Friday, May 31, 2013

(Gotta Get Some) Playlist




Coffeetime, May 31, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Blues Inn / Blue Note / 1.18.59 
Julian Priester / Keep Swingin' / Julian’s Tune / Riverside / 1.11.60 
Benny Carter & his Harlem Club Orchestra / Symphony in Riffs / Columbia / 10.16.33 
Annette Hanshaw / I Hate Myself (For Falling in Love with You) / Harmony / 4.30.29 
Floyd Dixon / Call Operator 210 / Aladdin / Hollywood 2.12.52 
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / What’s New / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Valaida [Snow], Queen of the Trumpet / I Wish I Were Twins / Parlophone / London 1.18.35 / with Billy Mason & his Orchestra
Donald Novis / Deep Purple / radio transcription / Hollywood 1939
Toni Harper / The Dish Rag (Rub a Dub Dub) / Columbia / Hollywood 5.31.50 / with Manny Klein’s Dixieland Band
Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / Snaggle Tooth Ruth / King / Cincinnati 9.28.50

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Judyful / Savoy / 6.7.60  
Rene Hall / Two Guitar Boogie / RCA Victor / 3.10.53 
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Cherokee / Savoy / 1.31.49 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (Gotta Get Some) Shut-eye / Victor / 2.1.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Bill Johnson & Musical Notes  / Let’s Be Sweethearts Again / RCA Victor / 1947 / “vocal refrain by Gus Gordon & Quartet” 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They All Laughed / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / On Mike / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55 
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Evil Eyes / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 
Ida James / No Love, No Nothing / MacGregor Transcription / LA 5.10.44 / with the King Cole Trio
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / I Come From New York / RCA Victor / 4.30.47
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA / LA 1957
Rising Star Gospel Singers / His Eyes Are on the Sparrow / Pacific / Berkeley 8.46 

last soulful song
Lou Johnson / Walk On By / Big Top / 1966

Friday, May 24, 2013

Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit Bag



Coffeetime, May 24, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60 
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53 
Buster Bailey & his Chocolate Dandies / Call of the Delta / Vocalion / 12.28.34 
Russ Columbo / I See Two Lovers / Brunswick [unissued] / LA 8.31.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra 
Little Esther [Phillips] / Cherry Wine / Federal / Cincinnati 3.11.53
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / How Can You Face Me / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 2
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Serenity / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65 
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy / 9.29.55 
George Van Eps / Once in a While / Jump / Hollywood 6.19.49 
Sophie Tucker / I’m the Last of the Red Hot Mamas / Victor / Hollywood 3.25.29
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / Cincinnati 12.20.45
Seymour Rechtzeit & Sam Medoff / Surrey Mit a Fringe afn Top; Oy, S’iz a Sheyne Fremorgn / radio broadcast, WEVD / 1948
Earl Gaines / Little Boy Blue / Starday-King [unissued] / Cincinnati late-1960s

set 3
Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Stuffy / Blue Note / 10.20.61 
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Ornithology / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / Coastin’ with J.C. / Apollo / 5.48
The Five Red Caps / Gabriel’s Band / Beacon / 10.44 
Ella Mae Morse / Mr. Five By Five / radio broadcast, Command Performance #40 / Hollywood 11.3.42 
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / The Way You Look Tonight / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Frank Rosolino / Swing Not Spring / Sweet and Lovely / Savoy / Detroit 9.52 
Bob Crosby & his V-Disc Bobcats / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (And Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil, Smi-Heil!) / Navy V-Disc #260-A / 4.3.45
Viola Watkins / It Must Be Love / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952
The Pilgrim Travelers / I’m Going Through [take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Hush Little Baby / Atco / 1964

Friday, May 17, 2013

Old Fashioned Playlist



Coffeetime, May 17, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out / Blue Note / 2.9.58 
Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Philly Mignon / Blue Note / 12.27.62 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Savage / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Move Your Hand Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Lonely Woman / Impulse! / 9.18.63 

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Velvet Moon / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Ballad to the East / Savoy / 7.9.57 
Barney Kessel / The Man I Love / Rex / 6.7.45
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Miss Liza / Odeon / Paris 5.3.32 
Het Ramblers Quintet aka The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Zuiderzee Blues / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 11.15.38
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / The Peanut Vendor / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Nat King Cole / A Mis Amigos / Fantastico / Capitol / Rio de Janeiro 1959

set 3
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Time’s Up / Time / 1.19.60 
Kenny Clarke / Detroit Jazz Men / You Turned the Tables on Me / Savoy / 5.9.56 
Max Roach / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49 
The Mills Brothers / The Song Is Ended / Decca / 6.13.38 / with Louis Armstrong
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Just a Gigolo / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Stumpy Brown
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve 9.27.66 

set 4
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Old Fashioned Love / Contemporary / LA 6.11.57 
Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Bugle Blues / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57
Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Oopy Doo / EmArcy / 12.19.51 
Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Harris / Camelot [movie soundtrack] / What Do the Simple Folk Do? / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 1967
The Gospel Harmonettes / Camp Meeting / Now I’m Ready / Vee Jay / 1963 

last soul song

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

Friday, May 03, 2013

Grant Avenue Playlist



Coffeetime, May 3, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57 
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / The Goof and I / Capitol / Hollywood 3.14.56  
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Collegiate / Edison Diamond Disc / 6.23.25  
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Three Little Words / Victor / 8.20.30 / vocal = The Rhythm Boys: Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Girl Fifteen / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / vocal = Floyd Dixon & Mari Jones
Dinah Washington / My Song / Mercury / Chicago summer 1952 / with Jimmy Cobb Orchestra

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54 
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Savoy / 12.17.59 
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #1: Night and Day / I Can’t Get Started / Clef / 3.25.52 
Freddy Johnson & Lex Van Spall & their Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me (take 2) / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 11.29.34 / vocal = Rosie Poindexter
Bing Crosby & the Rhythmaires / Love Is So Terrific / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time #63 / Hollywood 3.31.48 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 
Ann Cole / I'm Waiting for You / Baton / 1956 

set 3
Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / You’ve Changed / Prestige / 1.31.68 
Manny Albam & his Orchestra / More Double Exposure / Rio Rita; I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / RCA Victor / 1961
Red Prysock & his Orchestra / Rock 'n' Roll / Happy Feet / Mercury / 3.26.54 
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Blue Boogie / transcription / 1945
Harry James & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Night / Columbia / 8.31.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Grant Avenue Suite / Fantasy / San Francisco 1958
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3 / Who Cares / Offbeat / 9.60 
Eddie Bush & his Society Islanders / Nami Waimea / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s
Conrad Johnson & his Orchestra / Howling on Dowling / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 
Tom Jones / Tom Jones Live! At The Talk of the Town / Land of a Thousand Dances / Parrot / London 1967 
The Soul Stirrers / The Lord Laid his Hands on Me / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Spend a Little Time / Atlantic / Chicago 1963 / with the Dells

Friday, April 26, 2013

Spiritus Playlist

Coffeetime, April 26, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / Spiritus Parkus / New Jazz / 3.13.62 
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Just in Time / Prestige / 5.8.65 
King Cole Trio / Three Little Words / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Close Shave / Victor / 7.25.41
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Any Time’s the Time to Fall in Love / HMV / London 6.20.30 / vocal = Jack Plant, directed by Ray Noble
Wynonie Harris / Rebecca’s Blues / Apollo / LA fall 1945 
Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / Born to Blow the Blues / Fantasy / 1.57 

set 2
Horace Parlan / Speakin' My Piece / Oh So Blue / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Minor Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58 
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / Solitude / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35
Horse Collar Williams Orchestra / You Ain’t Nothin’ Daddy / Chicago [label] / early 1945 / vocal = Etta Jones
Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell / radio broadcast / Apollo Theater c. 1952
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / Say Si Si / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Abbe Lane

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Bob’s Blues / Prestige Moodsville / 8.23.60 
Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Gershwin’s Prelude #2 excerpt / Verve / 4.12.65 
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Linda Flor / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Teddy Edwards / R.B.’s Wig / Rex / 7.47
The Four Vagabonds / When the Old Gang’s Back on the Corner / Mercury / 2.46
Mary Ann McCall / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Discovery / LA 12.27.48 / with Phil Moore & his Orchestra 
Dean Martin / I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.28.50 / from Paramount movie My Friend Irma Goes West

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 5 The Sextet / Knee Deep / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56
Oscar Pettiford / The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi Volume Two / Somewhere /  ABC-Paramount / 8.30.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; I Won’t Tell a Soul; Nightmare theme / radio broadcast / live, Carnegie Hall 12.2.38 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Those Lonely, Lonely Nights / RPM / LA 1955
The Trumpeteers / Trials Get Harder / Gotham? / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song
Mary Wells / He’s a Lover / 20th Century / 6.65

Friday, April 12, 2013

Got to Get My Hands on a Playlist Before I'm Too Old



Coffeetime, April 12, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Beauteous / Blue Note / 10.21.56 
John Coltrane / [7105] / Time Was / Prestige / 5.31.57 
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Wild Fire / soundtrack from Columbia Pictures film Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra, Film Vodvil - series 1, no. 2 / 6.43  
Little Jack Little / I'm In the Mood for Love / Columbia / 6.28.35
Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Please Be Kind / Vee Jay / 1964

set 2
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57 
Lennie Tristano / Yesterdays / Capitol / 3.14.49 
Rex Stewart’s Big Four / Madeleine (alt take) / HRS [unissued] / 7.47 
Eddie South / Black Gypsy / Swing / Paris 1938
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / I’ve Got the World on a String / Columbia / 2.15.33 / vocal = Ivie Anderson
Charles Trenet / Boum! / soundtrack film La Route Enchantée / Paris 1938
Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
John Coltrane / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / Birdland, 10.8.63 
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / I’ll Remember April / Roost / 8.53
James Moody's Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chino Pozo
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / I’m So Right Tonight / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Betty Bennett
The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 
Mel Tormé / Swingin’ on the Moon [Verve’s Choice! The Best of…] / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / LA 8.3.60 

set 4
Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / ‘Round About Midnight / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959
Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Coop de Graas / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 
Fats Waller / African Ripples / Victor / 11.16.34 or Bluebird / 3.11.35 
Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 
Ethel Waters / Shades of Blue / I Shoulda Quit When I Was Ahead / Remington [Continental] / 4.19.46 / with JC Heard & his Orchestra
Ann Richards / The Many Moods of Ann Richards / I’m Late / Capitol / Hollywood 1960
The Sons of the South / Didn’t It Rain Children / Nashboro / Nashville 1954

last soulful song

The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

Friday, April 05, 2013

I Talk to the Playlist




Coffeetime, April 5, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Brown / More Study in Brown / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 2.17.56 
Ray Draper / A Tuba Jazz / I Talk to the Trees / Jubilee / 11.58 
The Piccadilly Players / Blue Grass / Columbia / London 1.11.29 / vocal = Barrie Oliver
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45
The “5” Royales / All Righty! / Apollo / 1952 / with Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson & his Orchestra
Chris Connor / Blame It on My Youth / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

set 2
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61 
Kenny Clarke / I Married an Angel / Savoy / 1.30.56 
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Song of India [concert version] / Columbia / 4.25.29 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Lovie Joe / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Mabel Robinson
Kay Starr / Frying Pan / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65
Charlie Parker & his All Stars / How High the Moon / radio broadcast , WJZ / Birdland 3.31.51
Sarah Vaughan / I’m Through with Love / Musicraft / 7.18.46 / with George Treadwell & his Orchestra
Jubalaires / Long, Lean and Lanky / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Joe Derise / Bethlehem’s Best / My Romance / Bethlehem / 3.10.55

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57 
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / All the Things You Are / Tampa  / 2.20.57 
Morris Lane / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Coral / 1952
Bing Crosby / I Surrender Dear / Victor / Hollywood 3.2.31
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
The Southern Sons / Live So God Can Use You / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soulful song
Barbara Mills / Try / Hickory Records / Nashville 1966

Friday, March 22, 2013

My Playlist Waits (O Meu Playlist Espera)



Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Where You At? / Blue Note / 7.8.60 
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 10.25.54 
Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / The Stroller / Blue Note / 8.21.54 
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Wabash Blues / Victor / Kansas City, Missouri 12.13.27 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon 
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I Can’t Go for You / Decca / 3.12.40 / vocal = Red Richards 
Mari Jones / It Just Wasn’t True / Modern / Hollywood c. 1953 / with Johnny Moore’s Blazers 

set 2
Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Serenade in Blue / Epic / 1956
Duke Jordan / Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet / Sultry Eve / Signal S / 10.10.55 
Lee Konitz / Duet for Saxophone and Guitar / Prestige / 3.13.51 
Art Tatum Trio / Exactly Like You / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36
Chris Connor / Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Rock On! / Mercury / 1.3.57 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) / Blue Note / 9.13.67 
Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Ko-Ko / Argo / Chicago 1960
Charlie Parker / The Jazz Scene / The Bird / Clef / Carnegie Hall 12.47 
The Mills Brothers / Darling Nelly Gray / Decca / 4.7.37 / with Louis Armstrong 
Maxine Sullivan / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / 8.28-30.55 

set 4
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / The Floater / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 
Stan Levey / West Coasting / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54 
King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47
Mae West / They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk / Brunswick / 1933
Little Milton [Campbell] / Spring / Checker / Chicago 2.69
Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Decca / 2.21.41

last soul song
Leon Haywood / It’s Got to Be Mellow / Decca / 1968

Friday, March 15, 2013

A Certain Kind of Playlist


Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59 
Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / Blue Dots / Prestige / 5.10.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / How High the Moon / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56 
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / After School Swing Session (Swinging with Symphony Sid) / Decca / 1940
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / When Your Lover has Gone / Blue Note / 12.21.58 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / More than You Know / Riverside / 5.28.63 
Blu Lou [Louisa Dupont ] Barker with Danny Barker’s Fly Cats / I Don’t Dig You, Jack / Decca / 11.17.39 
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Stop, You’re Breaking My Heart / radio transcription / late 1930s / vocal = Stan Noonan
Noel Coward / Noel Coward New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Portrait of Wes / Dangerous / Riverside / 11.27.63 
Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Macedonia / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unreleased] / 8.50
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Don’t Do Something to Someone Else / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Dedicated to You / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 
Frank Foster / No Count / Casa de Marcel / Savoy / 3.7.56 
Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / The Old Man of the Mountain / radio broadcast / 1933 
Elmore James / Coming Home / Vee Jay / 1957
Dionne Warwick / Make Way for Dionne Warwick / Reach Out / Scepter / 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Dip Your Fingers in the Water / Okeh / 2.25.42

last soulful song
The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Certain Kind of Lover / Uni / LA 1970

Friday, March 08, 2013

Playlist Lullaby


Coffeetime, March 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Russian Lullaby / Prestige / 2.7.58 
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58 
Paul Fenoulhet with The Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / Swingin’ on Lennox Avenue / HMV / London late 1940s
Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
The Robins / Rockin’ / Modern / LA 3.51 
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / How Deep Is the Ocean / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]  
The Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, Vol 1 / Alone Together / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / These Foolish Things / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56 
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Come On Let’s Boogie / Freedom / Houston c. 4.50
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Swings Lightly / Gotta Be This or That / Verve / LA 11.23.58 

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Miss Fine / Verve / 3.26.63 
Curtis Fuller & Tommy Flanagan / Jazz… It’s Magic! / Soul Station / Savoy / 9.5.57 
Charlie Parker / East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) / WNBC Hear America Swingin’ broadcast / live, Birdland 8.27.54
The Spirits of Rhythm / That’s What I Hate About Love [That’s What I Like About You] / Brunswick / 1934 
Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Charles Brown / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Aladdin / LA 12.21.50 

set 4
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / A Nice Day / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58
Barney Kessel / Carmen / If You Dig Me / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie / soundtrack to MGM movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / No You, No Me / Hollywood 1943
Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / I Love Being Here with You / Epic / 4.19-21.61
Swan Silvertones / Is God Satisfied with Me? / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song
Baby Washington / I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face / Sue / 1962

Friday, March 01, 2013

Playlist Is Going to Ruin Me



Coffeetime, March 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / The Quest / We Diddit / New Jazz / 6.27.61 
John Coltrane / [7105] / Straight Street / Prestige / 5.31.57 
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of '67 / I’m Coming, Virginia / Impulse! / 2.15.67 
Jackie Souders Orchestra / Maybe Sometime / Columbia / LA 2.16.27  / vocal = Walton McKinney
T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Old Swing Master / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra 
Dinah Washington / In Love / I Didn’t Know About You / Roulette / 1962

set 2
Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / 7.58 
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964 
Max Roach / Max Roach + Four on the Chicago Scene / My Old Flame / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58 
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Medley: Rainbow; Silver Bells / radio transcription / 1945
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / What’s the Use? / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 
The Flamingos / Jump Children aka Vooit-Vooit / Chance / Chicago 12.24.53 

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Cross Fire / EmArcy / 10.5.51 
Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Back to Back / Victor / 6.1.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Four Aces / I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder, part 2 / Trilon / Oakland 12.46 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56 

set 4
Conte & Pete Candoli / Two for the Money / Willow Weep for Me / Mercury / LA 1959 
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / No Such Luck / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Sax Gill / Dancer’s Delight / Gotham / 1950
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / It Seems Like Old Times / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Wayne King & his Orchestra / Time Was / Victor / 6.21.41 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Jackie Wilson / The Greatest Hurt / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1.21.62
Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down / Coral / San Francisco 1952

sat soulful song
The Admirations / Wait Till I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1.14.63

Friday, February 22, 2013

Playlist First; I'm No Fool (In Water)




Coffeetime, February 22, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
The Jazz Messengers / Deciphering the Message / Columbia (unissued) /  4.6, 5.4.56 
Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenor Favorites / From This Moment On / Jazzland / 2.5.62 
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Haunted Nights / Victor / 9.16.29 
Six Jumping Jacks / She’s the Sweetheart of Six Other Guys / Brunswick / 4.13.28
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / That Song Is Gone / Specialty / Hollywood 9.9.47 
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / I Wonder What Became of Me / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet 

set 2
Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenors / Imagination / Jazzland / 11.4 & 10.60 
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Serenity / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / She’s Funny That Way / Vogue (unissued) / Paris 4.11.52 
Fletcher Henderson & Connie's Inn Orchestra / Singin’ the Blues (’Til My Daddy Comes Home) / Decca / 4.29.31
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Let’s Have a Jubilee / Brunswick / 11.1.34
Johnny Mercer / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Mickey Mouse Club Song Hits with a Personal Mouseketeer Cast Photo Album / Safety First; I’m No Fool (In Water) / Disneyland / LA 1956

set 3
Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Bah-U-Bah / Vogue / Paris 12.21.49 
The Modernaires / Juke Box Saturday Night 10" EP / You Belong to My Heart / Columbia / 1946
The Ink Spots / For Sentimental Reasons / Waldorf Music Hall / mid-1950s
Jack Teagarden / Accent on Trombone / A Hundred Years from Today / Urania / 1954

set 4
Johnny Richards / Something Else By Johnny Richards / Band Aide / Bethlehem / Hollywood 8.56 
Ike Quebec Quintet / Tiny’s Exercise / Blue Note / 7.18.44 
Oscar Moore & the Three Blazers / Melancholy Madeline / Atlas / Hollywood 9.15.45 / vocal = Frankie Laine 
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / Some Days Everything Goes Wrong / Reprise / LA 1964 
The Zion Travelers / Since He Lightened My Heavy Load / Dooto / LA 1957

last soulful song
Ann Byers / I’m Happy Without You / Academy / 1966

Friday, February 15, 2013

Cha-Cha Playlist


Coffeetime, February 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet / Mellow D / Blue Note / 1.31.59
Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Stolen Sweets / Blue Note / 1.20.61
Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Functionizin’ / Brunswick / 9.10.34 
Annette Hanshaw / I’m Following You / Diva / 2.11.30 
Georges Guétary / Robin des Bois / Pathé / Paris 1943 
Luke Jones & his Five Joes / She’s My Baby / Atlas / LA early 1947 / vocal = Clarence Williams
Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / It’s Been a Long Time / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2
Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / Melancholy Mood / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Love Letters / Roost / 3.18.57 
Tab Smith / Blanket of Blue / United / Chicago 10.24.51 
Django Reinhardt / Mélodie au crépuscule (Love’s Melody) / Decca / London 2.1.46
Boswell Sisters / Fare Thee Well, Annabelle / unreleased / London 7.19.35 
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I’m Shooting High / Pathé Marconi / Paris 5.5.36 / vocal = Adelaide Hall
Otis Rush / All Your Love (I Miss Loving) / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Willie Dixon 
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM unreleased [DRG] / 4.20-17.60

set 3
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD. / Cha-Cha Twist / Pacific Jazz / live, Village Gate 12.28.61 
Duke Pearson / Sweet Honey Bee / Gaslight / Blue Note / 12.7.66 
Maxine Sullivan / If I Had a Ribbon Bow / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Jubalaires / When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55 
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Paula Castle / Lost Love / I’m Shooting High / Bethlehem / 1955 
Little Willie John / Inside Information / King / Cincinnati 9.13.63
Dixie Hummingbirds / One Day / Apollo / 1.47

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ‘Round / Motown / Detroit 1969

Friday, February 08, 2013

A Winter's Playlist



Coffeetime, February 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Blues in Trinity / Shepherd’s Serenade / Blue Note / London 8.24.58 
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / B. for B.B. / Savoy / 7.23.56 
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Dinah / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Snooks & his Memphis Stompers / Hello Beautiful / Victor / 01.27.31
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Anita O’Day / Sings the Winners / What’s Your Story, Morning Glory / Verve / LA 4.2.58 

set 2
Red Garland / Solar / Where Are You? / Jazzland / 1.30.62 
Yusef Lateef / Into Something / Rasheed / New Jazz / 12.29.61 
Charlie Parker / Don’t Blame Me / WHDH radio broadcast / live, Storyville, Boston 9.22.53 
Bing Crosby & Patty Andrews / If I Were a Bell / Decca / LA 9.7.50 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra
Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Big Maybelle / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Scepter / 1964 

Friday, February 01, 2013

Mighty Lak a Playlist


Coffeetime, February 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / ’S Make It / Blue Note / 8.2.59 
Max Roach / Parisian Sketches / Liberté / Mercury / Paris 3.2.60 
James Moody / Wail Moody Wail / Donkey Serenade / Prestige / 12.12.55 
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Too Many Tears / Regal / London 6.3.32 / vocal = Sam Browne
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / What Is this Thing Called Love? / Vocalion / 2.7.39 / vocal = Joe Thomas
The Trenier Twins / Hey Sister Lucy! / Mercury / 5.15.47 
Billie Holiday / The Seven Ages of Jazz / Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) / Metrojazz / live, Oakdale Musical Theatre, Wallingford CT 9.26.58 

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Mighty Lak a Rose / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60 
Red Garland / Red in Blues-Ville / See See Rider / Prestige / 4.17.59 
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Loose Ankles / Brunswick / Kansas City 4.29.30 / vocal = Bill Massey 
Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / Umbrella Man / Dee Gee [Regent] / Chicago 7.18.52
Louis Jordan / I’ll Die Happy / Aladdin / 1.54

set 3
John Coltrane / Stardust / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige / 12.26.58 
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Thru for the Night / radio broadcast / LA 1954 
Norfolk Jazz Quartet aka Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Suntan Baby Brown / Decca / 7.19.37
Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Andy Russell radio show / Hollywood 5.5.45 / with Lou Bring Orchestra
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / A Hundred Years from Today / Capitol / Hollywood 1962

set 4
Zoot Sims Quartet / Jazz West Coast / I’ll Remember April / Pacific Jazz / live, Hoover High School, San Diego 12.4.54 
Shorty Rogers / What's New / [Xanadu] / LA 12.27.51
Louis Bellson Just Jazz All Stars / Punkin’ / Capitol / LA 2.52
Fats Waller / Loafin' Time / Victor / 8.20.35 
The Keynotes / A Star / Apollo / 1955
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Long Ago and Far Away / Sing / Chicago 2.59
Golden Gate Quartet / Daniel Saw the Stone / Okeh / 4.18.41

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me / Wand / 5.31.66

Friday, January 25, 2013

Heigh Ho, Playlist


Coffeetime, January 25, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Sippin’ at Bells / Blue Note / 1.5.58 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb / Very Saxy / Very Saxy / Prestige / 4.29.59 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho, Everybody / radio broadcast / 1929
Amos Milburn / Johnson Rag / Aladdin / LA 1949 
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / What’s New? / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / Blues for Delilah / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957
Willie Bobo / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Bobo's Beat] / Naked City Theme / Roulette / 1962
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Odyssey / Debut / 3.10.55 
Osvaldo Pugliese y Su Orquestra Tipica / El Arranque / Odeon / Argentina 8.22.44 
Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / When I Hear Hawaiian Music / radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 1940
Joe Turner / Last Goodbye Blues / National / Chicago 12.9.47 
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / You’ve Got Possibilities / Capitol / Hollywood 2.1.66 

set 3
Eric Dolphy / Here and There / Don’t Blame Me (take 2) / Prestige / Berlingske Has, Copenhagen 9.6.61 
Five Jones Boys / Nagasaki / radio transcription / c. 1936
Dinning Sisters / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood 1943
Al Hibbler / It’s the Talk of the Town / Decca / 11.13.57

set 4
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / One for Joan / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Zig-Zag /  Mode / Hollywood 1957 [partial: WMBR had tech difficulties]
Goree Carter / Serenade / Freedom / Houston c. 9.49
Johnny Otis Band / Uneasy Blues; Rockin' Blues / Savoy / 9.19.50 / vocal = Marilyn Scott [aka Mary DeLoatch]; Mel Walker
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Going Out of My Head / Liberty / 1967 
Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / The Way Up the Hill / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / Atlantic Soul Explosion ’72 [Live] / Little Ghetto Boy / Atco / 1972

Friday, January 18, 2013

The Playlist in her Hair


Coffeetime, January 18, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Exhibit A / Pacific Jazz [Blue Note] / 2.11.57 
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer's Dream / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Paul Cornelius & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Champion / 2.5.34
Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / The Jumping Jack / RCA Victor / LA 1950 / vocal = Billy Valentine  
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / River Weep / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Where or When / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 5.8.65 
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Mr Polo Takes a Solo / Decca / London 10.1.37
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Zonky / Victor / 2.3.30 / vocal = Dave Wilborn 
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio broadcast, AFRS #222 / Hollywood 6.45
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Ballin’ the Jack / Decca / Hollywood 9.17.55 

set 3
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / I Never Has Seen Snow / EmArcy / 11.4.59 
Shelly Manne & his Men / Play Checkmate / En Passant / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61 
Jimmy Forrest / There Will Be No Other You [There Will Never Be Another You] / United / 3.30.52 
Dick Powell / Medley: Cause My Baby Says It’s So; The Rose in her Hair; With Plenty of Money and You; Thanks a Million / radio broadcast / 1942
The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948 
Buddy Greco / My Buddy / The More I See You / Epic / live , Le Bistro, Chicago 1959

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56 
Henri Renaud / The Birdlanders / Boo Wah / Swing / 2.28.54 
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44
Cleo Brown / When / Decca / LA 11.20.35 
Tommy Ridgley / Let’s Try and Talk It Over / Ric / New Orleans 1960
Friendly Brothers / You Can't Win / Vee-Jay / Cleveland 1959

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / Two Winters Long / Minit / New Orleans 1962

Friday, January 11, 2013

Child's Playlist


Coffeetime, January 11, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Farmer / Farmer's Market / Farmer’s Market / New Jazz / 11.23.56 
Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Blue Note, 11.11.60 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Crazy Rhythm / Impulse! / 11.13.61 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from movie “Dynamite”  
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 
Beverly Kenney / Sings with Jimmy Jones and “The Basie-Ites” / I Never Has Seen Snow / Roost / 1956

set 2
Booker Ervin / The Book Cooks / Largo / Bethlehem / 6.60 [4.6.60] 
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / Ghost of a Chance / Atlantic / live, The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55 
Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Don’t Blame Me / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 
The Four Clefs / When I’m Low I Get High / Bluebird [unissued] / Chicago 2.26.45
Gene Ammons / Sweet Jennie Lou / Prestige / 7.27.50 / vocal = Gene Ammons 
Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis Par L’auteur / Paie tes dettes [Pay Your Debts] / Capitol / Paris 1958

set 3
Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / Judy’s Dilemma / Savoy / 8.25.59 
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Love Letters / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.18.57 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / That’s Life I Guess / Brunswick /  1.12.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Delta Rhythm Boys / Gimme Some Skin / transcription / 1941
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't  So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956  

set 4
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Love Letters / Savoy / 11.6.55 
Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pay the Piper / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56 
Russ Columbo / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / LA 5.19.45
Jean Bonnard / Passing By / Atco / 1967
The Trumpeteers / Gideon and the Sword / Score / 5.9.50

last soulful song
Cilla Black / Is It Love? / Whatcha Gonna Do ‘Bout It? / Capitol / LA 1965

Friday, January 04, 2013

No Playlist in Venice



Coffeetime, January 4, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cecil Payne / Patterns / Groovin’ High / Savoy / 5.22.56 
Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Jazz Scene / Frustration / Clef / Hollywood 1947 
Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Ain’t It Nice / Brunswick / 9.10.34 
Annette Hanshaw / Body and Soul / Harmony / 10.7.30 
The Robins / You're Fine but Not My Kind / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / with Johnny Otis Quintet 
Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Mercury / 1956

set 2
Modern Jazz Quartet / No Sun in Venice / One Never Knows / Atlantic / 4.4.57 
Gigi Gryce / Evening in Paris / Vogue / Paris 10.11.53 
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Old Folks / Savoy / 5.17.46 
Bing Crosby / Tumbling Tumbleweeds / Decca / LA 2.9.40 / with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra
Buddy Clark & Doris Day / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48
Ella Mae Morse / Tennessee Saturday Night / Capitol / Hollywood 11.6.51
The Sandmen / Somebody to Love / Okeh / 12.14.54 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / Scrap Iron / Blue Note / 9.13.67 
Tadd Dameron / Wah “Hoo” aka Perdido / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.49 
Pete Brown / Boot Zoot / Savoy / 8.1.44 
Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Darn It, Baby, That’s Love / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Ravens / Be I Bumblebee or Not / National / 12.22.47 
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / In a Little While / MGM / 1962

set 4
Teddy Edwards / Back to Avalon [unissued] / The Cellar Dweller / Contemporary [unissued] / LA 12.60 
Pete & Conte Candoli / The Candoli Brothers / What Is This Thing Called Love / Dot / LA 12.58
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia  / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67
Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / The Good Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1965
Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46 

last soulful song
C.O.D.’s / Michael / Kellmac Records / Chicago 1965

Friday, December 28, 2012

Playlist Freezes Red



Coffeetime, December 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Dacor / New Jazz / 6.3.59 
John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Snowfall / radio transcription / 1947  
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Annette Stevens / When Sunny Gets Blue / personal recording [Marvelous Industries, Inc] / 1962 / with Barry Galbraith

set 2
Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Stardust / Bethlehem / late 1958 
Jackie McLean / The Jackie McLean Quintet / Lover Man / Jubilee / 10.21.55 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Imagination / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Frankie and Johnny / Standard transcription [Stardust Records] / Hollywood 9.17.41 
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally 
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958

set 3
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Soul Time / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 
Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / The Plain but Simple Truth / ABC-Paramount [Impulse] / 12.11.56 
Fats Navarro / Ice Freezes Red / Savoy / 1.29.47 
Maxine Sullivan / Jackie Boy / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 
The Mills Brothers / FDR Jones / Decca / 2.17.39
Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57 

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66 
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59 
Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Younger Than Springtime / Dot / 1958
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Aretha Franklin / Laughing on the Outside / Skylark / Columbia / spring 1963 
Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / Stretch Out / Peacock / Chicago 1960

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday / Blue Rock / 1.65