Mutiny in the Playlist

Keep your eye on the hands, Al.

Coffeetime, March 29, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Blowin’ for Dootsie / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55 
Max Roach / Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker / Tune-up / Mercury [unissued] / 12.20.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Rose Room / Bluebird / 1.31.39 
Seven Little Polar Bears aka Jimmy Johnston’s Rebels aka Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Love Her! / Cameo / 6.5.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks (drummer)
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Specialty / Hollywood 3.8.47
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / If You Were Mine / EmArcy / LA 4.21.55

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

set 2
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Prelude to a Kiss / Contemporary / LA 11.21.61
Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Night We Called It a Day / Fantasy / 1955 / Vince Guaraldi on celeste!
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Mess-a-Stomp / Vocalion / 11.7.29
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Lazy Weather / Decca / Chicago 5.15.36 / vocal = Perry Como 
The Dells / Jo-Jo / Vee-Jay / 5.21.56
Tina Louise / It’s Time for Tina / I Wanna Be Loved / Concert Hall / 1957 / with Buddy Weed & his Orchestra including Coleman Hawkins ts

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Pavanne / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Lil’ Darlin’ / Jazzland / 7.19.61
Charlie Parker / The Magnificent Charlie Parker / Si Si / Clef / 8.8.51 
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Red River Valley / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
Cap-Tans / I’m So Crazy for Love / Dot / 1950 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / When Your Lover Has Gone / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Billy May & his Orchestra / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Coolest Pad / UA / Hollywood 1963
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / Corner Pocket / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56
Hildegarde / Ten Pretty Girls / Columbia / London 8.30.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / Mutiny in the Nursery / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 10.38 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Yves Montand / Paris / C’est Si Bon / Columbia / 1964
Paramount Singers / Let the Healing Waters Move / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soulful song
Belita Woods / That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You / Karen / Detroit 7.69

Fool’s Fancy (aka Playlist)

Handsome man, handsome guitar.

Coffeetime, March 22, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Windmill / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61
Art Blakey Big Band / Pristine (take 6) / Bethlehem [unissued] / 12.57
Ziggy Elman & his Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me / Bluebird / 8.29.39 
Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Little Esther / Hold Me / Federal [unissued] / LA 1.4.52 
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / You’re a Joy / Riverside / 4.16.62 / vocal = Barbara Winfield

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Where Are You / Verve / LA 10.15.57
George Barnes & Carl Kress / Guitars Anyone? Why Not Start at the Top? / Memories of You / Carney / 1963
Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / Stardust / Everest / 9.3.58
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Brunswick / 12.13.34
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Hard to Get Gertie / Okeh / LA 4.6.28 
Mills Brothers / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Decca / 11.19.31 
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / I Shouldn’t Cry But I Do / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson
Peggy Lee / You Can Depend on Me / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / with Dave Barbour 
The Three Stooges / The Nonsense Songbook / Chickery Chick / Coral / 5.59

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Fried Pies / Riverside / 11.27.63
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
The Bebop Boys / Fool’s Fancy (aka Wail) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Maxine Sullivan / Cry, Buttercup, Cry / Apollo / 1948 / possibly with Larry Johnson & his Orchestra
Hi-Liters / Hello Dear / Vee-Jay / 11.10.55 
Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / LA 8.55 

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Tuffy / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Patti-Cake / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54
Sonny Criss / Sonny Criss Plays Cole Porter / Anything Goes / Imperial / LA 1956
Anita Boyer’s Tomboyers / I Dream of You / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 4.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Frank Sinatra & Van Johnson / Personality / CBS radio broadcast, Songs by Sinatra / AFRS #27 / Hollywood 3.20.46 
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / It’s a Good Day / Mainstream / 1965
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / Mother Gone On / WDIA radio broadcast, Carnation Milk Show / Memphis 12.16.49

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Do It with All Your Heart / Blue Rock / 1.65

Three Handed Playlist

Best forehead crinkles in Hollywood!

Coffeetime, March 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Somethin’ Cute / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Fine and Dandy / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Will You, Won’t You Be My Baby? / Victor / Chicago 11.23.28
The Rhythmic Eight / She’s a Great Great Girl / Zonophone / 9.20.28 / vocal = Maurice Elwin /
Billy Valentine Trio / Three Handed Woman / Decca / 1950
Irma Curry / Don Elliott with Irma Curry / No Spring This Year / Columbia / 1.62

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

set 2
Dupree Bolton / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 6.30.63
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Eddie South / Sentimental Rhapsody / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1956
Fred Astaire / The Piccolino / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.15.35 / with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra; from the RKO movie Top Hat
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / I Wanna Be a Brat / Varsity / LA 1940
The El Dorados / Oh What a Girl / Vee-Jay / 11.6.57 
José Feliciano / Feliciano! / Nena Na Na / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968

set 3
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Amyable / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Two Songs / Dawn / 6.12.56
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Scotty Boo / King / 7.16.56
Gene Ammons / Hot Stuff / Prestige / 8.14.51
The Marshall Brothers / I Didn’t Know / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 
Evelyn Knight & The Jesters / Chicory Chick / V-Disc 566B; Decca / 1945 / with Bob Haggart’s Band
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Jimmy Rowles / Let's Get Acquainted with Jazz…For People Who Hate Jazz / Cheeta’s for Two / Tampa / Hollywood 6.20.58
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Night Watch / United Artists / LA 1958
Stéphane Grappelli / ’S Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Anita O’Day / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.26.45  / with the King Cole Trio
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake 
Little Milton / More and More / Checker / Chicago 10.67
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atco [Carla] / 1965

Sweet Potato Playlist

Lou Rawls, knockin’ drums, MCM set… love it!

Coffeetime, March 8, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Jazz Messengers / À la Mode / Impulse! / 6.14.61 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Chasm / Savoy / 6.26.55
Barney Wilen / Jazz sur Seine [soundtrack] / Swingin’ Parisian Rhythm / Fontana / Paris 2.13, 14.58
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Just One More Kiss / Victor / 10.15.26 / vocal = Al Lynch
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Penthouse in the Basement / Decca / 3.13.40
Sarah Vaughan / Jim / EmArcy / 12.18.54

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

set 2
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / A Time for Love / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / How Deep is the Ocean / Savoy / 5.19.56
Georgie Auld / Plays the Winner / What’s New / Philips / Hollywood 4.2.63
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / Cross Patch / Bluebird / 6.3.36 / vocal = Willie Bryant
Dorothy Lamour / Sweet Potato Piper / from soundtrack to the Paramount movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
Cats & the Fiddle / That’s On, Jack, That’s On / Bluebird / Chicago 12.7.39 
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / I Like the Likes of You / ABC-Paramount / 1957

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / I Never Knew / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.14.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Lockjaw / Haven / 5.46
Mary Ann McCall / On Time / Columbia / LA 6.19.47
The Four Blues / The Vegetable Song / Apollo / 12.17.47
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Ralph Burns / Bijou / Echo of Spring / Bethlehem / 1956
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Lighthouse at Laguna / Blind Man’s Bluff / Laguna Beach 6.20.55
King Cole Trio / Those Things Money Can't Buy / radio transcription, King Cole Trio Time, AFRS edition / 12.6.47
Sammy Davis, Jr. / I’ve Gotta Be Me / I’ve Gotta Be Me / Reprise / LA 2.1.68
Jubalaires / Handwriting on the Wall / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing & In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / live, Ed Sullivan Theater 11.6.66 

Life Is a One-Way Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 175

Mr. Edwards and his dreamy eyes… uh… and his saxophone..

Coffeetime, February 23, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Al Grey / Night Song / The Way You Look Tonight / Argo / Chicago 11.62 
Horace Silver / Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers / Stop Time / Blue Note / 11.13.54 
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1 / Coffee Pot / Blue Note / 9.24.54 
Teddy Wilson Quartet / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Brunswick / LA 9.5.37 
Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph / Now That I’ve Found You / HMV / London 1935
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Imagine My Surprise / Victor / 12.7.38 
Helen Humes / Helen’s Advice / Discovery / Hollywood 11.20.50 / with Dexter Gordon’s Orchestra
Margaret Whiting / Goin’ Places / Sentimental Journey / Dot / 1957

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

set 2
Teddy Edwards / It’s About Time / Willow Weep for Me / Pacific Jazz / LA 8.59 / with Les McCann Ltd
Al Viola / Guitars / Moonlight in Vermont / Liberty / Hollywood 2.59
Alphonso Trent & his Orchestra / Clementine / Gennett / Richmond, Indiana 3.24.33 
Aileen Stanley & Johnny Marvin / Side By Side / Victor / 5.25.27 / Marvin on ukulele; with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Irving Aaronson’s Commanders / Pardon My Southern Accent / Columbia / 8.22.34 / vocal = Ernie Mathias 
Dallas Bartley & his Band / I Know What It’s All About / National / 11.25.47 
Bobby Darin / Jealous / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 1.3.63 / with Peggy Lee 

set 3
Big John Patton / Let ’Em Roll / The Shadow of Your Smile / Blue Note / 12.11.65 
Don Wilkerson / Elder Don / Scrappy / Blue Note / 5.3.62 
J.J. Johnson / Jay Jay Johnson’s Quintet / Jay Jay / Savoy / 6.26.46 
The Tune Twisters / I’m Against Rhythm / Liberty Music Shop / 1938 
Johnny Long & his Orchestra / My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time / Decca / 2.20.45 / vocal = Dick Robertson & Frances Lane 
Delta Rhythm Boys / I’m Beginning to See the Light / AFRS Jubilee #143 / Hollywood 7.45 / Carl Jones, Traverse Crawford, tenor; Kelsey Pharr, baritone; Lee Gaines, bass, acc. by Count Basie & his orchestra
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / There’s No You / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, [Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl], Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Where the Four Winds Blow / Hurricane Carol / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 
Charlie Shavers / Off the Cuff / Sweet and Simple / Sesac / 1961 / Shavers t, Homer Fields aka Ray Bryant p, Tommy Bryant b, Oliver Jackson Jr. d
King Cole Trio / Jivin’ with the Notes / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 5.40 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Jam Man / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 2.41
Bobby Troup Trio / Daddy / Snader Telescription / Hollywood 1951 / with Virginia Maxey; Troup p & voc, Al Viola g, Lloyd Pratt b 
Frank Gorshin / Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording] / Life Is a One-Way Street / RCA Victor / 1969 
Southern Wonder Quartet / Raphael / Elite / 1940

last soulful song
Marva Whitney / Don’t Let Our Love Fade Away / Excello / Kansas City 1973

Let’s Have Another Cup of Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 174

A man, a plan, and a lovely white guitar.

Coffeetime, February 16, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Milt Jackson / Bags’ Opus / Blues for Diahann / United Artists / 12.58 
Cannonball Adderley / Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Rose Room / EmArcy / 8.5.55 
Lou Raderman & His Pelham Heath Inn Orchestra / Oh Gee! Oh Joy! / Harmony / 3.3.28 / vocal = Irving Kaufman; Bix: no, Bix: yes 
Victor Arden & Phil Ohman / Fine and Dandy / Victor / 10.8.30 / vocal = Frank Luther / I forgot to mention that Frank Luther sang with Arden & Ohman on “I’ve Got Five Dollars” on the Feb 2 Coffeetime 
Roy Milton & His Solid Senders / If You Don’t Know / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 12.30.47
Lurlean Hunter / Blue & Sentimental / Fool That I Am / Atlantic / 8.23.60 / with Jimmy Giuffre & his Orchestra 

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

set 2
Paul Desmond / Easy Living / Easy Living / RCA Victor / 9.9.64 
Sam Most / East Coast Jazz/9: I’m Nuts About The Most....Sam / How Deep Is the Ocean / Bethlehem / 1955 / Sam Most fl, Marty Flax bars, Bill Triglia p, Barry Galbraith g, Burgher Jones b, Bobby Donaldson d
Al Viola / Solo Guitar / Nocturne / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / with Eva Diana portrait painting cover
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Looking at You / HMV / London 3.26.29 / vocal = Sam Browne; Cole Porter song
Joe Sullivan & his Café Society Orchestra / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Okeh / 4.29.40 / vocal = Helen Ward
The Swallows / Bicycle Tillie / King / 5.53 / lead = Bunky Mack ​​
Eddie Bo / I Got to Know / Ric / New Orleans 1961

set 3
Lem Winchester / Another Opus / Blues Prayer / New Jazz / 6.4.60 
Benny Golson / Free / Sock Cha Cha / Argo / 12.26.62 / cover painting by Alex Bozickovic aka Alex Boz 
Howard McGhee / Dilated Pupils / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46 
Tex Beneke / Cynthia’s in Love / RCA Victor / 3.28.46 / with Glenn Miller & his Orchestra; vocal = Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane, & the Crew Chiefs 
Page Cavanaugh Trio / The Three Bears / film short / Hollywood 1946 / composed by Bobby Troup 
Bobby Short / Bobby Short 0n the East Side / Looking at You / Atlantic / 1960 

set 4
Dave Pell / A Pell of a Time / Grey Flannel / RCA Victor / LA 1.17.57 / Pell ts, Pepper Adams bs, Jack Sheldon tp, Bobby Burgess & Ray Sims tb, Paul Moer p, Tommy Tedesco g, Tom Kelly b, Mel Lewis d 
Dave Pell / The Dave Pell Octet Plays a Gallery of Seldom Heard Tunes by Irving Berlin / Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee / Trend / Hollywood spring 1953 / Pell ts, Ronny Lang bs, Don Fagerquist tp, Jeff Clarkson p, Tony Rizzi g, Rolly Bundock b, Jack Sperling d, Shorty Rogers arr
Billy May & his Orchestra / As You Remember Them / The Odd Couple (Neal Hefti’s Version) / Time-Life / Hollywood 1972
King Cole Trio / Twisted Stockings / Capitol / Hollywood 2.9.50 / with The Starlighters; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b, Jack Costanzo bg, Lee Young d Tony Renis / Quando, Quando, Quando / HMV / Italy 1962
Alphabetical Four / We Will Understand It Better Bye and Bye / Decca / 4.7.41 / with some sweet human orchestra

last soulful song
Ortheia Barnes / Never Ever Leave Me / Mickay’s Records [unissued] / Detroit 1962

Don’t Shake That Playlist at Me

Fred, I’ll go cheek to cheek with you at any age.

Coffeetime, February 9, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley / Touch and Go / Blue Note / 11.25.56
Curtis Fuller / Sliding Easy / Down Home [alt take] / United Artists / 3.12.59 
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orchestra / It Must Be Love / Edison / 9.13.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track / Decca / LA 12.8.47 / duet with Martha Davis; Jordan as, Aaron Izenhall tp, Eddie Johnson ts, Wild Bill Davis p, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith / Ball and Chain (Sweet Lorraine) / Roost / 1955

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / After Midnight / Crown / 1960 
Ike Quebec / For All We Know / Blue Note / 9.25.60 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Ella Logan / Pardon My Southern Accent / radio transcription, Fleischmann's Yeast Hour / 4.4.35
Slim Gaillard & his Trio / Atomic Cocktail / Atomic / Hollywood 12.15.45
Bobby Smith, His Saxophone & Orchestra / Don’t Shake Those Hips at Me / Ruby / c. 1951
Lord Flea (Norman Thomas) & His Calypsonians / Dance Craze [originally appeared on Swingin’ Calypsos] / Shake Shake Sonora [aka Shake, Señora aka Jump in the line] / Capitol / 1957 

set 3
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Blues in the Jungle / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Strong Man / Riverside / 1.31.58
Charlie Parker / Quasimodo / Dial / 11.17.47

Trummy Young’s Big Seven / Blues Triste / HRS / 9.3.46
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / (This Is) A Dream Affair / transcription / Chicago 1940 / vocal = Jimmy Castle
The Crickets / Man from the Moon / Jay-Dee / 1954 
Fred Astaire / Cheek to Cheek / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Four! / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Joseph Mullendore Orchestra / Honey West (soundtrack) / Prelumium to Mayhem / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1967 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941
King Cole Trio / I’ve Only Myself to Blame / Capitol / Hollywood 11.5.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / Coffee Break / Bravo! / 1959
Selah Jubilee Singers / I Cried Holy! / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
The Impressions / Ridin’ High / Gotta Get Away / ABC-Paramount / Chicago 1966
Billy Butler & The Enchanters / Gotta Get Away / Okeh / Chicago 2.17.64

The Impressions / Ridin’ High / I Need to Belong to Someone / ABC-Paramount / Chicago 1966

Playlist Buffoon: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 173

Lovely June makes you feel like it’s June and warm weather is here again.

Coffeetime, February 2, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Walter Benton / Out of This World / Out of This World / Jazzland / 9.60 
Jack Montrose / Jack Montrose Sextet / Fools Rush In / Pacific Jazz / LA summer 1955 
Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Spanish Shawl / Harmony / 11.23.25
Victor Arden & Phil Ohman & Their Orchestra / I’ve Got Five Dollars / Victor / 2.10.31 / vocal = Frank Luther 
Leslie Hutchinson [“at the Piano”] / Looking at You / Parlophone / London 3.1.29
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chickenshackers / Let’s Rock A While / Aladdin / LA 1951
Dinah Washington / Mad About the Boy / Mercury / Chicago 3.24.52 / with Walter Rodell Orchestra, including Wynton Kelly p, Keter Betts b, Jimmy Cobb d

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

set 2
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Stairway to the Stars / Verve / 9.12.57 
Miles Davis / Volume 2 / It Never Entered My Mind / Blue Note / 3.6.54 / Davis tp, Horace Silver p, Percy Heath b, Art Blakey d
Jimmy Hamilton / Accent on Clarinet / Solitude / Jazztone / 1956 
Gil Mellé / New Faces – New Sounds / October / Blue Note / 1.31.53 / Mellé ts, Eddie Bert tb, Tal Farlow g, Clyde Lombardi b, Joe Morello d
Casper Reardon & his Group / Washboard Blues / Liberty Music Shop / 1936 
Martha Copeland / Wylie Avenue / Columbia / 12.6.27 
Jesse Cryor & his Orchestra / Y-O-U Controls Me / G&G / Hollywood 9.1.46 

set 3
Curtis Amy / Tippin’ on Through / Tippin’ on Through / Pacific Jazz / live, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, Calif 7.29.62 
Junior Mance / The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance / Sweet and Lovely / Jazzland / 10.25.60 
Paul Quinichette / Galoshes and Rubbers / EmArcy / 1.53 / Quinichette ts, Jerome Darr (solo guitar) & Freddie Green (rhythm guitar) g, Marlowe Morris org, Gene Ramey b, Les Erskine d 
Three Sharps & a Flat / Skinny Do / Decca / 1.18.39 
The Starlighters / Weddin’ Day / Capitol / Hollywood 4.49
Noël Coward / At Las Vegas / Matelot / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Peter Matz p & Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra

set 4
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays George Gerswhin / Love Walked In / Clef / 12.52 
Dave Pell / The Dave Pell Octet Plays Rodgers & Hart / I’ve Got Five Dollars / Kapp / Hollywood 6.54 / Pell ts, Don Fagerquist tp, Ronny Lang bs, Ray Sims tb, Don Trenner p, Tony Rizzi g, Rolly Bundock b, Bill Richmond d
Will Osborne & his Orchestra / Home on the Range / Oriole / 8.29.33 
June Christy & the Kentones / I Got a Guy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood / 12.13.45 / with John Anderson tp, Bob Cooper ts, Kai Winding tb, Arnold Ross p, Dave Barbour g, Eddie Safranski b, Shelly Manne d
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / That’s Better for Me / Black & White / LA 11.6.47 
Alfred Drake / Private Buffoon / NBC TV broadcast of The Yeomen of the Guard / 1957 
Jubalaires / Ezekiel / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Attractions / New Girl in the Neighborhood / Bell / 1967

Playlist in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 172

Lovely Leslie  giving the thumbs up to handsome Jack Sperling.

Coffeetime, January 26, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Golden Boy / Yes I Can / Colpix / 1963 
Blue Mitchell / New Blue Horns / Studio B / Riverside / 1.5.59 / from the session that was released as Out of the Blue 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Brunswick / 6.1.37 
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra / Why Can’t I Find Somebody to Love / Brunswick / 9.19.33 / vocal = Kenny Sargent
Bull Moose Jackson / Keep Your Big Mouth Shut / Super Disc / 1947 
Nancy Wilson / Lush Life / (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young / Capitol / Hollywood 5.67 / featuring John Collins g 

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

set 2
Bill Evans / The Soul of Jazz Piano [Everybody Digs Bill Evans] / Peace Piece / Riverside / 12.15.58 / Evans p, Sam Jones b, Philly Joe Jones d
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Stairway to the Stars / Verve / 5.12.57 
Eddie Lang / Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) / Okeh / 5.26.27 / with Arthur Schutt p
Tiny Parham & his Musicians / Bombay / Victor / Chicago 10.26.29 
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / The Kid in the Three-Cornered Pants / World Broadcasting Systems (unissued) / 3.16.37 / written for Ozzie & Harriet by Lewis Harris & John Jacob Loeb for baby David Nelson
Harry James & his Orchestra / Baby Blues / Columbia / Hollywood 4.11.51 / vocal = Toni Harper (not quite 14 years old)
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Mas Que Nada / Pickwick [Liberty] / 1967 / she sings this in Spanish, not Portuguese which we’re more used to hearing from others (like composer Jorge Ben)

set 3
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out! / Trimmed in Blue / Blue Note / 5.27.63 
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Queen / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rearin'_Back
Oscar Pettiford / E-Lag / Vogue / 3.21.54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford_Sextet
The Cabineers / Lost / Prestige / 7.2.51 / with the Mercer Ellington Quartet 
Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians / In a Little Book Shop / Decca / 11.5.47 / vocal = Don Rodney
Bing Crosby / Say It Isn’t So / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies, but not used in final movie / Hollywood fall 1945

set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz & the Oscar Peterson Trio / Pennies from Heaven / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 / Getz ts, Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b 
Buddy Collette / Buddy’s Best / Soft Touch / Dooto / Hollywood 2.17.58 / Collette fl [as, ts, cl] fl, Gerald Wilson tr, Al Viola g, Wilfred Middlebrooks b, Earl Palmer d
Timmie Rogers & his All Star Orchestra / Daddy-O / Regis / 2.26.45 / Don Byas ts 
Leslie Uggams / Fascinating Rhythm; Slap That Bass / live, NBC TV: The Dean Martin Show / Burbank 1.12.67 / with Jack Sperling d 
Nat King Cole / Nat King Cole at The Sands / My Kinda Love / Capitol / live, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas 1.14.60 / NKC voc, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d, and orchestra conducted by Antonio Morelli 
Golden Gate Quartet / Lord I Am Tired and I Want to Go Home / Mercury / 4.49

last soulful song
Roddie Joy / He’s So Easy to Love / Red Bird / 1965

You’re the Only Playlist in the Next World for Me

Shirley think how dreamy Bob (YES! Bob Hope!) was in the way back!

Coffeetime, January 12, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / The Message / Riverside / 8.4-5.59 
Joe Gordon / Lookin’ Good! / You’re the Only Girl in the Next World for Me / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61 
Napoleon's Emperors / My Kinda Love / X [Victor] / 5.14.29 
Whispering Jack Smith / Me and My Shadow / Victor / 4.28.27 / with Dave Dreyer on piano
Shirley Ross & Bob Hope / Two Sleepy People / soundtrack of the Paramount movie Thanks for the Memory / Hollywood 1938 / in memory of Bruce Hambro
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Fire, Fire, Fire / RCA Victor [unissued] / LA 2.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Please Be Kind / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 3.23.67
Lester Young / The Man I Love / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / EmArcy / 8.9.46 
Golden Gate Quartet / Carolina in the Morning / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38
Mae West / Slow Down / Mezzotone / 1947 / with Joseph Chernivasky Orchestra
Les McCann / Sings / I Cried for You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson / RIP McCann

set 3
Les Spann / Gemini / Smile / Jazzland / 12.16.60
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 10.14.58
Harry James & his Orchestra / I’ll Buy That Dream / Columbia / 1945 / vocal = Kitty Kallen
Delta Rhythm Boys / St. Louis Blues; Ev’y Time We Say Goodbye (flip side, with celeste!) / RCA Victor / 4.24.47
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I See Your Face Before Me / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / Carson City Stage / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.24.53 
Russ Garcia / Four Horns and a Lush Life / Lover Come Back to Me / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.14.55
King Cole Trio / Two Against One / Standard Transcription / 2.39 / NKC p & celeste, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Margaret Whiting / A Tree in the Meadow / Capitol / Hollywood 5.25.48 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra / for Jim in Dedham
King Cole Trio / Undecided / Standard Transcription / 4.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Don’t Let Me Lose this Dream / Atlantic / live at Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / Lead Me On and On / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soulful song
Major Lance / You’ll Want Me Back / Okeh / Chicago 1966

Playlist Petit Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 171

Coffeetime, January 5, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Grant Green / Nigeria / The Song Is You / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.62 
Gil Mellé / Gil’s Guests / Sixpence / Prestige / 8.24.56 / Kenny Dorham tp, Don Butterfield tuba, Hal McKusick as, Mellé bs, Joe Cinderella g, Vinnie Burke b, Ed Thigpen d
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / Falling Leaves / Bluebird / 9.3.40 
Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / At a Carnival in Venice / Brunswick / 1937 / vocal = Lee Sullivan
Little Esther / I'm a Bad, Bad Girl / Federal / 3.21.51 / duet with Mel Walker; with Johnny Otis’s Orchestra (listed on label as Earle Warren Orchestra)
Ella Fitzgerald / A Sunday Kind of Love / Decca / 3.19.47 / with vocals by the Andy Love Quintet 

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Workin’ Out / This Is All I Ask / Prestige / 10.21.64 
Urbie Green / East Coast Jazz/6 / On Green Dolphin Street / Bethlehem / 1.19.55 / celeste! 
Bill Evans / Interplay / When You Wish Upon a Star / Riverside / 7.16,17.62 
Ken “Goof” Moyer’s Novelty Trio / Mellophone Stomp / Domino / 11.19.26
Rudy Vallée / When Winter Comes / Decca / 6.12.39
Myra Taylor / Take It Easy Greasy / Mercury / 1946 / with Jimmy Keith’s Orchestra
B.B. King / Why Do Everything Happen to Me / Kent / LA 1958

set 3
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / The Blues and I / Blue Note [unissued] / 10.20.60 
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Town and Country / Dawn / 6.12.56 / Charlie Rouse ts, Julius Watkins fr h, Gildo Mahones p, Paul Chambers b, Ron Jefferson d
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Annie Laurie / Victor / 2.3.38 / vocal = “Quartet”
Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / Fools Rush In / Decca / 3.18.40 / vocal = Marion Mann 
Sam Cooke / Sam Cooke at the Copa / When I Fall in Love / RCA Victor / 7.7 & 8. 64 

set 4
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Goofin’ at the Coffee House / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Love for Sale / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b (played it a few weeks ago!)
Maxene Johnson / I’m a Perfect Fool Over You / Excelsior / Hollywood 7.22.40 / with King Cole & his Swing Trio (aka King Cole Swingsters): NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Robert Clary & Eartha Kitt / New Faces of 1952 / Bal Petit Bal / RCA Victor / 1952 
Brook Benton / Songs I Love to Sing / Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) / Mercury / 1960 
Soul Stirrers / Jesus Gave Me Water / Specialty / LA 3.1.51

last soulful song
Four Tops / Keeper of the Castle / Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) / ABC Dunhill / LA 1972

Hello, Mister Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 170

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 22, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
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 / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
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 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
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
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess 

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 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The 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: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
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 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
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 soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 169

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 15, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / Spiritus Parkus / New Jazz / 3.13.62 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Blue Jazz / Brunswick / 7.25.32 
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_Trails

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / 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 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“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
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Blue Samba / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
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
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
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
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 and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 168

WMBR deejays after returning to the basement of Walker Memorial.

Coffeetime, December 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / C.T.A / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.56 
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / A Night in Tunisia / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Sonny Stitt / The Hard Swing / I Got Rhythm / Verve / 2.9.59 
The Rhythmic Eight aka Bert Firman Orchestra / Faces at the Window / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 5.24.28
Lee Morse / Something in the Night / Columbia / 8.26.32 / Bob Downey p 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dorothy Dandridge / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The Good Life / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
René Thomas / René Thomas et son Modern Group / ’Tis Autumn / Polydor / Paris 3.22.56 
Eddie Heywood / Eddie Heywood / Tenderly / EmArcy / 7.55 / Heywood p, Wendell Marshall b, Jimmy Crawford d
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Manoir de Mes Rêves / Swing / Paris 2.17.43 
Abe Lyman & his Californians / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Decca / Chicago 11.26.28 / vocal = Phil Neely 
Bing Crosby / You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Brunswick / 1.12.33 / with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians, featuring Lebert Lombardo on trumpet
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill 
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / Make Me a Present of You / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 3
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / Sonny’s Crip / Time / 9.27.60 
John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57 
Charlie Parker Septet / A Night in Tunisia / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
The Ink Spots / I Wish You the Best of Everything / Decca / 5.19.38 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / A Gal in Calico / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Eve Young
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Conte Candoli Sextet / Leonard Feather Presents: Best from the West, Vol. 2, Modern Sounds From California / Burbank Bounce / Blue Note / Hollywood 12.30.54 / Conte Candoli t, John Graas frh, Charlie Mariano as, Marty Paich p, Monty Budwig b, Stan Levey d; a blindfold test record
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir” 
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / Don’t Go to Strangers / Verve / 1965 
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Jan Bradley / Mama Didn’t Lie / Chess / Chicago 1963

A Woman Alone with the Playlist, Redux

Long-fingered, sharp-dressed Desi, even

Coffeetime, December 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Santa Tecla / Ricordi / 1961
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / It’s You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Expubidence / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / Glad Rag Doll / Okeh / Hollywood 1.17.29 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Cats & the Fiddle / Gang Busters / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book / All Too Soon / Verve / 6.27.57 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / P.S. I Love You / Savoy / 11.5.56 / Hank sits out
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Golden Gate Orchestra (California Ramblers) / (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous?) Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Paul Robeson / Lonely Road / HMV / London 1936

Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Mama Don’t Allow / Capitol / Hollywood 6.16.47   

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

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Something Blue / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / On the Trail / Verve / 3.19.61
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Annie Laurie / Victor / 2.3.38 / vocal = Jack Leonard Quartet 
Five Red Caps / Somebody’s Lyin’ / Beacon / 3.44
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nevertheless / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Easy Living / Verve / LA 1959
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Triton / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / La Cumparsita / RCA / LA 1947
King Cole Trio / The Best Man / Capitol / 8.19.46 / NKC p & vocal, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Jack “The Bear” Parker d

Amos Milburn / Sad and Blue / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47 / Maxwell Davis ts

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / A Woman Alone with the Blues / Verve /10.16.61
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ’Round / Motown / Detroit 1969
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / When We’re Together / Motown / Detroit 1969

Keep a Twinkle in Your Playlist

Matchmaking is tough work!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wicks Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Columbia / 12.9.40
John [Jack] Jackson / I’m Playing with Fire / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Love for Sale / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man / Verve / LA summer 1959
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Chartreuse / Debut / 9.55
Lonnie Johnson / I’m Nuts About That Gal / Okeh / 8.12.32
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV / London 9.15.36 / vocal = Fayard Nicholas, tap dancing = Harold Nicholas
Jimmy Witherspoon / Miss Miss Mistreater / Federal / Cincinnati 12.24.52 
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Gypsy in My Soul / Bethlehem / 1955

set 3
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Unforgettable / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Down By the Riverside / Prestige / 10.25.57
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Dick Haymes / Begin the Beguine / AFRS #333 / Hollywood 9.10.50
The Blenders / Please Take Me Back / MGM / 3.27.53 / lead vocal = Ollie Jones
Joe Mooney / September Song / Decca / 11.8.46 / Mooney accordion, Jack Hotop g, John “Gate” Frega b, Andy Fitzgerald d 

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Soft as Spring / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55 / composed by Alec Wilder
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Jo Stafford / I Remember You / V-Disc 328B / rehearsal recording for NBC radio, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop, Hollywood 7.20.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / When You Walk Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / (NYC) 11.4.47 / NKC piano & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kay Renolds / Been a Long Day / soundtrack to the United Artists movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / United Artists / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Lee Charles / I Never Want to Lose My Sweet Thing / Bamboo / Chicago 1969

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

You ARE pretty, Smithy!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / The End of a Love Affair / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Clark Terry / In Orbit / In Orbit / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
The Chocolate Dandies / Once Upon a Time / Decca / 10.10.33 / Benny Carter on trumpet & alto 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Can You Tell By Looking At Me / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Thad Jones / [The Magnificent Thad Jones] / Something to Remember You By / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.9.56 / duet between Jones t & Kenny Burrell g
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / I’ve Found a New Baby / Okeh / 11.12.30 
Sophie Tucker / If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with The Winter Gardens Theatre Orchestra and Ted Shapiro p
Benny Morton & his Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen
Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950
Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Just Because / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / The Pot’s On / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.24.47
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / The End of a Love Affair / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Smokey Joe / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / Live the Life I Sing About / Score / 4.13.49

last soulful song
George Tindley / So Help Me Woman / Wand / 1969