Friday, April 21, 2023

Playlist Gets in Your Eyes: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 152

Screenshot from the 1932 Vitaphone short film, "Rambling ’Round Radio Row," of the Boswell Sisters sitting at a grand piano singing.
That’s what I like about the Bozzies.…they’re great!

Coffeetime, April 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out / Dotty’s Dream / Blue Note / 5.27.63 
Donald Byrd / Blows at Beacon Hill / If I Love Again / Transition / Cambridge, MA 5.7.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Ill Wind / AFRS Jubilee Show #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Blind Willie Dunn aka Eddie Lang / There’ll Be Some Changes Made / Okeh / 11.5.28 / with Frank Signorelli p 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / If I Love Again / Decca / London 1934 / vocal = Sam Browne
[Emmett] Babe Wallace / Git It (’Cause I Love to See You Wid It) / Decca / 9.10.41 / with Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / Some Other Spring / Columbia / summer 1961 

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Blues for Mother’s / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
Ike Quebec / Blue and Sentimental / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Blue Note / 12.61 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Lil Green / No Baby, No One but You / Bluebird / Chicago 4.17.45 / with Simeon Henry p, Sam Casimir g, Robert Montgomery b
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Brunswick / 2.26.39 / vocal = Irene Daye 
The Cats & the Fiddle / We Cats Will Swing for You / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Frank Sinatra / Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass / Pick Yourself Up / Reprise / Hollywood 4.10 & 11.62 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Neal Heft; cover portrait painting by Jim Jonson  

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / My One and Only Love / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Misty / Verve [unissued] / 9.22.65 
Brew Moore & his Playboys / Blue Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48 
Shep Fields & his New Music / Coffee Time / Victor / 1945 / vocal = Meredith Blake 
James Quintet / Remember When / Coral / 10.21.48 
Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / My Ideal / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Force_(Sonny_Rollins_album)

set 4
Stan Levey / This Time the Drum’s on Me / Day In, Day Out / Bethlehem / LA 9.27 & 28.55 / Conte Candoli t, Frank Rosolino tb, Dexter Gordon ts, Lou Levy p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Levey d 
Herb Geller / Herb Geller Plays / Kahagon / EmArcy / LA 8.6.54 / Geller as, Lorraine Geller p, Curtis Counce b, Larance Marable d 
Jackie Taylor & his Orchestra / That’s What I Like About You / Victor / 7.20.30 / vocal = The Boswell Sisters
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Some Like It Hot / Paramount movie soundtrack, Some Like It Hot / Hollywood 1939 / vocal = actors Rufe Davis, Wayne “Tiny” Whitt, & Harry Barris 
King Cole Trio / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / Capitol / Hollywood 3.15.46 / Nat King Cole p & voc, the great Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
João Gilberto / Chega de Saudade / Maria Ninguém [Maria “Nobody”] / Odeon / Rio de Janeiro 1959  
Five Gospel Stirrers [The Soul Stirrers] / Don’t Wonder ’Bout Him / 2oth Century Records / 1947

last soulful song
Jo Ann King / Don’t Play with Fire / Fairmont / 1966



Friday, April 14, 2023

This Is a Very Special Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 151

Screenshot of the Aug 7, 1956 episode of the Rosemary Clooney Show showing guest Joe Bushkin smiling at Clooney while they sing.
Special day for Joe on Peggy’s TV show!

Coffeetime, April 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Blue Stride / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Trombonology / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.47 
Helen Morgan / Why Was I Born? / Victor / 10.16.29  
Harry Roy & his Orchestra / You’re an Eyeful of Heaven / Parlophone / London 1936 / vocal = Billy Currie
T-Bone Walker / You're My Best Poker Hand / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.47
Dinah Washington / I Want to Be Loved / Mercury / spring 1947 / with Chubby Jackson’s Quartet 

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Johnny Lytle / Happy Ground / When I Fall in Love / Jazzland / 3.23.61 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Trio + One / They Didn’t Believe Me / Verve / LA 8.17.64 
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Stardust / Decca / 1.25.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld 
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Just an Echo in the Valley / Columbia / London 1933
Al Bowlly & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Shout for Happiness / HMV / London 2.19.31 
James Barton / Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast Album) / In Between / 1951 
Totie Fields / Put on a Happy Face / CBS TV broadcast, Ed Sullivan Show / 3.27.66

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
John T. Williams / The John Towner Touch / Zigeuner / Kapp / Hollywood 10.3.56 
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Bock to Bock (Back to Back) / Riverside / 1.3.61 
Lucky Thompson’s Quartet / Slam’s Mishap / Down Beat / Hollywood 9.13.46 
Raymond Scott & his New Orchestra / Half Way Down the Street / Columbia / 9.10.40 / vocal = Clyde Burke
The Four Tunes / Don’t Blame My Dream / Arco / c. 1945 [1950] 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52 

set 4
Bob Keene / Solo for Seven / A Lonesome Cup of Coffee / Andex / Hollywood 5.21.57 / Bob Keene cl, Milt Bernhart tb, Bill Hood bs, Red Norvo vb, Paul Moer p, Red Mitchell b, Shelly Manne d
Mel Powell / The Mel Powell Bandstand / Ezz-May / Vanguard / LA 12.1.54 
King Cole Trio / Naughty Angeline / NBC radio broadcast, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time / Hollywood 7.5.47 / guest = Woody Herman
Joe Bushkin / I Love a Piano / Atlantic / 1950 
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus 
Golden Gate Quartet / Won’t There Be One Happy Time / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
The Dramatics / Joy Ride / Richest Man Alive / ABC / 1976



Friday, April 07, 2023

Get Your Playlist Over: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 150

Screenshot from the December 17, 1951 episode of I Love Lucy where Desi performs and clutches a dancer.
Watch out, Desi… Lucy’s not far away!

Coffeetime, April 7, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Stanley Turrentine / That’s Where It’s At / Smile, Stacey / Blue Note / 1.2.62 
Jackie McLean / A Fickle Sonance / Enitnerrut / Blue Note / 10.26.61 
Hans Bund mit seinem Tanz-Orchester / Tanzfieber [Get Hot Foot] / Telefunken / Berlin 4.18.34
Hotel Pennsylvania Music (aka Jack Albin & his Hotel Pennsylvania Music) / Lucky Little Devil / Velvet Tone / 4.1.30 / vocal = Danford Sisters
Charles Brown / Gee! / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook / Day Dream / Verve / Hollywood 1957 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 

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

set 2
Lou Donaldson / The Time Is Right / The Nearness of You / Blue Note / 10.31.59 
Lester Young / Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Johnny Hodges / Blues-A-Plenty / Gone with the Wind / Verve / 4.5.58 
Bob Hardaway / Lou’s Blue / Spring Is Here / Bethlehem / LA 1.21.55 
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor 4.10.29 
Tom Coakley & his Orchestra / Clean as a Whistle / Brunswick / 11.20.33 / vocal = Frank Barton
Bull Moose Jackson / Oh John / King / 1949
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps / RCA Victor / 12.9.47

set 3
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The End of a Love Affair / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / Taboo / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / All the Things You Are / Musicraft / 2.28.45 
Charlie Parker / Cheryl (short take 1) / Savoy / 5.8.47 / Miles Davis t, Charlie Parker as, Bud Powell p, Tommy Potter b, Max Roach d
Orrin Tucker & his Orchestra / Keep an Eye on Your Heart / Columbia / 7.2.41 / vocal = Bonnie Baker & the Bodyguards 
The Four Blues / Jitterbug Sadie / Decca / 12.4.40 
Don Elliott / Music for the Sensational Sixties / What’s the Use of Wondr’in / Design / 1958

set 4
Bob Cooper / Kenton Presents Jazz - Bob Cooper / When the Sun Comes Out / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.54 
Si Zentner & his Orchestra / The Swingin’ Eye / I’m Always Chasing Rainbows / Liberty / LA 1960 
Conte Candoli / Sincerely, Conte / Fine and Dandy / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54 
King Cole Trio / Mabel, Mabel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.24.46
Peggy Lee / Someday, Sweetheart / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Jamaica 1967 / with Tommy Cook & the Supersonics 
Alphabetical Four / Do Not Pass Me By / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969



Friday, March 31, 2023

When Playlists Fly: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 149

Screenshot from the 1948 movie "Boarding House Blues" of Annisteen Allen performing on stage in a white gown the song "Let It Roll" with Lucky Millinder smiling at her with his orchestra playing behind them.
He’s Lucky because he gets to perform with Annisteen!

Coffeetime, March 31, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon / Field Day / Jazzland / LA 10.13.60 
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Myzar / Jazzland / 12.4.61 
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Black and Blue Bottom / Columbia / 9.29.26 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / She’s Funny That Way / Victor / 1.17.29 / vocal = Van Fleming 
Ernestine Anderson / K.C. Lover / Black & White / LA 1948 / with Shifty Henry’s Orchestra 
Lucy Ann Polk / Lucky Lucy Ann / Sittin’ and A’Rockin’ / Mode / Hollywood 7.12.57 

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

set 2
Junior Mance / Happy Time / Azure-Te / Jazzland / 6.20.62 / composer = Wild Bill Davis  
Gil Evans / Out of the Cool / When Flamingos Fly / Impulse! / 11.60 
Victor Feldman / On Vibes / Sweet and Lovely / Mode / LA 9.57 
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / I Never Slept a Wink Last Night / Melotone / 5.1.34 
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / If It’s Good / Victor / 6.9.39 
Bing Crosby / Manhattan / CBS radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show / Hollywood 3.8.56 / with Buddy Cole Trio 
Annisteen Allen / Pardon Me / Decca / 6.7.57 

set 3
Big John Patton / Got a Good Thing Goin’ On / Soul Woman / Blue Note / 4.29.66 
Stanley Turrentine / Hustlin’ / Trouble (No.2) / Blue Note / 1.24.64 
Allen Eager / Rampage / Savoy / 3.22.46 
Charioteers / Why Should I Complain / Columbia / 7.20.39
Doris Day / My Darling, My Darling / NBC radio broadcast, The Bob Hope Show / Hollywood 12.7.48 
Beny Moré / Paré… Que Llego el Bárbaro [Stop… The Barbarian Has Arrived] / Que Me Hace Daño [What Hurts Me] / Discuba / Cuba 1958

set 4
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker / Reunion with Chet Baker / I Got Rhythm / World Pacific / 12.57 
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Move / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59 
King Cole Trio / But She’s My Buddy’s “Chick” / Capitol / Hollywood / Hollywood 12.4.45
Margaret Whiting / Songs From Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Capitol / Hollywood 4.7.49 / with the Jeff Alexander Singers & Frank DeVol & his Orchestra 
Sam Cooke / At the Copa / The Best Things in Life Are Free / RCA Victor / live, Copa Copacabana 7.7 & 8.64 
Dixie Hummingbirds / The Little Wooden Church / TV broadcast, WLS, Jubilee Showcase / live, Chicago 1964 / MC = Sid Ordower 

last soulful song
The Natural Four / The Natural Four / You Can’t Keep Running Away / Curtom / Chicago 1974







Friday, March 24, 2023

Did You Ever Love a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 148

Screenshot of video of Dean Martin performing in a tux on his TV show in 1966
You’re nobody ’til Dean loves you!

Coffeetime, March 24, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Compulsion / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17.60 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Swift / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Daahoud / EmArcy / Hollywood 8.54 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Jangled Nerves / Victor / Chicago 4.9.36 
Sam Lanin’s Famous Players / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 3.22.29 / vocal = vocal trio (Jack, Hank, & Phil)
Johnny Otis / Cool and Easy / Regent / 1950 / vocal = Redd Lyte, Pete Lewis g
Anita O’Day / Incomparable! / Easy Living / Verve / LA 8.23.60 / with Bill Holman’s Orchestra, Richie Kamuca ts 

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

set 2
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi-Fi / The Wind / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.4.56 / cover sculptor = Vito Paulekas  
Julius Watkins / I Have Known / Blue Note / 8.8.54 
Andre Previn / King Size! / It Could Happen to You / Contemporary / LA 11.26.58 / cover design & art = Robert Guidi, Tri-Arts 
Stuff Smith Trio / Don’t You Think / Asch / 9.8.44 https://www.discogs.com/release/6625189-The-Stuff-Smith-Trio-The-Stuff-Smith-Trio
Hollywood’s Four Blazes / The Big Leg Mama’s Fine / Excelsior / Hollywood 1.45  
Gatemouth Moore / Did You Ever Love a Woman / National / 11.14.45 
Dean Martin / I’d Gladly Make the Same Mistake Again / Capitol / Hollywood 8.12.54 / with Dick Stabile & Orchestra

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / [New Time Shuffle] / Pres Delight (Flying Jumbo) / Blue Note (unissued) / 6.23.67 
Paul Chambers / Bass on Top / Dear Old Stockholm / Blue Note / 7.14.57 
Dexter Gordon / Blow Mr. Dexter / Savoy / 10.30.45
Jo Stafford / It Could Happen to You / Capitol / Hollywood 12.3.43 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Dixieaires / Your Red Wagon / Continental / 1948 
Hollywood’s Four Blazes / I Never Had a Dream to My Name / Excelsior / Hollywood 1.45 / lead vocal = Connie Jordan

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Fourth Dimension / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.16.55
Tutti Camarata / Tutti’s Trumpets & Trombones / Tutti’s Trombones / Coliseum [Tutti’s own label] / LA 1966 
Greta Keller / Stairway to the Stars / Decca / 7.13.39 
King Cole Trio / You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Sweet Talk / Columbia / 1967
Swanee Quintet / Come On to this Altar / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
Gladys Knight & The Pips / Everybody Needs Love / Yes I’m Ready / Soul / Detroit 1967

Friday, March 17, 2023

Top o’ the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 147

screenshot from video of a performance from 1967 of Ernestine Anderson, close up, singing into a microphone

Ernestine live: so pretty & so groovy!



Coffeetime, March 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Consequence] / Vernestune / Blue Note / 12.3.65 
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Philly Twist / Blue Note / 1.15.61 
Benny Goodman Sextet / Breakfast Feud / Columbia / 1.15.41 
Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Scratching in the Gravel / Brunswick / 6.25.40 
Noble Sissle & his Sissling Syncopators / Shout Hallelujah! Cause I’m Home / Parlophone / 5.5.28 / vocal = Sissle
Sonny Parker & his All Stars / Sad Feeling / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.7.49 / Parker voc, Gene Morris ts, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Floyd Dixon p, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d, composed by Gladys Hampton
Ernestine Anderson / My Kinda Swing / Trouble Is a Man / Mercury / late 1960 / co-wrote by eden ahbez 

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

set 2
Hank Crawford / After Hours / Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / Atlantic / late 1965 
Urbie Green / East Coast Jazz/6 / Love Locked Out / Bethlehem / 1.19.55 
Lou Mecca / Lou Mecca Quartet / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 3.25.55 
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.24.28 
Bing Crosby / Top o’ the Morning / Chesterfield radio show broadcast /Hollywood 9.21.49 / with The Rhythmaires and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Comedian Harmonists / Ach, Wie Ist’s Möglich Dann [Oh, How Is It Possible, Then] / Electrola / Berlin 1.9.33
Page Cavanaugh Trio / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / LA 1947 / celeste! 
Wynona Carr / If These Walls Could Speak / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 8.17.55

set 3
Grant Green / [Gooden’s Corner] / Two for One / Blue Note / 12.23.61 
Barry Galbraith / Mellow Moods of Jazz / Easy Now / RCA Victor / 1956 
Buddy Banks / Jazz De Chambre / Buddy Banks Blues / Le Club Français Du Disque [unissued] / Switzerland 1956
Teddy Edwards / Roy’s Boy / Rex / Hollywood 7.47 
Linda Ware / You’ll Never Remember / KJM radio broadcast, Charlie Ruggles Barrel Of Fun / Fresno 7.24.41 / with The Sportsmen Quartet 
5 Red Caps / Just for You / Beacon / Hollywood 7.43 
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Johnson Rag / RCA Victor / 1949 / vocal = Joe Derise & The Snowflakes
Bobby Troup / Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / Not Really the Blues / Atlantic / LA 3.55 
Dave Pell / Love Story / You Can’t Pull the Wool over My Eyes / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56 
King Cole Trio / Let’s Spring One / Capitol / Hollywood 3.1.43
Peggy Lee / Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
James Brown / Thinking About Little Willie John and a Few Nice Things / Cottage for Sale / King / Cincinnati 1968 / featuring members of The Dapps & New York Studio Orchestra 
The Canaanites / I’ll Tell Him / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949 / with Joe Van Loan

last soulful song
Willie & West / At Their Best / Get Away from Me Girl / Stang / early 71 / Willie also recorded under Willie & the Magnificents

Friday, March 10, 2023

Playlist on My Mind: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 146

Screenshot from the Paramount short film "The Little Broadcast" showing The Mills Brothers performing "The Old Man in the Mountain." Screenshot is a close up of two of the brothers, John Jr. on guitar and Harry doing the human harmonica.
The Mills Brothers show how to do the human orchestra, including human harmonica!

Coffeetime, March 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Thermo / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62 
Jackie McLean / Capuchin Swing / On the Lion / Blue Note / 4.17.60 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Let Me See / Okeh / 3.19.40
Oscar Aleman y su Quinteto De Swing / Sweet Georgia Brown / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.21.41 
Annette Hanshaw / Don’t Blame Me / Banner / 9.1.33
Amos Milburn / Empty Arm Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.8.47
Chris Connor / Sings Lullabys of Birdland / All About Ronnie / Bethlehem / 1954 

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

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60 
McCoy Tyner / Reaching Fourth / Goodbye / Impulse! / 11.14.62 
Gerry Mulligan / Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet / Everything Happens to Me / EmArcy / 10.31.55 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / I Won’t Dance / Decca / London 8.2.35 / vocal = Jack Cooper
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / I Come from a Musical Family / Decca / 4.28.36 
Frank Sinatra / Swing Easy! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.7.54 
Ruth Brown / I Don’t Know / Atlantic / 3.7.59 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Adam’s Apple / 502 Blues  / Blue Note / 2.24.66 
Jimmy Smith / Six Views of the Blues / The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues / Blue Note / 7.16.58 
Milt Jackson & Ray Charles / Soul Meeting / Love on My Mind / Atlantic / 4.10.58
Tadd Dameron / Tadd Walk / live at the Royal Roost / late summer 1948 
The Mills Brothers / The Old Man of the Mountain / Paramount short film “The Little Broadcast” / 1933
Maxine Sullivan / The Same Old Story / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Evenin’ / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Herbie Mann / Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd / A Wonderful Day Like Today / Atlantic / 3.5.65 / Mann fl, John Hitchcock & Mark Weinstein tb, Dave Pike vb, Roger Kellaway p, Gene Bertoncini g, Earl May b, Bruno Carr d, Carlos “Potato” Valdes congas 
Buddy Rich / Blues Caravan / Late Date / Verve / 8.61 / Rolf Ericson t, Sam Most fl, Mike Mainieri vibes, Johnny Morris p, Wyatt Ruther b, Rich d 
King Cole Trio / Button, Button / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / Wesley Prince b; vocal = trio
Paul Weston & his Orchestra / (Love’s Got Me) In a Lazy Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / vocal = Matt Dennis; tenor solo = Eddie Miller; composed by Johnny Mercer & Eddie Miller (Eddie Miller’s theme)
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / A Wonderful Day Like Today / RCA / 1965
The Pilgrim Travelers / I’ve Got a New Home / Specialty / Hollywood 1953

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / If You Love Her / Atlantic / 1965

Friday, March 03, 2023

Like a Playlist from the Blue: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 145

Screenshot of Jorge Ben playing his guitar and singing along with his Trio Moctoto on the Italian TV show Speciale Per Voi on June 2, 1970 (in black & white).
Handsome Jorge Ben… again!

Coffeetime, March 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bunky Green / My Babe / Counter Punch / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.28.60 
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet / Assunta / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / After You’ve Gone / Imperial / LA 7.56 
Glenn Miller’s Uptown Gang / Beatin’ the Hallelujah Drum / Personal recordings, perhaps broadcast / Paris 1.25.45 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Like a Bolt from the Blue / Brunswick / 12.11.34 / vocal = Chuck Richards
Sonny Thompson / Blue Piano / King / 1951 / vocal = Royal Trent
Jeri Southern / Southern Hospitality / You’re Nearer / Decca / LA 11.26.57 / with Dave Barbour Trio?

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

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Kelly at Midnite / Weird Lullaby / Vee-Jay / 4.27.60 
Benny Golson / Free / My Romance / Argo / 12.26.62 / cover painting by Alex Bozickovic aka Alex Boz  
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans / More Than You Know / Clef / LA 12.7.53 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Rocky Road / Victor / 11.3.30 / vocal = Don Redman 
Ella Fitzgerald & the Delta Rhythm Boys / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Decca / 3.27.45 
Johnny Mercer / They Didn’t Believe Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1942 / with the Mellowaires: Bobbie Canvin, Patty Morgan, Sally Sweetland, Tony Paris, & Lee Gotch {just played this a couple of weeks ago!}
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963

set 3
Charlie Rouse / One for Five / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.22.65 
Horace Parlan / Headin’ South / The Song Is Ended / Blue Note / 12.6.60 
Stan Getz / Opus de Bop / Opus de Bop / Savoy / 7.31.46
Una Mae Carlisle / Beautiful Eyes / Victor / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young Orchestra 
The Striders / Hesitating Fool / Apollo / 11.14.49 
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Winter Moon / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.13.56 

set 4
Herb Ellis / Ellis in Wonderland / Ellis in Wonderland / Norgran / Hollywood 1.56 
Jack Sheldon & his Exciting All-Star Big Band / Jack’s Groove / Brown Cow / GNP / LA 12.58 / Conte Candoli & Sheldon t, Vince De Rosa fr horn, Lennie Niehaus as, Billy Root bs, Stu Williamson v tb, Red Callender tuba, Pete Jolly p, Buddy Clark b, Mel Lewis d, Tiny Kahn arr
Sophie Tucker / He Hadn’t Up ’Til Yesterday / Columbia / London 8.28.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / Trompin’ / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 5.39 / Wesley Prince b
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss D / They Didn’t Believe Me / EmArcy / LA 12.5.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra
Selah Jubilee Singers / It’s Cool Down Yonder, By Chilly Jordan / Decca / 12.15.44

last soulful song
Willie Tee / First Taste of Hurt / Gatur / New Orleans 1972

Friday, February 24, 2023

Happy-Go-Lucky-You and Broken-Hearted Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 144

Screenshot from a Warner Brothers movie short of Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra where he is dancing with a woman who is not Harriet Nelson
Where’s Harriet?!

Coffeetime, February 24, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Al Cohn / Al and Zoot / The Wailing Boat / Coral / 3.27.57 
Yusef Lateef / The Sounds of Yusef / Buckingham / Prestige / 10.11.57 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Sometimes I’m Happy / Victor / 7.1.35 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Harlem Shout / Decca / 10.14.36 
Buddy Blue [ Smith Ballew] & his Texans / I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store) / Crown / 5.31
The Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking, Baby / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Rita Reys / The Cool Voice of Rita Reys / My One and Only Love / Philips / Hilversum, Netherlands 6.25.56 / same arrangement by Horace Silver as on Stylings of Silver   

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

set 2
Bud Shank / New Groove / The Awakening / Pacific Jazz / LA 5.61 
Duke Pearson / Profile / Black Coffee / Blue Note / 10.25.59 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / In a Sentimental Mood / Victor / 6.15.36 
Carl Kress / Love Song / Decca / 7.26.39 
Charles Agnew & his Stevens Hotel Orchestra / Don’t Blame Me / Columbia / 7.25.33 / vocal = Stanley Jacobsen 
Bing Crosby / Happy-Go-Lucky-You and Broken-Hearted Me / Brunswick / 4.23.32 / with Isham Jones Orchestra
Betty Hutton / A Square in the Social Circle / I Wake Up in the Morning Feeling Fine / Capitol / Hollywood 1949
Little Milton / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63

set 3
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Goodies / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Howard Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Freddie Roach / Mo’ Greens Please / Unchained Melody / Blue Note / 3.11.63 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / Mary’s Goodbye Blues / Warwick / 1959
Don Byas’s Ree-Boppers / Red Cross / Barclay / Paris 1.27.47 
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / You’ll Be Reminded of Me / Bluebird / 4.8.38
The Mills Brothers / F.D.R. Jones / Decca / London 1939 
Charlie Parker Quartet / This Is Always / Dial / LA 2.19.47 / vocal = Earl Coleman 

set 4
Tal Farlow / The Interpretations of Tal Farlow / It’s You or No One / Norgran / LA 1955 
Frank Rehak / Trombone Scene / Hackin’ Around / Vik / 11.56 / Frank Rehak, Eddie Bert, & Urbie Green tb, Tom Mitchell bass tb, Elliot Lawrence p, Buddy Jones b, Sol Gubin d
King Cole Trio / F.D.R. Jones / Standard transcription / LA 10.38
Rosemary Clooney / Date with the King / Goodbye / Columbia /1956 / with Benny Goodman Sextet: Goodman cl, Buck Clayton t, Urbie Green tb, Dick Hyman p, Aaron Bell b, Bobby Donalsdon d
Evening Star Quartet / Lord Take My Hand / Apex / 1.49

last soulful song
Hill Sisters / Oh My Love, Sweet Love / Space Records / LA 1971

Friday, February 17, 2023

Got the Bench, Got the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 143

Screenshot from a 1946 Soundie of Valaida Snow singing and holding up her trumpet
High hat, trumpet, and Valaida!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Down / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Accident / Savoy / 6.7.60 
James Moody & his Swedish Crowns / Andrew Got Married / Metronome / Stockholm 1951 
The Casa Loma Orchestra / San Sue Strut / Columbia / 2.11.30 / listed as O.K. Rhythm Kings on Parlophone 
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra / Got the Bench, Got the Park / Brunswick / 2.24.31 / vocal = Noble Sissle 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / Look Out for Tomorrow Today / Aladdin / LA 7.24.50 / with Maxwell Davis ts
Carol Sloane / Out of the Blue / Little Girl Blue / Columbia / 12.20.61 

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

set 2
John Wright / Makin’ Out / Kitty / Prestige / 6.23.61 
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Song for Ruth / Prestige / Stockholm 10.12.56 
Danny Polo Trio / Montmartre Loan / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Fred Rich & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Columbia / 10.20.30 / vocal = Paul Small; listed as Harold Lem & his Orchestra on Okeh 
Fred Astaire / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / with Johnny Green (p) & his Orchestra; for the RKO movie Shall We Dance [not Swing Time as I said last week]  
Valaida Snow, The Queen of Trumpet / High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm / Parlophone / London 9.6.36 / featuring The Six Swingers  
Wessel Ilcken / His Voice, His Drums, and His Combo / If You’re So Smart, How Come You Ain’t Rich / Philips / Hilversum, The Netherlands 6.5.57 

set 3
Grant Green / Nigeria / Airegin / Blue Note / 1.13.62 
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus / Moon River / Fantasy / San Francisco 1961 
Louis Bellson’s Just Jazz All Stars / The Jeep Is Jumpin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.52 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Nightingale / Victor / 4.7.42 
The Four Buddies / Heart and Soul / Savoy / 8.23.51 
Dean Martin / Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder / Capitol / Hollywood 1948 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 4
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Way Cross Town / Dootone / LA 1955 
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Tongue Twister / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.55 
Peggy Lee / I Get a Kick Out of You / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / This Is Always / Capitol / 11.4.58 
Alphabetical Four / Get on Board, Little Children / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee Jay / 6.62



Friday, February 10, 2023

Jumpin’ with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 142

Screenshot from a 1943 soundie with Hazel Scott playing Taking a Chance on Love on the piano, wearing a black, sequinned gown with spaghetti straps.
Taking a chance on Hazel!

Coffeetime, February 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / [Sonny Clark Quintets] / Little Sonny / Blue Note / 12.8.57 
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Beauteous / Blue Note / 5.19.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Bill’s Mill / Victor / Hollywood 1.3.47 
Nat Brandwynne & his Stork Club Orchestra / It’s You I’m Talkin’ About / Brunswick / 4.13.36 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Gladys Bentley Quintette / Lay It on the Line / Excelsior / LA 1945 
Anita O’Day / Anita O’Day & the Three Sounds / My Ship / Verve / 10.12–15.62 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / Central Park West / Atlantic / 10.24 & 26.64 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Tuma / EmArcy / 1.4.55 
Hazel Scott / Relaxed Piano Moods / Like Someone in Love / Debut / 1.21.55
Oscar Calle / Rumba Guajira / Parlophone / Paris mid-1930s
The Three Flames / Open the Door, Richard! / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = George “Tiger” Haynes 
Herb “Flamingo” Jeffries / At Least You Could Save Me a Dream / Excelsior / LA / with Eddie Beal Trio and Three Shades of Rhythm https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/0010000101
The Modernaires / Alice in Wonderland / Coral / 1951
George “Tiger” Haynes / New Faces of ’56 / The Washingtons Are Doin’ Okay / RCA Victor / 1956 

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Carpsie’s Groove / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 
Herb Ellis / Nothing But the Blues / Pap’s Blues / Verve / Hollywood 11.11.57 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / Buzzin’ Cool / Motif / Hollywood 11.8, 16.56 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 175A / late 1944
The Big Three / Hard Notch Boogie Beat / Columbia / 1949
Abe Lyman & his Californians / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Decca / 4.12.37 / vocal = Rose Blaine 
The Loumell Morgan Trio / Whatcha Know, Joe? / Hollywood 1943 / From the Monogram movie Melody Parade / Loumell Morgan p, James Jackson g, Lynwood Jones b 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / They Didn’t Believe Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Don Fagerquist / Eight By Eight — Music to Fill a Void / Easy to Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.14.57 / cover cartoon by Bill Box 
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Lightly / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
King Cole Trio / Jumpin’ with the Mop / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / Wesley Prince b
Johnny Mercer / They Didn’t Believe Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1942 / with the Mellowaires: Bobbie Canvin, Patty Morgan, Sally Sweetland, Tony Paris, & Lee Gotch
Kathryn Beaumont / Soundtrack: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland / All in the Golden Afternoon / Disneyland / Hollywood / 1957 / with the Camarata Chorus & Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Atom and Evil / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Monticellos / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Red Cap / Detroit 1967



Friday, January 27, 2023

My Playlist Is in Your Hands: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 141

Screenshot of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the 1944 movie Girl Crazy, sitting in a car where he is looking/singing at her and she's got an exasperated look on her face.
I wouldn’t side-eye you, Mickey!

Coffeetime, January 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Hank’s Symphony / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 
Mal Waldron / Mal-2 / Blue Calypso [CD bonus track] / Prestige / 4.19.57 
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Denison Swing / Victor / 4.5.39 
Arthur Schutt & his Orchestra / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Okeh / 11.18.29 / vocal = Irving Kaufman s
Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra / (I’ve Got) Beginner's Luck / Regal Zonophone / Sydney, Australia 6.7.37 / vocal = Dick Cranbourne / composed by the Gershwins for the RKO movie Shall We Dance
Ray Johnson / Smilin’ Blues / Mercury / New Orleans 1954
Doris Drew / Delightful Doris Drew / Something to Remember You By / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / with an Eva Diana portrait painting of Doris Drew on cover 

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Bring It Home to Me / Portrait of Jennie / Blue Note / 1.6.66 / cover portrait watercolor by George Wright who also did Stanley Turrentine’s Rough ’n‘ Tumble 
Jimmy Rowles / Piano Playhouse / That Old Devil Called Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.13 & 14.57
Jimmy Cleveland / Trombone Scene / It Could Happen to You / Vik / 11.56
Don Redman & his Orchestra / If It’s True / Brunswick / 6.28.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Bon Bon & his Buddies / Rickety Rocking Chair / Decca / 1.12.42 / vocal = George “Bon Bon” Tunnell 
Betty Garrett & Jimmy Durante / The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyow! Nyow!) / MGM / Hollywood 1949
Ben E. King / Spanish Harlem / Frenesi / Atco / 1961

set 3
Evans Bradshaw / Pieces of Eighty-Eight / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Riverside / 1.27.59 
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Southern Exposure / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Charlie Parker / Bird’s Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47 
Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Bob Chester & his Orchestra / My Ship / Victor / 2.4.41 / vocal = Betty Bradley 
Johnny Pace / Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace / This Is Always / Riverside / 12.30.58 

set 4
Paul Desmond / Glad to Be Unhappy / Glad to Be Unhappy / RCA Victor / 9.8.64 
King Cole Trio / It Is Better to Be By Yourself / Capitol [unissued] / 8.2.45
Mickey Rooney / Girl Crazy / Treat Me Rough / Decca / Hollywood 1944 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra; selections from the MGM movie Girl Crazy
Judy Canova / Love Is So Terrific / NBC radio Broadcast, The Judy Canova Show / Hollywood 12.6.47 / with The Sportsmen (Bill Days, Max Smith, Marty Sperzel, & Gurney Bell) and Charles Dant & his Orchestra 
Sammy Davis Jr. / Starring Sammy Davis Jr. / Glad to Be Unhappy / Decca / Hollywood 1954 
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Arnold Blair / Trying to Get Next to You / Gemigo / 1975



Friday, January 20, 2023

Lingering Down the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 140

Screenshot of British Pathé film of Leslie Hutch Hutchinson at the piano, seen from the upper arms up.


Coffeetime, January 20, 20223, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Doug Watkins / Watkins at Large / Phinupi / Transition / 12.8.56 p
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Avalon / Prestige / 5.7.56 
Ben Bernie & his Orchestra / Button Up Your Overcoat / Brunswick / 1.18.29 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Thrill Me / Specialty / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Camille Howard
Terry Morel / Terry Morel Sings with the Tony Luis Trio / I Can’t Get Started / Prestige / Philadelphia 3.10.55 

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

set 2
Larry Young / Testifying / Flamingo / New Jazz / 8.2.60 
Bengt Hallberg / The Things We Did Last Summer / Metronome / Stockholm 12.15.52 
Lester Young / Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 / I Can’t Get Started / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Leslie A. “Hutch” Hutchinson / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / HMV / London 1943
The Five Blazes / Every Little Dream / Aristocrat / Chicago 4.47 
Frank Haywood / You Gotta Give It Up / Apollo / 2.27.46 / with Monroe Tucker (p) & his All Stars
Virginia de Luce / New Faces of 1952 / He Takes Me Off His Income Tax / RCA Victor / 6.15.52 

set 3
Larry Young / Groove Street / Sweet Lorraine / Prestige / 2.27.62 
Blue Mitchell / Bring It Home to Me / Bring It Home to Me / Blue Note / 1.6.66 
Irving Fields Trio / Lingering Down the Lane / RCA Victor / 1949 / with with Three Beaus and a Peep
The Ravens / Tea for Two / National [unissued] / c. 1949
Frank Sinatra / Crazy Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

set 4
Herbie Mann / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Get Out of Town / Capitol / Hollywood 7.3.57 / Jack Sheldon tp, Herbie Mann b-cl, Jimmy Rowles p, Buddy Clark b, Mel Lewis d 
Phil Woods & Gene Quill / Phil and Quill / Una Momento / RCA Victor / 3.15.56 / Phil Woods, Gene Quill as, Sol Schlinger bs, Dave McKenna p, Buddy Jones b, Shadow Wilson d 
Hildegarde / I Can’t Get Started / Decca / 5.23.40 / with Vernon Duke (composer; Ira Gershwin, lyricist) & Leo Kahn on pianos 
King Cole Trio / Homeward Bound / Capitol [unissued] / WMCA, New York 10.18.45
Beny Moré / Bonito y Sabroso [Nice and Tasty] / RCA Victor / Mexico 1949
The Silveraires / One Day / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song
Teddy Pendergrass / Life Is a Song Worth Singing / When Somebody Loves You Back / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1978



Friday, January 13, 2023

For This Is My Playlist to Love: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 139

Screenshot of Donna Hightower performing on Belgian TV in 1963.
Maybe there’ll be the gorgeous Donna Hightower.

Coffeetime, January 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Hip Trolley / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Ray Bryant / Gotta Travel On / Bag’s Groove / RCA Victor / 2.17 & 18/66 
Illinois Jacquet / The Kid and the Brute / Jacquet’s Dilemma / Clef / 12.13.54 
The Chocolate Dandies / Star Dust / Columbia / 10.13.28 
Frank Auburn & his Orchestra aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / One Little Quarrel / Velvet Tone / 1.12.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Brownie McGhee / My Fault / Savoy / 1948 / with Hal Singer ts
Donna Hightower / Take One! / Maybe You’ll Be There / Capitol / 1958 

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Alone (Again) / People / Fantasy / 12.16-18.75 
Yusef Lateef / Psychicemotus / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Impulse! / 7.21-22.65 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Maybe You’ll Be There / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time, Starring Bing Crosby (3rd season) / Hollywood 12.13.48 (aired 12.29.48) / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Sidney’s Blues / Victor / 2.5.40
Helen Carroll & the Satisfiers / Raggedy Ann / Victor / 1947 / with Russ Case & his Orchestra
Yves Montand / Dans les plaines du Far-West / Odeon / Paris 1945

set 3
Donald Byrd / Slow Drag / The Loner / Blue Note / 5.12.67 
Harold Vick / Straight Up / A Rose for Wray / RCA Victor / 10.3 & 4.66 
John Hardee / Nervous from the Service / Blue Note / 5.31.46 
Jay Jay Johnson’s Be-Boppers / Jay Bird / Savoy / 6.25.46 
The Four Vagabonds / There Are Such Things / Standard Transcription / 1942 
Kay Starr / Ichabod / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Johnny Hodges / Dance Bash / For This Is My Night to Love / Norgran / San Francisco 7.17.52 / vocal = Al Hibbler

set 4
Paul Horn / Profile of a Jazz Musician / What Now? / Columbia / 8.15-17.62 
Stan Getz / More West Coast / Crazy Rhythm / Norgan / 8.22.53 / Getz ts, Bob Brookmeyer tb, John Williams p, Teddy Kotick b, Frank Isola d
King Cole Trio / Vom, Vim, Veedle / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / with Red Callender on bass instead of Johnny Miller
Jewel Paige / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / AFRS Jubilee #22 / Hollywood c. 3.43 / with MC Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman, with Henry “Red” Allen and his Orchestra plus Barney Bigard, clarinet 
Blossom Dearie / Blossom Dearie, Soubrette, Sings Broadway Hit Songs / Rhode Island Is Famous for You / Verve / Hollywood 2.60 / with Russell Garcia & his Orchestra
The Canaanites / Lead Me to That Rock / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949 / with Joe Van Loan

last soulful song
Jimmy Hughes / Dilly Dilly / Vee Jay [unissued] / 1964



Friday, January 06, 2023

I’m Not Ashamed of My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 138

Screenshot of the Mellomen singing Nelly Bly on Lawrence Welk
The Mellomen… they’re GREAT!

Coffeetime, January 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Bailey / One Foot in the Gutter / Brownie Speaks / Epic / 7.19 & 20.60 
Freddie Redd / The Connection / Jim Dunn’s Dilemma / Blue Note / 2.15.60 
Earle Spencer & his Orchestra / Earle Meets Stan / Black & White / Hollywood 8.16.46 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Decca / 5.21.47 
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Pickin' My Way / Brunswick / 2.15.32
Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / Thanks / Vocalion / 9.6.33 / vocal = Harmon Nelson 
Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Elevator Boogie / Victor / 3.5.47
Carmen McRae / Bittersweet / Ghost of Yesterday / Focus / 5.20.64 / hit tip to Candis 

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 
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Eddie South & his Alabamians / La Rosita / Victor / 12.2.27
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / My Blue Heaven / Columbia / London 2.28
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / I’m Not Ashamed of My Tears / radio broadcast / live, Club Zanzibar 7.45
Jo Stafford / Autumn in New York / Sometimes I’m Happy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Bobby Troup / [Kicks on 66] / Bright Lights and You Girl / Previously unissued / live, LA 1969

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Travelin’ / Verve / 7.25.63 
Duke Pearson / Sweet Honey Bee / Sudel / Blue Note / 12.7.66 
Allen Eager / Booby Hatch (Pogo Stick) / Savoy / 3.22.46 
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / Hollywood 1948 / with the Mellomen (including Thurl Ravenscroft)
Helen Forrest / If You Love Me, Really Love Me / Bell / 1954
Mel Tormé / That’s All / That’s All / Columbia / 12.64

set 4
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / My Blue Heaven / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Hallelujah / Bethlehem / 1955 / with Burt Goldblatt cover 
King Cole Trio / Come to Baby, Do! / Capitol / WMCA, NYC 11.11.45
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Serving Time) / Columbia [10”] / 1947
The Flamingos / Plan for Love / Chance / Chicago 8.53 
Bobby Blue Bland / I’m Not Ashamed / Duke / 1959
The Silveraires / So High / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song
French Coffey featuring Rozlin / From Nothing to Everything / Nothing from Nothing / Pick-a-Hit Records / Hollywood 1975