orleans / London 1972
Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

Buddy, Stay Off That Playlist

Rapturous guitar

Coffeetime, October 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Speak Low / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Benny Goodman Quartet / Handful of Keys / Victor / Hollywood 7.30.37
Billy Cotton & his Band / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Regal Zonophone / London 2.10.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Betty Hall Jones / Buddy, Stay Off That Wine / Capitol / Hollywood 8.2.49
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Speak Low / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Modern Jazz Perspective / An Evening in Casablanca / Columbia / 8.30.57
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Everything Happens to Me / Savoy / 11.11.55
Fats Waller / A Handful of Keys / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby / Well Did You Evah? / Capitol / Hollywood 5.7.56 / from “High Society”
Johnny Twovoice [aka Johnny Morisette] & the Medallions / I’ll Never Love Again / Dootone / LA 1955
Albert King / The Big Blues / This Funny Feeling / King / 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Am I Blue / I Wanna Be Loved / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / Not a Tear / Verve / 3.10.64
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Byas a Drink / Savoy / 5.17.46
Charioteers / Swing Madness / Columbia / early 1940s
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Victor / LA 6.13.50 / vocal = Frances Irvin
Bobby Troup & his Trio / They Didn’t Believe Me / Liberty / Celebrity Room, Hollywood 1955 


set 4
Harold Land / Take Aim / Take Aim / Blue Note [unissued] / LA 7.25.60
Paul Desmond / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Volume 3 [“First Place Again” Playboy] / Susie / Warner Brothers / 9.7.59
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Handful of Keys / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Annette / Lonely Guitar / Buena Vista Records / Hollywood 1959
Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38
Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Laura Lee / Two Sides of Laura Lee / Guess Who I Saw Today / Hot Wax / Detroit 1972

He’s a Good Playlist to Have Around

Etta’s right: time to get out the sweaters!

Coffeetime, October 13, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Miles Davis All Star Quintet / Minor March / Prestige / 8.5.55
The Piccadilly Players / He’s a Good Man to Have Around / Columbia / London 8.23.29 / vocal = Eddie Collis
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / The Jumpin’ Jack / King / 1950 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble
Clora Bryant / …Gal with a Horn / Little Girl Blue / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

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

set 2
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit–New York Junction / Little Girl Blue / 3.13.56
McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / When Sunny Gets Blue / Impulse! / 6.4.63
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Prestige / 10.21.66
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Smiles / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37
Annette Hanshaw / You’re the One I Care For / Harmony / 12.20.37
Fred Astaire / The “Shorty George” / Brunswick / Hollywood 1941
Ray Charles / Ray Charles / Mary Ann / Atlantic / Miami 6.55

set 3
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Six Steps / Riverside / 3.11.63
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / Be-Bop / Atlantic / 1.15.59
Charlie Parker / Bebop / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
The Three Keys / Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins / Columbia / 8.29.32
Anthony Newley / Tony / I Should Care / London / 1961

set 4
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Indian Summer / Contemporary / 12.4.56
Jon Eardley / In Hollywood / Late Leader / New Jazz / LA 12.25.54
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Etta James / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can He Be?) / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1965
The Silvertone Singers / Since Jesus Came Into My Heart / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / I’m Your Man / Wand / 1965

There's a Brand New Playlist in My Picture Frame

Lovely and talented LaVern

Coffeetime, October 6, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mosaic / Down Under / Blue Note / 10.2.61
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Trio / Bethlehem / 1960
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / King Porter Stomp / radio transcription / c. 1939
Gertrude Lawrence / Do-Do-Do / Victor / 10.29.26
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Saint Vitus Dance / Decca / 4.2.41
Billie Holiday / You Turned the Tables on Me / Clef / LA 3.26.52

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

set 2
Red Garland / High Pressure / What Is There to Say? / Prestige / 12.13.57
Dexter Gordon / Go! / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Blue Note / 8.27.62
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Flapperette / Victor / 1.7.27
Gertrude Niesen / Medley: Falling in Love Again; Sweet and Hot; Little Hatcha / broadcast, Rudy Vallee Fleischmanns Yeast Hour / 12.8.32
Dick Powell / Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? / Decca / Hollywood 5.31.37 / with Lou Forbes Orchestra
Eddie Bo / Check Mr. Popeye / Ric / New Orleans early 1962

set 3
Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Cool Grits / Prestige / 5.25.59
George Wallington / Cuckoo Around the Clock / Prestige / 5.23.53
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Wigwam / Roost / live, Boston 2.11.54
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / There’s a Brand New Picture in My Picture Frame / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Ronnie Kemper
Savannah Churchill / The Things You Do to Me / Columbia [Manor] / fall 1948 / with The Four Tunes
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / People / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / You Turned the Tables on Me / Riverside / 3.7.57
Gerry Mulligan / The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Volume 1 / Sextet / Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (with Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bring Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 2.13.46
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / On Revival Day / Atlantic / 7.27.58
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now [alt take 2] / Specialty / 3.2.54

last soulful song
Thee Midniters / Giving Up on Love / Whittier Records / LA 1966

Start Off Each Playlist with a Song

Happiness is a warm guitar. And T-Bone.

Coffeetime, September 29, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / For Spee’s Sake / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / Moe’s Bluff / Blue Note / 8.21.54
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / G.T. Stomp / Bluebird / 7.12.39
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away / Columbia / London 6.3.32 / vocal = Sam Browne
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / She’s My Old Time Used-To-Be / Capitol / Hollywood 11.6.47
Francis Faye / Sings Folk Songs / Medley: Oif’n Priptchik; Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (That’s an irish Lullaby); Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / Hollywood spring 1957

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

set 2
Bud Powell / Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 3 / Don’t Blame Me / Blue Note / 8.3.57
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Little Girl Blue / RCA Victor / 1.17.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra
Vido Musso’s All Stars / My Jo-Ann / Savoy / 2.25.46
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Edison Diamond Disc / 11.24.25
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Let Down Blues / King / Cincinnati 6.20.53 / vocal = Sadie Madison
Jimmy Durante / Club Durant / Medley: The World Needs New Faces; Start Off Each Day with a Song; If You Knew Susie / Decca / live TV broadcast (prob. Colgate Comedy Hour) 3.14.54 / with Eddie Cantor
Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / The Good Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

set 3
Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Dexi / Blue Note / 2.14.63
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / My Secret Passion / Blue Note / 8.9.63
The Be Bop Boys / Bombay / Savoy / 8.23.46
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Five Salted Peanuts / Victor / 1945
The Vocaleers / I Walk Alone / Red Robin / 1953
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / Sometime Remind Me to Tell You / Regent / 12.18.47

set 4
Cy Coleman / Playboy’s Penthouse / Playboy Theme / Everest / 1960
Shorty Rogers / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars / Play, Boy! / Playboy [RCA Victor] / Hollywood 7.15.57
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944
Chuck Willis / My Story / Okeh / 12.27.52
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra / From the Creative World of Stan Kenton Comes the Exciting New Voice of Jean Turner / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11, 12.63
Harmonizing Four / I Found the Lord / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / To Be True / Bad Luck / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

That's That Playlist

Paisley's so hip, Mr. Ricks! (Cig not so much.)

Coffeetime, September 22, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Compulsion / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17.60
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / La Villa / Riverside / 5.21.57
Horace Henderson & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Parlophone / Chicago 10.3.33
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Oh Donna Clara / HMV / London 1.14.31 / vocal = Pat O’Malley
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Blue Because of You / Modern / LA 1947
June Christy / Something Cool / A Stranger Called the Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 1954 / with Pete Rugolo &  His Orchestra featuring Bud Shank on alto saxophone

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

set 2
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Autumn in New York / Columbia / 12.3.58
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Pacific Jazz / LA 1954
Flip Phillips Boptet / More Than You Know / Signature / c. late 10.45
Django Reinhardt avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Begin the Beguine / Swing [unissued] / Paris 10.1.40
Cleo Brown / Did You Mean It? / radio transcription / c. 1935
Oran Hot Lips Page & His Band / Feelin’ High and Happy / Bluebird / 4.27.38
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / You Wanna Bet / Columbia / 1967

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Kansas City Nights / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Carl’s Blues / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58
Les Brown & his Orchestra / September Song / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Three Sharps & a Flat / That’s That Rhythm / Okeh / 1940
Nelson Gonçalves / Escultura / Escultura / RCA / Rio de Janeiro 1958

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Topsy / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank & Three Trombones / Valve in Head / Pacific Jazz / LA 1954
Annette Hanshaw / I Cover the Waterfront / Banner / 6.3.33
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / It Ain't Necessarily So / Signature / 1961
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet / Jonah / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Not the Marrying Kind / Mercury / 1970

What a Difference a Playlist Made

Go on… kiss her!

Coffeetime, September 15, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / In New York / Dizzy’s Business / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 1.12 & 14.62
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins, vol. 1 / Sonnysphere / Blue Note / 12.16.56
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / My Ideal / Brunswick / Chicago 1.7.31 / vocal = Frank Sylvano
Joe Thomas, his Sax & his Orchestra / You’re Just My Kind / King / 4.26.51
Dinah Washington / In Tribute… / That Sunday (That Summer) / Roulette / 1963

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

set 2
Red Garland / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / I Can’t Escape from You / Savoy / 1.29.46
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Just a Mood / Vocalion / London 4.36 / Benny Carter on clarinet
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Buck Jumpin’ / Victor / 10.1.41
Johnny Mercer & the Delta Rhythm Boys / Knock Me a Kiss / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.43
Joe Morris Blues Cavalcade / Pack Up All Your Rags / Atlantic / 1.15.51 / vocal = Billy Mitchell
Danny K. Stewart & his Aloha Boys / Hawaiian Favorites / The Pupuli Hula E / Tops / 1957

set 3
Bennie Green / Walkin’ & Talkin’ / The Shouter / Blue Note / 1.25.59
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Fast Track / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Joe Morris Orchestra / Out of the Night / Manor / late 1947
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 4.1.41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Four Vagabonds / Mighty Hard to Go Through Life Alone / Miracle / summer 1949
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Reprise / LA 8.9.66

set 4
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Mr. Lucky / Capitol / LA 9.62
Curtis Counce / [Landslide] / Sonor [alt take] / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Ensemble Featuring Zoot Sims / Blueberry Hill / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Pink Elephants / radio broadcast / Cocoanut Grove, Hollywood 1932/33 season
Timmie Rodgers / Bring Enough Clothes for Three Days / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.43
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Leaning on the Lord / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.11.52

last soulful song
Tyrone Davis / Was I Just a Fool / Dakar / 1972

On the Playlist Where You Live

Um…okay. Sure. :) 

Coffeetime, September 8, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate / 5.19 & 20.61
Stanley Turrentine / ZT’s Blues / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note / 9.13.61
Art Kahn’s Orchestra [aka Gene Kardos & his Orchestra] / Forty-Second Street / Banner / 1.13.33 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Wini Brown / (Ya Got My) Brand of Honey / National [unissued take 1] / 2.21.49
Ella Fitzgerald / soundtrack to Let No Man Write My Epitaph / September Song / Verve / LA 4.19.60

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

set 2
McCoy Tyner / McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington / I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) / Impulse!
[unissued] / 12.2, 7, 8.64
Buddy Collette / Laura / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Don’t Blame Me / Savoy / 7.18.56
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Whispering / Victor / 8.23.20
George E. Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra / Won’t You Come Over to My House / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.8.29 / vocal = Julia Lee
Frank Sinatra / Long Ago and Far Away / CBS radio broadcast, The Vimms Vitamins Show; V-Disc 166B / 2.9.44 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Mabel Scott / Somebody Goofed / Coral / 5.22.51
Peggy Lee / Things Are Swingin’ / Life Is For Livin’ / Capitol / LA 5.16.58 / arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Lester Young & Harry Edison / She’s Funny That Way / Verve [Norgran] / Hollywood 11.1.55
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Moods / Yusef's Mood / Savoy / 4.6.57
Boswell Sister / Forty-Second Street / Brunswick / 4.11.33
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Slip, I Wasn’t Pushed, I Fell / radio broadcast, AFRS #326 / 7.23.50
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / That Sunday, That Summer / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Wes, Buddy, & Monk Montgomery / Monk’s Shop / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.59
Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / On the Street Where You Live / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56
King Cole Trio / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Marlene Dietrich / Overseas: American Songs in German for the O.S.S. / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Columbia / late August 1944
Little Willie John / There Is Someone in the World for Me / King / Cincinnati 1958
Dixie-Aires / Christ’s ABC’s / Exclusive / 1947

last soulful song
The Gap Band / Outstanding / Total Experience / 1982

I'm Playlisting (So Help Me)

Cilla and Dudley laugh and sing and laugh…

Coffeetime, September 1, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / The Spirit-Feel / Atlantic / live, Herndon Stadium, Atlanta 5.28.59
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley / Double Whammy / Blue Note / 11.25.56
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / [Lunceford Special] / What’s Your Story Mornin’ Glory / Columbia / 5.9.40
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / Medley: One Hour With You; What Would You Do?; Oh! That Mitzi! / Columbia / 1932 / vocal = Lee Morse; The Rondoliers; Dick Robertson
Johnny Otis Band / Cool and Easy / Savoy / 2.27.50 / vocal = Redd Lyte
Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Georgia on My Mind / Vee Jay / 1964

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / Goodbye, Old Girl / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Stairway to the Stars / Capitol / Hollywood 3.4.56
Joe Venuti / Tea for Two / radio broadcast, Bing Crosby GE show / Hollywood 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Fats Waller / Tea for Two / Associated Transcription No. 60 / 8.7.39
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / Sugar Blues / Victor / Camden 3.27.31 / vocal = Bill Massey
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961

set 3
Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / Budd Johnson / Verve / 4.9.59
Brew Moore & his Playboys / Brew Blew / Savoy / 10.22.48
Maxine Sullivan / Taking My Time / International [?] / 1947
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’m Singing (So Help Me) / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / Drown in My Own Tears / Atlantic / live, Herndon Stadium, Atlanta 5.28.59

set 4
Art Pepper & Conte Candoli / Mucho Calor / Mucho Calor / Andex / Forum Theater, LA 4.24.58
Art Van Damme / [Cocktail Capers] / After You’ve Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 12.20.47 [1950]
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Two Steps from the Blues / Two Steps from the Blues / Duke / Chicago 8.3.60
Cilla Black / Is It Love? / This Empty Place / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 1965
The Trumpeteers / Home Don’t Seem Like Home / Okeh / 1.2.52

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Workin’ on a Groovy Thing / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atlantic / 6.3.66

Cut Off the Fat (Take Out the Playlist)

Smooth as a satin pocket square.

Coffeetime, August 25, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Mustang / I’m So Excited by You / Blue Note / 6.24.66
Pepper Adams / The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams / Like…What Is This? / Savoy / 11.19.57
Harry James & his Orchestra / Stardust / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Whistle While You Work / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Cut Off the Fat (Take Out the Bone) / RCA Victor / LA 1949
Anita O’Day / This is Anita / I Can’t Get Started / Verve / LA 12.7.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Valsa de Pôrto das Caixas / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
John Wright / Mr. Soul / What’s New / Prestige / 4.10.62
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Johnny’s Guitar Blues / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 1949
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang [Ed Lang] / Sunshine / Okeh / 1.24.27
Ruth Ladson & Three Shadows / What Do You Bet? / Columbia [unissued] / Chicago 6.30.41
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / I Wanna Wrap You Up / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
Annisteeen Allen & her Home Town Boys / More More More / Queen / Cincinnati 12.45
Jackie Wilson / That’s Why (I Love You So) / CBS TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1.21.62

set 3
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Triple Track / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
Sonny Clark / [Standards] / Black Velvet / Blue Note / 11.16.58
Illinois Jacquet & his All Stars / Flying Home, Part I and Part II / Philo / LA 7.45
Mills Brothers / Don’t Be Afraid to Tell Your Mother / Decca / 2.20.35
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Too Many Tears / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Night and Day / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Oscar Peterson / The Astaire Story / Jam Session for a Dancer / Clef / LA 12.52
Stan Getz / You Go to My Head / Roost / 3.17.50
King Cole Trio / You Must Be Blind / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Mountain Greenery / Bethlehem / 1955
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Ye-Me-Le / What the World Needs Now / A&M / Hollywood 1969
The Detroiters / Let Jesus Lead You / Specialty / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
Walter Jackson / What Would You Do / Okeh / Chicago 10.24.63

Playlisty Little Thingy

Ray Abrams/Jimmy Shirley sax battle! We all win!

Coffeetime, August 18, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / St. Louis Blues / Verve / 2.17.59
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / A Night in Tunisia / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Swingy Little Thingy; Too Many Tears / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Naggin’ Woman Blues / Black & White / LA 8.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Do You Know Why? / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Love, I’ve Found You / Vee-Jay / 7.21.61
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / I Cover the Waterfront / Bethlehem / 3.17 & 18.55
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / I Can’t Get Started / Atlantic / 6.14.55
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Move Over / Victor / 10.7.41
Eddie Lang / April Kisses / Okeh / 4.1.27
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / It All Comes Back to Me Now / 1.28.41 / vocal = Perry Como
Chuck Willis / I Feel So Bad / Okeh / 9.17.53
Connie Francis / Where the Boys Are / MGM / Hollywood 1960

set 3
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Blue Ammons  / Prestige / 6.16.60
Art Farmer / Meet the Jazztet / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60
Ray Abrams & his Sextet / Sandy / Sittin’ In With / 1948
Basin Street Boys / Ain’t Got No Loot / Exclusive / Hollywood late 1946 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra
Ella Mae Morse / Buzz Me / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #155 / Hollywood 11.5.45 / with Sam Donahue Orch & Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / It Never Entered My Mind / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / RCA / 6.19.61
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Bernie’s Tune / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59
Benny Goodman / The Benny Goodman Trio Plays for the Fletcher Henderson Fund / After You’ve Gone / Columbia / live, WNEW 4.1.51
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior [Capitol] / LA 3.1.43
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of ’66 / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Reprise / 12.66
Soul Stirrers / I’m So Glad (Trouble Don’t Last Always) / Specialty / Hollywood 2.16.55

last soulful song
The Impressions / We’re a Winner / ABC-Paramount / Chicago 1967

(Love Is) The Tender Playlist

Gorgeous video, gorgeous song, gorgeous Esther!

Coffeetime, August 11, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Everywhere / Blue Note / 3.3.57
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Star Eyes / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Duke Ellington & his Orchesstra / Creole Rhapsody, parts 1 & 2 / Brunswick / 1.20.31
Fred Astaire / The Half of It, Dearie, Blues / Columbia / London 4.20.26 / with George Gerswhin on piano
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / The Be-Bop Bounce / United Artist / spring 1946
June Christy & the Kentones / Make Love to Me / radio transcription / LA 12.13.45

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Clifford Brown / Easy Living / Blue Note / 8.28.53
King Cole Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / McGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Redheads / Brown Sugar / Perfect / c. 9.26
Mildred Bailey / Summertime / radio broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show (aka Music Till Midnight) / 10.20.44 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Debbie Reynolds / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / MGM / Hollywood 1955

set 3
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / I Was Doing Allright / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Les Spann / Gemini / Stockholm Sweetnin’ / Jazzland / 12.16.60
James Moody’s Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chano Pozo
The Dinning Sisters / Do You Love Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1946
Charlie Shavers Quintet / She’s Funny That Way / Vogue / 1945

set 4
Webster Young / For Lady / The Lady / Prestige / 6.14.57
Chico Hamilton / Jazz Swings Broadway / Show Me / World Pacific / LA 8.12.57
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Royal Jokers / She’s All Mine / Atco / 7.9.56
Esther Phillips / Fever / Atlantic / 1966
The Zion Travelers / I Want to Go to Heaven and Rest / Dooto / LA 1962

last soulful song
Pat Lundy / Prove It / DeLuxe / 1969

Time on My Hands (Playlist in My Arms)

Who you kidding? That girl would look at either of you guys!

Coffeetime, August 4, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One By One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Originally / Lil’ T / Columbia / 6.25.56
Shep Fields & his New Music / Skylark / radio transcription / early 1940s
Meyer Davis & his Orchestra / Keep Young and Beautiful / Columbia / 11.23.33 / vocal = Charlotte Murray
The Flamingos / Someday, Someway / Chance / Chicago 1.28.53
Margie Anderson / The Blues / Come Rain or Come Shine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / 1959

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

set 2
Jimmy Heath / Really Big! / Mona’s Mood / Riverside / 6.28.60
Kenny Burrell / If You Could See Me Now / Blue Note / live, Five Spot Café 8.26.59
Chet Baker / Chet / Time on My Hands (You in My Arms) / Riverside / 12.30.58
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Cecilia Mia / Decca / Paris 6.27.33 / “Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s”
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol / Hollywood 5.26.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Snaggle Tooth Ruth / King / Cincinnati 9.28.50

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / Kelly Roll / Verve / 3.19.64
John Lewis & Svend Asmussen / European Encounter / Valeria / Stockholm 7.2 & 3.62
Fats Navarro / The Fabulous Fats Navarro, vol 2 / Symphonette / Blue Note / 9.13.48
Delta Rhythm Boys / Conversation at Midnight / radio transcription / 1941
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Skylark / Okeh / 11.25.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Skylark / Capitol / Hollywood 4.56

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding & Al Cohn / The Brothers / The Red Door / Prestige / 9.8.52
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.23.44
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Atco / 1961
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Girl from Ipanema / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet with Jobim
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Alexander O’Neal / Hearsay / Never Knew Love Like This / Tabu / 1987 / duet with Cherrelle

Does Your Playlist Beat for Me

Bird watches Hawk!

Coffeetime, July 21, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane / Mating Call / Super Jet / Prestige / 11.30.56
Miles Davis / ’Round About Midnight / Tadd’s Delight / Columbia / 6.5.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble / Three Little Words / Keynote / 5.24.44
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Frank Haywood / Now or Never / Apollo [unissued] / 2.27.46 / with Monroe Tucker & his All Stars
Helen Humes / ’Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do / Stardust / Contemporary / LA 2.10.59

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

set 2
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Straight Life / Riverside / 7.1.58
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / Lost Canyon / Columbia / LA 8.15.56
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / The Very Thought of You / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
Art Tatum Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Comet / 5.1.44
Ruth Etting / Home / Romeo / Hollywood 12.11.31
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys / Lil Liza Jane / Columbia / Hollywood 7.24.41/ vocal = Tommy Duncan
Bobby “Blue” Bland / No Blow, No Show / Duke / Houston 1952

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / Walk On By / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Good Bait / Philips / 4.25.63
Tadd Dameron / The Tadd Dameron Band / Good Bait / Jazzland / live, Royal Roost 1948
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Does Your Heart Beat for Me (theme); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby / radio transcription / 1938
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Charlie Ventura / East of Suez / Baby, Baby All the Time / Regent / 1949 / vocal = Buddy Stewart

set 4
Art Pepper / Summertime / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / C’est la vie / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44
Slim & Slam / Sweet Safronia / Vocalion / 11.9.38
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé's California Suite / They Go to San Diego / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich
The Hightower Brothers / He’s a Warrior (Battleax) / Nashboro [unreleased] / early 1960s

last soulful song
The Festivals / You’ve Got the Makings of a Lover / Smash / 1967

That's My Play-Play-Playlist

…and handsome, too!

Coffeetime, July 14, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Rumproller / Desert Moonlight / Blue Note / 4.21.65
Max Roach / The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley / Just One of Those Things / Debut / 4.21.53
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Slow Freight / Vocalion / 1.30.40
Waring’s Pennsylvanians / The Little White House (At the End of Honeymoon Lane) / Victor / 10.29.26 / vocal = Tom Waring
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chicken-Shackers / Tell Me How Long Has the Train Been Gone / Aladdin / LA 1.4.50
Buddy Collette / Detour Ahead / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962 / vocal = Irene Kral

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

set 2
Buddy Collette / Laura / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Miles Davis / Seven Steps to Heaven / I Fall in Love Too Easily / Columbia / Hollywood 4.16-17.63
Stéphane Grappelli / Dans la vie / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56
Queen’s Dance Orchestra / Drifting Along with the Tide / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 2.13.22
The Happiness Boys / That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness / Victor / 2.23.27
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Les Blue Stars / Octuor / La légende du pays des oiseaux (Lullaby of Birdland) / Barclay / Paris 11.54

set 3
Harold Mabern / Workin’ & Wailin’ / Blues for Phineas / Prestige / 6.30.69
Wardell Gray / The Squirrel / Bob Andrews Archive (personal recording) [Xanadu] / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52
Connee Boswell / Under a Blanket of Blue / Brunswick / LA 6.10.33 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Savannah Churchill & The Four Tunes / The Best of Friends / Columbia / 12.48
Clyde McPhatter / May I Sing for You? / These Foolish Things / Mercury Wing / 1962

set 4
Bobby Scott / Bobby Scott and Two Horns / Theme III / ABC-Paramount / 10.56
Art Tatum Trio / I Know That You Know / Comet / 5.1.44
King Cole Trio / I’m Through with Love / radio broadcast / live, Circle Room, Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.21.46
Brenda & the Tabulations / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Top and Bottom Records / 1970
The Pilgrim Travelers / After While / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Hollywood 8.2.55

last soulful song
Tom Jones / A-Tom-ic Jones / In a Woman’s Eyes / Decca [Parrot] / London 1966

Playlist of the Infidels

Daydreaming with Brenda

Coffeetime, July 7, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / 9.29.57
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (1560) / Dance of the Infidels / Blue Note / 4.21.57
Benny Goodman Sextet / Gone with What Draft / Columbia / 1.15.41
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / You Ought to See Sally on Sunday / HMV / London / 12.20.35 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Honeysuckle Rose / Decca / 10.14.39
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / What Do You See in Her? / Capitol / LA 1957

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

set 2
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.16.58
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Flute in “D” / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I’m in the Mood for Love / Clef / 7.5.50
Frankie Newton Quintet / Daybreak Blues / Blue Note / 4.7.39
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Everything Happens to Me / radio broadcast, Kraft Music Hall / Hollywood 5.1.41
Annie Laurie / Baby What’s New? / Regal / 9.49
Nat “King” Cole / Just One of Those Things / The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1957

set 3
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 9.25.60
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Blue Samba / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Erskine Butterfield / Saturday Night Twist / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Mildred Bailey / Summertime / Majestic / 12.30.45
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / You Didn’t Want My Love / RPM / LA 1951
Matt Dennis / Give Her a Kiss [She Dances Overhead] / This Funny World / RCA / 1955

set 4
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Jordu / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Zan / Contemporary / LA 4.17.56
Jones-Smith, Incorporated [aka Count Basie’s Blue Five] / Lady Be Good / Vocalion [Columbia] / Chicago 10.9.36
Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis L’Auteur / Le Piano de la Plage / Pathé-Marconi / Paris 1959
Dinah Washington / The Late, Late Show [Tops in Pops] / I Don’t Hurt Anymore / Mercury (Wing) / LA 8.3.54 / with Hal Mooney & his Orchestra
Highway QC’s / Every Man, Woman and Child / Vee Jay / Chicago 5.22.55

last soulful song
Brenda & the Tabulations / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Top and Bottom Records / 1970

Cover Me up with Sunshine (And Feather My Playlist with Love)

Johnny Griffin & Kenny Clarke go Italian

Coffeetime, June 30, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / Karioka / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2: A Blowing Session / Ball Bearing / Blue Note / 4.6.57
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / A Mellow Bit of Rhythm / Decca / 7.26.37
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Cover Me up with Sunshine (And Feather My Nest with Love) / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal = Frank Bessinger
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Houston Jump / Swingtime (Supreme) / LA 1947
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / God Bless the Child / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

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

set 2
Sonny Stitt / Burnin’ / Easy Living / Argo / Chicago 1960
Mal Waldron / The Quest / Duquility / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna [alt take 2] / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
“King” Bennie Nawahi / Black Boy Blues / 1929
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol / Robins and Roses / Bluebird / 4.24.36
Marl Young & his Orchestra / Sail On Boogie / Rhumboogie / Chicago possibly May 1945 / featuring T-Bone Walker vocal & guitar
Big Maybelle / I Ain’t Got Nobody / Savoy / 3.16.59
Unknown Chorus / Walt Disney Presents Swamp Fox / Johnny Tremain / Disneyland / Hollywood 1959

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / Spring Is Here / New Jazz  / 8.19.60
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Quartet / Hot Sausage / Riverside / 2.58
Jimmy Forrest / Night Train / United / 7.12.51
John Kirby & his Orchestra / As the Tide Was Flowing In / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Ravens / Tea for Two / National [unissued] / c. 1949
Al Hibbler / Duke Ellington Presents Al Hibbler / You Don’t Love Me No More / RCA Victor / 7.10.46

set 4
Cal Tjader / Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / The Man that Got Away / Fantasy / San Francisco 1961
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Room 608 / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58
Fats Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / You’re Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 9.14.56 / with Willie Smith on alto
Peters Sisters / The Terrific Peters Sisters / Who Stole the Jam / Columbia / 1961
Echoes of Zion / Keep Still / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Just the Other Day / A-Bet / Nashville 1968

The Backwoods Ain’t What It Used to Be

Filling in on Backwoods is hard work!

Backwoods, June 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dean Barlow / Don’t Leave Me Baby / Jay-Dee / 1955
Jerry Morris / Cool Down Baby / with Clarence “Bon Ton” Garlow’s Orchestra / Ric [unissued]
The Clovers / Little Mama Don’t Leave Me / Atlantic / 1953
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Gene Jumps the Blues / Modern [unissued] / 1948
Goree Carter & his Hep Cats / Hoy – Hoy / Freedom / 1949

bed 1
The Paris Theatre Orchestra / La Mer / Somerset / 1958

set 2
Priscilla Bowman & the Spaniels / A Rockin’ Good Way / Abner / 1958
The Five Keys / That’s Right / Capitol / 1956
The Moonglows / Blue Velvet / Chess / 1956
Lucky Thompson All Stars / Test Pilot, parts 1 & 2 / Selmer (France) / 12.44
Gene Pitney / E Se Domani / Musicor / 1964
Jerry Colonna / Bowser / Bravo! Records / 1959

bed 2
The Famous Gabor Radics & his Family / Play Gypsy / Regent 1956

set 3
Carson Robinson & his Pioneers / The West Ain’t What It Used to Be / Rex / London 6.3.39
Jerry Reed / Cookin’ / I Shoulda Stayed Home / RCA Victor / 1970
Grouchy & the Texas Pioneers / Beaumont Rag / Pioneer / 1953

bed 3
Leo Addeo & his Orchestra / More Hawaii in Hi-Fi / RCA Victor / 1959

set 4
Ricky Nelson / Don’t Leave Me This Way / Imperial / 1958
Rick & the Fairlanes / Danger / 1959
Rex Trailer / Pow Wow the Pony / Gold Rush / 1960s

bed 4
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Night Train / Somerset / 1965

set 5a
Big Sheba with Bobby Mitchell’s Orchestra / Standing on the Corner / Derby / 1949
Lenny Capello & the Dots / Cotton Candy / Ric / 1958
Charlie Singleton / S.O.S. / Red Robin / 1950

bed 5
Billy May & his Orchestra / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Coolest Pad / UA / Hollywood 1963

set 5b
The Contours / Shake, Sherrie / Gordy / 1962
Jimmy McGriff / I’ve Got a Woman / Sue / 1967
Millie Small / Something’s Gotta Be Done / Fontana / 1964
Earl Gaines / Keep Your Mind on Me / Seventy 7 / 1972

bed 6
Jack Marshall / Soundsville! / The Third Man Theme / Capitol

set 6
Manfred Mann / What You Gonna Do? / Ascot / 1964
Dusty Springfield / Do Re Mi (Forget About the Do and Think About Me) / Philips / 1964
Chubby Checker / Twistin’ USA / Parkway / 1961
Lou Stein / Got a Match / Mercury / 1958
Jimmie Rodgers / Make Me a Miracle / Roulette / 1958

bed 7
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Orpheans / Rhapsody in Blue / Columbia / 5.28.35 / with Larry Adler on harmonica

set 7
Rocky Roberts & the Airedales / Stasera Mi Butto / Durum / 1967
Gene Chandler / Soul Hootenanny, Part 2 / Constellation / 1965
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart / Out & About / A&M / 1967
The Cowsills / Love American Style / MGM / 1970

bed 8
Elmer Bernstein / soundtrack to Staccato / Walk a Lonely Street / Capitol

set 8
Sensational Saints of Ohio / Ain’t That a Shame / Message / Detroit 1962
Cliff Nobles / Love Is All Right / Phil L.A. of Soul / 1968

bed 9
Pat Williams / Shades of Today / For Me! (Arrastao) / Verve

last whoohoo song
Bobby Darin / Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey / Atco / 1960

Playlist in a Caboose

Bobby, I'd never roll *my* eyes at you!

Coffeetime, June 23, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Cliff’s Edge / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / Sarfari / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / High Society / Victor / 4.3.39
Miff Mole & his Molers / Navy Blues / Okeh / 2.6.30 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Blues for Cuba / Aladdin / LA 12.15.50 / vocal = Floyd Dixon
Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / Little Boy Blue / Fantasy / Chicago 1.57

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

set 2
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / Stella By Starlight / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Miles Davis All Star Quintet / Changes / Prestige / 8.5.55
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Savoy / 1.31.49
Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Squeeze Me / HRS [Hot Record Society] / 4.6.40
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Sentimental Melancholy / Brunswick / 2.18.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Blen, Blen, Blen / live, Royal Roost 3.19.49 / intro by Symphony Sid
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Oh Baby / RPM / 1955

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Into Something / I’ll Remember April / New Jazz / 12.29.61
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Mills Brothers and Ella Fitzgerald / Big Boy Blue / Decca / 1.12.37
Elizabeth Welch & her Swing Quartet / Drop in Next Time You’re Passing / Vocalion / London 10.13.36
Bobby Troup & his Trio / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Liberty / Celebrity Room, Hollywood 1955 


set 4
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Misty / Contemporary / LA late summer 1960
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Cerebellum / Bethlehem / 11.54
Vido Musso’s All Stars / Moose in a Caboose / Savoy / 2.25.46
King Cole Trio / I’d Love to Make Love to You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.13.45
Jack Crowder, Winston DeWitt Hemsley, Pearl Bailey, & Roger Lawson / Put on Your Sunday Clothes / Broadway cast recording, Hello, Dolly! / RCA Victor / 1967
Dixiaires [aka Dixieaires] / God Is the Greatest Creator / Sittin in With / LA 1951

last soulful song
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / One Dozen Roses / Satisfaction / Tamla / Detroit 1971

Playlist (Don’t Be So Ridiculous)

J'adore Mickey!

Coffeetime, June 16, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Fuller / [Two Bones] / Fuss Budget / Blue Note [unreleased] / 1.22.58
Lee Morgan / Indeed! / Stand By / Blue Note [1538] / 11.4.56
Red Perkins & his Dixie Ramblers / Minor Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 5.6.31
Noël Coward / We Were Dancing / HMV / London 2.13.36 / with the Phoenix Theatre Orchestra
Louis Jordan’s Elk Rendez-Vous Band / Honey in the Bee Ball / Decca / 12.20.38
Joni James / Let There Be Love / The Nearness of You / M-G-M / LA 1953

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

set 2
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Hank Mobley / Deep in a Dream / Blue Note / 8.18.57 (note: Kenny Dorham sits out)
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Dinner for One Please, James / RCA Victor / 1.17.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Doin’ Things / Okeh / 5.4.27
Chocolate Williams / They’ll Do It Every Time / HRS / 5.5.47 / with Brick Fleagle’s Rhythmakers
Sam Cooke / Encore / Mary, Mary Lou / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra
Otis Rush / It Takes Time / Cobra / 1958 / with Willie Dixon & his Orchestra

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Mr. Shing-A-Ling / The Humpback / Blue Note / 10.27.67
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Back Breaker / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Oscar Peterson / This Is Oscar Peterson at the Piano / Honeydripper / RCA Victor / 1952
Ella Mae Morse / Cow-Cow Boogie / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.42
Three Flames / Nicholas (Don’t Be So Ridiculous) / Columbia / 1947 https://youtu.be/stjvReaElhQ
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / We’ll Be Together Again / Reprise / Las Vegas 8.9.66

set 4
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / New Rhumba / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Tenors Head-On / Don’t Be That Way / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.56
King Cole Trio / Embraceable You / Capitol / Hollywood 12.15.43
Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney / Good Morning / soundtrack to M-G-M movie Babes in Arms / Hollywood 5.15.39
Sam Fletcher / Sweet Slumber / RCA Victor / 1961
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued] / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
Lulu / Lulu’s Album / Cry Like a Baby / Columbia / 1969

Playlist, Won’t You Please Come Home

Cute guys and shoulder pads: it's a party!

Coffeetime, June 2, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Indeed! / Little T [alt take] / Blue Note [1538] / 11.4.56
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / Lover / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.21.57
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / [Duke Ellington & His Men] / Five O’Clock Rag / RCA Victor / 9.26.41
Little Jack Little & his Orchestra / I Wished on the Moon / Columbia / 6.28.35
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Take the U Car / Atlas / LA c. 1948
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / The Thrill Is Gone / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Lester Young / The Jazz Giants ’56 / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan / Verve / 1.12.56
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Clef / LA late fall 1952
Joe Venuti / I Got Rhythm / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #22  / Palm Springs 3.5.53
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / He Ain’t Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 1.25.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Joe Turner / Howlin’ Winds / National / Chicago 12.9.47
Jane Russell / [Girls and More Girls] / Bye-Bye Baby / from 20th Century Fox movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Lion] / Hollywood 1953
Otis Rush / It Takes Time / Cobra / 1958 / with Willie Dixon & his Orchestra

set 3
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Greasy / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Sweet Sucker / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Mills Brothers / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Melotone / 11.25.31
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Day In Day Out / Bluebird / 8.27.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Bing Crosby / Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around… / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Decca / Hollywood 4.17-18.56

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / I Can’t Get Started / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / A Very Special Love / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
King Cole Trio / Beautiful Moons Ago / Excelsior/Capitol / LA 3.1.43
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / My Kind of Love / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / You Don’t Know What You Got Until You Lose It / Mercury / 1968
The Alphabetical Four / I’m Gonna Walk Right In and Make Myself at Home / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / It's True / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1970

Shoot the Playlist to Me Cupid

I've got a secret: these are two of my favorite guys!

Coffeetime, May 19, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Black Pearls / Lover Come Back to Me / Prestige / 5.23.58
John Coltrane / Soultrane / You Say You Care / Prestige / 2.7.58
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / Gone with the Gin / Decca / 1.23.40
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Rhythm King / Victor / Chicago 12.12.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
LaVern Baker / How Can You Leave A Man Like This? / Atlantic / 6.19.53
Ann Cole / Darling Don’t Hurt Me / Baton / 1955 / with Dave McRae Orchestra

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

set 2
Red Garland / Solar / The Very Thought of You / Jazzland / 1.30.62
Art Pepper / Intensity / Come Rain or Come Shine / Contemporary / LA 11.23, 25.60
Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / Goodbye / Everest / 9.3.58
Mills Blue Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time I Look at You / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Clyde Hart’s Hot Seven / Shoot the Arrow to Me Cupid / Savoy / 12.19.44 / vocal = Joe Gregory
June Christy / Something Cool / I’ll Take Romance / Capitol / Hollywood 1953 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra
The Barry Sisters / At Home with the Barry Sisters / Eishes-Chiyell [A Woman of Value] / Roulette / 1960 / with Abe Einstein Orchestra

set 3
George Barnes / Guitars Galore / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Mercury / LA 1961
Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Mambo Diane / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60
Don Byas & Slam Stewart / I Got Rhythm / Commodore / 6.9.45
Rosemary Clooney & Tony Pastor / I’m Sorry I Didn’t Say I’m Sorry (When I Made You Cry Last Night) / Columbia / 6.5.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra
Four Tunes / I'm the Guy / RCA Victor / 6.49
Yves Montand / Montand Chante Prévert / Barbara / Philips / Paris 1962

set 4
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Desmond Blue / RCA Victor / 10.2.61
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast, Vol 2 / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.18.55
King Cole Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters
Little Milton / I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town / Checker / Chicago 1965
Frank Gorshin / Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording] / Life Is a One Way Street / RCA Victor / 1969
Golden Gate Quartet / Born Ten Thousand Years Ago / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
Fantastic Four / As Long as I Live (I Live for You) / Ric-Tic / 1967