Friday, June 04, 2021

Playlist It (Over and Over Again): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 60

Beauty admires beauty.

Coffeetime, June 4, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Free Form / French Spice / Blue Note / 12.11.61 
Booker Ervin / The Book Cooks / The Book Cooks / Bethlehem / 4.6.60 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Sleepy Lagoon / Columbia / 2.24.42
Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / All By Yourself in the Moonlight / Victor / 1.16.29 / vocal = Phil Saxe 
T-Bone Walker / That’s Better for Me / Black & White / LA 11.6.47
Lucy Ann Polk / Lucky Lucy Ann / Memphis in June / Mode / Hollywood 7.12.57

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Ballads / Say It (Over and Over Again) / Impulse! / 11.13.62 
Kenny Drew / The Ideation of Kenny Drew / Chartreuse / Norgran / 1954
Herbie Fields / Rainbow Mood / Victor / 1947
Oscar Aleman / Whispering / HMV / Copenhagen 12.38 [solo] 
Tallulah Bankhead / What Do I Care? / HMV / London 11.14.30 / with Ray Noble & his Orchestra 
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Decca / 5.19.33 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen, Jr. 
Nellie Lutcher & her Rhythm / Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago / Capitol / Hollywood 8.17.47
Danny Kaye / The Court Jester (soundtrack) / Life Could Not Be Better / Decca / Hollywood 1956

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff / Do It Now! / Pleasant Moments / Atlantic / 12.20.66 
Junior Mance / The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance / Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup / Jazzland / 10.25.60 / composer = Anna Sosenko 
Coleman Hawkins’ 52nd Street All Stars / New 52nd Street Jazz / Spotlite / RCA Victor / 2.27.46 / with Mary Osborne on guitar 
Boswell Sisters / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night / Brunswick / 11.14.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Especially for You / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Art Farmer with The Swedish All Stars / Falling in Love with Love / Metronome / Stockholm 9.15.53 
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / The Last Time I Saw Paris / Verve / 9.10.58 
Golden Gate Quartet / Stormy Weather / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 10.6.39
Peggy Lee / The Glory of Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Jackie DeShannon / This Is Jackie DeShannon / Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying / Imperial / LA 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Bluebird [unissued] / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 10.6.39

last soulful song
Gambrell’s / Find a Love / Pioneer / 1966



Friday, May 28, 2021

Something About That Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 59

Bartender, serve us up some delightful Ethel Ennis!

Coffeetime, May 28, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / 3.2.61 
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Venita’s Dance / Blue Note / 1.30.55 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Who? / Okeh / 7.12.40
Sam Lanin’s Famous Players and Singers aka The New York Syncopators / The One That I Love Loves Me / Okeh / 3.22.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Todd Rhodes Orchestra / Oh Baby / Vitacoustic / Chicago 10.15.47 / vocal = Louie Saunders 
Ethel Ennis / Eyes for you / Here’s That Rainy Day / RCA Victor / 1964 / with Jimmy Jones on piano

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

set 2
Donald Byrd / Free Form / Night Flower / Blue Note / 12.11.61 
Mose Allison / Back Country Suite / Spring Song / Prestige / 3.7.57 
Barney Kessel / Kessel Plays Standards / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Contemporary / LA 9.12.55 
Lonnie Johnson / Untitled / Okeh [unissued] / 11.9.27
Ethel Waters / Come Up and See Me Sometime / Brunswick / 3.16.34
Martha Carter / I’m Through With Crying / Ron / New Orleans 9.8.60
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / The Gal That Got Away / Atco / 5.12.59

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Africaine / Africaine / Blue Note / 11.10.59 
Frank Foster / No ’Count / Stop Gap / Savoy / 3.5.56 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / What’s New / Columbia / LA 8.16.39 / vocal = Louise Tobin
The Counts / Darling Dear / Dot / 1954
Yves Montand / Rengaine Ta Rengaine / Trois Petites Notes de Musique / Philips / Paris 1962 / avec Bob Castella et Son Orchestre

set 4
Chico Hamilton / The Original Ellington Suite / Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’ / World Pacific / LA 8.22.58 
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / The Way You Look Tonight / Contemporary / LA 2.29.60 / the session that became Gettin’ Together! 
June Christy & the Kentones / Lover Man / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.31.46 
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / What Can It Be? / MGM / 1962
The Southern Sons / I Heard the Preaching of the Elders / Bluebird / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Lakeside / Something About That Woman / Solar / LA 1981



Friday, May 21, 2021

You’ve Got the Makings of a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 58

Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley, Julie Andrews, and Ilka Chase sing in 1957's Cinderella
The talented ladies of Cinderella 1957.

Coffeetime, May 21, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Africaine / Celine / Blue Note / 11.10.59 
Curtis Counce / The Curtis Counce Group / A Fifth for Frank / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56 
Chocolate Dandies / Dee Blues / Okeh / 12.30.30 
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight / Victor / 1.31.30 / vocal = George “Fathead” Thomas
Amos Milburn / My Luck Is Bound to Change / Aladdin / LA 2.28.49
Carmen McRae / Mad About the Man / Mad About the Boy / Decca / 6.18–20.57 / Danny Perri on guitar

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

set 2
Red Garland / Red Alone / I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60 
Oscar Peterson / Very Tall / Heartstrings / Verve / 9.15, 18.61 
John Hardee / Prelude to a Kiss / Jax / 1948
Henderson’s Roseland Orchestra / Raisin’ the Roof / Cameo / 4.29
Hildegarde / I Can’t Get Started / Decca / 5.23.40 
Maxine Sullivan / A Tribute To Andy Razaf, Music By Fats Waller And Others / How Can You Face Me / Period / 8.30.56 
Gene Phillips / I Owe Everybody / Combo [unissued] / LA 1953 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Julie Andrews, Ilka Chase, Alice Ghostley, & Kaye Ballard / Cinderella: CBS TV Cast Recording / A Lovely Night / Columbia / 1957

set 3
Hank Mobley / Straight No Filter / Straight No Filter / Blue Note / 6.17.66 
Clark Terry / The Happy Horns of Clark Terry / Jazz Conversation / Impulse! / 3.13.64 
Stan Getz / As I Live and Bop / Sittin’ in With / 10.25 & 26.48
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Comes Love / Bluebird / Hollywood 6.12.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Four Blues / Missing You / Apollo / 4.10.50 
Joe Mooney / The Happiness of Joe Mooney / Emily / Columbia / 1965

set 4
Barney Kessel / Barney Kessel, vol. 1, Easy Like / That’s All / Contemporary / LA 11.14.53 
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Satin Doll / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58 / Feldman v & p, Scott LaFaro b, Stan Levey d 
Bing Crosby / Who Calls? / Decca / Hollywood 5.23.41 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee / A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.10.46 / with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra 
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Yield Not to Temptation / Duke / 1962
The Southern Harmonaires [aka The Larks] / I’m So Glad / Apollo / 10.50 

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

Friday, May 14, 2021

When You’ve Got a Little Playlist in Your Heart: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 57

Nothing could be finer than Dorothy & the Nicholas Brothers.

Coffeetime, May 14, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Bonna Rue / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55 
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / If I Should Lose You / Blue Note / 2.7.60 
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Paul’s Bunion / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Benny Goodman & his Sextet / Wholly Cats / Columbia / 11.7.40 / featuring Count Basie 
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart / Vocalion / London 5.4.34 / vocal = Denny Dennis 
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Rain, Rain, Rain / Specialty / Hollywood 10.11.51 / vocal = Candy Rivers 
Billie Holiday / Lady Sings the Blues / Some Other Spring / Verve / 6.6.56 / with Tony Scott & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Nobody Else But Me / Here’s That Rainy Day / Verve / 3.4.64 
Wynton Kelly, John Coltrane, & Stan Getz / Autumn Leaves; What’s New; Moonlight in Vermont / live broadcast, Düsseldorf, Germany 3.28.60 / Wynton Kelly p [Autumn Leaves], John Coltrane ts [What’s New], Stan Getz ts [Moonlight in Vermont], Paul Chambers b, Jimmy Cobb d 
Jimmy Raney / Featuring Bob Brookmeyer / Too Late Now / ABC-Paramount / summer 1956 / cover art by Alan Fontaine & Bob Crozier  
Noel Coward / Mrs. Worthington / HMV / London 8.13.35
The Nicholas Brothers & Dorothy Dandridge / Chattanooga Choo Choo / from movie Sun Valley Serenade / Hollywood 1941 / with the Glenn Miller Orchestra 
Slim Gaillard / The Bartender’s Just Like a Mother / MGM / LA 2.11.47 / with Bam Brown and unknown (Dodo Marmarosa?)
Amos Milburn / In the Middle of the Night / Aladdin / LA 2.28.49 
Eartha Kitt / Bad But Beautiful / Never on a Sunday / MGM / 7.62

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / The Spoiler / You’re Gonna Hear from Me / Blue Note / 9.22.66 
Hank Mobley / Straight No Filter / Soft Impressions / Blue Note / 6.17.66 
Charlie Parker / Big Foot aka Drifting on a Reed / Savoy / live, Three Deuces 3.31.48 
Bea Wain / You Started Something / Victor / 5.22.41 
The Five Echoes / I Really Do / Vee Jay / 1954 
Bobby Short / Nobody Else But Me / Wind in the Willows / Atlantic / 1969

set 4
Bud Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Soupsville / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59 / Shank as, Billy Bean g, Gary Peacock b, Chuck Flores d 
Harry “Sweets” Edison / Best From The West Vol. 1: Modern Sounds From California / Hooray for Hollywood / Blue Note / Hollywood 12.30.54 / Harry Edison tp, Herb Geller as, Bob Enevoldsen vtb, Lorraine Geller p, Joe Mondragon b, Larry Bunker d
Erskine Butterfield & his Blue Boys / The Boogie Beat’ll Get You / radio transcription / Hollywood 1941 / Jimmy Lytell cl, Erskine Butterfield p, Carmen Mastren g, Haig Stephens b, Sam Weiss d
June Christy & the Kentones / This Is Romance / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.31.46 
Ray Charles / The Genius Sings the Blues / Hard Times / Atlantic / Miami 4.23.55 
Alphabetical Four / Have You Heard About the World Coming to an End / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / The Love I Lost / Philadelphia International / Philadelphia 1973 



Friday, May 07, 2021

I Guess I’ll Get the Playlist and Go Home: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 56

Faye Adams singing with a trumpet player
Faye with somebody, somewhere on trumpet (Joe Morris?).

Coffeetime, May 7, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.25.60 
Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Tune Up / Blue Note / 9.22.57 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Swingin’ in E Flat / Columbia / 10.4.34 / with Henry “Red” Allen on trumpet 
George E. Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra / If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.6.29 
Little Esther / Misery / Savoy / 2.13.50 / with Johnny Otis Orchestra 
Jackie Cain / Lovesick / Such a Lonely Girl Am I / Verve / 12.66 / Roy Kral p, Don Payne b, Don McDonald d / from the 1963 movie starring composer/actor Alec Wilder “Open the Door and See All the People” 

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Soul Call / Here’s That Rainy Day / Prestige / 4.7.64 
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
James Moody / I’m in the Mood for Love (aka Moody’s Mood for Love) / Prestige / Sweden 1949 / James Moody ts, Leppe Sundevall t, Thore Swanerud p, Yngve Åkerberg b, Jack Noren d
Walter Page & his Original Blue Devils / Squabblin’ / Vocalion / Kansas City 11.10.29 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / How Can I Hi-De-Hi (When I Feel So Low-De-Low) / Brunswick / 2.2.33
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Bluer Than Blue / Decca / 4.15.37 
The Spaniels / Baby, It’s You / Vee-Jay / 1953
Faye Adams / Keeper of My Heart / Imperial / 1957

set 3
Duke Pearson / Now Hear This / Tones for Joan’s Bones / Blue Note / 12.3.68 
Ron Carter / Where? / Saucer Eyes / New Jazz / 6.20.61 
Wardell Gray / The Rubaiyat / Swing Time / Hollywood 6.9.52 
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / Don’t Be a Baby, Baby / Victor / 3.1.46 / vocal = Sy Oliver
The Striders / If I Only Knew / Apollo [unissued] / 11.14.49 
Louis Armstrong / Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson / You Go to My Head / Verve / Hollywood 1957 

set 4
Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Jupiter / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Who’s Sleepy / Contemporary / Hollywood 12.3.54
Jacques Pelzer Modern Jazz Sextet / There’ll Never Be Another You / Innovation en Jazz / live, Brussels 5.18.55 / featuring René Thomas on guitar
Peggy Lee / I Guess I’ll Get the Papers and Go Home / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.29.46 / with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra 
Judy Garland / It’s Almost Like Being in Love; This Can’t Be Love / The Judy Garland Show #22 / live, LA 2.14.62  
Trumpeteers / Seven Angels / Score / 1953 

last soulful song
Johnny Crawford / Your Nose Is Gonna Grow / Del-Fi / Hollywood 1962





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Friday, April 30, 2021

Playlist Is Hard: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 55

JC wins the face off with Krupa, in my book.

Coffeetime, April 30, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Nica’s Dream / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57 
J.C. Heard & Bill Perkins / Live at the Lighthouse / Don’t Stand Up / Howard Rumsey’s personal tapes / live, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach 2.64 
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Tangerine / radio broadcast / early 1940s
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / When You’re Smiling with Somebody Else / Brunswick / 1.7.28 / vocal = Bernie Cummins
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Blue Can You Get? / RCA Victor / LA 1949 / vocal = Charles Brown
Doris Day / A Day at the Movies / My Dream Is Yours / Columbia / Hollywood 1.3.49 / Warner Brothers movie My Dream Is Yours 

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

set 2 Cannonball Adderley / Jazz Workshop Revisited / Lillie / Prestige / live, Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 9.23.62 
Richard Wess / Music She Digs the Most / Lover Man / MGM / 1.57 
Bobby Jaspar / Tenderly / Saturne / Paris 1951 
Sol Ho’opi’i & his Novelty Trio / Indiana March / Columbia / 1948
Butterbeans & Susie / Times Is Hard (So I’m Savin’ for a Rainy Day) / Okeh / Chicago 8.11.30
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope / Captain Custard / from the Paramount movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Johnny Johnny / Modern / Hollywood 1952 / vocal = Mari Jones
Peggy Lee / Then Was Then and Now Is Now! / Seventh Son / Capitol / Hollywood 7.7.65 

set 3
James Moody / Cookin’ the Blues / Home Fries / Argo / live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 6.61 
Ike Quebec / All of Me / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
James Moody / Deep Purple / Vogue / Paris 7.27.51
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Donby / Savoy / 11.26.45
The Ink Spots / We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me) / Decca / 7.16.40
Frank Sinatra / Close to You / Columbia / 6.7.43 / with the Bobby Tucker Singers
Don Nelson / The Wind / This Is Always / The Wind / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Don Nelson (vocals, recorder), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Stan Levey (drums)

set 4
Buddy Collette / Tanganyika / Wagnervous / DIG / Hollywood 10.11.56 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book / Stormy Weather / Verve / Chicago summer 1959 
June Christy & the Kentones / You Took Advantage of Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.27.45 
Albert King / I’ll Play the Blues for You, Parts 1 & 2 / Stax / Memphis 1972 
The Chosen Gospel Singers / What a Wonderful Sight / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
The Love Potion / This Love / Kapp / 1969



Friday, April 23, 2021

Playlist Time: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 54

I’d waltz with either of these three fine gentlemen.

Coffeetime, April 23, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Africaine / Splendid / 11.10.59 
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Interpretation / Riverside / 11.18.59 
Jack Pettis & his Pets / A Bag of Blues / Victor / 7.23.28 
Annette Hanshaw / It’s the Talk of the Town / Banner / 9.1.33
Big Maybelle / Candy / Savoy / 5.14.56
Betty Roché / Take the “A” Train / All Too Soon / Bethlehem / 1956 

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate / If I Had You / Verve / 8.13 & 15.52 
Modern Jazz Quartet / Django / Django / Prestige / 12.23.54 
The Hoosier Hot Shots / I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bone) / Vocalion / 11.2.35 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Keep Cool / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1953 / vocal = Mauri Jones aka Mari Jones
Willie Mabon & his Combo / I Don’t Know / Parrot / Chicago c. 10.52
Georges Guétary / soundtrack to American in Paris / By Strauss [waltz] / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 7.20 & 27.50 / with Gene Kelly & Mack McLain (dubbing in for Oscar Levant)
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer / Two of a Kind / Two of a Kind; Indiana / Atco / LA 1961 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May 

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Party Time / Blue Note / 7.14.69 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Jaws / Tangerine / Prestige / 9.12.59 
Charlie Parker & his Orchestra / An Oscar for Treadwell / Clef / 6.6.50 
The Three Peppers / Get the Gold / Variety / Philadelphia 2.27.37 
Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra / Candy / radio broadcast / c. 1945 / vocal = Sammy Kaye & Nancy Norman
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / It’s the Talk of the Town / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz / Diz and Getz / It’s the Talk of the Town / Verve / LA 12.9.53 
Gerry Mulligan / Nights at the Turntable / Vogue / LA 1956
Peggy Lee / Sometimes I’m Happy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Wild Bill Moore / Rock and Roll / Modern / LA 1949 / vocal = Scatman Crothers
Mose Allison / The Seventh Son / Prestige / 8.15.58 / Mose Allison p, Addison Farmer b; Ronnie Free d
Golden Gate Quartet / Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel in the Valley) / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
Tim Maia / Ela Partiu / Seroma / Rio de Janeiro 1976 

Friday, April 16, 2021

Look at the Playlist and Smile: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 53

I’m for it! Groucho, that is.

Coffeetime, April 16, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Jordan [1565] / Beyond the Blue Horizon / Blue Note / 6.2.57 
Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Dead Heat / Prestige / 3.5.57 
Art Blakey’s Messengers / On the Roof / EmArcy [unissued] / 5.20.54 / Henry Durant ts, Horace Silver p, Percy Heath b, Art Blakey d
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra / Birmingham Breakdown / Brunswick / 2.28.27 
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / My Cutey’s Due at Two To-Two To-Day / Victor / 7.19.26 / vocal = Parker Gibbs (sounding a little like Cliff Edwards) 
Little Miss Cornshucks [Mildred Cummings] / I Don’t Love You Anymore / Sunbeam / Chicago 10.46 http://www.uncamarvy.com/LittleMissCornshucks/littlemisscornshucks.html
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, Volume II / For You, For Me, For Evermore / Verve / 1959

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

set 2
Dave McKenna / Teddi King: This Is New / For You, For Me, For Evermore / Inner City Records / 1978
Bill Evans / Explorations / Elsa / Riverside / 2.2.61 
David Fathead Newman / House of David / I Wish You Love / Atlantic / 1967 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Look at the World and Smile / Victor / Chicago 2.1.27 
Groucho & Zeppo Marx (& ensemble) / I’m Against It / from the Paramount movie Horse Feathers / Hollywood 1932 
Ruth Brown / So Long / Atlantic / 1949 / with Eddie Condons’s NBC Television Orchestra
Vikki Carr / Discovery, Volume II / When in Rome / Liberty / LA 1964 / orchestra conducted by Bob Florence

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Dearly Beloved / Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You / Blue Note / 6.8.61 
Lem Winchester / Another Opus / Like Someone in Love / New Jazz / 6.4.60 
Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play-Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.10.45 / with Sgt. Sy Oliver & his Orchestra
The Cabineers / How Can I Help It / Abbey / summer 1949 
Dick Haymes / For You, For Me, For Evermore / For You, For Me, For Evermore / Audiophile / 1976 

set 4
Dick Garcia / A Message from Dick Garcia / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Dawn / 1956 
Sal Salvador / Shades of Sal Salvador / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Bethlehem / 1957 
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Tangerine / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 
June Christy & the Kentones / I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.13.45 
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer / Two of a Kind / My Cutey’s Due at Two-to-Two Today / Atco / LA 1961 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May
Little Esther (Phillips) & Jimmy Ricks / Double Crossing Blues / Atlantic / 2.6, 7.64
Four Internes / I’m Using My Bible as a Road Map / Federal / 1953

last soulful song
J.T. Rhythm / My Sweet Baby / Palmer / Detroit / 1967



Friday, April 09, 2021

All I Need Is a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 52

Sammy, livin’ it up on the BBC.

Coffeetime, April 9, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Oscalypso / Blue Note / 6.16.57 
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Heavy Dipper / Blue Note / 11.29.57 
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Body and Soul / Commodore / 11.11.38 / Roy Eldridge tp, Chu Berry ts, Clyde Hart p, Danny Barker g, Artie Shapiro b, Sid Catlett d 
Paul Specht’s Canadian Club Orchestra / I’m Going Out if Lizzie Comes In / Columbia / London 1.28.26 / vocal = Brockton Lorne
Bill Samuels Trio / New Jockey Blues / Miracle / Chicago 1.50 
Dinah Washington / Drinking Again / Drinking Again / Roulette / 1962 

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

set 2
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / The Nearness of You / Tampa / LA 1954 
Gil Mellé / Patterns in Jazz / Moonlight in Vermont / Blue Note / 4.1.56 
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson Quintet with Horace Silver / I’ve Lost Your Love / Prestige / 6.16.54 
Cass Hagan & his Hotel Manger Orchestra / Hallelujah! / Columbia / 4.13.27 / vocal = Franklyn Baur 
Erskine Butterfield & his Blue Boys / A Zoot Suit / Decca / 7.24.41 
Wini Brown / He’s My Daddy / National / 8.1.49 
Annie Ross / Gypsy / All I Need Is a Boy / World Pacific / LA 1959 / with Buddy Bregman Band
The Dells / Baby Do / Vee-Jay [unissued] / 5.21.56 http://www.uncamarvy.com/Dells/dells.html

set 3
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café / Jeannine / Blue Note / 11.11.60 
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Variety Boogie / Crown / LA 1958
Mills Brothers / Side Kick Joe / Decca / 6.29.38 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1.10.44 / vocal = Thelma Carpenter
Beny Moré Y Su Orquesta / Dolor y Perdón [Pain & Forgiveness] / RCA Victor / Cuba 1957

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Martians, Come Back! / Chant of the Cosmos / Atlantic / LA 12.9.55 
Zoot Sims / Choice / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 3.59
Boone’s Jumping Jacks / Please Be Careful (If You Can’t Be Good) / Decca / 10.42 / vocal = Chester Boone
Peggy Lee / Mean to Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.28.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Sammy Davis Jr. / A Lot of Livin’ / BBC show Meet Sammy Davis Jr. / live, London 5.5.63
Soul Stirrers / Pray / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood c. 8.17.55

last soulful song
Al Jarreau / We’re in This Love Together / Warner Brothers / LA 1981



Friday, April 02, 2021

On Playlist Island: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 51

Who wouldn’t dance with lovely Ginger?

Coffeetime, April 2, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
George Benson / The George Benson Cookbook / The Cooker / Columbia / 1966 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, volume 1 / The Opener / Blue Note / live, Birdland 9.14.60 / MC = Pee Wee Marquette 
Joe Venuti & his Orchestra / Getting Hot / Victor / 5.23.29 / listed in Victor ledgers as Napoleon’s Emperors 
The Radiolites / There Must Be Somebody Else / Columbia / 10.26.27 / vocal = Harold “Scrappy” Lambert 
Luke Jones & his Five Joes / Ditch Diggin’ Daddy / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Clarence Williams 
Audrey Morris / Bistro Ballads / April Fool / X / Chicago 4.1.55 

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster / Chelsea Bridge / Verve / LA 12.2.59 
Lou Donaldson / The Nearness of You / Blue Note / 10.31.59 
Teddy Wilson / On Treasure Island / Brunswick / 11.22.35 
Ginger Rogers / They All Laughed / soundtrack to Shall We Dance / Hollywood 1937
King Cole Trio / (I’ve Got Those) Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters
Etta Jones / This Is a Fine Time / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his orchestra
Pat Suzuki / Frenesi / Capitol [unissued] / 1961

set 3
John Lewis / Grand Encounter: 2° East / 3° West / Love Me or Leave Me / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.10.56 
Ron Jefferson / Love Lifted Me / Love Lifted Me / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.27.61 
Jimmie Grissom & the Blenders / Frank Bull’s Boogie / Miltone / LA 1947
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Oughta Know More About You / RCA Victor / 1950 / vocal = Frances Irwin & Jack Duffy
Deep River Boys / Glad Rag Doll / RCA Victor / London 1955 / lead vocal = Harry Douglas
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings and Plays / Someone to Watch Over Me / Hollywood 2.28.55 

set 4
Cy Touff Octet / Keester Parade / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.4.55 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / As Long As There’s Music / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18.58 
June Christy & the Kentones / Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.13.45 
Ethel Merman / Merman in Vegas / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Reprise / The Flamingo, Las Vegas 1962 / with Russ Black & his Orchestra
Mount Eagle Quartet / When I Take My Vacation in Heaven / Apex / c. 11.48

last soulful song
The Mighty Marvelows / You’re Breaking My Heart / ABC / Chicago 1968
The Mighty Marvelows / In the Morning / ABC / Chicago 1968 

Friday, March 26, 2021

Down the Old Playlist Road: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 50

Loveliest performance of Lover Man by lovely Sarah Vaughan.


Coffeetime, March 26, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Redd / Redd’s Blues / Now / Blue Note / 1.17.61 
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Sippin’ at Bells / Blue Note / 1.5.58 
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Manhattan Jam / Vocalion / 3.17.37
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / You Started Something / Columbia / 1941 / vocal = Leslie Douglas
Tab Smith Septette / Amateur Night in Harlem / Apollo / 10.15.45 / vocal = Willie Bryant
Sarah Vaughan / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) / live TV broadcast / Holland 1958 / Richard Davis (Bass); Ronnell Bright (Piano); and Art Morgan (Drums)

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

set 2
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / For All We Know / Riverside / 11.27.63 
Benny Golson / Benny Golson’s New York Scene / You’re Mine You / Contemporary / 10.14.57 
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Velvet Moon / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Harry Reser / Flapperette / Brunswick / 10.27.30 / with William Wirges on piano 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / If I Only Had a Brain / Brunswick / 7.4.39 / vocal = Harry Babbitt
Cats & the Fiddle / Lawdy-Clawdy / Bluebird / 10.41 
Vocaleers / Lovin’ Baby / Red Robin / 7.54 

set 3
Philly Joe Jones / Philly Joe’s Beat / Muse Rapture / Atlantic / 1960 
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Jeannine / Riverside / 1960 
Sir Charles [Thompson] & his All Stars / The Street Beat / Apollo / 9.4.45 
Maxine Sullivan / Down the Old Ox Road / Victor / 6.29.38 / with Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Baby, Are You Kiddin’? / Decca / LA 8.9.45 / vocal = Delta Rhythm Boys 
Al Hibbler / As Time Goes By / Clef / 9.30.53 / with Lloyd Trotman on bass 

set 4
Tal Farlow / Autumn in New York / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Verve / LA 11.15.54 
Nat Brandwynne & his Stork Club Orchestra / Take My Heart / Brunswick / 1936 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Peggy Lee / Fools Rush In / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Para Machucar Meu Coração / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = João Gilberto 
The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Friend Above All Others / Specialty / Hollywood 2.27.53

last soulful song
Dandeliers / Walk On with Your Nose Up / Midas / 1967 / You won’t listen to me…

Friday, March 19, 2021

Try Getting a Good Night’s Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 49

Definitely groovy solo by Nat…see below!

Coffeetime, March 19, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Delightfulee / Need I? / Blue Note [bonus track] / 4.8.66 
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / News / Blue Note / 6.23.57 
Bix Beiderbecke / Wringin’ and Twistin’ / Okeh / 9.17.27 / Bix Society 1927 Discography [PDF]   
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / You Went to My Head / Decca / 2.28.38 
Buddy Johnson & his Band / I Wonder Who’s Boogiein’ My Woogie Now / Decca / 11.6.41 
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Maybe You’ll Be There / Prestige / 3.30.61 

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

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / I’ve Got a Right to Cry / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That’s Right! / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Riverside / 8.9.60 
Lester Young Trio / Peg O’ My Heart / Norgran / LA spring 1946 
James P. Johnson / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Decca / 6.8.44 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Try Getting a Good Night’s Sleep / Brunswick / 2.26.32 / with Talcott Reeves 
The Four Vagabonds / The Freckle Song / Apollo / 3.26.47
Martha Davis with The Esquires / Can’t Be Bothered / Urban / Hollywood 11.46 / Leo Blevins (guitar), Buzz Johnson (bass), & Charles Gray (drums) 
Tom Jones / It’s Not Unusual / Whatcha’ Gonna Do / Parrot / London 1965

set 3
Nat Adderley / Autobiography / The Old Country / Atlantic / 1964 
Harold Vick / Straight Up / Flamingo / RCA Victor / 10.3 & 4.66 
Howard McGhee Boptet / Boperation / Blue Note / 10.11.48  
Eddie Duchin & his Central Park Casino Orchestra / Take My Heart / Victor / 5.29.36 / vocal = Jerry Cooper 
The Ink Spots / My Prayer / Decca / 9.19.39
Bill Henderson / Bill Henderson & the Oscar Peterson Trio / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Verve / LA 2.63 

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / ’Enry ’Iggins ’Ead / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56 
Stan Getz / Stan Getz & Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Vogue / Stockholm 3.23.51 
June Christy & the Kentones / Can’t Help Loving That Man / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 1945
Sam Fletcher / The Look of Love, The Sound of Soul / You’d Better Come Home / Vault / LA 6.67
The Southern Sons / There's a Leak in this Old Building / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soulful song
Patti & The Lovelites / Love So Strong / Lovelite Records / Chicago 1973



Friday, March 12, 2021

Playlist, Come On and Take Me: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 48

The radiant Elisabeth Welch.

Coffeetime, March 12, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Joe Gordon / Lookin’ Good / Terra Firma Irma / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Deo-X / Bethlehem / 10.9.57 
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Girls in Jazz: featuring America’s Greatest Feminine Jazz Musicians / Don’t Get it Twisted / Victor / 1948
Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40
Johnny Otis Band / Mistrustin’ Blues / Savoy / 8.12.50 / vocals = Little Esther & Mel Walker
Jackie Cain / Lovesick / You Really Started Something / Verve / 12.66 

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Lover Man / Blue Note / 11.29.57 
Melba Liston / Melba Liston & Her ’Bones / The Dark Before the Dawn / MetroJazz / 12.58 
Mary Lou Williams / A Keyboard History / It’s the Talk of the Town / Jazztone / 3.55 / piano solo
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Begin the Beguine / Decca / 1.27.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld 
Boswell Sisters / Sleep, Come On and Take Me / Brunswick [unissued] / 8.6.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Jumpin’ in a Julep Joint / Bluebird / 5.27.42 / vocal = Ida James
The Andrew Sisters / Only for Americans / Decca / LA 5.23.49 
Billie Hayes / Broadway Cast Recording: New Faces of 1956 / I Could Love Him / RCA Victor / 1956

set 3
John Patton / Along Came John / Gee Gee / Blue Note / 4.5.63 
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / Melba’s Mood / Blue Note / 3.23.58 
Charlie Parker / Merry-Go-Round / Savoy / 9.24.48 
Etta Jones / Osculate Me, Daddy / RCA Victor / 6.11.46 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
The Dinning Sisters / Love on a Greyhound Bus / Capitol / Hollywood 1946
Mel Tormé / I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! / I Like the Sunrise / Verve / LA winter 1961 

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Elbow Room / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Sextet / Little Orphan Annie / Mode / 6.57 
Ethel Waters / You Can’t Stop Me from Loving You / Columbia / 6.16.31 
Peggy Lee / You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.7.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Jackie & Roy / Storyville Presents Jackie & Roy / Thou Swell / Storyville / 1955
Clara Ward / Faith Moves Mountains / Gotham / Philadelphia 1953

last soulful song
The Festivals / Checkin’ Out / Blue Rock / 1968

Friday, March 05, 2021

Keep Your Nose Out of My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 47

Fred and Red…and some groovy set design.

Coffeetime, March 5, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / I Get a Kick Out of You [alt take] / EmArcy / Hollywood 8.5.54 
Shelly Manne & His Men / Swinging Sounds / Bernie’s Tune / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56 
Benny Carter & his Harlem Club Orchestra / Symphony in Riffs / Columbia / 10.16.33
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / To Whom It May Concern / Victor / 1.2.31 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio 
Calvin Boze / Keep Your Nose Out of My Business / Aladdin / LA 4.23.52
Anita O’Day / Anita O’Day & the Three Sounds / When the World Was Young / Verve / 10.12–15.62 

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.25-27.61 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / I Cover the Waterfront / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Nature Boy / RCA / Rome winter 1949
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Once to Every Heart / Brunswick / 7.2.35 / vocal = Chuck Richards
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / Without You / Apollo / 11.2.45
Frank Sinatra / Bop! Goes My Heart / Columbia / 1949
Jerry Colonna / Can’t Yo’ Hear Me Callin’ Caroline / Capitol / Hollywood 1944 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Bobby Darin / Nature Boy / Atco / LA 1961

set 3
Ramsey Lewis / Lem Winchester and the Ramsey Lewis Trio / Where It Is / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Red Holt / Look Out!! Look Out!! / Red Sails in the Sunset / Argo / Chicago / 12.61 
Charlie Parker / Thrivin’ from a Riff / Savoy / 11.26.45 
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Paul Weston & his Orchestra / Ole Buttermilk Sky / Capitol / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Matt Dennis
Jimmy Witherspoon / Blue Spoon / I’ll Never Be Free / Prestige / 2.20.64 

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Star Big Band / Jazz Rolls Royce / “Coop” Salutes the Co-op / Phillips / UCLA 1957
June Christy & the Kentones / The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.27.45 
Bobby Van / Broadway Cast Recording: No, No, Nanette / The Call of the Sea / Columbia / 1971
Etta Jones / Hollar! / Nature Boy / Prestige / 11.28.62 
Pilgrim Travelers / I Never Knew Joy Before / Specialty / Hollywood 12.21.51

last soulful song
Bonnie Raitt / Give It Up / You Told Me Baby / Warner Brothers / 6.72 



Friday, February 26, 2021

I Got a Playlist, Baby: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 46

Whether on tenor or alto, Stitt is a hit.

Coffeetime, February 26, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Gigi Gryce / A Night in Tunisia / broadcast / live, Birdland 8.19.61 
The Ponce Sisters / Contented / Columbia [unissued] / 12.16.32 / Jimmy Dorsey (cor), Joe Venuti (vln), Ethel Ponce (p), Eddie Lang (g), unknown (b), unknown (vib), Ethel Ponce, Dorothea Ponce (vcl) 
T-Bone Walker / I Got a Break, Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
Dinah Washington / For Those in Love / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55 

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

set 2
Stuff Smith and the Oscar Peterson Quartet / Time and Again / Karusell [Mercury] / LA 3.7.57
Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / private recording / LA 6.54 
Joe Venuti & his Blue Five / Jig Saw Puzzle Blues / Columbia / 2.28.33 
Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone / Say It Isn’t So / Vocalion / London 1931 
Hildegarde / Dîtes-moi / Decca / 6.15.49
Dean Martin / My Own, My Only, My All / Capitol / Hollywood 1949 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra; from the Paramount movie My Friend Irma 
Jesse Cryor / My Baby Loves Me So Supreme / G&G / Hollywood 1946
Bobby Van / I’m Through with Love  / soundtrack to the MGM movie The Affairs of Dobie Gillis / Hollywood 1953

set 3
Art Farmer & Benny Golson / Here and Now / Richie’s Dilemma / Mercury / 1962 
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Propapagoon / Argo / Chicago 1958 
Jack McVea & his All-Stars / Play It Over / Black & White / LA 1.46
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Here Comes Heaven Again / Musicraft / 1945 / vocal = Lynne Stevens
The Cardinals / Shouldn’t I Know / Atlantic / 1951
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / I Wish I Knew / Decca / 1.25.50 / vocal = Little Jimmy Scott 

set 4
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Dancing on the Ceiling / live, Silver Supper Club, Las Vegas 1963
Mundell Lowe / Themes From Mr. Lucky The Untouchables And Other TV Action Jazz / Johnny Staccato’s Theme / RCA Camden / Hollywood 6.60 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays George Gerswhin / I Was Doing All Right / Clef / 12.52 
Peggy Lee / How Long Has This Been Going On / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind  
Johnnie Taylor / Raw Blues / That’s Where It’s At / Stax / Memphis 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / God’s Gonna Cut ‘Em Down / Bluebird / 1946

last soulful song
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose / Don’t Ever Be Lonely (A Poor Little Fool Like Me) / United Artists / LA 1972



Friday, February 19, 2021

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Playlist?: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 45

Barbara rubs up against some Fosse.

Coffeetime, February 19, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / I'll Remember April / Prestige / Minton’s Playhouse, breakfast set 1.6.61 
Thad Jones / Mad Thad / Jumpin' for Jane / Period / 12.12.56 
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / 1.28.28
The Foursome / Bidin’ My Time / Brunswick / 11.30
The Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking, Baby / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Blossom Dearie / Give Him the Ooh-La-La / I Walk a Little Faster / Verve / 9.12, 13.57 

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

set 2
Wes Montgomery / So Much Guitar! / One for My Baby / Riverside / 8.4.61 
Coleman Hawkins / The High and Mighty Hawk / You’ve Changed / Felsted / 2.18, 19.58 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf / Columbia / London 10.16.33 / vocal = Les Allen & chorus
Boswell Sisters / Shuffle Off to Buffalo / Brunswick / 4.11.33 
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Combo / Are You Hep? / Pacific / Berkeley 1946 / vocal = Aurelia Joyner
Frankie Lymon / At the London Palladium / My Girl / Roulette / London 1957

set 3
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Ernie’s Tune / Blue Note / 5.9.61 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Darryl’s Minor / Savoy / 6.6, 7.60
Howard McGhee’s Be-Boppers / Nicole / Blue Star / Paris 5.18.48  
Una Mae Carlisle / It’s Sad, But True / Bluebird / 3.10.41 
The Orioles / I Challenge Your Kiss / Jubilee / spring 1949 
Don Nelson / The Wind / Nobody’s Heart / The Wind / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 

set 4
Marty Paich / The Jazz City Workshop / Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart / Bethlehem / LA 11.19.55 
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson Plays / Strike Up the Band / Bethlehem / 1957 
Valaida Snow / Patience and Fortitude / from musical short / LA 1946 / with the Ali Baba Trio: Cleveland Nickerson accordion, Clarence “Scotty” Brown g, Calvin Ponder b 
June Christy & the Kentones / Make Love to Me / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.31.46
Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, & Debbie Reynolds / You Can’t Do Wrong Doin’ Right / soundtrack to the MGM movie The Affairs of Dobie Gillis / Hollywood 1953 
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Paul Williams / Out in the Country / Out in the Country / A&M / LA 1972 

Friday, February 12, 2021

Little Playlist You’ve Had a Busy Day: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 44

The Moderaires keepin’ it pretty in the middle.

Coffeetime, February 12, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard / Bob’s Place / Impulse! / 7.2.62 
Louis Smith / Smithville / There Will Never Be Another You / Blue Note / 3.30.58 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / African Lullaby / Columbia / 12.5.34
Don Bestor & his Orchestra / ’Long About Sundown / Victor / 9.29.32 / vocal = Neil Buckley 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Blues for What I’ve Never Had / RCA Victor / LA 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Lena Horne / Lena Horne Sings / More Than You Know / Black & White / LA 10.46

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

set 2
Lester Young / Going for Myself… / Ballad Medley: A Ghost of a Chance; I Cover the Waterfront [with false start] / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 7.31.57 
Lucky Thompson / Modern Jazz Group / There’s No You / Le Club Français du Disque / Paris 3.7.56 / Lucky Thompson, ts; Henri Renaud (as Henri Duaner), p; Benoit Quersin, b; Christian Garros, d
Chubby Jackson & Bill Harris All-Stars / Jazz Journey / Mean to Me / Mercury / 1950 
Eddie Heywood & his Jazz Six / Trombone Moanin’ Blues / Okeh / 10.6.26 
Cleo Brown / The Hole in the Wall / Blue / LA 1950
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) / Columbia / 3.16.42 / vocal = Sully Mason & Trudy, Julie, Jack, and Max Paul Monday / My Mistake / Dooto / LA 1958
Ricky Nelson / Travelin’ Man / Imperial / LA 3.13.61

set 3
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette / My Funny Valentine / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.23.55 
Jack McDuff / Screamin’ / He’s a Real Gone Guy / Prestige / 10.23.62 
Flip Phillips Fliptet / Papilloma / Signature / 1945
The Modernaires / I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night / Columbia / 1947 / orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres
5 Red Caps / Just for You / Beacon / Hollywood 7.43 
Sammy Davis Jr. / Starring Sammy Davis Jr. / My Funny Valentine / Decca / Hollywood 1954 

set 4
Chet Baker / The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker / Little Man You’ve Had a Busy Day / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 9.15.54 / Chet Baker t, Bob Brookmeyer tb, Bud Shank bs, Russ Freeman p, Carson Smith b, Shelly Manne d / cover painting by Bob Irwin  
Stan Getz / West Coast Jazz / Suddenly It’s Spring / Norgran / Hollywood 8.55 
Peggy Lee / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.29.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind & Frank DeVol & his Orchestra 
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / Oba, Oba / Verve / 1967
Trumpeteers / Gospel Train / Score / 12.30.47

last soulful song
Leroy Hutson / Hutson / All Because of You / Curtom / Chicago 1975 



Friday, February 05, 2021

I’ve Got a Playlist Working for Me: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 43

We only see her back, but we know Slam is making Beryl smile.

Coffeetime, February 5, 2021, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Introducing Johnny Griffin / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note / 4.17.56 
Art Blakey Quintet / A Night at Birdland, volume 1 / Split Kick / Blue Note / 2.21.54 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Clarinade / Columbia / 5.16.45
Johnny Marvin / Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon / Victor / 12.9.27 
Cousin Joe [Pleasant Joseph] / Weddin-Day Blues / Savoy / 2.13.46 / Pete Brown’s Brooklyn Blue Blowers 
Lucy Ann Polk / Lucky Lucy Ann / Easy Living / Mode / Hollywood 7.12.57

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Wayne Shorter / Speak No Evil / Infant Eyes / Blue Note / 12.24.64 
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Friday’s Child / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Junie C. Cobb & His Grains Of Corn / Smoke Shop Drag / Vocalion / Chicago 2.9.29 
Broadway Bell-hops / Happy Go Lucky Lane / Harmony / 4.4.28 / vocal = Jerry White 
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Hep Cat’s Love Song / Okeh / 1941
The Pied Pipers / The Riddle Song / Capitol / Hollywood 1947 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Mabel Scott / Shut Eye / Coral / LA 3.17.52 

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Cattin’ / Prestige / 5.17.57 
Beryl Booker / Cheek to Cheek / Vogue / Paris 2.54 / Bonnie Wetzel b, Elaine Leighton d
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / There I Go / Bluebird / 9.6.40
Ink Spots / Who Wouldn’t Love You / Decca / 5.19.42
Billy Eckstine / No Cover No Minimum / Misty / Roulette / live, New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas 8.30.60 / with Bobby Tucker & his Orchestra 

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / What Is There to Say? / Festive Minor / Columbia / 1.15.59 
Sam Most / Sam Most Plays Bird, Bud, Monk And Miles / Strictly Confidential [Bud Powell] / Bethlehem / 3.6.57 h
June Christy & the Kentones / June’s Blues / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.31.46
Vincent Price & Peter Woodthorpe / Broadway Cast Recording of Darling of the Day / I’ve Got a Rainbow Working for Me / RCA / 1968 
Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / The Way Up the Hill / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959

last soulful song
Patti Hamilton & the Lovelites / My Baby Loves Me / Lovelite / Chicago 1971