Friday, September 29, 2023

To To Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Screenshot from the 1949 movie On the Town showing Vera Ellen standing in front of an upright piano while Gene Kelly in a navy uniform stands behind it looking at her.
Vera, realizing that Gene is one handsome navy man!

Coffeetime, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / The Lady Is a Tramp / Riverside / 10.15.57 
Tina Brooks / [The Waiting Game] / One for Myrtle / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61 
Henri Renaud & Bobby Jaspar / Play Gigi Gryce Compositions With Jimmy Gourley / Schabooz / Vogue / Paris 11.2.53 
The Chocolate Dandies / Krazy Kapers / Okeh / 10.3.33 
Lew Stone & his Band / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Decca / London 12.29.33 / vocal = Joe Grossman & ensemble
Camille Howard / Sundays with You / Specialty / Hollywood 1948
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / I Know Why / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays Porgy & Bess / Oh Bess, Where’s My Bess? / Verve / LA 10.12.59 
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Coleman Hawkins Quartet / Imagination / Keynote / 2.17.44 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / (I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I’ll Be Happy / RCA Victor / 4.8.46
Jack Pettis & his Pets / Spanish Dream / Victor / 7.3.28 
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Don’t Let It Bother You / Victor / 8.17.34 / vocal repartee with drummer Harry Dial
Dean Hudson & his Orchestra / Once in Love with Amy / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1948 / vocal = The Sherry Sisters 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / I’ll Buy You a Star/ Columbia / 1960

set 3
Joe Alexander / Blue Jubilee / Blues Jubilee / Jazzland / 6.20.60 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World / Hi-Fly / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 
Charlie Parker / Ornithology / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Imagination / Victor / 3.25.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 
The Dixieaires / Keep Me with You / Gotham / late 1940s / with Tiny Grimes on guitar
Cal Bostic / Two Cities / CKPR – Lakehead Guest / Thunder Bay, Ontario 1964

set 4
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d 
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / How About You / Bethlehem / 11.56 / Socolow ts, as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa p, Sal Salvador g, Bill Takus b, Jimmy Campbell d 
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / To To Blues / Parlophone / 9.10.31 / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as, bari, Joe Venuti vln, Lennie Hayton p, cel, Eddie Lang g, Paul Graselli d 
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Gene Kelly & Vera-Ellen / Main Street / from the MGM movie On the Town / Hollywood 1949 
The Dixie-Aires / Movin’ Up King’s Highway / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Patti Drew / He’s the One I Love / Capitol / 1969

Lost & Found: How? (When My Playlist Belongs to You)

Screenshot from a video of Curtis Mayfield holding a microphone, performing The Makings of You in the 1970s, with his guitarist in the background.
The great Curtis Mayfield on “the makings.”

Lost & Found, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
The Epsilons / Mind in a Bind / Hem / Washington, DC 1967
Billy Keene / Wishing and Hoping / Vault / LA 1968
Dandeliers / Walk On with Your Nose Up / Midas / Chicago 1967 / cha cha
The Admirations / Wait ’Til I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1967 / sounding like the 5 Stairsteps
LaBrenda Ben / Just Be Yourself / Gordy / Detroit 1963 / with The Andantes / cha cha
Barbara West / Congratulations, Baby / Ronn Records / Shreveport 1967
The Love Potion / This Love / Kapp / 1969 / cha cha

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
Tutti Hill / He’s a Lover / ARock / 1964 / cha cha
Mary Wells / Sings My Guy / How? (When My Heart Belongs to You) / Motown / Detroit 1964 / cha cha
The Stoppers / Come Back / Jubilee / 1966 / cha cha
Diane Ray / My Summer Love (Is Heading for an Early Fall) / Mercury / 1963 / cha cha
Ketty Lester / Please Don’t Cry Anymore / RCA Victor / 1964 / cha cha

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Wee Willie Walker / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Goldwax [unissued] / Memphis 1967
Thee Midniters / Giving Up on Love / Whittier Records / LA 1966
Syl Johnson / Diamond in the Rough / Could I Be Falling in Love / Hi Records / Memphis 1974
The Spinners / There’s No One Like You / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1974
Jackie DeShannon / Medley: You Keep Me Hangin’ On; Hurt So Bad / Imperial / LA 1970

bed
Santi Latora / Mo'plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Willie Tee / Reach Out for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1970
James Phelps / The Look on Your Face / Apache / Chicago 1971
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Show Me the Way to Go / Brunswick / 1968
Black Heat / Black Heat / Time Is Going to Catch You / Atlantic / 1972
The Vel-Vetts / You Really Never Know Till It’s Over / Doré / LA 1966
Joyce Kennedy / Does Anybody Love Me / Blue Rock / Chicago 1965

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
James Brown / Say It Loud – I’m Black and I'm Proud / Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye / King / 1968
James Dee & A Peace Of The Action & The Primettes / Jealous Over Love / Enrica / late-1960s
Henry Caldwell / A New World Is Just Beginning / Carnival / 1970
Curtis Mayfield / Curtis/Live! / The Makings of You / Curtom / recorded live at the Bitter End 1.71

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972
The Natural Four / Heaven Right Here on Earth / Baby Come On / Curtom / 1975
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan / Sweet Thing / ABC Records / Chicago 1975
Lakeside / Something About That Woman / Solar / LA 1981

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969
The Four Shades / My World / Ronn / 1972
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

last found soulful song
Major Lance / Sweet Music / Okeh / Chicago 11.27.63
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Friday, September 22, 2023

Oh, Chuck It (In a Playlist)

Screenshot up very close to Harry "Sweets" Edison's hands while he plays his trumpet in a black and white filmed concert in England in 1964.
The sweets hands of Mr. Edison.

Coffeetime, September 22, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Curtain Call / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Little Jack Little / I'm Going Shopping with You / Columbia / Hollywood 1.28.35
Goree Carter, his Guitar & his Rocking Rhythm Orchestra / Is It True / Freedom / Houston 1949
Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Someday Sweetheart / Vee-Jay / Las Vegas 1964 / Harry “Sweets” Edison t, Eric Dixon ts, Don Abney p & arr, Wyatt Ruther b, J.C. Heard d

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

set 2
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Such Is Life / Prestige / 12.23.68
The Jazztet & John Lewis / Featuring Art Farmer & Benny Golson / New York 19 / Argo / 12.20-21.60
The Three Keys / Mood Indigo / Columbia / 8.29.32
Adrian & his Tap Room Gang / Nagasaki / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Putney Dandridge & ensemble
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket) / Capitol / Kansas City 4.49 
Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / Sunday in New York / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.64

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Sunday in New York / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / A Smooth One / Prestige / 5.25.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Red Pepper / Savoy / 12.20.46
Mills Brothers / My Gal Sal / Decca / 9.13.34
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Poor Simple Simon / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Lazy Afternoon / MGM / 1962

set 4
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / September Song / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Sunday Afternoon / RCA Victor / 7.26.52
King Cole Trio / All for You / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Anthony Newley / This is Tony Newley / I’ll Walk Beside You / London / London 1962
The Dixie-Aires / Time’s Winding Up / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / The Truth Is Free / Stairway / Dallas 1972
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971


Friday, September 15, 2023

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Walter Huston sitting in a chair by a fireplace with a lit pipe in his hand, dressed for his role in the 1939 movie The Light That Failed set in the late 1800s.
Walter considers September over a pipe by the fire.

Coffeetime, September 15, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Smith / Smithville / Wetu / Blue Note / 3.30.58 
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Mr. P.C. / Atlantic / 4.5.59 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Warm Valley / Victor / Chicago 10.17.40 
Harry Reser & his Orchestra / Just the Same / Okeh / 4.13.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Chuck Willis / I Tried (To Get Along with You) / Okeh / 6.27.51 
Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Sings / You Go to My Head / Clef / 3.26.52 

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

set 2
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59 
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Going for Myself / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me [alt] / Verve / 2.7.58 
Smith-Glamann Quintet / Poinciana / September Song / Bethlehem / 8.1.54 
Charley Straight & his Orchestra / Minor Gaff / Vocalion / Chicago 5.28.26
Midge Williams & her Jazz Jesters / In Any Language / Vocalion / 11.23.37 
Maggie Hathaway & her Bluesmen / Nobody’s Business What I Do / Black & White / LA 3.22.47  
Dick Haymes / Richard, The Lion-Hearted – Dick Haymes, That Is! / Playboy Theme / Warwick / 1960

set 3
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / Do It / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi Fi / Topsy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56 
Flip Phillips / Collates / Cheek to Cheek / Clef / 1952 
The Four Vagabonds / Heart of My Heart / Apollo / 7.47  
Jo Stafford / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Capitol / Hollywood 11.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / I Cover the Waterfront / EmArcy / 12.27.57 / with Pete Rugolo & his All Stars

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Playboy’s Theme / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.60 / Johnny Williams harpsichord, Dick Nash tb, Larry Bunker on marimba, and cover design by Don Peters o
René Thomas / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 1954 / Thomas g, André Ross ts, René Urtregger p, Benoît Quersin b, Jean-Louis Viale d
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944
King Cole Trio / That’s a Natural Fact / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / She’s the No Sleepin’est Woman / Black & White / LA 12.18.47
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of ’66 / Once in Love with Amy / Reprise / 12.66 / from musical (and movie) Where’s Charley? (1952) starring Ray Bolger, music & lyrics by Frank Loesser
The Bronzemen / Every Time I Feel the Spirit / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
The Manhattans / Love Is Breakin’ Out (All Over) / Carnival / 1969



Friday, September 08, 2023

Breezin’ Along with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 165

Screenshot of Art Pepper playing his saxophone on the 1964 TV show Jazz Casual. He's wearing a suit and tie.
The amazing – and handsome, not that that matters – Mr. Pepper.

Coffeetime, September 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Straight Ahead / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Sonny Red / Breezing / Breezing / Jazzland / 11.3.60 / quotes Happy Days Are Here Again 
Edgar Hayes & his Orchestra / Help Me / Brunswick / 2.17.38 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In My Merry Oldsmobile / Victor / 5.23.27 / vocal = Stanley “Doc” Ryker sax, Howdy Quicksell bj, & Ray Lodwig t 
Hot Lips Page Trio / Evil Man’s Blues / Victor / 12.10.40 / Page t & Teddy Bunn g & voc, Ernest Hill b 
Barbara Lea / Lea in Love / Will I Find My Love Today / Prestige / 4.26.57 / [Johnny Windhurst tp,] Dick Cary p, [Ernie Caceres cl,] Al Casamenti g, Al Hall b, Osie Johnson d

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

set 2
Bucky Pizzarelli / Green Guitar Blues / The Summer Knows / Monmouth Evergreen / spring 1972 / Bucky [& Mary] Pizzarelli g, George Duvivier b, [Don Lamond d] 
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / Indian Summer / Impulse! / spring 1965 
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Moon / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Seattle Harmony Kings / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / Victor / 8.2.26 
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / Victor / 2.20.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Beverly Peer b 
Wally Mercer / If You Don’t Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54 
Bing Crosby / That’s What Life Is All About / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / United Artists / London 2.75 

set 3
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Indian Summer / Atlantic / 8.29.60 
Sonny Stitt / Now! / Lester Leaps In / Impulse! / 7.10.63 
Babe Russin / 5054 Whitsett / Keynote / LA 3.8.46 h
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Heart and Soul / Victor / 9.1.38 / vocal = Bea Wain 
The Four Buddies / My Summer’s Gone / Savoy / 1.13.51 / Leon “Larry” Harrison, lead tenor vocal; Gregory Carroll, 2nd tenor vocal; Bert Palmer, baritone vocal; Tommy Smith, bass vocal; with Harry Van Walls p, Rene Hall g, Carl Wilson b
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / Between an Old Love and a New Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, [Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl], Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / Hollywood 8.6.56 / Pepper as, Jack Sheldon t, Russ Freeman p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Shelly Manne d 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Steve Allen Theme / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18.58 / Bud Shank as, Bob Cooper ts, Claude Williamson p, Don Prell b, Chuck Flores d 
Gus Viseur / Chansons de Paris / Paris je t’aime (I Love Paris) [Cole Porter] / Barclay / Paris 5.55 / Viseur accordion, Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d, others unknown
King Cole Trio / How Does It Feel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Beny Moré / Paré… Que Llego el Bárbaro [Stop… The Barbarian Has Arrived] / Como Arrullo de Palma [Like the Lullaby of the Palm) / Discuba / Cuba 1958
Little Milton [Campbell] / Blind Man / Checker / Chicago 1963
Golden Gate Quartet / Do Unto Others / Columbia / 10.47

last soulful song
Ann Peebles / This Is Ann Peebles / Make Me Yours / Hi Records / Memphis 1968

Friday, September 01, 2023

Gravels in my Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 164

Screenshot from a 1959 episode of Playboy Penthouse showing Cy Coleman sitting at the piano singing with Charlie Shavers alongside playing his muted trumpet. Also at the piano stands Hugh Hefner and a woman; Hugh is lighting his pipe.
Lighting it up with Cy and Charlie!

Coffeetime, September 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Automation / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Lou Donaldson / Swing and Soul / Groove Junction / Blue Note / 6.9.57 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Jam Session / Victor / 11.5.36 
Irene Taylor / I Did Wanta, But I Don’t Wanta Now / Okeh / Dallas 9.25 / with Jack Gardner’s Orchestra 
Charles Brown & his Band / Soothe Me / Aladdin / New Orleans 9.4.56 / with Ernie Freeman’s Combo: Freeman p, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b, Ray Martinez d 
Al “Cake” Wichard Sextet / Gravels in My Pillow / Modern / LA 12.47 / vocal = Duke Henderson; Wichard d
Sarah Vaughan / The Divine One / Somebody Else’s Dream / Roulette / 10.60 

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

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / [Black Forrest] / These Foolish Things / [Delmark] / Chicago 12.59 
Wardell Gray / Sweet Lorraine / New Jazz / 11.11.49 
Slim Gaillard Trio / Tip Light / MGM / 12.12.49 / Gaillard g, rest unknown
Phil Ohman & Victor Arden / Manhattan / Brunswick / 11.11.25 / Ohman p & Arden bj, with the Regent Club Orchestra 
Chick Bullock & his Levee Loungers / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Perfect / 4.13.31
Marlene Dietrich / You Go to My Head / Decca / Hollywood 12.15.39 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Frankie Laine / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Mercury / 1946 / with Carl Fischer’s Swingtet

set 3
Frank Foster / Soul Outing! / Chiquito Loco / Prestige / 7.11.66 
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / Minor Strain / Roulette / 6.60 / Morgan t, Wayne Shorter ts, Bobby Timmons p, Jimmy Rowser b, Art Taylor d; Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars / Tunis / Apollo / 1947 
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / Shad Collins tp, Lester Young ts, Clyde Hart p, John Collins g, Nick Fenton b, Doc West d
The Charioteers / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Columbia / 6.3.47
Bobby Short / Bobby Short / Bedelia / Atlantic / 1956

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Chiquito Loco / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.53 / so many cool West Coast players 
Zoot Sims / In Hollywood / Toot No. 2 / New Jazz / 1954 / Sims ts, Stu Williamson t, valve tb, Kenny Drew p, Ralph Pena b, Jimmy Pratt d
King Cole Trio / The Man I Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1.17.44 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
King Cole Trio / I Tho’t You Ought to Know / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.45
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Columbia / 1967 / composed by Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields; for Broadway musical Sweet Charity 
Harmonizing Four / Farther Along / Vee-Jay / 1957

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Gimme Little Sign / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Friday, August 25, 2023

Keep Your Playlist on Your Heart: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 163

Screenshot from TV Show This Is Tom Jones from 1970 showing Dusty Springfield (in a multi-colored dress and her hair up in a large, curly bouffant hairdo) facing and singing with Tom Jones (who is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie). They are both smiling and holding small cylindrical microphones.
We feel your Tom-joy, Dusty!

Coffeetime, August 25, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Warming Up! / Day by Day / Vanguard / 1964
Gil Mellé / Quadrama / It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing) / Prestige / 4.26.57 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40 
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Columbia / London 10.33 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Somebody Stole My Break / Decca / 4.28.36 / dialogue with Rudy “Dutch” Smith 
Jimmy Rushing / Thursday’s Blues / Excelsior / Hollywood 1947 / with Jimmy Mundy’s Orchestra 
Donna Brooks / I’ll Take Romance / Love Is a Fool / Dawn / 1956 

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy / Outward Bound / Glad to Be Unhappy / New Jazz / 4.1.60 
Lem Winchester & The Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform A Tribute To Clifford Brown / A Message from Boysie / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58 
Coleman Hawkins’ All American Four / Don’t Blame Me / Mercury / 5.29.44 / Hawkins ts, Teddy Wilson p, John Kirby b, Sid Catlett d
Cliff Edwards & his Hot Combination / I Want Somebody to Cheer Me Up (alt) / Perfect / 12.28.25
Ethel Waters / Don’t Blame Me / Brunswick / 7.18.33 / with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pat Valdelar aka Patsy Vidalia / Keep Your Hand on Your Heart / Mercury / New Orleans 1953 
Ann Henry / New Faces of ’56 / And He Flipped / RCA Victor / 1956

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.4 & 5.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / One O’Clock Jump (first version) / Blue Note / 10.14.63 
Lester Young / New Lester Leaps In / Aladdin / LA 1946 https://www.discogs.com/release/10914241-
The Boswell Sisters / Crazy People / Brunswick / 12.7.32 / Martha Boswell p, Dick McDonough g, Artie Bernstein b 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Get Me One of Those / Columbia / 1949 / vocal = Gloria Wood & Bob Carroll
David Allen / David Allen Sings Jerome Kern / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / World Pacific / LA 1958 / arranged & conducted by Johnny Mandel; celeste! guitar!

set 4
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Hank’s Holiday / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt 
Bernie Nerow / Bernie Nerow Trio / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Nerow p, Max Wayne b, Dick Stein d; cover design by Eva Diana Count Basie & his Orchestra / There’s a Small Hotel / Clef / 7.22 & 23.52 
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour & George Van Eps g, Hal Schaefer p, Phil Stephens b, Nick Fatool d
Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / from the ABC TV show This Is Tom Jones / Hollywood 1.22.70 (air date) 
The Luvenia Nash Singers / John the Revelator / Excelsior (unissued) / Hollywood 1946

last soulful song
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

Friday, August 18, 2023

My Playlist Is Rugged : Coffeetime Homebrew ep 162

Screenshot from a video of Jorge Ben sitting on a stool on stage playing his guitar and singing into a microphone. He's wearing a white shirt.
Jorge wants to forget…

Coffeetime, August 18, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis Sextet / Zig-Zag / Mode / Hollywood 6.5 & 6.57 
Lawrence Marable / Tenorman / Three Fingers North / Jazz:West / Hollywood 8.4.56 
Eddie Durham & his Band / I Want a Little Girl / Decca / 11.11.40 
Lew Stone & his Band / Thanks / Decca / London 10.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Effie Smith & Jimmie Grissom & The Blenders / Answer to RM Blues / Miltone / LA 1947 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella and Louis Again / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Man with a Horn / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Roy Eldrige / Musique Originale Du Film Les Tricheurs / Phil’s Blues / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58 
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney 1955 / What’s New / Prestige / 2.18.55 
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five / Savoy Blues / Okeh / Chicago 12.13.27 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Columbia / London 4.21.33
Ruth Etting / That’s What Heaven Means to Me / Melotone / 5.9.32
Herb Jeffries / Jump for Joy / AFRS Jubilee #20 / Hollywood 4.12.43 / with MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman and the Eddie Beal Trio: Eddie Beal p, Ulysses Livingston g, Joe Comfort b 
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hello Sunshine / Trojan / Kingston, Jamaica 1969 

set 3
Duke Pearson / The Phantom / Los Ojos Alegres (The Happy Eyes) / Blue Note / 9.11.68 
Paul Desmond / Glad to Be Unhappy / A Taste of Honey / RCA Victor / 7.14.64 
Jesse Price & his Jump Jivers / Creepin’ and Peepin (Tippin’ Out) / Miltone / LA 1948
The Three Keys / Song of the Islands / Vocalion / 8.16.33 
Harry James & his Orchestra / My Beloved Is Rugged / Columbia / 7.22.42 / vocal = Helen Forrest; written by Seger Ellis 
Frank Sinatra / In the Wee Small Hours / Glad to Be Unhappy / Capitol / Hollywood 2.8.55 / with Rhythm Section Conducted by Bill Miller: Miller p, Paul Smith celeste, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Alvin Stoller d, Nelson Riddle arr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wee_Small_Hours

set 4
Herbie Mann / Flamingo / I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star / Bethlehem / 6.55 / Mann 4 different flutes overdubbed, Joe Puma g, Charles Andrus b, Harold Granowsky d; such a fun cover design by Burt Goldblatt 
Herbie Harper / Jazz in Hollywood: Herbie Harper / Now Playing / Nocturne / 1954 / Bud Shank bs, Harper tb, Marty Paich p, Harry Babasin b, Roy Harte d 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans / More Than You Know / Clef / LA 12.7.53 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45 / Nat King Cole p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Summertime / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.28.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Quero Esquecer Você [I Want to Forget You] / Phillips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / The Love of God / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
The Emotions / Sunshine / I Really Miss You / Stax / Stax / Muscle Shoals 1977 



Friday, August 04, 2023

Happy Go Lucky Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 161

Screenshot of a video of Johnny Hodges playing his saxophone from 1958. It shows a close up of his face and top of the sax.
There’s not much is smoother than Mr. Hodges.

Coffeetime, August 4, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Plexus [alt take] / Blue Note / 4.9.61 
Red Mitchell & Harold Land / Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! / Triplin’ Awhile / Atlantic / San Francisco 10.14..61 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Swingin’ Uptown / Victor / 3.20.34 
Harry Reser’s Jazz Pilots / Happy Go Lucky Lane / Okeh / 6.25.28 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / Fool About You Daddy / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.1.50
Kitty White / A Moment of Love / Glad to Be Unhappy / Pacific Records / Hollywood 1954 / Corky Hale harp

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

set 2
Eric Dolphy & Booker Little / Far Cry / Left Alone / New Jazz / 12.21.60 
Ernie Royal / Accent on Trumpet / What Is There to Say / Urania / 11.26.55 / Royal t, George Barnes & Sydney Gross g, Billy Taylor p, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Joe Bushkin / Piano Moods / Everyday Is Christmas / Columbia / 1950
Clarence Williams’ Washboard Five / Have You Ever Felt That Way? / Okeh / 9.26.28 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / The Morning After / Lang-Worth Transcription / late 1940 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Helen Humes / Flippity Flop Flop / Mercury / early 1948 / with Buck Clayton’s Orchestra: Clayton t, Scoville Brown cl, Rudy Williams ts, Teddy Wilson p, Jimmy Butts b, (probable) Denzil Best d
Al Brown & his Tunetoppers / Sweet Little Love / Amy / 1960

set 3
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / Not So Dukish / Verve / 9.10.58 
Frank Strozier / Long Night / The Crystal Ball / Jazzland / 9.12.61 
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958 / Johnson p, Brooks p & cel, Teddy Bunn g, Bill Cooper b, Al Wichard d Bea Wain / Hello, My Lover, Goodbye / Bluebird / 12.10.41
The Three Riffs / Cherry in My Lemon and Lime / Apollo / 5.9.50 
Don Nelson / The Wind / It Happened Once Before / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / with Jimmy Rowles celeste, Leroy Vinnegar b, Stan Levey d

set 4
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Girl Talk / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Paul Togawa / Paul Togawa / Ben’s Blues / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / Gabe Baltazar as, Dick Johnston p, Ben Tucker b, Togawa d; cover portrait painting by Eva Diana
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses [master take] / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43
Peggy Lee / Georgia on My Mind / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole org, Tommy Romersa d 
Ed Ames / Time, Time / What the World Needs Now Is Love / RCA Victor / 1967
Fairfield Four / Love Like a River / Dot / 10.50

last soulful song
The Impressions / The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story / Soulful Love / Curtom / Chicago 1969 



Friday, July 21, 2023

I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Playlist): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 160

Black & white photo of Billie Poole looking up in a studio setting, perhaps recording, wearing a sequined gown with straps.
The radiant (other) Billie.

Coffeetime, July 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill Hardman / Saying Something / Capers / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Smoothie / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Muggsy Spanier & his Ragtime Band / Relaxin’ at the Touro / Bluebird / 11.22.39 
The Captivators aka Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Somebody to Love Me / Brunswick / 10.22.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert 
Lloyd Glenn & his Joymakers / That Other Woman’s Gotta Go / Imperial / LA 12.47 / vocal = Geraldine Carter; Jake Porter t, Marshall Royal as, Gene Porter ts, Glenn p, Gene Phillips g, Art Edwards b, Bill Street d
Billie Poole / Confessin’ the Blues! / God Bless the Child / Riverside / 1962 / Junior Mance p, Kenny Burrell g, Bob Cranshaw b, Mickey Roker d

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

set 2
Billy Bauer / Plectrist / It’s a Blue World / Norgran / 1.23.56 / Bauer g, Andrew Ackers p, Milt Hinton b, Osie Johnson d
Oscar Peterson / We Get Requests / My One and Only Love / Verve / 10.20.64 
Howard McGhee / The Man with a Horn / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 / feature for Rudy Williams ts 
Yale Hawaiian Trio / One Summer Night / Brunswick / 4.23.27 
Lena Wilson / I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Man) / Diva [Columbia] / 2.6.30 / Cliff Jackson p
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dance with Les Brown / Rock Me to Sleep / Columbia / 1954 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Sam Cooke / At the Copa / Try a Little Tenderness; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; You Send Me / RCA Victor / live, Copa Copacabana 7.7 & 8.64 

set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Dorman Road / New Jazz / 6.17.61 
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / Morning of the Carnival (from Black Orpheus) / Philips / fall 1962 
Randy Hall / Sweet Sue, Just You / AFRS Jubilee #70 / Hollywood 3.13.44 / Hall on tin whistle with the Armed Forces Radio Trio aka Les Paul Trio; master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Griff Williams & his Orchestra / You’re Wonderful / radio broadcast / 1946 / vocal = Bob Kirk
The Syncopators / River Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49 
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / I Could Have Told You / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Hurry Burry / Prestige / Stockholm 10.10.56 / Mann fl, Åke Persson tb, Knud Jorgenson p, George Riedel b, Joe Harris d 
Lyle “Spud” Murphy / New Orbits in Sound / Slightly Off Center / GNP / Hollywood 9.30.57 / Milt Bernhart, Dick Nash tb, Russ Cheever ss, Buddy Collette as, Morrie Crawford ts, Bill Ulyate bs, Curtis Counce b and Larry Bunker d
King Cole Trio / Bedtime / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 11.40 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43 / now Johnny Miller b
Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / Hollywood 12.6.44 / with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Ray Walston, Thurl Ravenscroft, & the Ken Darby Singers / There Is Nothing Like a Dame / soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie South Pacific / Hollywood 1958 / Ravenscroft dubs for Ken Clark playing Stewpot
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Cilla Black / Images / Make It with You / Parlophone / London 1971

Friday, July 14, 2023

The Playlist Next Door

Screenshot from the movie Words and Music showing Perry Como and Cyd Charisse sitting at a white grand piano that he's playing while he sings to her. Both are wearing white: he's in a white suit and tie and she is in a white gown with a lace collar and a white gem necklace. They are sitting in a room with a blue glow of light.
Perry tries the words and the music on Cyd.

Coffeetime, July 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59 
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Lover / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.5.58 
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Alone in the Rain / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders (lead) & Carleton A. Coon 
Annisteeen Allen & her Home Town Boys / More More More / Queen / Cincinnati 12.19.45 / Bull Moose Jackson & his Orchestra 
Ella Fitzgerald / Bewitched / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62 

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

set 2
Red Garland / Red Alone / I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60 
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / The Boy Next Door / Columbia / LA 8.15.56
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 2.3.56 / Mathews accordion, Oscar Pettiford b, Kenny Clarke d
Charlie Ventura & his Bop for the People / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / RCA Victor / 4.7.49
Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 1.14.38
Dinah Washington / Mellow Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.45
Wally Mercer / If You Don’t Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Say Hello to Miss Brown / Atlas / LA c. 1948 / vocal = Joe Alexander; Red Mack t, Jones as, Betty Hall Jones p, Chuck Barksdale b, George Vann d, & an unknown sax player 
Debbie Reynolds / A Lady Loves / soundtrack to MGM movie I Love Melvin / Hollywood 4.18.52 / with the MGM Studio Chorus

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Bone & Bari / Again / Blue Note / 8.4.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_%26_Bari
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / A Bid for Sid / Roulette / 6.60 / Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Charlie Parker / The Charlie Parker Story / Thriving on a Riff (“new take 1”) aka Anthropology / Savoy / 11.26.45
Spirits of Rhythm / Junk Man / Decca / 9.14.34 
Perry Como / That Feeling in the Moonlight / V-Disc 541A / 1945 / with Russ Case & his Orchestra and The Satisfiers
Joe Mooney / On the Rocks / Lazy Countryside / Decca / 7.28.47

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / All the Things You Are / Contemporary / LA 11.26.56
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Figure 8 / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44
Maxine Sullivan / Skylark / International / 1947 / with Ellis Larkins Trio
Sammy Davis Jr / As Long As She Needs Me / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / Reprise / LA 2.6.61 
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
5˚ Farenheit / Vibrations / Abet / Nashville 1970
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

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Friday, July 07, 2023

The Wildest Playlist in Town

Blonde Ella Mae Morse wearing a white blouse, smiling while looking into the TV camera, with an orchestra seated behind her and a large microphone aimed at the orchestra.
Ella Mae and her smile

Coffeetime, July 7, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56 
Gigi Gryce / And the Jazz Lab Quintet / Minority / Riverside / 2.27.57 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Honey / Columbia / 4.9.29 / vocal = Larry Murphy 
Little Esther / Bring My Lovin’ Back to Me / Federal / LA 1.4.52 
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / The Wildest Gal in Town / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
Doug Watkins / Soulnik / Imagination / New Jazz / 5.17.60 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 
Larry Adler / My Melancholy Baby / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 / with The Quintette du Hot Club de France: Larry Adler har, Stephane Grappelly p, Django Reinhardt g, Joseph Reinhardt, Eugene Vees g, Roger Grasset b
Lee Wiley / You Came to My Rescue / live radio show from Club Richman (possible) in NYC 1936 / with Freddie Rich & his Orchestra and introduction by Harry Richman
The Cats & the Fiddle / Just a Roamer / Victor / Chicago 12.7.39 
The Ray-O-Vacs / Start Lovin’ Me / Jubilee / 1952 / with Herb Millner on lead vocal
Gilbert Grenier / L'île Aux Chimères/ La Vieille Dame et le Jeune Homme / La Voix de Son Maître (HMV) / Paris 1966 

set 3
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Whisper Not / Riverside / 10.6.59
Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / Ralph’s New Blues / Prestige / 7.2.55
Jimmy Forrest / Calling Dr. Jazz / United / St. Louis (prob) 9.7.53  
The Mills Brothers / Sweet Sue, Just You / Brunswick / 4.14.32
Ella Mae Morse / Thank Your Lucky Star / radio transcription AFRS Command Performance #74 / 7.10.43 / introduction by Ronald Colman
Buddy Greco / Hang Your Hat at Mister Kelly’s / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / Pennies from Heaven / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55 
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Verve / LA 1959 Roberts g, Pete Jolly p, Red Mitchell b, Stan Levey d  
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43
Peggy Lee & Woody Herman / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along / radio transcription/ Hollywood summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra and Eddie Bracken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bracken
Frank Gorshin / Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording] / What’s Out There for Me? / RCA Victor / 1969
The Trumpeteers / Milky White Way; Blind Barnabas / Score / 1948

last soulful song
The Five Stairsteps / Ooh Child / Buddhah / 1970



Friday, June 30, 2023

Calling Dr. Playlist

Screenshot of Nancy Wilson in a tight, gold, sequined gown singing at a microphone in front of a stage curtain on a 1966 episode of I Spy. She has a bouffant hairdo and has her arms raised up as she sings.
I’ll never stop loving Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, June 30, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, Volume 1 / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 11.11.60 / announcer = deejay & wife of Blue Note owner Alfred Lion, Ruth Mason 
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Moods / Vocalion / 8.8.34
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr. Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
Etta Jones / This Is a Fine Time / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / I’ll Never Stop Loving You / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Missing You / Riverside / 1.5.59 
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Handful of Stars / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Benny Goodman / The Goodman Touch / Sweet Lorraine / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12.47 
Ruth Etting / Me! / Imperial / 9.9.31
Bobby Darin / The Shadow of Your Smile / The Breaking Point / Atlantic / Hollywood 12.14.65 

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Mr. Soul / Prestige / 4.10.62 / Marshall also uses bow on his bass 
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / So What / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60
The Basin Street Boys / Jumpin’ at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Fourtet: Beal p, Lucky Thompson ts, Al Norrisg, Charlie Drayton b, Stan Levey d 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’ve Been in Love Before / Decca / 10.23.40 / vocal = Roy Felton
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / So What / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Barney Kessel / Plays Carmen / Swingin’ the Toreador / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58 / second group
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.56
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Andrew Sisters / It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight / Decca / Hollywood 7.22.45 / with Les Paul and the Vic Schoen Orchestra 
B.B. King / Paying the Cost to Be the Boss / Bluesway / 1968 
The Bronzemen / My Lord Is Writing All the Time / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Puppy Love / Atlantic / 1963
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Friday, June 23, 2023

Ce Petite Playlist

Screenshot from a 1963 video of Lonnie Johnson playing his guitar and singing. He's wearing a suit and stands in front of a collage background on the stage.
There’s no crying when Lonnie plays.

Coffeetime, June 23, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / One by One / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63 
Harold Land / The Fox / One Second, Please / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Red & Miff’s Stompers / Slippin’ Around / Victor / 2.11.27 
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Variety Stomp / Victor / 4.27.27 
Milt Shaw & his Detroiters / Breakaway / Columbia / 4.2.29 / vocal = Shaw & Johnny Morris 
Lovie Jordan’s Elks Rendez-vous Band aka Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Toodle-Loo on Down / Decca / 12.20.38 / vocal = Rodney Sturgis 
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / With Every Breath I Take / EmArcy / 4.21.55 / Georgie Auld ts, Gerald Wiggins p, Barney Kessel g, Red Callender b, Chico Hamilton d

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Come Sunday / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Thad Jones / Thad Jones, Volume 3 [1546] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.9.56 es
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / I Cover the Waterfront / Bethlehem / 3.17 & 18.55 
Lonnie Johnson / Playing with the Strings / Okeh / Memphis 2.21.28
Baby Doll & her Swingsters aka Thelma Cooper aka Dolly Cooper / Talk to Me Daddy / Coleman / 1950
Jean Sablon / Ces Petites Choses / Columbia / Paris 1936

set 3
Horace Parlan / On the Spur of the Moment / Ray C. / Blue Note / 2.18.61 
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Flamingo / Blue Note / 4.11.54 
Neal Hefti & his Orchestra / I Woke Up Dizzy / Keynote [EmArcy] / 12.18.46 
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / These Things You Left Me / radio transcription / Hollywood 1940 / vocal = Dolores Brandon
The Ravens / Once in a While / National / 9.11.47 
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Say It Isn’t So / Signature / 1960

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino/5 / Fine Shape / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Duffle Coat / Contemporary / London 9.21.55 / Feldman vb, Norman Stenfalt p, Lennie Bush b, Phil Seaman d
Kay Starr / My Future Just Passed / Standard transcription / 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio with Joe Venuti
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
The Four Internes / Who Will Your Captain Be / Federal / Cincinnati 3.2.53

last soulful song
The Diplomats / Love Ain’t What It Used to Be / Wand / 1965

Friday, June 16, 2023

Grab Me a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 159

Screenshot from a Vitaphone film showing The Three Peppers singing and smiling: Bob Bell on a white guitar, Charles "Toy" Wilson on piano, and Walter Williams on bass. They're all wearing light suits with black bow ties.
Bob, Charles, and Walter pepper up our day!

Coffeetime, June 16, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Fuller / Volume 3 / Little Messenger / Blue Note / 12.1.57 
Jimmy Heath / Triple Threat / The More I See You / Riverside / 1.62 
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / If I Could Be with You / HRS / 4.6.40 / Muggsy Spanier cor, Sidney Bechet ss, Carmen Mastren g, Wellman Braud b
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / You’re Blasé / Columbia / 7.1.32 
Georgia Washboard Stompers / I’m Living in a Great Big Way / Decca / 7.3.35 / vocal = Jake Fenderson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Everything I Do Is Wrong / Specialty / LA 7.13.48
Dinah Washington / What a Diff’rence a Day Makes! / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / 1959 

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

set 2
Joe Newman / Joe’s Hap’nin’s / The Very Thought of You / Prestige Swingville / 5.9.61 / Newman tp, Tommy Flanagan p, Wendell Marshall b, and Bill English d
Don Elliott / Mellophone / Summer Setting / Bethlehem / early 1955 
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Quartet / It Might as Well Be Spring / Vogue / Paris 10.15.53 
Hal Davis & his Orchestra / Throwin’ Stones at the Sun / Bluebird / 1.2.35 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Amos Milburn / Everything I Do Is Wrong / Aladdin / LA 12.13.46 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, rest unknown
Marlene Dietrich / Illusions / Decca / 1.21.49 / with Gorden Jenkins Orchestra 
Helen Thompson / Going Down to Big Mary’s / States / Chicago 1953

set 3
Freddie Roach / Down to Earth / Lujon / Blue Note / 8.23.62 / Percy France ts 
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / Grooveyard / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p
The Be Bop Boys / Thriving from a Riff / Savoy / 11.26.45 
The Three Peppers / Get the Gold / Variety / Philadelphia 2.27.37 
Skinnay Ennis & his Orchestra / Lamplight / radio transcription / 1948
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Grab Me a Freight / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Stan Getz / The Steamer / There Will Never Be Another You / Verve / Hollywood 11.24.56 
Vinnie Burke / East Coast Jazz/2 / Continental / Bethlehem / 1955 
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Mel Tormé / Sunday in New York / from soundtrack to the MGM movie Sunday in New York / Hollywood 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Golden Gate Spirituals / No Restricted Signs / 6.5.46 

last soulful song
The Superbs / Baby's Gone Away / Doré / 1965

Friday, June 09, 2023

A House Is Not a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 158

Screenshot from the 1947 movie "Boy! What a Girl" where Ann Cornell is sitting on top of an upright piano and one of the other musicians is smiling while holding her and watching her sing.

Everything’s better atop a piano.


Coffeetime, June 9, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Siam / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / I Love You / Bethlehem / 11.56 
Buster Bailey & his Seven Chocolate Dandies / Shanghai Shuffle / Columbia / 12.28.34 
The Kansas City Six / Good Mornin’ Blues / Commodore / 3.18.38 
Jack Pettis & his Band / That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness / Banner / c. 2.11.27 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot 
Ann Cornell / Mad About You / Sterling / 8.47 / with Skippy Williams Orchestra; more about Ann Cornell from Marv Goldberg 
Teal Joy / Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy / That Ole Devil Called Love / Bethlehem [AAMCO] / 1955

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.20.62 
Bill Evans / Explorations / I Wish I Knew / Riverside / 2.2.61 
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / De Nulle Part (Out of Nowhere) / Swing / Paris 9.11.41 
Chicago Loopers aka Willard Robinson & his Orchestra / Three Blind Mice / Perfect / 10.20.27 
Edgar Hayes Quintet / Old King Cole / Brunswick / 10.11.37 / vocal = Bill Darnell 
Bing Crosby & Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Your Socks Don’t Match / Decca / LA 7.26.44 
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / I Go for You / Decca / 2.18 & 19.57

set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Lil’s Blues / New Jazz / 6.17.61 
Big John Patton / The Way I Feel / The Rock / Blue Note / 6.19.64 
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Can’t We Take a Chance / United / Chicago 10.24.51 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / On Treasure Island / Victor / 9.26.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright 
Delta Rhythm Boys / How High the Moon / radio broadcast / c. 1948
Al Hibbler / Al Hibbler’s Favorites / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Norgran / 9.30.53 

set 4
Quincy Jones / I Dig Dancers / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 4.21.60
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Moon Song / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d 
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / Hollywood / 7.16.41 / with Wesley Prince b (“Of all the fools, I break the rules”)
Pearl Bailey / Pearl’s Pearls / A House Is Not a Home / RCA Victor / 1971 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; arranged by Benny Carter
Ever Ready Gospel Singers / I Can See My Savior / Sittin’ in With / 1948 / Willie Caston, Charles Graves, Elbert Green, & Frank Edwards 

last soulful song
The Vogues / Five O’Clock World / Co & Ce Records / Pittsburgh 1965