Did You Ever See a Monkey Play a Playlist

Coffeetime, July 29, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note [unissued / Mosaic] / 3.16.58
Hal McKusick / Criss Cross / Coral / 2.4-6.57
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Good Little Bad Little You / HMV / London 2.19.29 / vocal = Eddie Collis, directed by Carroll Gibbons
Tommy (Mary Jo) Braden & his Flames [The Four Blazes] / Did You Ever See A Monkey Play a Fiddle / United / Chicago 4.13.54
Dinah Washington / Feel Like I Wanna Cry / Mercury / 6.10.53

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / So in Love / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Bobby Jaspar / In a Little Provincial Town / Pathé Marconi / 11.12, 14, 20.56
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] /3.29.56
Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds” Orchestra / Magnolia’s Wedding Day / Brunswick / 8.14.28
Alphonse Trent & his Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / Gennett / Richmond, Indiana 3.5.30 / vocal = Leo “Stuff” Smith
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Wham (Wham, Re, Bop, Boom, Bam) / Decca / 1.2.40 / vocal = June Richmond
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / I Am in Love / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.59
B.B. King / I Stay in the Mood / Kent / 1966

set 3
Johnny Smith / Phase II / Sunny / Verve / 11.13.68
Sonny Rollins / Alfie soundtrack / On Impulse! / Impulse! / 1.26.66
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Scrapple from the Apple / private recording [Xanadu] / Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach 12.27.51
The Five Jinks / Za Zu Swing / Bluebird / Charlotte 2.20.37
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Poor Simple Simon / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Billy Eckstine / Songs by Billy Eckstine / Over the Rainbow / MGM / 1949

set 4
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Just Friends / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Can’t We Be Friends? / V-Disc / 12.43
Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart / B19 / unissued performance / Hollywood 7.24.41
Noël Coward / In New York / I Like America / Columbia / 1957
Pilgrim Travelers / I Could Do Better than That / Specialty [unissued take 6] / Hollywood 8.2.56

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / If I Didn’t Love You / Wand / 1965

Sand in My Playlist

Coffeetime, July 22, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Hallelujah / Prestige / 11.15.57
Mal Waldron / Impressions / Champs Elysées / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Frank Foster / No Count / Apron Strings / Savoy / 3.7.56
The Piccadilly Revels / Positively, Absolutely (Does She Love Me?) / Columbia / London 5.24.27 / vocal = Ray Starita
Willie Mae [Big Mama] Thornton / I’ve Searched the World Over / Peacock / Houston 1954
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / Always on My Mind / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Stellisa / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961
Mundell Lowe / Guitar Moods by Mundell Lowe / I Dream Too Much / Riverside / 3.2.56
Dizzy Gillespie / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / Paris 4.11.52
The Chocolate Dandies / I Never Knew / Columbia / 10.10.33
Billy Cotton & his Band / Crazy Weather / Regal Zonophone / London 12.20.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44
Nat King Cole & Johnny Mercer / Harmony / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Buddy Greco / Hang You Hat at Mister Kelly's / My Baby Just Cares for Me / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 3
Big John Patton / Blue John / Blue John / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.11.63
Henry Mancini / Gunn …Number One! soundtrack / Night Owl / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1967
Pete Brown Quintette / Moppin’ the Blues / Savoy / 7.11.44
Mills Brothers / Loveless Love / Decca / 4.14.32
Connee Boswell / Sand in My Shoes / Decca / Hollywood 6.28.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Cute / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Divertimento: 3rd Movement / Contemporary / LA 3.2.57
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Ain’t She Sweet? / Contemporary / LA 4.21.58
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Charmaine / Capitol / LA 11.14.47
The Barry Sisters & Jan Bart / Samson and Delilah / radio broadcast, Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1945 / with Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swingtet
Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / Manufacturers of Soul / Chain Gang / Brunswick / 1968
Dixie Hummingbirds / Lord Come See about Me / Gotham / 1949

last (blue-eyed) soul song
Daryl Hall & John Oates / Abandoned Luncheonette / Las Vegas Turnaround (the stewardess song) / Atlantic / 1973

Just a Playlist's Prayer at Twilight

Coffeetime, July 15, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Lee Morgan / City Lights / City Lights / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Nick Travis / The Panic Is On / Jazzbo’s Jaunt / RCA Victor / 1954
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / This Is Jazz / Star Dust / 12.9.50
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby (And My Baby’s Crazy ‘Bout Me) / Columbia / London 10.10.31 / vocal = Sid Buckman
Marion Abernathy / Undecided / King / Cincinnati 12.23.47
The Treniers / Why Did You Get So High, Shorty / RCA / LA 2.50
Julie London / Motherless Child / Bethlehem / LA 3.2.55

set 2
James Moody / Hey! It’s James Moody / Don’t Blame Me / Argo / 12.29.59
André Previn & His Pals / Pal Joey / Bewitched / Contemporary / LA 10.28, 29.57
Don Elliott / Summer Setting / Bethlehem / 1.19.55
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Pete’s Lonesome Blues / National / 1.7.46
Bing Crosby / Home on the Range / My Little Buckaroo / Decca / 3.24.37 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / We Ain’t Got Nothin’ (But the Blues) / Decca / c. 9.45 / vocal = Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson
Bobby Troup / Jamboree Jones / Bethlehem / LA 7.8.55

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / The Tender Gender / Cadet / 4.66
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / All the Things You Are / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
Pete Brown Quintette / Ooh-Wee / Savoy / 7.11.44
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Moaning the Blues / Decca / 8.23.39
Benny Carter & his Orch / I've Been in Love Before / Decca / 10.23.40 / vocal = Roy Felton
Nat King Cole / Cole Español / Acércate Más / Capitol / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Soon / GNP / 6.27.56
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Rain Drain / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Googie’s Boogie / RCA / Hollywood 1945
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44
Tom Jones / Once Upon a Time / Parrot / 1965
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / This Old World Is in Bad Condition / Decca / 8.23.39

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / I Love You / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Happiness Is Playlist

Coffeetime, July 8, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Dig This / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, Volume 1 / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 11.11.60 / announcer = Ruth Mason
Benny Morton Orchestra / Taylor Made / Columbia / 2.23.34
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / Mean Music / Victor / 8.27.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Three Barons aka The Three Riffs / Milk Shake Stand / Savoy / 11.3.44 / with Tiny Grimes Quartette
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Blue Piano / Impulse / 9.18.63

set 2
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds / Short Story / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Happiness Is / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Johnny Hodges & his Orch / Castle Rock / Blue Fantasia / Verve [Norgran] / 1.15.52
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Bakiff / V-Disc / Hollywood 9.17.41
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Lessons in Love / Decca / 3.17.36
Frank Sinatra / Close to You / radio transcription, Songs by Sinatra, CBS radio / 12.26.43
Roy Brown / I’ve Got the Last Laugh / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 1.16.51

set 3
Dupree Bolton / Summertime / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Lonely Woman / New York 19 / Atlantic / 1.29.62
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / On the Sunny Side of the Street / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 5.23.53
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / The Lady’s in Love with You / RCA Victor / 4.7.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Dindi / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pink Squirrel / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / How About You / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater 12.4.54
Art Tatum Trio / Sweet Lorraine / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 32 / Hollywood 5 & 6.43 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Hildegarde / Love Walked In / Columbia / London 1935 (?) / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67
Hightower Brothers / Lord Take Me Through / Nashboro / Nashville 1961

last (soulful) song
The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / My Brother Woody / Project 3 / 1967

Another Playlist of the Opposite Sex

Coffeetime, July 1, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Round Table / Epic / 1956
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Fanfare / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / “204” / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Ol’ Man River / Bluebird / 5.9.28 / instrumental only
Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Never Gonna Dance / Columbia / 10.8.36 / directed by Carroll Gibbons, vocal = George Melachrino
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / I’m Wise to You Baby / Manor / 12.48 / vocal = Jimmy “Baby-Face” Lewis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Body and Soul / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 5

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / Goodbye, Old Girl / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Laura / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55
Chuck Wayne, et al / I Only Have Eyes for You / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Leonard Feather's Hip-Tet / Keep Your Mind on Me / Savoy / 11.20.44 / vocal = Helen Humes
Joe Morris Blues Cavalcade / Bald Head Woman / Atlantic / Philadelphia 2.10.51 / vocal = Billy Mitchell
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / Another Human Being of the Opposite Sex / Reprise / Hollywood 1961

set 3
Freddy Redd / San Francisco Suite / San Francisco Suite: View of the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausolito; Grant Street (Chinatown); Barbary Coast; Cousin Jimbo’s Between 3 and 7 AM; Dawn in the City / Riverside / 10.2.57
Three Peppers / Swingin’ at the Cotton Club / Decca / Hollywood 2.27.37 / appearing in "A Lady Takes A Chance" starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur
Wini Brown / I Only Have Eyes for You / National [unissued] / 11.27.48 / overdubbed onto instrumental from set 2
Ray Charles / Dedicated to You / Candy / ABC-Paramount / 1961

set 4
Art Pepper / Intensity / Too Close for Comfort / Contemporary / LA 11.23, 25.60
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Pick Yourself Up / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Habanera (“Carmen”) / AFRS Jubilee #136 / LA 6.4.45
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / All That’s Left Is to Say Goodbye / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65
Dixie Nightingales / In My Savior’s Care / Memphis , WDIA Test transcription, 1952

last soul song
Jerry Butler / Just Because I Really Love You / Mercury / 1968

Playlist of My Dreams

Coffeetime, June 24, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Quintet / I Love You (take 2) / Debut / 12.5.53
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Boy / Sonny Boy / Prestige / 12.7.56
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Adios / radio transcription / 1947
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Strut Miss Lizzie / Brunswick / 6.6.30 / vocal = Dale Robertson
Pee Wee Crayton / When It Rains It Pours / Imperial / New Orleans 11.5.51/ with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / You Taught Me How to Cry / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
John Coltrane / Stardust / Stardust / Prestige / 7.11.58
Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Poor You / Prestige / 1.24.63
Charlie Venturo Sextette / I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You / Sunset / LA 3.1.45
Art Karle & his Boys / Lights Out / Vocalion / 1.13.36 / vocal = Chick Bullock
Bixie Crawford / Maybe Some Rainy Day / King / LA 1949 / with Buddy Banks Sextet, composed by William "Frosty" Pyles (on guitar)
"Billy Soul" / My Darling Honey Baby / King / 1963

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Me 'n' You / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Girl of My Dreams / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Hollerin’ & Screamin’ / Savoy / 12.18.46
Harry James & his Orch / I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Four Vagabonds / (That Gang that Sang) Heart of of My Life / Apollo / 7.47
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / To Be with You / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Kinda Blues / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58
Red Norvo / I’m Yours / Savoy / LA 4.13.51
Louis Prima & his Hotcha Trio / Dinah / Bluebird / 9.28.33
Annisteen Allen / She Lost her Re-bop / Queen / 1946
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Doralice / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = Joao Gilberto
Rising Stars / Moses / Cava-Tone / San Francisco 1949

last soul song
Jerry Butler / Just Because I Really Love You / Mercury / 1968

Me and the Playlist in the Moon

Coffeetime, June 10, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / In New York / Planet Earth / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 1.12 & 14.62
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Here and Now / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Riffin’ / Victor / Chicago 5.23.36
Al Bowlly / Guilty / HMV / London 11.14.31 / with the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Hot Lips Page / Evil Man’s Blues / Bluebird / 12.10.40
Amos Milburn / I’m Gonna Leave You / Aladdin / LA 11.19.47
Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62
Jon Eardley / In Hollywood / Indian Spring / New Jazz / LA 12.25.54
Howard Jacobs & his Golden Tone Saxophone & Orchestra for Dancing / Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Columbia / London 1938
Bing Crosby / Pretending / Decca / Hollywood 5.15.46 / with the Les Paul Trio
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Your Daddy’s Doggin’ Around / King / Cincinnati 7.6.51 / vocal = Connee Allen
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Girl from Ipanema / Atlantic / 1966

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Taru] / Get Yourself Together / Blue Note / 2.15.68
Wes Montgomery / Fusion! / Baubles, Bangles and Beads / Riverside / 4.19.63
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Shad Roe / EmArcy / 1.30.52
Jack Jenney / I Walk Alone / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39 / vocal = Meredith Blake; arranged by Hugo Winterhalter
Larks / Little Side Car / Apollo / 1951
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Say It Isn’t So / Signature / 1961

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / A Cool Day / Jubilee / LA 1958
Barney Kessel / Solo / Alfie / Concord / 1981
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.28
Ella Mae Morse / Invitation to the Blues / V-Disc 325B / Hollywood summer 1944 / with Freddie Slack & his Orch
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To / Look at that Face / RCA / 1965
Afro Quintette / Working for My Jesus / Savoy / autumn 1954

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Ooh-La-Dee-Dah / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

A Little Playlist, A Little Kiss

Coffeetime, June 3, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug's Minor B'OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / On a Clear Day / Prestige / 3.23.67
Erskine Butterfield / Light-House / Davis / 6.14.56
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / It's Only a Paper Moon / Vogue / Paris 12.21.49
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Mean to Me / Decca / London 5.31.29 / vocal = Phil Arnold
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Cuttin' Out / Regal / New Orleans 1949 / vocal = Annie Laurie
Peggy Lee / The Man I Love / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Capitol / LA 7.57 / with orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle and conducted by Frank Sinatra (check out the cover designs)

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Hal Schaefer / Ten Shades of Blue / Bye Bye Blues / United Artists / 1959
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I Surrender Dear / Capitol / LA 5.21.44
Eddie Lang / A Little Love, A Little Kiss / Okeh / 5.28.27
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
Johnny Otis Band / Call Operator 210 / Mercury / LA 1951 / vocal = Mel Walker
Sammy Davis Jr / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / 1966

set 3
Matthew Gee / Jazz by Gee / Kingston Lounge / Riverside / 7.19.56
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Maria / Capitol / LA 9.62
Wardell Gray / Jackie / Prestige / LA 1.21.52
Dorothy Lamour / Sweet Potato Piper / from soundtrack to movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
The Ravens / Someday / National / 9.49
Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short at Town Hall / (I Love You) Samantha / Atlantic / live at Town Hall 5.19.68

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing (Vol. 3) / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Room 608 / EmArcy / Stockholm 4.29.58
George Van Eps / Kay's Fantasy / Jump / 6.13.49
Fats Waller / Then I'll Be Tired of You / Victor / 8.17.34
Jim Bryant / soundtrack to West Side Story / Something’s Coming / Columbia / Hollywood 1961
Chita Rivera & Carol Lawrence / Broadway score to West Side Story / A Boy Like That; I Have a Love /  Columbia / 1957
The Five Trumpets / My Chains Fell Off / Gotham / 1950

last soul song
Gil Scott-Heron / From South Africa To South Carolina / A Lovely Day / Arista / Silver Springs, Maryland summer 1975

My Hi-De-Ho Playlist

Coffeetime, May 27, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Indestructible / Mr. Jin / Blue Note / 5.15.64
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly! / Gone with the Wind / Vee Jay / 7.21.61
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / A Pixie from Dixie / Columbia / 4.24.41
The Georgians / Breakaway / Columbia / 5.20.25
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orchestra / Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well? / Bluebird / 3.30.42 / vocal = DW & The Hardaway Four
Ella Fitzgerald / Little Girl Blue + You're Driving Me Crazy / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

set 2
Ruby Braff / Fine and Mellow / Storyville / Boston 1955
Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / Genevieve / Angel / 1953
Johnny Guarnieri / Piano Contrasts / Why Do I Love You? / Mercury / 8.17.45
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / My Hi-De-Ho Man / Decca / 10.27.36
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I Wish I Knew / radio transcription / live Peacock Room, Baker Hotel, Dallas 8.9.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Gabriel Found His Horn / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars, vocal = Doc Cheatham (?) / Boston 1952

set 3
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Pennies from Heaven / Prestige / 4.12.57
Tadd Dameron & his Orchestra / Focus / Capitol / 4.21.49
Savannah Churchill / If I Didn’t Love You So / 9.52 / RCA Victor / with The Striders
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Everything Happens to Me / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953

set 4
Ralph Burns / The Herdsmen Play Paris / Thanks for You / Fantasy [Vogue] / Paris 5.5.54
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / You Are Too Beautiful / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Am I Blue / V-Disc 487A / 4.19.45
Ann Cole / Love of My Own + Nobody But Me / Sir [Baton] / 1960
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Didn’t It Rain / Varsity / 12.47

last soul song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1972

Pu-leeze Mr Playlist

Coffeetime, May 20, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / Speedster / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Turbo Village / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters / RCA Victor / 1955
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
TJ Fowler & his Band / What’s the Matter Now? / National / Detroit 1948 / vocal = Hank Ivory
Billie Holiday / Music for Torching / Isn’t This a Lovely Day? / Clef / LA 8.25.55

set 2
Benny Carter & his Orch / Further Definitions / Blue Star / Impulse! / 11.15.61
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / My Conception / Time / 3.23.60
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Deep in a Dream / Savoy / 10.6.55
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Say It with a Kiss / radio transcription / 1938
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Betty Hutton / I Wake Up in the Morning Feelin’ Fine / Capitol / LA 1949 / from the Paramount Picture "Red, Hot and Blue"
Sam Cooke / Encore / I Cover the Waterfront / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / Sunday Go Meetin’ / New Jazz / 8.19.60
Hank Crawford / Mr Blues Plays Lady Soul / Lady Soul / Atlantic / 2.13.69
Tadd Dameron Sextet / The Fabulous Fats Navarro / Dameronia (alternate take) / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Just About This Time Last Night / radio transcription / 1947 / vocal = Fran Warren
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie's Blues / Sittin’ and Cryin’ the Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Mildred Bailey / I Didn’t Know About You / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orchestra
William Daniels & Barbara Harris / Broadway score from "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"  / Wait Till We’re Sixty-five / RCA Victor / 1965
Flying Clouds of Detroit / Journey to the Sky / Nashboro? / early 1950s

last soul song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Playlist

Coffeetime, May 13, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Tune Up / EmArcy / Hollywood 12.20.57
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Wheelin' and Dealin' / Contemporary / 3.5.63
Six Men & A Girl / Mary Lou Williams Blues / Variety / 1.26.40
Bobby Howes / On the Amazon / Columbia / 12.3.29 / with Al Starita & his Novelty Orchestra
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Eatin' Watermelon / Torch / Dallas 1949
Doris Day / (What Every Girl Should Know) / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Grant Green / Am I Blue / Sweet Slumber / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / My Old Flame / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Earl Hines & his Orch / Number 19 / Bluebird / 2.13.40
George Olsen & his Orchestra / Stucco in the Sticks / radio broadcast / 1931 / vocal = Ethel Shutta
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.24.37 / with orchestra & direction by Cy Feuer, from movie On the Avenue
Cats & the Fiddle / I'm Singing (So Help Me) / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Your Feet's Too Big / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 3
Clark Terry / Ol’ Zulu / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 1.60
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / Blues the Most / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / This Lovely Feeling / Philips / 4.25.63
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Tanya / Specialty / LA 7.8.46
The Four Vagabonds / It Can’t Be Wrong / Bluebird / 5.26.43
The King Sisters / When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano / V-Disc 764A / 5.47
Yves Montand / France's Formidable Yves Montand / Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Mome / Columbia / Paris 1954 / with Bob Castella et Ses Rythmes

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Reflections / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Third Variation: Night Stroll / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Velvetones / How I Miss You / Columbia / 1950
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Bee / Duke [unissued] / Houston 1955
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Varsity / 12.47

last soul song
Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell / United / Hold Me Oh My Darling / Tamla / Detroit 1967

A Hundred Playlist from Today

Coffeetime, May 6, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 / Let’s / Blue Note / 2.2.57
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / How High the Moon / Jubilee / 1962
Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Passionette / Vocalion / 5.4.36
Boyd Senter & his Senterpedes / Give It to Me Right Away / Victor / Hollywood 10.29.29 / vocal = Ray Stillwell
Charles Brown / Don’t Fool with My Heart / Aladdin / LA 1.18.50
Helen O'Connell / Someone to Watch Over Me / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio

set 2
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Angel Face / Savoy / 1.23.56

Jack Jenney / Stardust / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39 / arranged by Hugo Winterhalter

Dupree Bolton / Laura / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
Garden Palace Dancing Orchestra / When Erastus Plays Old Kazoo / Columbia / LA 6.28.28 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 1954 1

set 3
Frank Wess / You Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Cold Miner / Prestige / 1.24.63
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Why Can’t You Behave / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / Charmaine / Prestige / 2.27.59
J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / This Is It / Apollo / 5.48
Connee Boswell / You Grow Sweeter as the Years Go By / Decca / 4.25.39 / with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
The Rhythm Kings / Night After Night / Ivory / late 1949
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Laura / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Howard McGhee / Experiment Perilous / Sunset / LA 11.12.45
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP "Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production"] / I Know That You Know / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson ("dance effects & songs") & the Page Cavanaugh Trio & the Ken Lane Singers
Geater Davis / Why Does It Hurt So Bad / Seventy-Seven / Muscle Shoals 1972
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Salt Sea / A&M / LA 1969
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / When the Train Comes Along / Paramount / Charlotte, NC 6.5.38

last soul song
The Royalettes / It’s Gonna Take a Miracle / MGM / 1965

Playlist For My Louie

Coffeetime, April 22, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Miles Davis / Volume 1 / Tempus Fugit / Blue Note / 4.20.53
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Blue Moon / Columbia / 12.1.58
Benny Carter & his Orch / Lullaby to a Dream / Victor / 4.1.41
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52
Billie Holiday / Lady Sings the Blues / I Thought About You / Clef / LA 9.3.54

set 2
Art Pepper & George Cables / Tête-à-Tête / Over the Rainbow / Galaxy / 4.14.82
Oscar Moore / Beautiful Moons Ago / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same) / Parlophone / 6.10.31
Louis Armstrong / Laughin’ Louie / Bluebird / 4.24.33
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Bright Eyes / Brunswick / 12.26.34
Wynonie Harris / Playful Baby / Apollo / 12.45
Peggy Lee / Lady & the Tramp soundtrack / What a Dog; He’s a Tramp / Disneyland / Hollywood 1955

set 3
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Charlie Parker / Star Eyes / Clef / 1.17.51
Mildred Bailey / I'll Never Be the Same / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / I'll Never Be the Same / Clef / 9.13.54
Burt Bacharach / Make It Easy on Yourself / Pacific Coast Highway / A&M / LA 1967
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orch
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood /8.22.46
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
Bobby Darin / Moon River / weekly radio broadcast “Milk Recordings” for the American Dairy Association / Hollywood 1973
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soul song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

Coffeetime, April 15 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Bill Hardman / Jackie's Pal / Just for Marty / Prestige / 8.31.56
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / I Love You / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Ernie Henry / Lasts Chorus / Like Someone in Love (alt take) / Riverside / 9.3.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Blues in My Heart / Decca / Den Haag 8.17.37
Arthur Askey / Only a Glass of Champagne / HMV / London 1.7.40
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / Heat Wave / Victor / Hollywood 3.9.34
Floyd Dixon / Lovin’ / Aladdin / LA 12.15.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dinah Washington / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / EmArcy / 10.2.57 / with Ernie Wilkins’s Orch

set 2
Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines / Swing’s Our Thing / One Night in Trinidad / Verve / San Francisco 11.14.67
Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Don’t Blame Me / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Taj Mahal / Everest / 1960
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Deep Henderson / Victor / Kansas City, MO 3.9.26
Butterbeans & Susie / Times Is Hard / Okeh / Chicago 8.11.30
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Medley: Who Stole the Jam; You Can’t Have Everything; In Old Chicago / radio broadcast / 1937 / vocal = Alice Faye
Sonny Til & the Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 2.53

set 3
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Driftin’ / Blue Note / 3.28.62
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Everybody Blow! / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Jack McVea & his All Stars / New Deal / Melodisc / Hollywood 8.7.45
Dorothy Carless / There Goes That Song Again / HMV / London 6.25.41 / with Geraldo & the Savoy Hotel Orch
The Blenders / Don’t Play Around with Love / Jay-Dee / 3.27.53
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / Dreamy / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Blue Lou / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Tune for Tex / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Mugsy Spanier & his V-Disc Dixielanders / You Took Advantage of Me / V-Disc [unissued] / 10.22.45
Vido Musso Orch / The Day I Left Alsace-Lorraine / Trilon / LA 8.47 /
vocal = Honey Dreamers
Beny Moré / Dolor Carabali / RCA / Cuba or Mexico 1950 / with Pérez Prado
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Make Believe Dreams / Atlantic / 1966
Southern Wonders / Thank You Jesus / Memphis 9.1.53

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

The Big Playlist Express

Coffeetime, April 8 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gigi Gryce / And the Jazz Lab Quintet / Minority / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Perpetuation / Blue Note / 8.8.54
Harry James Orch / Flash! / radio air check / Hollywood spring 1952
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orch / It Must Be Love / Edison / 9.13.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / I Can't Stop It / Specialty / Hollywood 9.9.47
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Once There Was You / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Buck Clayton & his Big Four / On the Sunny Side of the Street / radio air check / 6.26.46
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / You’re Everything I Love / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Sonny Woods, with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Playboys / My Buddie Stole My Chippie / Atlantic [unreleased] / 12.9.54

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / What Could I Do Without You? / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / Introducton + Blue ’n’ Boogie / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51
Sarah Vaughn / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Ted Dale Orch
Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / September Song / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Blues Express / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Delta Four / Farewell Blues / Decca / 12. 20.35
Wingy Manone & his Orch / If I Could Be with You / radio air check / 7.25.44 / vocal duet with Kay Starr
King Cole Trio / I Feel So Smoochie / Capitol / 11.4.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Dearly Beloved / Columbia / 1960
Evangelist Singers of Detroit / I’m Tired / Bullet / Detroit 1948

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Gonna Take a Playlist

Coffeetime, April 1, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / At this Time aka Off to the Races / Brunswick / L'Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58
Don Byas / Lover Come Back to Me / Vogue / Paris 5.19.55
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / Manhattan Rag / Columbia / 10.10.29
Leslie A. “Hutch” Hutchinson / The Best Things in Life are Free / HMV / London 7.1.41
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orch
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

set 2
Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / Gershwin Medley: Soon; For You, For Me, Forevermore; Love Walked In; Our Love Is Here to Stay / Prestige / 7.2.55
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Shades of Blue / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blue Harlem / Atlantic / 12.29.47
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / I’m Gonna Clap MyHands / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 4.29.36 / vocal = Topy Glerum
Helen Humes / Stop Jivin’ Around [Pleasing Man Blues] / Philo [Aladdin] / LA 12.22.45
Red Rodney / Dig This Menu, Please / Okeh / 5.52 / vocal = Morty Perry
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Anatole of Paris / Decca / Hollywood 12.20.47

set 3
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / 63rd Street Theme / Riverside / 8.59
JJ Johnson / Dial JJ 5 / In a Little Provincial Town / Columbia / 5.31.57
Little Johnny Griffin / Chicago Riffin’ / Okeh / c. 1954
Chick Webb & his Orch / McPherson Is Rehearsin’ (To Swing) / Decca / 6.9.38 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / I Know / Decca / 11.27.45 / vocal = Jubalaires
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / I’m Confessin’ / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Wild Bill Davis / April in Paris / Okeh / 1.8.53
Fats Waller / My Very Good Friend, the Milkman / Bluebird / 6.21.35
Etta Jones / Blues to End All Blues / Victor / 6.11.46 / with J. C. Heard & his Orch
Anthony Newley / Pure Imagination / Best of All Worlds / MGM / Hollywood 1971
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soul song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Gonna Take a Miracle / Studio One / Jamaica 1970

Don't Let that Playlist Get Away

Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Be-Bop / Philips / 4.25.63
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Minor Trouble / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57
Earl Hines & his Orch / Lightly and Politely / Bluebird / Chicago 10.6.39
Ronnie Munro & his Orch / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper
Jimmy Witherspoon / Take Me Back Baby / Modern / 1950
Kay Starr / I Cry By Night / P. S. I Love You / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Gerald Wiggin’s Music

set 2
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Mal Waldron / The Quest / Duquility / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Margo / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / Mercury [Keynote] / 8.9.46
Bing Crosby / Blue Hawaii / Trade Winds / Decca / with Dick McIntyre & his Harmony Hawaiians / 7.1.40
Woody Herman / Pancho Maximillian Hernandez / radio transcription / Hollywood summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Hey Now / Modern / LA 1947

set 3
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Voodoo / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Laurindo Almeida / A Man and a Woman / Mas Que Nada / Capitol / Hollywood 1967
Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / On Stage / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956
Dick Haymes / [Little White Lies] / – And Mimi / Decca / LA 7.25.47 / with Gordon Jenkins Orch
The Crickets / Milk and Gin / MGM / 1.53
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Aplomb / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Some Enchanted Evening / Dot / 1958
Slam Stewart Quintet / Dozin’ / Continental / 7.10.45
King Cole Trio / Close to You / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.45
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / A Tower of Strength / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
Silver Echo Quartet / Sinner Man / Manor / 1945

last soul song
Justin Jones / Dance by yourself / Flippin’ Records / 1961

Hippy Dippy Itty Bitty Playlist

Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Windmill / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / The Shadow of Khan / New Jazz / 3.13.62
Metronome All Stars / How High the Moon, part 2 / MGM / 7.9.53
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / We’ll Be Married in June / Radiex / 2.27.30
Jessie Matthews / When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart / soundtrack to the Gaumont movie Evergreen / London 4.5.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Sam from Birmingham / Decca / 6.51
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Go / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Blue Note / 8.27.62
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #5 / In a Sentimental Mood / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Low Key Lightly / soundtrack to Columbia movie Anatomy of a Murder / Hollywood 1959
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / On the Beach at Bali Bali / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
June Christy / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; This Is Romance / transcription / 1946 / with the Kentones
Floyd Dixon / Roll Baby Roll / Cat / 4.28.54

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Lowland-ism / Bethlehem / 12.60
Quincy Jones & Orch / Little Hippy Dippy / soundtrack to Palomar movie For Love of Ivy / ABC / LA 3.68
Vido Musso Orch / Gone with Vido / Trilon / LA 6.47
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo) / Bluebird / 3.28.39 / vocal = The Smoothies
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.31.51
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ In Love Again / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Mundell Lowe / Satan in High Heels soundtrack; Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / Charlie Parker Records; MGM / LA 1962
Kay Starr / Dixieland Band / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
T-Bone Walker / News for My Baby / Imperial / LA 1951-52
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / The Face I Love / Verve / 6.9.67
“The Church Choir” / He’ll Wash You Whiter than Snow / soundtrack to Universal movie The Lost Man / Uni / Hollywood 1969 / arranged by Cora Martin

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

Coffeetime, March 4 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / La Villa / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Just One of Those Things / Riverside / 10.28.58
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Honeysuckle Rose / Bluebird / 4.10.35
Little Jack Little & his Orch / Stay As Sweet As You Are / Columbia / 10.25.34
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / The “G” Man Got the “T” Man / Apollo / 11.2.45
Anita O’Day / Cool Heat / A Lover Is Blue / Verve / LA 4.6.59

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Big, Fat, and Forty-Four / Bluebird / 11.6.41 / vocal = Wheeler & The Hardaway Four
Kay Starr / I Waited a Little Too Long / Capitol / Hollywood 1.15.52
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / RCA / LA 1957

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / South Seas / Verve / 3.10.64
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Lo-Fi / Savoy / 7.18.56
Jo Stafford / I Never Loved Anyone / Capitol / Hollywood 11.7.47
James Quintet / Let’s Put Our Hearts on the Table / Derby / c. 1950
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Five More / Jazz West / LA 8.6.56
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Beanstalk / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Jane Russell / Ain't There Anyone Here for Love / soundtrack from 20th Century Fox movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Hollywood 1953
Lester Williams / Crazy ’Bout You Baby / Duke/ Houston 1954
Jerry Butler / Find Another Girl / Vee-Jay / 1961 / with Curtis Mayfield on guitar
Selah Jubilee Singers / I’ll Fare Better in that Land / Decca / 12.15.44

last soul song
Cynthia & the Imaginations / There's Something the Matter with Your Heart / Magic City / 1968

Playlist the Pirate

Coffeetime, February 25 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Hank Mobley / Another Workout / Hello Young Lovers / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Jimmie Lunceford / [Lunceford Special] / Chopin's Prelude No. 7 / Columbia / 5.9.40
Freddie Rich & His Orchestra / Bend Down Sister / radio transcription from Fred's Friendly Five / 1931-32
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Don't Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 10.47
Patti Page / I’ve Heard That Song Before / Don't Take Your Love From Me / Mercury / 1955

set 2
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / My Romance / Prestige / 8.17.56
Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Sweet and Lovely / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / How Deep Is the Ocean Dawn / 1956
Fats Waller / Rediscovered Early Solos [piano rolls] / Squeeze Me / [Riverside] / c. 2.26
Benny Morton & His Orchestra / Get Goin' / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Jerry Blake
Alice Faye / Yes To You / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie 365 Nights in Hollywood / Hollywood 9.12.34
Cats & the Fiddle / One Is Never Too Old To Swing / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Cottie Williams & His Savoy Ballroom Orchestra / Available Lover / RCA Victor / 5.15.57 / vocal = Wini Brown

set 3
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Morgan the Pirate / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / Frenesi / Atlantic / Atlanta 5.28.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Fracture / Savoy / 12.18.46
Constance Moore / I'm Only Teasin' / from the movie Delightfully Dangerous / Hollywood 1945
Four Tunes / I'm the Guy / RCA Victor / 6.49
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / The Way You Look Tonight / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / March Wind / United Artists / 9.58
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / It's So Peaceful in the Country / Columbia / 12.3.58
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Handful of Keys / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Ella Mae Morse / Tess's Torch Song / AFRS Personal Album #395 / Hollywood 1944
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / S'posin' / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Touch of the Blues / Sweet Lips of Joy / Duke / 1967
Paramount Singers / Let the Healing Waters Move / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soul song
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965