No Voot No Playlist

Onlookers ponder floating Charlie head.

Coffeetime, September 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Full Moon and Empty Arms / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961

Kenny Dorham / Showboat / Ol’ Man River / Time / 12.9.60

Bobby Haggart & his Boys / Untitled / V-Disc / 4.7.47

Williams Sisters / Sam, The Old Accordion Man / Victor / 12.18.26

Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Red Head ’n‘ Cadillac / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 

Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / The Good Life / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2

Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Here’s to My Lady / Blue Note / 6.16.57

John Lewis / Ballads for Backgrounds [Grand Encounter] / I Can’t Get Started / Pacific Jazz / 2.10.56

Charlie Shavers Quintet / If I Had You / Vogue / 1945 

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Humpty Dumpty / Okeh / 9.28.27

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Cherry / Victor / Chicago 7.12.28 / vocal = Jean Napier 

Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Don’t Touch Me (I’m Gonna Hit That Highway) / RPM / LA 1955

set 3

Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Father and Son / Blue Note / 12.27.62

Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / De-Dar / Verve / 4.9.59

Lonnie Johnson / Playing with the Strings / Okeh / Memphis 2.21.28

The Dreamers / Doin’ the Bow Wow / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio

Ella Mae Morse / Get On Board Little Chillun / Capitol / Hollywood 7.31.42

Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55

George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Slow / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 

Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / Battleground / Prestige / 4.8.49

Modernaires / Autumn Serenade / Columbia / 8.22.45

Peggy Lee / Where Did They Go / Goodbye Again / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.71
Bobby “Blue” Bland / You’ve Got Bad Intentions / Duke / Houston 1956 / with Bill Harvey’s Band

Sensational Saints of Ohio / Come On / Jobete / 12.60

last soulful song

Ann Sexton & the Masters of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy 7 Records] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971

Treat Her Like a Playlist

The oh so crushworthy Allan Eager

Coffeetime, September 16, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / We Six / Blue Note / 9.21.56

Red Garland / Avalon / Prestige [unissued] / 3.16.61

The Three Suns / Crazy Rhythm / V-Disc 616B / 4.46

Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26

Paul Gayten / Broadway’s on Fire / 1950 / Regal / vocal = “Broadway” Bill Cook

June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Night People / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 2

Red Garland / It Might As Well Be Spring / Prestige [unissued] / 6.27.58

Bud Shank / Ballads for Backgrounds [The Bud Shank Quartet] / Nature Boy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1956

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Medley: On the Alamo/My Ideal/I’ll Get By / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 

Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Just a Thrill / Decca / 10.27.36 

Danny Kaye / Minnie the Moocher / Columbia / 1941

Sammy Hagan & The Viscounts / Don’t Cry / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 

set 3

Sonny Criss / I’ll Catch the Sun / I’ll Catch the Sun / Prestige / 1.20.69

Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Tadd’s Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 11.13.57

Dizzy Gillespie / Our Delight / Savoy / 6.10.46 http://bit.ly/2cP5U70

The Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Who Blew Out the Flame / radio broadcast / live, The Blue Room, Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38 / vocal = Helen Forrest

Jimmy Witherspoon / Blues Around the Clock / You Made Me Love You / Prestige / 11.5.63

set 4

Gerry Mulligan / The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Volume 1 / Turnstile / World Pacific/Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57  

Stan Getz / There’s a Small Hotel / Prestige / 1.6.50

Al Killian / The Creep [aka Blow, Blow, Blow] / AFRS Jubilee #243 / Hollywood 10.17.47 

Walter Huston / September / soundtrack movie “Knickerbocker Holiday” / United Artists / Hollywood 1944

King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44

Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / Around the World with Me / Roulette / 1960

Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down Before God / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soulful song

Temptations / Treat Her Like a Lady / live / 1986 (3:00) https://youtu.be/NvI8ko7fU2A

You Come In Here, Playlist

Proposed YouTube hit show: Eye Makeup Tips from Tony & Anna

Coffeetime, September 9, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Two Bass Hit [alt take] / Blue Note / 11.13.57

Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / The Blues and I / Blue Note [unissued - Mosaic] / 10.20.60

Benny Goodman Sextet / High Falutin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 12.9.47

The Revelers / Hallelujah! / Victor / 4.25.27

Chuck Willis / Caldonia / Okeh / 2.27.52

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book / Bewitched / Verve / LA 8.29.56

set 2

Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / When Sunny Gets Blue / Epic / 7.13.61

Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Stardust / Riverside / 4.27.57

Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56

Ruth Etting / Home / Banner/Oriole/Perfect  [ARC] / 12.11.31

Hot Lips Page / You Come in Here, Woman / Dial / LA 9.7.45

Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Give My Regards to Broadway / RCA / LA 1957

set 3

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / Good Bait / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60

Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Rock Bottom Blues / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / with Hank Jones on piano

Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Page Mr. Trumpet / National / 1.31.46

Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry, Baby (With a Gal Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Jube’s Blues / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Try to Remember / MGM / 1962

set 4

Howard Roberts / Color Him Funky / When Lights Are Low / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12, 13.63 

Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / Trickleydidlier / Atlantic / Hollywood 3.1, 3.55

Dave Tough / Loved Walked In / Jamboree / 1.9.46

King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / MacGregor Transcription / LA 1.45

Etta James / Be My Lovey Dovey / Modern [unissued] / LA 1955

Anthony Newley & Anna Quayle / Original Broadway Cast Recording: Stop the World I Want to Get Off / Someone Nice Like You  / London / 1961

Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / Be Yourself / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1  &2.70

Playlist By the Sea

Over your shoulder! Ernie Morris is the spell-maker.

Coffeetime, September 2, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Cannonball Adderley / Jazz Workshop Revisited / Marney / Prestige /  live, Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 9.23.62

Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Capers / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62

Capitol International Jazzmen / You Can Depend on Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.45

The B.F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra / I’m Lonely Without You / Victor / 6.21.26 / vocal = The Silver-Masked Tenor [Joseph M. White]

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Let Me Off Uptown / Decca / 6.11.41 / vocal = Trevor Bacon

Morgana King / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / And the Angels Sing / RCA Camden / 1959 / with Ernie Wilkins & his Orchestra

set 2

Art Blakey & the Messengers / ’S Make It / Lament for Stacy / Limelight / Hollywood 11.15, 16, 25.64

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Under Analysis / In a Mist / RCA Victor / 1957

Joe Venuti / Dark Eyes / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #20 / Palm Springs 1.31.53 

Ernie Morris / In The Mood / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43 / intro by Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Rosa Henderson / Get It Fixed / Vocalion / 3.21.28 http://www.redhotjazz.com/rosahenderson.html

Kay Starr / Stormy Weather / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.45 / with the Capitol International Jazzmen

The Keynotes / Now I Know / Apollo / 6.5.65

John Holt / Wooden Heart / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1969 / with Tommy McCook & the Supersonics

set 3

Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / And Satisfy / Blue Note / 7.1.66

Duke Jordan / Les Liasons Dangereuse / No Problem / Charlie Parker Records / 1.12.62

Toni Harper / Cinderella Baby / Columbia / LA 2.49 / with Eddie Beal & his Orchestra 

The Larks / Ooh… It Feels So Good / Apollo / 3.27.51  

Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Home By the Sea / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 4

Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Brawl for All / Contemporary / London 9.55

Nick Travis / The Panic Is On / Cohn Pone / RCA Victor / 1954

Hildegarde / Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off / Columbia / London 1937 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra

Nat “King” Cole & his Trio / You’re Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 8.15.56 / with Willie Smith on alto sax

Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters’ Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64/ premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65 

Golden Gate Quartet / What a Time / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / How Can I Say Goodbye / Atlantic 1965

The Playlist That Got Away

The Eyes of Sophie Tucker

Coffeetime, August 26, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Shelly Manne & his Men / Play “Checkmate” / Checkmate / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61

Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Memorial Album / Cherokee / Blue Note / 8.28.53

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Robbin’s Nest / radio transcription / 1947 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Synthetic Love / Swing / 3.14.33 / vocal = Benny Carter

Blue Barron & his Orchestra / That’s Right I’m Wrong / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher

Eartha Kitt / Since I Fell for You / Swing / Paris 1.21.50 / with Doc Cheatham & his Trio

set 2

Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66

Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Don’t Explain / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17.60

Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Candy / Savoy / 5.17.46

Bill Coleman / After You’ve Gone / HMV / Paris 1.31.36

Miff Mole & his Molers / After You’ve Gone / Okeh / 4.11.27 / vocal = Sophie Tucker 

Dick Haymes / My Future Just Passed / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio

Mabel Mercer / Mabel Mercer Sings / My Resistance Is Low / Decca / 1964

set 3

Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Okay Blues / Jazzland / 7.5.60

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Be Bop’s Fables / Savoy / 1.31.49

Una Mae Carlisle / The Rest of My Life / Joe Davis / 10.20.44

The Ravens / I Don’t Have to Ride No More / National / 12.13.49 

Bobby Darin / This is Darin / Black Coffee / Atco / 5.12.59

set 4

Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders / I’ve Found a New Baby / Contemporary [unissued alt take] / LA 10.20-22.58 

Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Winston Walks / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Clarinet Marmalade / Bluebird / 10.1.41

King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

The Squires / Dreamy Eyes / Aladdin / Hollywood 1.2.51

Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Sweet Talk / Columbia / 1967

The Golden Echoes / Where Shall I Be (When the First Trumpet Sounds)? / Specialty / 4.5.49

last soulful song

Garnet Mimms / Roll with the Punches / United Artists / 4.13.67

On the Sunny Side of the Playlist

Troup! Squee!

Coffeetime, August 19, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Joe’s Debut  / Riverside / 11.17.59 

J.J. Johnson / JJ! in Person / Tune Up / Columbia / 2.19.58

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / So What / 7.17.40

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Shivery Stomp / Okeh / 5.22.29

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Miss Wonderful / Decca / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 11.30.29 / vocal = unknown

Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Tanya / Specialty / LA 7.8.46 

Nancy Wilson / The Swingin’s Mutual / The Things We Did Last Summer / Capitol / Hollywood 6.29.60 / with the George Shearing Quintet

set 2

Ben Webster / Soulmates / Trav’lin’ Light / Riverside / 9.20.63

Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Soul Lament / Blue Note / 1.8.63

Erskine Butterfield / Monday’s Wash / Davis / 6.20.56

Chu Berry Jazz Ensemble / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Commodore [unissued take 2] / 8.28.44

George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / No Strings (I’m Fancy Free) / Bluebird / 09.14.35 / vocal = Dolly Dawn

Johnny Mercer / Surprise Party / Capitol / Hollywood 8.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

The Clovers / If You Love Me (Why Don’t You Tell Me So) / Atlantic /12.15.54 

set 3

Jackie McLean / Dusty Foot / Blue Note [unissued] / 2.11.63

Teddy Wilson & his Trio / Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin / Summertime / Columbia / 1959

George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Moon Over Miami / Savoy / 1.31.49

Savannah Churchill & The Striders / In Spite of Everything You Do / RCA Victor / 12.51 

Helen Humes / This Love of Mine / Discovery / Hollywood 5.9.50 / with Marshall Royal Combo 

Bobby Troup & his Trio / That’s All / Liberty / Celebrity Room, Hollywood 1955 

set 4

Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Satin Doll / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957

Shelly Manne & His Men / Swinging Sounds / Bea’s Flat / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56

King Cole Trio / You Must Be Blind / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44

Anita O’Day / Once There Lived a Fool / London / 12.27.50 / with Ben Homer & his Orchestra

Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / I Married an Angel / Reprise / Hollywood 7.62 

The Pilgrim Travelers / The Life You Save May Be Your Own (The Safety Song) / Specialty [unissued take 3] / Hollywood 1.13.55

last soulful song

The Wallace Brothers (Ervin and Johnny) / You’re Mine / Sims / Nashville 1964

I've Got Sand in My Playlist

Why so mad, pretty bird?

Coffeetime, August 12, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Kenny Drew / This Is New: Kenny Drew / This Is New / Riverside / 4.3.57

Chet Baker / Comin’ On with The Chet Baker Quintet / Choose Now / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / The Glider / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / She Didn’t Say “Yes” / Columbia / 11.2.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Sail On Blues / Aladdin / LA early 1947 / vocal = Charles Brown

Julie London / All Through the Night / So in Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

set 2

Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Leave Room in Your Heart for Me / Felsted / 2.11.58

Wes Montgomery / [Unidentified Guitar Solo] / Riverside [unissued] / 10.10.63

Jimmy Cleveland / Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars / My One and Only Love / EmArcy / 11.19.55

Ruth Etting / Don’t Tell Him What Happened to Me / Columbia / 8.27.30

Jack Teagarden’s Chicagoans / Stars Fell on Alabama / Capitol / Hollywood 11.43

The Drifters / I’ve Got Sand in My Shoes / Atlantic / 8.4.64 

set 3

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Soul Finger / Buh’s Bossa / Limelight / 5.12.65

Bud Powell / Bud! / Idaho / Blue Note / 8.3.57

Charlie Parker / Bluebird / Savoy / 12.21.47

Bonnie Lake & the King Cole Trio / The Land of Make Believe / Davis & Schwegler/Keystone transcription / Hollywood 1.14.39

Melody Masters aka The Southern Sons / Wig Blues / Apollo / 10.31.46 

Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Isn’t This a Lovely Day / Verve / LA 3.19.57 

set 4

Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Frenesi / Contemporary / LA 2.24.56

Tony Aless / Tony Aless and His Long Island Suite / Riverhead / Roost / 7.55 

Big Sid Catlett / Just You, Just Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1.19.45

King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44

João Gilberto / Brazil’s Super Hits / Desafinado / Atlantic / 1963

Selah Jubilee Singers / I’ll Fly Away / Decca / 2.21.41

last soulful song

Denise LaSalle / Heartbreaker of the Year / Westbound / 1970

Little Playlist Blue

Sassy makes it seem easy!

Coffeetime, August 5, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet / Swingin’ the Samba / Blue Note / 1.31.59

Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / The Hand of Love / Blue Note / 5.19.57

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / All Too Soon / Victor / Hollywood 5.4.40

The Seven Blues Babies / Give Your Little Baby Lots of Lovin’ / Edison Diamond Disc [unissued lateral] / 1.2.29 / vocal = Jack Kaufman

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / When My Sugar Walks Down the Street / Bluebird / 9.6.39

Sarah Vaughan / Swingin’ Easy / Body and Soul / EmArcy / 4.2.54

set 2

Donald Byrd / Free Form / Night Flower / Blue Note / 12.11.61

Oscar Peterson / Plays the George Gershwin Song Book / Summer Time / Verve / summer 1949

James Moody / James Moody / Little Girl Blue / Argo [Cadet] / 8.59

California Ramblers / Clementine (From New Orleans) / Edison Diamond Disc / 9.27.27 / vocal = Ed Kirkeby

Harry Hudson & his Melody Men / My Wife Is on a Diet / Edison Bell / London 1930 / vocal = Leslie Sarony 

Jay McShann’s Kansas City Stompers / Come On Over to My House / Capitol / Kansas City 11.1.44 / vocal = Julia Lee

Ray Charles / Genius Hits the Road / New York’s My Home / ABC-Paramount / 3.25 & 29.60

set 3

Lee Morgan / [Standards] / Blue Gardenia / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.67

Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Moon and Sand / Verve / 12.64, 4.65 

Camille Howard & her Orchestra / Unidentified Boogie #2 / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 9.24.51

Mills Brothers / Loveless Love / Brunswick / Hollywood 4.14.32

Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum  / The Big Voice of / Sweet Sue – Just You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960

set 4

Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / The Merry Go Round Broke Down / Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Wildwood / Liberty / LA 2.27.57

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Ill Wind / Victor [unissued] / 10.16.41

King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / My One and Only Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1962

Alphabetical Four / Shake My Mother’s Hand / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song

Jackie Moore / Sweet Charlie Babe / If / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1973

Every Man to His Own Playlist

The great Jim Flora capturing the joy in music.

Coffeetime, July 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Prestige All Stars / Tenor Conclave / Just You, Just Me / Prestige / 9.7.56

Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57

Russ Columbo / Prisoner of Love / Victor / LA 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Every Man to His Own Profession / Decca / 4.23.47

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Decca / 9.12.50

set 2

Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61

Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / Just for a Thrill / Reprise / Hollywood 1961

Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946

Jack Teagarden / Blues to the Dole / Brunswick / 7.19.39 

Irene Bordoni / Don’t Look at Me That Way / Victor / 6.24.28 / with Irving Aaronson & his Commanders 

Jack McVea / New Worried Life Blues / Rhythm / LA spring 1945 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant

Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / I Couldn’t Care Less / Charlie Parker Records / Hollywood 1962

set 3

Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / The Lady Is a Tramp / Argo [Cadet] / 6.7.63 

Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #10 / They Can’t That Away from Me / Clef [Verve] / LA 1953 

The Four Vagabonds / If I Were You / RCA Victor / 5.13.45 

Toni Harper / Sam’s Song (The Happy Tune) / Columbia / LA 5.31.50 / with Four Hits & a Miss

Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / You Make Me Feel at Home / Jubilee / 1958

set 4

Les Spann / Gemini / Blues for Gemini / Jazzland / 12.8.60

Lou Stein Quartet & Octet / Eight for Kicks, Four for Laughs / That Old Feeling / Jubilee / 1956 

Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s

King Cole Trio / You’ve Changed / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.5.47

Raphael Muñoz & his Orchestra / Top Pops of Latin America / Muchos Besos / RCA Victor / 1955

Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / Photograph / Verve / Hollywood 1.27, 28.65

The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song

Minnie Riperton / Perfect Angel / The Edge of a Dream / Epic / 1974

Just a Playlist Named Joe

Raft, Sinatra… Janet Blair gets all the guys.

Coffeetime, July 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / News / Blue Note / 6.23.57

Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60

The Revelers / In a Little Spanish Town (’Twas on a Night Like This) / Victor / 1.20.27

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Rose of the Rio Grande / Swing / 6.7.38 / vocal = Ivie Anderson

Roebie Kirk / Don’t Want to Play in the Kitchen (Let’s Go Upstairs) / Harlem / LA c. 8.45 / with Tab Smith’s Orchestra 

Patti Page / The West Side / Here I’ll Stay / EmArcy / Hollywood 1.21.58 

set 2

Tony Scott / Scott’s Fling / Requiem for “Lips” / RCA Victor / 1.7-12.55 

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / The Boy Next Door / Roost / 3.18.57 

Bud Shank / Shank’s Pranks / Jasmine / Nocturne / Hollywood 1954 

Lonnie Simmons / Lonnie’s Blue / Parrot / Chicago 10.15.53

Oscar Aleman / Nobody’s Sweetheart / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38 

Milton Brown & his Brownies / Down By the O-H-I-O / Decca / Chicago 1.27.35

Frank Sinatra & Janet Blair / Lucky Strikes Presents Light Up Time radio show / Some Enchanted Evening / 12.13.49

Delta Rhythm Boys / In Sweden / Perdido / Jubilee [Metronome] / Stockholm 1956 

set 3

Lonnie Smith / Think! / Slouchin’ / Blue Note / 7.23.68

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One By One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63

The Mills Brothers / Just a Kid Named Joe / Decca / 8.18.38

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / A Ghost of a Chance / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45 / vocal = Hal Stevens

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55

Phineas Newborn Jr. / The Artistry of Phineas Newborn Jr / Dahoud / Atlantic / 5.3, 4.56

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Daahoud / Mercury / 1960

Prince Cooper / It’s a Hit Baby / Aristocrat / 9.1.47 

Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roulette / Hollywood 1959

The Soul Stirrers / Feel Like My Time Ain’t Long [alt take] / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / The First Minute of a New Day / Ain’t No Such Thing as a Superman / Arista / Maryland, summer 1974

I've Got My Playlist Working for Me Now

Mr. Lunceford, you are the definition of elegant!

Coffeetime, July 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Gettin’ and Jettin’ / Blue Note / 12.5.61 

Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / They All Laughed / New Jazz / 6.28.60

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Liza / Vocalion / 9.14.39

Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / She’s a Great, Great Girl / Brunswick / 3.7.28

Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Why Do I Get Those Blues? / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander

Rosemary Clooney / Thanks for Nothing / Black Coffee / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 2

Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / With Malice Toward None / Bethlehem / 6.13.60

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Born to Be Blue / Prestige / 5.18.60

James Moody / James Moody’s Moods / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Prestige / 1.28.55

Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29 

Cleo Brown / (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie / Decca / 3.12.35

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / My Old Flame / Columbia / 10.2.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee

The Showmen / 39-21-46 / Minit / New Orleans 2.4.63

set 3

James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi [take 5] / Riverside / LA 10.11.60

Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Sonia / Time / 3.23.60

Dizzy Gillespie / Groovin’ High / Guild / prob 2.28.45 

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Blue Afterglow / Columbia / 12.23.40 / vocal = Dan Grissom

Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Time Miss Lucy / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s

Hidle Brown “H.B.” Barnum / The Big Voice of / Baby, Baby, Baby (All the Time) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1960

set 4

Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Airegin / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57 

Steve Allen / Monday Nights / Rosetta / Signature / 1956

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + Eleven / Walkin’ [alt take 1] / Contemporary / LA 5.12.59 

King Cole Trio / By the River St. Marie / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38

Bing Crosby & Billy DeWolfe / I’ve Got My Captain Workin’ for Me Now / V Disc 820A, from the soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood c. fall 1945 

Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington in the Land of Hi-Fi / If I Were a Bell / EmArcy / 4.24.56

Soul Stirrers / Christ is All (the World to Me) / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.28.50

last soulful song

Betty Wright / All Your Kissin’ Sho’ Don’t Make True Lovin’ / Alston / 1970

A Very Proper Playlist

Cozy couple

Coffeetime, June 24, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Top Shelf / Riverside / 9.28.59

Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Catharsis / Riverside / 2.25.58

Wingy Manone & his Orchestra / Limehouse Blues / Bluebird / 6.19.39 

Debroy Somers Band / You’re an Old Smoothie / Columbia / London 1933 / vocal = Dan Donovan 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Orchestra / Have You Got the Gumption / Decca / Hollywood 11.24.47

June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Make Love to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 2

McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62

Teddy Charles / On Campus: Ivy League Jazz Concert / Yesterdays / Bethlehem / live, Yale 11.21.59

Seldon Powell / Sextet / A Flower is a Lonesome Thing / Roost / 1956

Louis Armstrong & his Stompers / Chicago Breakdown / Columbia / Chicago 5.9.27  

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Knock, Knock, Who’s There? / Victor / Chicago 8.4.36 / vocal = Roy Eldridge & Edward Cuffee 

Annisteen Allen / Trying to Live Without You / King / 1.28.53

Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Like? You Like? / Bravo! / 1959

Little Milton / You’re Welcome to the Club / Checker / Chicago 2.16.65

set 3

Joe Newman / Jive at Five / Cuein’ the Blues / Prestige / 5.4.60

Paul Chambers / Go / Julie Ann / Vee-Jay / Chicago 2.2.59

Howard McGhee Sextet / Midnight at Minton’s / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46

Helen Ward / Too Good to Be True / Victor / Chicago 4.27.36 / with Benny Goodman Trio

Dolly Cooper / I’d Climb the Highest Mountain / Savoy / 3.3.53 / with the Four Buddies

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56

set 4

Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / When Your Lover Has Gone / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55

Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Jazztone / 12.3.54

Dexter Gordon Quintet / Rosetta / Clef / LA 6.43

King Cole Trio / Rosetta / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.26.44 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / A Very Proper Town / MGM / 1958

The Five Trumpets / Tone the Bell Easy / Coral / Atlanta 1.31.50

last soul song

Brenda & the Tabulations / California Soul / Top and Bottom Records / Philadelphia 1970

Was That the Playlist Thing to Do

Mae eyes some candy

Coffeetime, June 17, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Freedom Rider / Blue Lace / Blue Note / 5.27.61

Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Free Flight / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56

Glen Gray Orchestra / Casa Loma Stomp / Victor / 2.17.33 

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Was That the Human Thing to Do / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Bill Moreing

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Orchestra / Why’d You Do It, Baby / Hollywood 12.8.47

Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / You Don’t Know My Mind / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2

King Curtis / The New Scene of King Curtis / Willow Weep for Me / New Jazz / 4.21.60

Duke Pearson / Hush! / Friday’s Child / Jazzline / 1.12.62

Secco Selichson / Gyspy Violin / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.38

Mae West / A Guy What Takes his Time / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.7.33 / from the Paramount Picture, She Done Him Wrong

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Used to Be Color Blind / radio broadcast / live, Blue Room at the Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38 / vocal = Tony Pastor

Danny Kaye / Let’s Not Talk about Love / Columbia / 1941 / from the Broadway musical Let’s Face It

Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / Manufacturers of Soul / Uptight / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.3-4.68

set 3

Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Fever / Verve / 7.25.63

Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / No Heat / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58  

Max Roach Quartet / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49

Basin Street Boys / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orchestra

Margaret Whiting / You’re an Old Smoothie / Capitol / LA 11.25.47 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra

Matt Monro / Blue and Sentimental / My Old Flame / London [Decca] / Glasgow 1957 / with Malcolm Lockyer & his Orchestra

set 4

Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large  / Land’s End / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14-15.60

Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / An Air for the Heir / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57

Ethel Waters / I Surrender Dear / radio transcription /  12.15.32

B.B. King / The B.B. Jones / soundtrack to Palomar Pictures, For Love of Ivy / ABC Records / LA 3.68

The Charioteers / In My Savior’s Care / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s

last soul song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / To Be True / Where Are All My Friends / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1974

Burnt Playlist and Black Coffee (Redux!)

Don't look at me like that, señor.

Coffeetime, June 10, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Pullin’ Strings / Contemporary / live at The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Chick Webb & his Orch / Harlem Congo / Decca / 11.37
Al Bowlly / Save the Last Dance for Me / Durium / 3.32 / with Roy Fox & his Band; Durium were cardboard records you could buy at a newstand
Ella Mae Morse / The Patty Cake Man / Capitol / 6.21.44 / with Paul Weston Orchestra
The Robins / I’m Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / I Didn’t Know About You / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2
Charlie Rouse & Paul Quinichette / The Chase Is On / When the Blues Come On / Bethlehem / 9.8.57
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Gone With the Wind / Prestige / 4.13.56
Chu Berry “Little Jazz” Ensemble / Body and Soul / Commodore / 11.10.38
Bette Davis / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / soundtrack, Warner Brothers movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / Hollywood 1943
Delta Rhythm Boys / La Cucaracha / radio transcription / 1941
Mike Pedicin / Burnt Toast and Black Coffee / King / 1961

set 3
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Work Song [alternate take 3] / Riverside / 2.1.60
Frank Foster / No Count / Serenata / Savoy / 3.5.56
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee [original take 4] / Savoy / 5.8.47
Betty Hutton / What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & “male quartet”
The Ravens / I’ve Been a Fool / National / 12.49
Yves Montand / France’s Formidable Yves Montand / Sanguine (Joli Fruit) / Odéon / Paris early 1954

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Mexican Passport / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Just Imagine / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Ben Smith / Travelin’ Papa / Apollo / 10.46
Linda Hopkins / Shiver and Shake / Atco / 6.12.57
Dean Martin / Dino Latino / Tangerine / Reprise / arranged & conducted by Don Costa / LA 1963
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / I Got It Within Me / Peacock / 1974

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

 

Too Many Irons in the Playlist

By hip cover illustrator and artist Ed Renfro

Coffeetime, June 3, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / Potpourri / Prestige / 4.19.57 

Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Onion Head / Jubilee / 8.9.57

Taft Jordan & the Mob / Night Wind / ARC / 2.21.35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Jordan

Annette Hanshaw / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Harmony / 2.20.31 

Chuck Higgins & his Mellotones / Motor Head Baby / Combo / LA 11.52 / vocal = John Watson (later known as Johnny “Guitar” Watson) http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/chuckhiggins.htm

Lee Wiley / Dave Garroway Presents The Wide, Wide World Of Jazz / Stars Fell on Alabama / RCA Victor / 6.12.56 / with Deane Kincaide’s Dixieland Band 

set 2

Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60

Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53

Lester Young / I Cover the Waterfront (take 1) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946

Teddy Bunn / Bachelor Blues / Blue Note / 2.28.40

The Mills Brothers / Too Many Irons in the Fire / Decca / 1944

Jimmy Witherspoon / It / Federal / LA 6.4.53

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

set 3

Wayne Shorter / Juju / Yes or No / Blue Note / 8.3.64

Cal Tjader / A Night at the Blackhawk  / Stompin’ at the Savoy / Fantasy / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco winter 1958-59
Charlie Parker / Leap Frog / Clef / 6.6.50

Mildred Bailey / Don’t Dally with the Devil / Vocalion / 9.21.39 / with Alec Wilder & his Orchestra and The Charioteers

The Four Aces / Ain’t It a Cryin’ Shame / Trilon / San Francisco 7.47 

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / There’s a Small Hotel / MGM / 1962

set 4

Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Mountain Greenery / Contemporary / LA 12.4.56  

Clifford Brown & Art Farmer / Clifford Brown Memorial / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / Stockholm 9.15.53 / with the Swedish All Stars
Charlie Parker & his Orchestra / Leap Frog / Clef / 6.6.50

Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton / Jazz Spec / Roses of Picardy / Columbia / 10.25.55 

Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968

The Soul Stirrers / The End of My Journey / Specialty / 2.27.53

last soulful song

Al Green / Let’s Stay Together / What Is This Feeling / Hi / Memphis 1971

I Want Some Playlist Baby

Dreaming of Hoagy…

Coffeetime, May 27, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Gene Ammons / The Happy Blues / Madhouse / Prestige / 4.23.56

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer’s Dream / Blue Note / 1.29.55

Bernard Addison & his Rhythm / Toledo Shuffle / Bluebird / 8.26.35

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Harlem Madness / Victor / 3.6.34 / vocal = Charles Holland 

Paul Gayten Orchestra / I Ain’t Gonna Let You In / Regal / 2.50 / duet with Annie Laurie 

Dinah Washington / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54

set 2

Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / You’ll Never Know / Jazzland / 7.19.61 

Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Dinky’s Mood / Prestige / 5.25.59

Charlie Barnet / More Charlie Barnet / I Can’t Get Started / Everest / 9.29.58

Napoleon’s Emperors / Anything / Victor / 5.23.29 

Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Doin’ the Suzie-Q / Decca / 10.27.36

The Blenders / You’ll Never Be Mine Again / Jay-Dee / 4.17.53 

Hoagy Carmichael / My Resistance Is Low / Decca / 3.1.51 / duet with Beverly Mahr, with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra and chorus

set 3

Chuck Jackson [Bobby Scott Orchestra] / Tribute to Rhythm and Blues, Volume 2 / Theme to the Blues #2 / Wand / 1966

John Jenkins & Donald Byrd / Jazz Eyes / Rockaway / Savoy / 9.10.57

Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / In the Middle of May / Columbia / 9.26.45 / vocal = Buddy Stewart & Anita O’Day

Bobby Short / Jump for Joy / I’m Confessin’ That I Love You / Atlantic / 1969

set 4

Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Mercury / 1959

Art Pepper & Conte Candoli / Mucho Calor / That Old Black Magic / Andex / Forum Theater, LA 4.24.58

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie Plays Hefti / Late Date / Roulette / 1958

Anita Boyer’s Tomboyers aka King Cole Trio / I’m Confessin’ / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44

Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly / Take Me Out to the Ballgame / from the MGM movie Take Me Out to the Ballgame / Hollywood 7.22.48

Tommy Ridgley / I Want Some Money Baby / Johen / New Orleans 01.09.64

Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Chuck Jackson / Tribute to Rhythm and Blues, Volume 2 / Every Man Needs a Down Home Girl / Wand / 1966

Playlist in the Moonlight

Nice hat, handsome.

Coffeetime, May 20, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Thermo / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62 

Curtis Fuller / New Trombone / Vonce #5 / Prestige / 5.11.57

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Nona / Bluebird / 11.6.40

New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Harmony Heaven / HMV / London 4.28.30 / vocal = Wally Vernon

The Clovers / Skylark / Atlantic / 2.22.51

Annie Ross / I’m Beginning to Think You Care for Me / Dee Gee / 4.1.52

set 2

The Modern Jazz Quartet / Medley: They Say It’s Wonderful; How Deep is the Ocean; I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; My Old Flame; Body and Soul / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57

Johnny Otis & his Orchestra / Thursday Night Blues / Modern / Hollywood 1949 

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Dicky Wells Blues / Swing / Paris 7.12.37

Bob Howard & his Orchestra / You Hit the Spot / Decca / 1.28.36

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / You Too, You Too? / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Stuart Foster

T-Bone Walker / T-Bone Blues / Papa Ain’t Salty / Atlantic / Chicago 4.21.55

set 3

James Moody / James Moody / Yesterdays / Argo [Cadet] / 8.59 

Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Cruising / Riverside / 4.27.57

Stan Getz / Prezervation / New Jazz / 6.21.49

Martha Raye / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944 / with Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones

The Opals / My Heart’s Desire / Apollo / 5.13.54 

Bobby Darin / Love Swings / Skylark / Atco / 1961

set 4

Gerry Mulligan / Mulligan Plays Mulligan / Roundhouse / Prestige / 8.27.51

Chet Baker / In Milan / Look for the Silver Lining / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59

Johnny Kaonohi Pineapple & his Islanders / Tricky Fingers / radio transcription / c. 1942

Gene Autry / Paradise in the Moonlight / Vocalion / Hollywood 4.13.39 / from Republic film Rovin’ Tumbleweeds

Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Toys / Liberty / LA 1967 

Gospel Five / He Woke Me Up This Morning / Cajalco / LA 1966

last soulful song

The Knight Brothers / Temptation ’Bout to Get Me / Checker / Chicago 1965

Playlist for Simon the Lionhearted

Play on, kitty.

Coffeetime, May13, 2016, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56

Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / I’m a Fool for Loving You / Victor / Chicago 4.8.36 

Harry Roy & his Bat Club Boys / Pussy! / Oriole / The Bat Club, London 1931

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / At the Swing Cat’s Ball / Decca / 3.29.38

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ll Never Smile Again / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61

Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57 

Fats Waller / Poor Butterfly / Associated radio transcription / 8.7.39

Sophie Tucker / The Man I Love / Okeh / Chicago 3.9.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra

The Cats & the Fiddle / I Miss You So / Bluebird / 12.7.39

Frank Sinatra / Over the Rainbow / V-Disc 822A: CBS radio broadcast rehearsal for “The Frank Sinatra Show” / 1.2.46 / with Axel Stordahl & orchestra, Ken Lane Singers

Bill Kenny / That’s How I Know You’re Mine / Vik / 1957

set 3

John Coltrane / Dakar / Cat Walk / Prestige / 4.20.57

Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Day Dreaming / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57

Red Rodney’s Be-Boppers / The Young at Bop / Elevation / EmArcy / 1.29.47 

Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / If Anything Happened to You / Decca / 4.21.39

The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra 

Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Sail Away / Columbia / 1956

set 4

Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Playa del Rey / Mode / Hollywood 9.57

Shorty Rogers & André Previn / Collaboration / Ev’rything I’ve Got (Belongs to You) / RCA Victor / 3.30.54 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Keep Cool / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1954 / vocal = Mauri Jones

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Toyland / Columbia / 1955

The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica mid-1960s

The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones Are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song

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

If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Playlist)

“Woo-eee, this gal does a good radio show!”

Coffeetime, May 6, 2016, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / A-1 / Savoy [unissued] / 11.5.56

Art Farmer / Meet the Jazztet / It’s All Right with Me / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60

George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / Our Delight / Prestige / 1.20.56

California Ramblers / Song of the Blues / Edison Diamond Disc / 8.1.29 

Annette Hanshaw / If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain) / Harmony / 10.19.28

Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / This Time the Dream’s on Me / Verve / LA 1.15.61

set 2

Paul Desmond / Imagination / RCA Victor / 3.15.62

Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Too Late Now / Riverside / 10.6.59

Sir Charles Thompson / Under the Sweetheart Tree / Vanguard / 8.16.54

Joe Venuti / April in Paris / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / Hollywood 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Molly Malone / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan

Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Taking a Chance on Love / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 3

Howard Roberts / Whatever’s Fair! / The Shadow of  Your Smile / Capitol / LA 1966

Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / 5.11.60

Flip Phillips–Howard McGhee Boptet / Cool / Mercury / LA 10.47 

Mills Brothers / Shine / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.16.32 / with Bing Crosby

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter / Musicraft / LA 11.8.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / This Time the Dream’s on Me / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)

set 4

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.29.56

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson featuring Oscar Pettiford Vol.1 / OP Meets LT / ABC-Paramount / 12.11.56

Ethel Waters / Shadows on the Swanee / Brunswick / 7.18.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Peggy Lee / Oh! You Crazy Moon / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49

Pee Wee Crayton / You Know Yeah / Imperial / LA 10.21.54

Dean Martin / I Ain’t Gonna Lead This Life No More / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

Hightower Brothers / Jesus Will Fix It / Nashboro / Nashville 1959

last soulful song

Archie Bell & the Drells / You’re Such a Beautiful Child / Atlantic 1968

There Ain’t No Sweet Playlist That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears

Couch singin’ with Damita & Steve (dig that guitar)

Coffeetime, April 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Minority / Riverside / 7.1.58

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Hey Doc! / Bluebird / 8.8.41

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / You’re Mine, You! / HMV / London 6.16.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly

King Porter & his Orchestra / Charlie the Boogie Man / Imperial / LA c. 12.19.47 / vocal = ensemble 

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / The Night We Called It a Day / Atlantic / 3.13.58

set 2

Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Sonny Boy / Prestige / 10.9.62

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Peter Gunn” / Dreamsville / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59

Ike Quebec Quintet / Blue Harlem / Blue Note / 7.18.44

Fats Waller / Turn on the Heat / Victor / 12.4.29 

J. C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Once or Twice / Vocalion / Chicago 10.24.29 / vocal = Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon 

The Merry Macs / Deep in the Heart of Texas / Decca / Hollywood 1942

Rhapsody with June Cole’s Orchestra [Miss Rhapsody aka Viola Wells] / Groovin’ the Blues / Savoy / 7.6.44

Little Milton [Campbell] / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 9.63

set 3

Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Favela / Blue Note / 10.5.62

Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / The Lady Is a Tramp / Savoy / 1956

Herbie Fields Hot Seven / Run Down / Savoy / 5.4.45

Roy Fox & his Orchestra / Rockin’ the Town / radio broadcast / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee

The Four Vagabonds / Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans / Apollo / 11.13.46 

Nat King Cole / L.O.V.E. / Thanks to You / Capitol / Hollywood 1964

set 4

Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Tynan Time / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56

Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / Aquarium / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54

Hadda Brooks / Say It with a Kiss / Modern [unrelease] / 1948

Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / When You Come Back to Me / RCA Victor / 6.18.51 

Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / There Ain’t No Sweet Girl That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

Soul Stirrers / How Far Am I from Canaan? / Specialty [unissued] / 3.1.51

last soulful song

Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965