I’m Always Chasing Playlists

Sugar Pie: talent, beauty, long black gloves, brooch, shoulders…

Coffeetime, March 15, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Eric Walks / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley’s Second Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Nightmare; If I Had You / radio broadcast / live, Blue Room at the Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra / Here Comes My Ball and Chain / Victor / Chicago 11.27.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Penthouse in the Basement / Decca / 3.13.40
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Love Letters / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Curtis Fuller / Sliding Easy / I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone / UA / 3.9.59
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / My Funny Valentine / Ricordi / 1961
Red Norvo / I’m Yours / Savoy / LA 4.13.51
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Coquette / Victor / 3.2.28
Slim Gaillard & his Flat Foot Floogie Boys / Beatin’ the Board / Vocalion / 10.11.39
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Jelly Bean (He’s a Curbstone Cutie) / Ara / Hollywood
12.17.36
Sugar Pie DeSanto / I Want to Know / Veltone / Oakland 1959

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / T’Ain’t No Use / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / How Are Things in Glocca Morra? / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Johnny Otis Band / Boogie Guitar / Savoy / LA 9.13.45
Jo Stafford / This Is Always / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.46
The Robins / There’s Rain in My Eyes / Savoy / LA 12.1.49 / with the Johnny Otis Quintette
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I’m Always Chasing Rainbows / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
Art Pepper / Intensity / Gone With the Wind / Contemporary / LA 11.23, 25.60
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / Happy Town / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Stan Getz / Tootsie Roll / Royal Roost / 12.10.50
Lonnie Johnson / No More Troubles Now / Okeh / 9.11.30
Bing Crosby / Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (The Irish Lullaby) / Decca / Hollywood 7.7.44 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Little Milton / Sacrifice / Checker / Chicago 3.26.64
Dixieaires / You Better Run / Sunrise / 12.47

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / You Threw a Lucky Punch / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962

Une Playlist Blonde

Burly and hatless, handsome Gene Autry.

Coffeetime, March 8, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Chasm / Savoy / 6.26.55
Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / At This Time aka Off to the Races / Brunswick / L’Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58
The Washingtonians / Black Beauty / Brunswick / 3.21.28
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / 1.28.26 / vocal = Frank Bessinger
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Barnacle Bill the Sailor / Decca / 12.20.38
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Mona’s Mood / Blue Note / 7.30.64
Nat Adderley / “That's Nat” Adderley / You Better Go Now / Savoy / 7.26.55
Hoagy Carmichael & his Orchestra / Barnacle Bill the Sailor / Victor / 5.21.30
Fred Astaire / soundtrack to Follow the Fleet  / I’d Rather Lead a Band / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.30.36 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
Georges Guétary / Une Boucle Blonde / Pathé / Paris / 1951
Little Willie John / Let’s Rock While the Rockin’s Good / King / 6.11.58

set 3
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / Jug Handle / Prestige / 1.3.58
Howard McGhee / Lo-Flame / Blue Note / 1.23.50
Maxine Sullivan / I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair / Victor / Hollywood 3.20.39 / with Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra
The Ravens / Old Man River / National / 4.24.47
Jimmy Witherspoon / Witherspoon, Mulligan, Webster at the Renaissance / Outskirts of Town / HiFi Jazz / live, the Renaissance Club, Hollywood late 1959

set 4
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / Swinging on a Star / Mercury / 1959
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Lover / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Lynn Hope / Poinciana / Premium / Chicago 12.50
Gene Autry / A Year Ago Tonight / Okeh / Hollywood 6.18.41
Camille Howard / Gotta Have a Little Lovin’ / Specialty / Hollywood 3.22.49
Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)
The Chosen Gospel Singers / I’m Going Back with Him / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
The Blue Notes / Never Gonna Leave You / Uni / Philadelphia 1969

Willie, The Whistling Playlist

Annisteen and Lucky shaking tail feathers!

Coffeetime, March 1, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hippy / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Cannonball Adderley / In New York / Planet Earth / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 1.12 & 14.62
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Goodnight, My Beautiful / radio transcription / 1938
Ruth Etting / It’s Easy to Remember / Columbia / 4.5.35
Slim Gaillard & his Flat-Foot-Floogie Boys / Boot-Ta-La-Za / Vocalion / 10.11.39
Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / Quintet / Darn That Dream / Debut / 12.5.53
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Blue Star / Impulse! / 11.15.61
Ben Webster / The Big Tenor / Old Folks / EmArcy / LA 12.27.51
Art Tatum Trio / I Would Do Anything for You / Brunswick / 1.5.44
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Are You Ready / Decca / 7.29.42 / vocal = Trevor Bacon & ensemble
Delta Rhythm Boys / Dry Bones / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / RCA Victor / 1947
Rosemary Clooney / Clooney Tunes / Willie, the Whistling Giraffe / Columbia / LA 5.31.51

set 3
McCoy Tyner / McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington / Solitude / Impulse! / 12.2, 7, 8.64
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / #20 Ladbroke Square / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Mitchell Quintet / Swing Not Spring / The Zec / Savoy / Detroit 1948
The Cats & the Fiddle / One Is Never Too Old to Swing / RCA Victor / 1.20.41
Jo Stafford / Smoke Dreams / Capitol / Hollywood 3.26.47 / with the Starlighters
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / Waltz for Debbie / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / March Wind / United Artists / LA  late summer 1958
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Stan Getz / Hershey Bar / Roost / 5.17.50
Cleo Brown / When Hollywood Goes Black and Tan / Decca / LA 11.20.35
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
Jackie DeShannon / In the Wind / Oh Sweet Chariot / Imperial / LA 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / My Lord Is Writing / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
The Impressions / People Get Ready / Just Another Dance / ABC-Paramount / 1965

Something Sad About a Playlist

Gorgeous: guitar, man, skinny tie, music.

Coffeetime, February 22, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / Take Aim / Reflections / Blue Note [unissued] / LA 7.25.60
Curtis Fuller / Sliding Easy / C.T.A. / UA / 3.9.59 / arr. by Gigi Gryce
Benny Goodman & his Sextet / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby / Columbia / 11.7.40
Golden Gate Orchestra aka California Ramblers / Hallelujah! / Edison Diamond Disc / 5.3.27 / vocal = Arthur Fields
Johnny Otis Band / Wedding Boogie / Savoy / 8.12.50 / vocals = Little Esther, Mel Walker, & Lee Graves
Sarah Vaughan / Dreamy / Star Eyes / Roulette / 1960

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

set 2
Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Someone to Watch over Me / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Just One of Those Things / Savoy / 2.26.55
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Guitar Blues / Okeh / 5.7.29
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Mary Had a Little Lamb / Victor / Chicago 5.23.36 / vocal = Dick Vance
Lil Armstrong & her Orchestra / Harlem on a Saturday Night / Decca / 9.3.38
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer / On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen / Decca / Hollywood 4.15.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
The Cadets / Rollin’ Stone / Modern / LA 1955

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Lieberstraum / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Red Garland / Lover / Prestige [unissued] / 6.27.58
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter / I Get a Kick Out of You / Verve / 3.31.54
Martha Raye / I Remember April / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / Hollywood 1944
Delta Rhythm Boys / St. Louis Blues / RCA Victor / 4.24.47
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Something Sad About a Clown / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Geno / Riverside / 11.27.63
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Odds Against Tomorrow / A Cold Wind Is Blowing / 10.9.59
Una Mae Carlisle / Stop Going Through the Motions / National / 12.22.47
The Teen Queens / Eddie My Love / RPM / LA 1959
Sammy Davis Jr / Sammy (The Original Television Soundtrack) / I’m Not Anyone / MGM / London 9.73
Hightower Brothers / Jesus Will Fix It / Nashboro / Nashville 1959

last soulful song
Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969

I'm Gonna Write a Letter to My Playlist

Dean makes himself comfortable.

Coffeetime, February 15, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Jenkins & Donald Byrd / Jazz Eyes / Orpheus / Regent / 9.10.57
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.16.58
Johnny Marvin / Little By Little / Victor / 8.3.29 / with the Victor Orchestra directed by Leonard Joy
The Three Keys / Jig Time / Brunswick / 9.8.32
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce / (You’ll Always Be) The One I Love / Signal / 10.22.55 / vocal = Ernestine Anderson

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

set 2
Buddy Collette / Tenderly / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Yusef Lateef / Into Something / You’ve Changed / New Jazz / 12.29.61
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / You Are Too Beautiful / Dawn / 6.12.56
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Keynote / 8.9.46
Joe Venuti Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / radio transcription / 12.26-28.34
Ella Logan / Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Music, Lost My Man / broadcast, Casino de Paree revue / 4.4.35 / with Abe Lyman & his Californians
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Mama Don’t Allow / Capitol / Hollywood 6.16.47
Vikki Carr / Discovery, Vol. II / Like Love / Liberty / LA 1964

set 3
Ray Charles / The Genius After Hours / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Atlantic / 11.20.56
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce / In a Meditating Mood / Signal / 10.22.55
Erskine Butterfield / Boogie Woogie Barcarolle / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I’m in Love with the Honorable So and So / Bluebird / 3.12.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Basin Street Boys / I’m Gonna Write a Letter to My Baby / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Everything Happens to Me / Trend / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953

set 4
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / The Duke / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / The Bad and the Beautiful / Mercury / 1959
Larry Adler / They All Laughed / Columbia / London 6.3.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Eartha Kitt / RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt / C’est Si Bon / RCA Victor / 1953
The Mills Brothers / San Antonio Rose / I’m an Old Cowhand / Dot / 1961
The Trumpeteers / Don’t Miss That Train / Okeh / 1.2.52

last soulful song
Leroy Hutson / Love Oh Love / Love Oh Love / Curtom / Chicago 1973

Let's Say Hello to the Playlist

Martha tickles while Calvin has her back.

Coffeetime, February 8, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Farmer & Donald Byrd / 2 Trumpets / Contour / Prestige / 8.3.56
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Marcia Lee / Atlantic / LA 8.16.55
Teddy Wilson Sextet / Tiger Rag / radio broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show / 1.19.45
Noël Coward / I Travel Alone / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Camille Howard & her Boy Friends / Easy / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
Don Elliott with Irma Curry / Love Is a Necessary Evil / Goin’ Back to Joe’s / Columbia / 1.62

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Blue Note / 1.20.61
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / Over the Rainbow / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / How Deep Is the Ocean / Dawn / 1956
Sol Hoopii / Radio Blues / Columbia / LA 10.13.27
Walter Huston / Let’s Say Hello to the Ladies / NBC radio broadcast, Good News of 1940 / Hollywood 1940
The Merry Macs / Breathless / Decca / Hollywood 1942
Magnificents / Don’t Leave Me / Vee Jay / 3.58

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / I Remember You / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Jazz Messengers / Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / Impulse! / 6.14.61
Charlie Parker / Mohawk / Clef / 6.6.50
Golden Gate Quartet / Sweet Adeline / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38
Etta Jones / Long, Long Journey / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra
Martha Davis / Martha Davis and Spouse / Mine / ABC-Paramount / 1957

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Bloke’s Blues / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Then I’ll Be Tired of  You / RCA Victor / 10.2.61
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / On the Sentimental Side / Vocalion / 1.27.38 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Phil Harris & Orchestra / Some Little Bug / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45
Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor / Moses Supposes / MGM movie, Singin’ in the Rain / Hollywood 1951
Golden Gate Quartet / God Almighty Said / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Lulu / New Routes / Where’s Eddie / Atco / Muscle Shoals 1970

My Playlist Is in Your Hands

Fayard's sure Harold sings from the heart.

Coffeetime, February 1, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Elvin Jones / Elvin! / Buzz-at / Riverside / 12.27.61
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene / Shirley / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Flat Third Jive / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Goody Goodbye / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = The 3 Blue Notes
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Groove Juice (I Need It Bad) / Black & White / LA 2.49 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Dakota Staton / Ballads and the Blues / Time Was / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
Sonny Rollins / Freedom Suite / Till There Was You / Riverside / spring 1958
Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Little Darlin’ / Westminster / 1960
Johnny Guarnieri’s All Star Orchestra / Salute to Fats  / Savoy / 4.18.44
Joe Venuti Orchestra / Stardust / radio transcription / 12.26-28.34 / vocal = Louis Prima
Fats Waller / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Victor / 12.4.29
Billy Boy [Arnold] / Here’s My Picture / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.55
The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / Keep It Simple / MGM / 1958

set 3
The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging “Guys and Dolls” / My Time of Day / Columbia / 11.4.59
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / A Foggy Day / Prestige / 8.17.56
Wardell Gray / Get Happy / personal recording: Bob Andews Archive [Xanadu] / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra / That’s What Love Did to Me / Decca / 3.11.36 / vocal = Lena Horne
The 4 Vagabonds / Duke of Dubuque / Bluebird / 12.17.41
Jerry Colonna / Entertains at Your Party… / August in Azusa / Bravo / 1959

set 4
Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz / Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve [unissued] / LA 12.12.57
The Nicholas Brothers / They Say He Ought to Dance / Decca / 12.6.37
Charles Aznavour / Je te rechaufferai / Barclay / Paris 1965
The Five Trumpets / My Chains Fell Off / Gotham / 1950

last soulful song
The Impressions / Gypsy Woman / ABC-Paramount / 1961

Return, Playlist O’ Mine

A great day in Belgium: Benny Golson’s still around and still playing!

Coffeetime, January 25, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Lion’s Den / Blue Note / 12.11.60
John Coltrane / Settin’ the Pace / If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You / Prestige / 3.26.58
The Ramblers / I’ll Never Give In / Decca [unissued] / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.37
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Day by Day / Columbia / London 5.12.32 / vocal = Sam Browne
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / There’s Good Blues Tonight / Decca / 2.26.46 / vocal = Annisteen Allen
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Remind Me / Verve / LA 1.5-7.63

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

set 2
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Cry a Blue Tear / Riverside / 11.12.58
Webster Young / For Lady / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 6.14.57
Chuck Wayne / I Only Have Eyes for You / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Eddie Cole & his Gang / That’s Right! / Gotham [unissued] / Philadelphia c. 1948
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chickenshackers / I’m Gonna Tell My Mama / Aladdin / LA 9.21.50
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / Blue Prelude / MGM [unissued] / 4.10-17.61

set 3
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / One Flight Down / Jazzland / 6.14-15.61
Joe Gordon / Lookin’ Good! / Non-Viennese Waltz Blues / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61
Bobby Smith & his Saxophone & Orchestra / Lightfoot / Ruby / c. 1951
The Five Breezes / Return, Gal O’Mine / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Kay Starr / Should I / Jewel / LA 5.45 / with Ben Pollack & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / Easy to Dance With / So Near and Yet So Far / Verve / LA 3.27.57 / with Buddy Bregman’s Orchestra

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast, Vol 2 / Leroy’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.18.55
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Wini Brown / I Met a Stranger / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
T-Bone Walker / On Your Way Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 11.7.47
Teresa Brewer / Music, Music, Music / There’ll Be Some Changes Made / Coral / 1955
Dixie-aires / Zebedee Found the Magic Stone / Exclusive / 1949

last soulful song
The Diplomats / Accept Me / Dynamo / 1969

Bud (The Playlist)

Sell it, Gene!

Coffeetime, January 18, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Farmer / Farmer’s Market / Wailin’ with Hank / New Jazz / 11.23.56
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / At Basin Street / Love Is a Many Splendored Thing / EmArcy / 1.4.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Nightfall / Vocalion / London 4.15.36
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Who? / Decca / 9.14.34 / vocal = Orlando Roberson
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / You Can’t Tell the Depth of the Well / MGM / 8.8.47
Bob Range / I Can’t Sleep / Apollo / 9.13.49
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / This Is Always / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / The Nearness of You / Everest / 1960
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / If Someone Had Told Me / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Zoot Sims / Memories of You / Prestige / 1950
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Black and Blue Bottom / Columbia / 9.29.26
Robert Farnon & his Orchestra / Pictures in the Fire / The Nearness of You / Decca / 11.15.46 / vocal = Carole Carr
Jay McShann & his Orchestra / Got You Begging / EmArcy / 10.27.51 / vocal = Pee Wee Crayton
David Allen / This Is My Lucky Day / Where You At / Everest / Hollywood 1964

set 3
Sergio Mendes / Brazil’s Super Hits / The Girl from Ipanema / Atlantic / 19s64
Charlie Mariano / Charlie Mariano /  Blues / Bethlehem / 7.11.55
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Sanctifying the Blues / Gotham / Philadelphia c. 1950
The Charioteers / Why Should I Complain? / Columbia / 7.20.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Dolores / Capitol / Hollywood 1.20.41 / vocal = Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / A Woman Always Understands / Regent / 12.18.47

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Bud (The Whippet) / Contemporary / 3.14.54
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Mutual Admiration Society / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
King Cole’s Swingsters / I Lost Control of Myself / Keystone transcription / LA 1.14.39 / vocal = Bonnie Lake
Gene Kelly / Broadway Melody / from MGM movie Singing in the Rain / Hollywood 1952
The Ravens / I’ll Be Back / EmArcy / 12.52
Dixie-aires [aka Dixieaires] / Buckle My Shoe / Spirituals / LA 12.49

last soulful song
Margie Joseph / Nobody / Volt / Memphis 1969

 

My O’Darlin’ My O’Lovely My O’Playlist

Pearl doesn’t wanna hear it, Andy!

Coffeetime, January 11, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / The Cool World / Duke on the Run / Philips / 4.21.64
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Numbers Game / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Jimmie Lunceford & his Chickasaw Syncopators / Sweet Rhythm / Victor / Memphis 6.6.30
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Sunday / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal= Keller Sisters & Lynch
Wynonie Harris / Wynonie’s Boogie / King / 12.13.47
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Softly / EmArcy / Hollywood 4.21.55

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Time After Time / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Curtis Fuller / New Trombone / Namely You / Prestige / 5.11.57
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / (Looks Like I’m) Breakin’ the Ice / Decca / 11.1.34
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / My O’Darlin’ My O’Lovely My O’Brien / Columbia / 6.5.47 / vocal = Clooney Sisters & Tony Pastor
Johnny Gilbert / Bye Bye Blackbird / Imperial / LA 1963

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / I'm Movin’ On / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Grant Green / Blues for Lou / This Little Girl of Mine / Blue Note / 2.20.63
Eddie Safranski’s All Stars / Jam Session at the Savoy / Savoy / 2.26.46
Maxine Sullivan / St. Louis Blues / Victor / 6.29.38 / with Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra
The Syncopators / Out in the Cold Again / National / 10.49
Matt Dennis / Give Her a Kiss [45 rpm EP] / Have You Met Miss Jones? / RCA / 1955

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Far Wes / Far Wes / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / Me and the Blues / Savoy / 1947
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie’s Blues / That’s All I Want Baby / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / He’s Gone / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
 LaVern Baker / I’m the One to Do It / Brunswick / 1969

Loneliness Is a Playlist

Lena’s shoulders inspire me…

Coffeetime, January 4, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Wee-Jay / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Stablemates / Riverside / 5.4.59
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Stompology / Victor / 4.14.37
Ambrose & his Orchestra / They Didn’t Believe Me / Victor / London 10.1.31 / vocal = Sam Browne & the Carlyle Cousins
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Satisfy My Soul / Decca / 10.26.50 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / Loneliness Is a Well / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Alone and I / Blue Note / 5.28.62
Hank Mobley / Poppin’ / Darn That Dream / Blue Note / 10.20.57
The Creed Taylor Orchestra / Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat / Dream Beat / ABC-Paramount / 1959
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Squeeze Me / Bluebird / 8.10.39
Lena Horne / Honeysuckle Rose / from MGM movie Thousands Cheer / Hollywood 1943 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra
Johnny Mercer / Sweet Lorraine / radio transcription / Hollywood 1944 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Clovers / Fool, Fool, Fool / Atlantic / 7.12.51

set 3
Lee Morgan / Leeway / The Lion and the Wolff / Blue Note / 4.28.60
The Young Lions / Fat Lady / Vee-Jay / 4.25.60
The Five Nephews [aka The Spirits of Rhythm] / Rhythm / ARC / 10.24.33
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra  / Sentimental Sy / Without a Song / Dot / 5.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Besame Mucho / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / The Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.53
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / 71 / Columbia / 1.18.40
The Ink Spots / To Each His Own / Decca / 7.8.46
Ethel Waters / Shades of Blue / Man Wanted / Remington [Continental] / 4.19.46 / with JC Heard & his Orchestra
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / Madalena / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Abbe Lane & Juan Guerrero
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Al Green / Call Me / Have You Been Making Out OK? / Hi / Memphis 1972

Playlist in G

Pucker up with The Larks!

Coffeetime, December 28, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Prestige All Stars / All Day Long / A.T. / Prestige / 1.4.57
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / The Head / Riverside / 9.28.59
Jess Stacy & his Orchestra / Daybreak Serenade / Victor / 1945
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Vieni… Vieni… / Bluebird / 7.2.37 / with the Gentlemen Songsters
Bing Crosby / Let’s Start the New Year Right / Decca / Hollywood 1942
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally
Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson / Double Exposure / Happy New Year / Atlantic / 12.5.60

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

set 2
Roy Haynes / We Three / Solitaire / New Jazz / 8.14.58
Joe Newman / Jive at Five / More Than You Know / Prestige / 5.4.60
Art Tatum / Yesterdays / AFRS Jubilee radio show / 1947
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60
James Moody / Another Bag / Minuet in G / Cadet [Argo] / Chicago 1.30.62
Emmett Berry Five / My Deep Blue Dream / National / 8.31.44
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / It Happened in Sun Valley / Bluebird / Hollywood 8.11.41 / vocal = Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, &  The Modernaires
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57

set 4
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Tipperary Fairy / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor / Where or When / Urania / 1954
Guy Lombardo / Guy Lombardo in Hi Fi / Auld Lang Syne / Capitol / Hollywood 1956
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958
The Trumpeteers / So Many Years / Grand / Philadelphia late 1954

last soulful song
Erma Franklin / Gotta Find Me a Lover / Brunswick / 1969

The Playlist in the Christmas Tree

I just love this cover. It’s part of my Xmas decorations.

Coffeetime, December 21, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal) / Fantasy / LA 1965
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

bed
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / Chicago 10.66 / with Charles Stepney, piano; Cleveland Eaton, bass; Morris Jennings, drums
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 1957
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965


bed
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

Frosty, The Playlist

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 14, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quintet / Wham and They’re Off / Blue Note / 3.9.57
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday [alt take] / Blue Note / 1.29.55
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Cecil Gant / It’s Christmas Once Again / Decca / Nashville 10.13.50
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2
Ike Quebec / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.20.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 5.14.47 / duet with Lindsey Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town / Bluebird / 1941 / vocal = the King Sisters
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen (ends, “I don’t weigh very much.”)
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 11.7.58
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57
Lowell Fulson / Christmas Party Shuffle / Swing Time / LA 1950
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kadets
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Wardell Gray / Jingle Jangle Jump / Swing Time / LA 6.9.52 / vocal = Gladys Bentley
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around / Swing Time / LA 1951
Mabel Mercer / At Town Hall / Season’s Greetings / Atlantic / 5.19.68
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Taylor / Please Come Home for Christmas / Galaxy / 1965

Live with Me and Be My Playlist

The lovely Elaine Delmar rocking the eyelashes.

Coffeetime, December 7, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Bells and Horns / Riverside / 4.61
Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with The Horace Silver Quintet / Finger Poppin’ / Blue Note / 1.31.59
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Jazz Scene / Sono / Clef / Hollywood 1947
Durium Dance Band / By the Fireside / Durium flexidisc / London 3.15.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Baby, It’s Cold Outside / Decca / 4.28.49
Elaine Delmar / Swinging the Bard / Live with Me and Be My Love / Atco / 1964 / with The Elizabethan Consort of Viols & Geoffrey Emmott’s Recorder Consort

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

set 2
Chet Baker / Comin’ On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Stairway to the Stars / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Morris Lane / Moon Ray / Coral / 2.28.52
Billy Strayhorn / Halfway to Dawn / Clef [unissued] / Hollywood 1947
Artie Mosby & Roosevelt Sykes / Mosby Stomp / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 9.22.32
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Rockin’ Chair / Victor / 7.14.39  / vocal = Ford Leary
Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946
Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s
Andrew Tibbs / I Made a Mistake / M-Pac! / 1965

set 3
Dexter Gordon / [Clubhouse] / Hanky Panky / Blue Note / 5.27.65
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Va Da Du / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Charlie Parker All Stars / Merry Go Round / Savoy / 9.24.48
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Moon Ray / Columbia / 12.11.39 / vocal = Jean Eldridge
Delta Rhythm Boys / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / radio transcription / 1941
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan


set 4
Stan Getz & Cal Tjader / Big Bear / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Susie’s Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 3.4.56
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / So Alone / Specialty / Hollywood 6.28.51
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Dixie-aires [aka Dixieaires] / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / Exclusive / LA 12.48

last soulful song
Honey & the Bees / It’s Gonna Take a Miracle (Medley) / Josie / 1971

Straight from the Shoulder (Right from the Playlist)

Who can resist Hoagy?!

Coffeetime, November 30, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Counce / Landslide [alt take] / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Move / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Straight from the Shoulder (Right from the Heart) / Victor / 7.13.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Look Out / Decca / 6.4.47
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Be My All  / Atlantic / 4.8.58

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

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / Games That Lovers Play / Prestige / 12.13.66
Red Garland / Solar / Where Are You? / Jazzland / 1.30.62
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44
Quintette de Hot Club de France / I’ve Found a New Baby / Decca / Paris 9.29.37
Noel Coward / Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans / HMV / London 7.2.43
Griffin Brothers Orchestra / Weepin’ and Cryin’ / Dot / 1951 / featuring Tommy Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Cole Porter Songbook / I’m Always True to You in My Own Fashion / Verve / Hollywood 2.7.56

set 3
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / Heavy Legs / Blue Note / 8.9.63
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb / Very Saxy / Lester Leaps In / Prestige / 4.29.59
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Columbia / 12.11.39
Mildred Bailey / Georgia on My Mind / CBS radio transcription, The Mildred Bailey Show / 1943 / with the Delta Rhythm Boys
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island c. 1951

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band! / Along Came Betty / Mercury / 6.16.59
Benny Carter & his Chocolate Dandies / Cadillac Slim / Swing / 8.23.46
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Decca / 5.3.38
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Two Sleepy People / HMV / London 12.3.38 / vocal = Al Bowly
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Just One of Those Things / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50
T-Bone Walker / You Don’t Know What You’re Doing / Atlantic / LA 12.27.57 / vocal = R.S. Rankin
Jubalaires / My Father’s Rich / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Hortense Ellis / Sitting in the Park / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica c. 1972

What Wouldn't I Do for That Playlist

Mr. Griffin smiles pretty for the pretty Italian host.

Coffeetime, November 23, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
King Curtis / The New Scene of King Curtis / Da Duh Dah / New Jazz / 4.21.60
Kenny Dorham / 2 Horns, 2 Rhythm / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside / 11.13.57
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 2 / Too Marvelous for Words / Blue Note / 9.24.54
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Chant of the Weed / Brunswick / 9.24.31
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / What Wouldn’t I Do for That Man / Okeh / 10.19.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Floyd Dixon / Call Operator 210 / Aladdin / Hollywood 2.12.52
Dakota Staton / Crazy He Calls Me / What Do You Know About Love / Capitol / 1958

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / For All We Know / Blue Note / 9.25.60
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights, Volume 2 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58
King Cole Trio / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Standard transcription / LA 11.38
King Bennie Nawahi / Tickling the Strings / Columbia / 1.30.30
Lonnie Johnson / Sweet Potato Blues / Okeh / Chicago 12.13.27
Addie Williams / Maybe Someday / Capitol / Hollywood 2.23.49
The Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 1948
Sergio Franchi / The Songs of Richard Rogers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1965

set 3
Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Prestige / 5.25.59
Johnny Griffin / The Congregation / It’s You or No One / Blue Note / 10.13.57
The Be Bop Boys / Ray’s Idea / Savoy / 8.23.46
Mills Brothers with Ella Fitzgerald / Big Boy Blue / Decca / 1.14.37
Ella Mae Morse / Tess’s Torch Song (I Had a Man) / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.43
Buddy Greco / Buddy’s Back in Town! / Never Leave Your Sugar / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Long Ago and Far Away / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Chant of the Weed / EmArcy / 11.4.59
Danny Kaye / A Lullaby for Dena / Decca / Hollywood / 12.17.47
Ann Cole / Nobody But Me / Sir / 1959
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Columbia / 1967
Soul Stirrers / I’m So Glad (Trouble Don’t Last Always) / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / There Was a Time! / Cowboys to Girls / Brunswick / 1968

Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Playlist Go to Sleep)

Handsome Amos with the beautiful smile.

Coffeetime, November 16, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Street Singer] / Medina / Blue Note / 9.1.60
Art Blakey / A Jazz Message / Sunday / Impulse! / 7.16.65
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Have You Changed / Standard transcription / Hollywood 9.17.41
Charles Dornberger & his Orchestra / Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away / Victor / 1.27.27 / vocal = Franklyn Bauer
Eddie Vinson & his Orchestra / Lazy Gal / Mercury / 4.16.47
Dinah Washington / That’s All I Want from You / Mercury / 1.11.55

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / I Want to Talk About You / Prestige / 2.7.58
John Lewis / The Wonderful World of Jazz / I Should Care / Atlantic / 9.9.60
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Don’t Put Me Down / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.17.48
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Clop! Clip! Clop! (Peter Joe’s Song) / Decca [5453] / 12.30.47
Yves Montand / Yves Montand Sings / Cornet de Frites / Odeon [Decca] / Paris 2.50 / with Bob Castella & his Rhythm

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Jazz Messengers!!!!! / Invitation / Impuse! / 6.14.61
Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Someone to Watch Over Me / Contemporary / 11.2.58
Rusty Bryant & the Carolyn Club Band / Blow Rusty Blow / Dot / live, The Carolyn Club, Columbus, OH 1954
The Charioteers / Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep) / Columbia / 4.16.47
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Mr. Trumpet Man / King / Cincinnati 2.23.50 / vocal = Annisteen Allen
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / I Concentrate on You / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / El Cerrito / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
King Cole Trio / Wild Goose Chase / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44
Amos Milburn / Money Hustlin’ Woman / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47
Esther Phillips / Such a Night / Kudu / Memphis 1974
Kansas City Gospel Singers / I’m On My Way / Swing Time [unissued] / LA 11.50

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Turn on Your Playlist

Carry me away, Mr. Little!

Coffeetime, November 9, 2018, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
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
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
Lil Green / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41
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

Can’t Hold Back the Playlist

The Golden Gate Quartet tell a patriotic story.

Coffeetime, November 2, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Six Pieces of Silver / Virgo / Blue Note / 11.10.56
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Hill’s Edge / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / A Pixie from Dixie / Columbia / 4.24.41
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / 1.27.26 / vocal = Frank Bessinger
The Robins / If It’s So Baby / Savoy / 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band
Julie London / Julie is Her Name / Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / Liberty / 12.55

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Jimmy Smith / Plain Talk / My One and Only Love / Blue Note / 3.22.60
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / I Can’t Get Started / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.29.56
The Little Ramblers / Everything is Okey-Dokey / Bluebird / 10.5.35 / vocal = Ward Pinkett
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Mercenary Papa / Mercury / 9.20.49 / vocal = Eddie Mack
Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney / Could You Use Me? / from MGM movie “Girl Crazy” / Hollywood 1943
Little Milton / Can’t Hold Back the Tears / Checker / Chicago 2.16.65

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Whatever Lola Wants / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ /Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Dexter’s Riff / Savoy / 12.11.47
Billy Eckstine / Songs by Billy Eckstine /  I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore / MGM / 1949
The Ravens / Marie / Rendition [National] / 2.49
Frank Sinatra / Autumn in New York / Columbia / 12.4.47

set 4
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins & The Contemporary Leaders / How High the Moon / Contemporary / LA 10.20–22.58
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / 4th Variation: Saturday Dance / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Bing Crosby / Drifting and Dreaming (Sweet Paradise) / Decca / Hollywood 2.13.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Call Me / Pickwick [Liberty] / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Curtain Calls / Country Living / Dot / 1969

The Last Thing I Want Is Your Playlist

You’re sure about that ’stache, Vince? Yes, Bola.

Coffeetime, October 26, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / My Blue Heaven / Prestige / 4.13.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Cuddle Up, Huddle Up / Bluebird /1.21.41
Walter Pidgeon / What’ll I Do? / HMV / London 6.15.24
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The T.P. Special / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / I Go for That / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Some Other Time / Riverside [unreleased] / 12.15.58
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / But Beautiful / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Count Basie / How Long How Long Blues / Decca / 11.9.38
Bernard Addison & his Rhythm / I Can’t Dance (I Got Ants in My Pants) / Victor / 8.26.35 / vocal = Kirby Walker & Jasper Thomas
Blue Lu Barker / When the Wagon Comes / Capitol / Hollywood 3.21.49 / with Danny Barker’s Orchestra
Ethel Merman & Ray Bolger / Dearie / Decca / Hollywood 1.4.50

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Noise in the Attic / live, Birdland 10.28.60
Leo Parker & his Mad Lads / Lester Leaps In [take 2] / Gotham / 12.28.50
Mel Tormé / Night and Day / Musicraft / 11.47 / with Hal Mooney’s Orchestra
The Charioteers / The Last Thing I Want Is Your Pity / Columbia / 12.20.47
Beny Moré Y Su Orquesta  / Oh, Vida / RCA Victor / Cuba 1955

set 4
Oscar Moore / Afterglow / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Improvisation / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / Live at El Matador / More / Fantasy / El Matador club, San Francisco 1966
Peggy Lee / Trav’lin Light / Capitol radio transcriptions / LA 4.4, 8.49
El Dorados / Trouble, Trouble / Vee-Jay [unissued]  / 4.18.57
Albert King / The Big Blues / I Get Evil / Bobbin / 1960
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Tony Joe White / Black and White / Wichita Lineman / Monument / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 1969

Washin' the Playlist from My Soul

Blossom getting some side eye.

Coffeetime, October 19, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tina Brooks / David the King / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Long Green / Savoy / 9.29.55
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Until Tonight / Standard Radio Transcription / Hollywood 9.17.41
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Washin’ the Blues from My Soul / Brunswick / 6.1.28 / vocal trio = Skinnay Ennis
Wynonie Harris / Lollipop Mama / King / Cincinnati 12.28.47
Ella Fitzgerald / I Got a Guy / Verve [unissued] / LA 1.23.61

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Sunday at the Village Vanguard / Jade Visions / live, Village Vanguard 6.25.61
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Don’t You Know I Care / Jazzland / 6.15.61
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Slow Mood / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Lester Young Trio / I’m Confessin’ / Norgran / LA spring 1946
Hoagy Carmichael & his Orchestra / Bessie Couldn’t Help It / Victor / 9.15.30
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / I Would Do Anything for You / Decca / 1.23.40
Joan Edwards / They’re Either Too Young Or Too Old / radio transcription, Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade / 1.8.44
Sam Cooke / I’ll Come Running Back to You / Specialty / Hollywood 11.1.57

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / Moving Up / Verve / 3.19.61
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / The Day You Came Along / RCA Victor / 1.17.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra
Peanuts Holland & his Orchestra / Mohawk Special / Swing / Paris 12.4.46
Casa Loma Orchestra / Washboard Blues / Brunswick [alt take] / 3.16.32 / vocal = Connee Boswell
Dolly Cooper / I’d Climb the Highest Mountain / Savoy / 3.3.53 / with Hal Singer’s Orchestra & The Four Buddies
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé’s California Suite / Poor Little Extra Girl / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / Tune-Up / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Contemporary / LA 11.26.56
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Could I Know / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Les Blue Stars / Octuor / Embrasse-moi bien / Barclay / Paris 11.54
Bobby Sansom / My Prayer / Acta / 1968
Highway QCs / Count Your Blessings / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959

last soulful song
Debbie Taylor / Let’s Prove Them Wrong / GWP / 1969

Street Runner With Playlist

Beehive Beauty… or Dee-Dee-hive Beauty?

Coffeetime, October 12, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Quittin’ Time / Jazzland / 6.14-15.61
Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Happy Frame of Mind / Blue Note / 2.14.63
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Five Brothers / Prestige / 4.8.49
The RAF Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / The Boy Is Jumping / ORBS (The Overseas Recorded Broadcasting Service) BBC radio broadcast / London circa late 1942
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / I Kiss Your Hand, Madame / HMV / London 1.14.31 / vocal = Sam Browne
The Robins / Ain’t No Use Beggin’ / Savoy / 2.13.50 / with the Johnny Otis Quintette
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Why Can’t I / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That’s Right! / Night After Night / Riverside / 9.15.60
Joe Newman / At Count Basie’s / Someone to Love / Mercury / live, Count Basie's Lounge 1961
Thad Jones / Thad Jones / Sombre Intrusion / Debut / 8.11.54
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Stockholm Stomp / Edison Diamond Disc / 12.9.26
The Barry Sisters / Oh Mama, I’m So in Love / radio transcription Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1940 / with Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swingtet
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra / I’m Beboppin’ Too / Victor / 12.29.48
Hadda Brooks / I Went to Your Wedding / Okeh / LA 1.14.52 / with Teddy Bunn on guitar
Dean Martin / I’ll Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again / Capitol / Hollywood 8.12.54

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / Jubilee Shout / Blue Note / 10.18.62
Tadd Dameron Septet / The Squirrel / transcription / live, Royal Roost fall 1948
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Who Can I Turn To / Victor / 9.18.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
The Big Three / You Sure Look Good to Me / Bullet / Nashville 1946
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Sonny Rollins / Alfie soundtrack / Street Runner with Child / Impulse! / 1.26.66
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Jeepers Creepers / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Larry Adler / Medley: Empty Saddles; Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Rex / London 9.36 / with Jay Wilbur & his Band
Gene Autry / Lonely River / Okeh / Hollywood 1941
Dee Dee Warwick / Alfie / Mercury / 5.66
Golden Gate Quartet / He Never Said a Mumbling Word / Columbia / 12.3.41

last soulful song
The Whispers / Needle in a Haystack / Soul Clock [Doré] / 1967