Coffeetime

I Need a Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:57:00 +0000

Big pearls, big microphone for Nellie.

Coffeetime, April 10, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Wake Up! / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Julia [CD only] / Riverside / 11.17.59
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Minor Meeting / Time / 3.23.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Baltimore Bounce / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Sunny Side Up / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew; celeste!
Jack McVea & his All Stars / It Never Should Have Been This Way / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / Born to Be Blue / EmArcy / 12.22.54

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

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Teddy Bunn / Guitar in High / Blue Note / 3.28.40
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I’ll Never Be the Same / Brunswick / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Nellie Lutcher & Nat King Cole / Can I Come in for a Second / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970

set 3
Cedar Walton / Cedar! / My Ship / Prestige / 7.10.67

Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56

The Tadd Dameron Sextet / Our Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / What Do You Know About Love? / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / vocal = Ida James
Golden Gate Quartet / Dipsy Doodle / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 1.24.38
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b

Una Mae Carlisle / I Like It, ’Cause I Love It / Beacon / 5.23.44
The Wailers / The Wailing Wailers / What’s New Pussycat / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / Time’s Winding Up / Columbia / 4.18.41

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:59:00 +0000

Jeanne, letting us all know that anything goes for her, especially feathers. Poor birds.

Coffeetime, April 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Saying Somethin’ / Leila’s Blues / New Jazz / 3.11.60
Art Taylor / AT’s Delight / Move / Blue Note / 8.6.60
Russell Procope’s Big Six / Four Wheel Drive / HRS / late 1946
Annette Hanshaw / Sweetheart Darlin’ / Banner / 6.3.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / We Can’t Agree / Decca / LA 11.24.47 / Jordan as & voc, Aaron Izenhall t, Eddie Johnson ts, Carl Hogan g, Dallas Bartley b, Joe Morris d
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book / The Man I Love / Verve / Hollywood 1.5.59 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Lester Young / I Can’t Get Started / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
Lil Green / How Come You Do Me Like You Do? / Victor / Chicago 7.31.46
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / LA 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
The Vocaleers / Be True / Red Robin / 1953
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / Free Flow / Blue Note / 10.10.69
Hank Mobley / Workout / Greasin’ Easy / Blue Note / 3.26.61
Don Byas / Free and Easy / Savoy / 7.28.44 / celeste!
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’m Lost / Capitol / Hollywood 5.21.44 / vocal = Dick Gray
The Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Fallout / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / When You’re Smiling / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Just You, Just Me / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Francis Collinson
Peggy Lee / ’Tain’t So, Honey, ’Tain’t So / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.8.49 / with The Dave Barbour Four: Barbour, George Van Eps g, Phil Stephens b, Hal Schaefer p, Nick Fatool d
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I Know / King [Federal] / 1961
The Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Earl Gaines / Three Wishes for a Fool / DeLuxe / 5.5.67

It’s So Peaceful in the Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Digging the gold miniskirts and the red pocket square!

Coffeetime, March 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Giantis / Blue Note / 8.14.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Omicron / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 8.47
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Good Evenin’ / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / Did I Remember / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / It’s So Peaceful in the Country / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Prelude to a Kiss / Savoy / 1.19.56
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Sea Breeze / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Blues / Swing / Paris 10.1.40
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Boo Hoo / radio broadcast / 1938 / vocal = The Mullen Sisters
Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.45
Do-Ray-Mi Trio / That Wonderfully Musical Do-Ray-Mi Trio / Oo-Wee / Stere-O-Craft / 1959

set 3
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All About Us / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Have You Met Miss Jones? / Prestige / 8.65
Charlie Ventura & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / RCA Victor / 7.20.50
John Kirby & his Orchestra / There I Go / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1940 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Have You Met Miss Jones? & I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / RCA Victor / 1955

set 4
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin’ with Sandy Mosse / I’m Old Fashioned / Argo / Chicago 1959
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Four / Contemporary / LA 12.10.58
Stan Getz / Strike Up the Band / Roost / 3.1.51
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tonight I’m Alone / Exclusive / LA 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
The Aristo-Kats / Watch Yourself, Baby! / Victor / Chicago 6.19.46
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Dixieaires / You Better Run / Sunrise / 12.47

last soulful song
Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Motown / Detroit 1968

Waiting at the End of the Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:59:00 +0000

Dorothy, you lucky gal.

Coffeetime, March 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Hank’s Tune / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55
Benny Goodman Quartet / Dinah / Victor / Hollywood 8.26.36
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / There’s a Wah Wah Gal in Agua Caliente / Columbia / 5.24.30 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Baby! I Can’t Forget You / Specialty / Hollywood 11.17.48
Clora Bryant / ...Gal with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Mode / Hollywood 5.57

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

set 2
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
The Big Three / Appetite Blues / Delta / Chicago 5.4.39

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Allen Eager Quartette / Vot’s Dot / Savoy / 3.22.46
The Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / Victor / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Yours Alone / Mercury / live at Joe Pasternak’s house, Hollywood 3.24.58
Delta Rhythm Boys / A One Sided Affair / Decca / Hollywood Wednesday 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer / On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen / Decca / Hollywood 4.15.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / In My Savior’s Care / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972
Ann Sexton & The Masters Of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy Seven] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971

I’ve Got a Playlistful of Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Music is always better with a library and a spiral staircase… and Yves.

Coffeetime, March 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Sweet-Cakes / Riverside / 12.58
Pepper Adams / The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams / Seein’ Red / Savoy / 11.19.57
Trummy Young’s Big Seven / Johnson Rock / HRS / 9.3.46
Billy Cotton & his Band / Crazy Weather / Regal Zonophone / London 12.20.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / Double-Trouble Blues / Savoy / 9.12.44
Helen Carr / … Why Do I Love You / Lonely Street / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / The Nearness of You / Jazzland / 11.30.61
John Coltrane / Ballads / Too Young to Go Steady / Impulse! / 12.21.61
Stephane Grappelli / Slow en ré majeur (I’ll Be Around) / Barclay [unissued] / Paris 2.14 56
Larry Adler / Medley: Red Sails in the Sunset; I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again / Rex / London 10.35 / with Fred Hartley’s Orchestra
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace “Saxie” Dowell
Gene Autry & Smiley Burnette / Ridin’ Down the Canyon / Perfect / 10.18.35
Georges Guétary / Caballero / Pathé / Paris 1943 / with orchestra arranged & conducted by Marius Coste
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Ruben / RPM / LA 1956

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Stop and Listen / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Teddy Charles / Tentet / Green Blues / Atlantic / 1.11.56
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Stealin’ Trash / Savoy / 12.18.46
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Eddy Howard; with celeste!
The Charioteers / The Gaucho Serenade / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / No Love, No Nothin’ / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Carioca / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56
King Cole Trio / Easy Listening Blues; I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Yves Montand / Faubourg Saint-Martin / Odeon / France 1955 / with orchestra conducted by Bob Castella
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / LA 1967
The Trumpeteers / Somehow / King / 1.24.50

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Where I’m Coming From / If You Really Love Me / Tamla / 1971
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972 (partial)

Playlists Are Like Street Cars

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Jorge has an open invitation on Coffeetime.

Coffeetime, February 27, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Nat Adderley / That’s Right! / Chordnation / Riverside / fall 1960
Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers / Hankerin’ / Blue Note / 2.6.55
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Co-Op / Emarcy / 1.3.55
Cline’s Collegians / Chicadore Stomp / Brunswick / 11.29
Sophie Tucker / Oh! You Have No Idea / Okeh / 4.16.28 / Ted Shapiro p
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / If You Ever Had the Blues / Aladdin / LA 8.15.49
Carmen McRae / Torchy! / My Future Just Passed / Decca / 12.55

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor Sax / Where or When / Urania / 1954 / arranged by Jimmy Hamilton; Lucky Thompson ts, Jimmy Hamilton cl, Billy Taylor p, Sidney Gross g, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Ramsey Lewis Trio / Perform a Tribute to Clifford Brown / Once in A While / Argo / Chicago 10.8.58
Helen Louise & Frank Ferera / On the Beach in Waikiki / Victor / 10.11.15 / guitar duet https://www.historylink.org/File/9201
Eddie South & his International Orchestra / No More Blues / Victor / Chicago 5.3.33
Trixie Smith / My Daddy Rocks Me / Decca / 5.26.38
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Rock It for Me / Columbia / 1940 / vocal = Joe Thomas
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / Who Cares / Decca / 2.57

set 3
Paul Quinichette / Basie Reunion / The Blues I Like to Hear / Prestige / 9.5.58
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / You Turned the Tables on Me / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62
Jack McVea / Oh How I Miss You Tonight / Combo / LA 1957
Jimmy Joy & his Orchestra / Thank Your Stars / 1.40 / Varsity / vocal = Art London aka Art Lund
The Beavers / I’d Rather Be Wrong Than Blue / Coral / 1950
Jackie Paris / Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin / Fun to Be Fooled / Time / 2.23.60

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi Fi / Topsy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56
Bud Shank / Bud Shank Quartet featuring Claude Williamson / All of You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 11.56
Rosetta Howard / Men Are Like Street Cars / Decca /6.14.39 / with the Harlem Blues Serenaders
Mildred Bailey / The Love I Long For / V-Disc / 1944 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Chove Chuva / Philips / Brazil 1963
Harmonizing Four / I Love to Call His Name / Vee Jay / 1959

last soulful song
The Emotions / Somebody New / Twin Stacks Records / Chicago 1968

I Ain’t Your Playlist, Mr. Fly Rooster

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:01:00 +0000

He makes a pretty cowboy.

Coffeetime, February 20, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / True Blue / Prestige / 6.30.64
Kenny Dorham / K.D.’s Cab Ride (Echo of Spring) / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces, New Sounds / Brownie Speaks / Blue Note / 6.9.53
California Ramblers / Broken Idol / Edison / 8.1.29
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / As Time Goes By / Victor / 7.25.31
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Any Old Place with Me / Exclusive / Hollywood 12.47
George Shearing & Dakota Staton / In the Night / The Thrill is Gone / Capitol / LA 1957

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / My Ship / Blue Note / 10.18.62 -- remember
Cannonball Adderley / Takes Charge / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Riverside / 4.12.59
Ike Quebec / It Might as Well Be Spring / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Martha Copeland / I Ain’t Your Hen, Mr. Fly Rooster / Columbia / 8.28.28
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Saturday Night / broadcast / Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1.15.45 / vocal = Doris Day
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / So Many Beautiful Men (So Little Time) / EmArcy / 4.21.55

set 3
Blue Mitchell / Blue’s Moods / Sweet Pumpkin / Riverside / 8.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Willow Weep for Me / Riverside / 3.10.59
James Moody / Bootsie / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / I Don’t Care Who Knows It / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Skip Nelson
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unissued] / c. 1950
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Vivo Sohando / Verve / 3.63 / vocal = Joao Gilberto

set 4
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Thunderbird / Savoy / 10.11.55
Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / La Violetera / Somerset / 1960
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Holiday Flight / Savoy / LA 3.4.52
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / The Fuehrer’s Got the Jitters / AFRS Jubilee #6 / c. 12.42
T-Bone Walker / You Don’t Know What You’re Doing / Atlantic / LA 12.27.57 / vocal = R.S. Rankin (T-Bone’s nephew)
Rick Nelson / Everlovin’ / Imperial / LA 7.20.61
The Southern Sons / Lift Every Voice and Sing / Bluebird / 10.22.42

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Make Me Belong to You / Atlantic / 1965

Playlistesque

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:58:00 +0000

Al helping Monia with his hat!

Coffeetime, February 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard / Happy Times / Impulse! / 7.2.62
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Selections from Lerner and Loewe’s...My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Paint Your Wagon / On the Street Where You Live / Vik / 3.13.57
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Pastoral / Decca / 4.18.33
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Take a Good Look at Mine / Victor / Chicago 1.14.29 / vocal = Harold Stokes
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / G.I. Jive / Decca / 3.15.44 / Jordan as & voc, Eddie Roane t, Arnold Thomas p, Al Morgan b, Wilmore “Slick” Jones d
Don Elliott with Irma Curry / Love Is a Necessary Evil / No Spring This Year / Columbia / 1.62

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

set 2
Barney Wilen / Jazz sur Seine [soundtrack] / Nuages / Fontana / Paris 2.13, 14.58
Mile Davis / Blue Moods / Easy Living / Debut / 7.9.55
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Someone to Watch Over Me / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Humoresque / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41
Al Bowlly / Judy / Decca / London 8.21.34 / Monia Litter p, Al Bowlly g & voc
Bernard Hilda y su Orquesta / Quisiera Saber… (I Love You for Sentimental Reasons) / Columbia / Barcelona 8.12.47
The Five Royales / They Don’t Know / Vee Jay [Home of the Blues] / 1961

set 3
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / A Little 3/4 for God & Co. / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Sweet Sucker / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Geraldo & his Orchestra / All Through the Day / Parlophone / London 7.24.46 / vocal = Sally Douglas
James Quintet / Bewildered / Coral / 1949

set 4
Charlie Byrd / Byrd in the Wind / Swing ’59 / Riverside / 1959
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / Stan Still / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You Nat / This Will Make You Laugh / Surrey / Burbank 4.65
King Cole Swingsters / Sentimental Blue / Keystone / Hollywood 7.22.40 / vocal = Maxine Johnson; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Harlem Stars (Big Mama Thornton) / Bad Luck Got My Man / E&W Records / Houston 1950
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Believe in You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan
Fairfield Four / Heaven in My View / Dot / 10.54

last soulful song
Al Green / Call Me / Have You Been Making Out OK? / Hi / Memphis 1972

Kangaroo Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:33:00 +0000

Your geometry is perfect, Bobby.

Coffeetime, February 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / A Shade of Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug’s Minor B’OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Sepia Jazz / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Heartaches / Victor / 1.19.31 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio: Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Mason, & Max Ceppo
Laurel Watson / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Septette
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing at All / Ill Wind / Verve / LA 8.14.56

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

set 2 Wes Montgomery / Full House / I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.59
Teddy Wilson & his Trio / Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Columbia / 1959
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / It’s Murder / Decca / Chicago 10.27.35
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Little Sylvia / Ain’t Gonna Do It / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow
Bobby Darin / medley: This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Just in Time / live, Ed Sullivan Show 1962

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / T’Ain’t No Use / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Lem Winchester / Winchester Special / Down Fuzz / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Many Dreams Ago / Bluebird / 9.28.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / Vootnay on the Votnay / Exclusive / LA circa 06.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Charles Aznavour / Sings his Love Songs in English / Don’t Say a Word [Aprés L’amour] / Reprise / 1965 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Chet Baker / Big Band / V-Line / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
Peggy Lee / That Old Gang of Mine / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49
Buddy Greco / Let’s Love! / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Epic / 9.61
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
The Valentines / Breakaway / Sound Stage 7 / 1970

You Keep Coming Back Like a Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Handsome Georgie Auld photographed by the amazing William Gottlieb.

Coffeetime, January 30, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Together! / Le Roi / Atlantic / 2.2.61
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World / The Opener / Blue Note / live, Birdland 7.61
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Mahogany Hall Stomp / Okeh / 3.5.39
Philip Lewis & the Rhythm Maniacs (Arthur Lally) / My Kinda Love / Decca / London 6.20.29 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Marvin Johnson & his Orchestra / Mercy Mercy / G&G / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Joe Lewis g
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss “D” / I’ll Close My Eyes / EmArcy / 12.6.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra; with celeste!

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Today and Now / Don’t Love Me / Impulse! / 9.9.62
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / You Keep Coming Back Like a Song / Prestige / 5.24.57
Sonny Stitt / New York Jazz / Body and Soul / Verve / 9.14.56
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan / Columbia / London 1933
Walter Fuller / Closer to My Heart / Kicks / LA 1954 / with the Club Royale Band, Fuller t
Doris Day & Frank Sinatra / Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk / Columbia / LA 5.6.49 / with The Ken Lane Singers & orchestra arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Let There Be Love / Reprise / LA 2.61 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Here ’Tis / A Foggy Day / Blue Note / 1.23.61
Horace Parlan / Up & Down / Fugee / Blue Note / 6.18.61
Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers / The Flat Foot Floogie / Decca / 6.10.38
Mal Hallett & his Orchestra / The Life of the Party / Decca / 2.26.37 / vocal = Teddy Grace
Mel Tormé / It's a Blue World / It's a Blue World / Bethlehem / LA 8.55

set 4
Joanne Grauer / Joanne Grauer Trio / Dancing Nitely / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Georgie Auld / Good Enough to Keep / A Smooth One / Top Rank / Hollywood 9.5.59
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Little Esther & Mel Walker / Ring-a-Ding Doo / Federal / 11.8.51
Tom Jones / Along Came Jones / I’ve Got a Heart / Decca / London 1964
The Soul Stirrers / It Won’t Be Very Long [alt take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.22.52

last soulful song
Margie Joseph / One More Chance / Volt / Memphis 1969
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963

You’re the Playlist in My Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:05:00 +0000

Barbara: a beautiful, talented woman with a guitar.

Coffeetime, January 23, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Locomotion / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Lee Morgan / Leeway / Nakatini Suite / Blue Note / 4.28.60
Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down / Columbia / 2.17.28 / Harry Goldfield (aka Goldie) t & voc
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Orchestra / They Raided the Joint / Continental / 9.45
Sarah Vaughan / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.54

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / LA 7.31.56
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Porgy / Capitol / 2.63
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Quartette / An Orange Grove in California / Brunswick / 1934
Cleo Brown / The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow / Decca / 3.12.35
The Ink Spots / That Cat Is High / Decca / 3.25.38
Buddy Clark / A Dreamer’s Holiday / Columbia / 9.6.49 / with The Girl Friends; orchestra conducted by Ted Dale
Pee Wee Crayton / Do Unto Others / Imperial / New Orleans 4.29.54

set 3
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Rakin’ and Scrapin / Prestige / 12.23.68
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Ma – He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me / Riverside / 5.9.60
Morris Lane / Down the Lane / Savoy / 1.24.47
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / That Old Gang of Mine / Decca / 10.4.39 / vocal = Perry Como
4 Deep Tones / Just in Case You Change Your Mind / Coral / 1951
Johnny Hartman / All of Me / I Could Make You Care / Bethlehem / 11.56

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Yardbird Suite / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Donna Lee / Atlantic / 6.14.55
Noel Coward / I’m Old Fashioned / HMV / London 7.6.43
King Cole Trio / You’re the Cream in My Coffee / radio transcription, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time, NBC Network, AFRS edition / Cincinnati 12.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ann Cole / Brand New House / Sir / 1960
Golden Gate Quartet / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lynn / (Daddy Hot Stuff) You’re Too Hot to Hold / Atlantic / 1972
Ruby Johnson / I'm Hooked / Neb’s / Washington DC 1964

A Winter’s Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:00:00 +0000

More like kitties and a tiple, amirite?

Coffeetime, January 16, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Tarriff / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Blue Lights / Prestige / 5.19.54
Jack Winn & his Dallas Dandies aka Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang / Loved One [2nd take] (aka I Like That) / Melotone / 6.6.30
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor / 4.10.29
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Blue Moon / Victor / 11.20.34 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Cats & the Fiddle / Part of Me / RCA Victor / 10.17.41
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Laura / Contemporary / 12.4.56 / duet with Kessel g & Red Mitchell b
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49
The Three Keys / I’ve Found a New Baby / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
T-Bone Walker / Life is Too Short / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Louis Jordan / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Green Dolphin Street / Riverside / 3.10.59
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Geraldo & his Orchestra / I’m Old Fashioned / Parlophone / London 3.20.43 / vocal = Beryl Davis
Mills Brothers / After You / Decca / 5.29.47
Frank Sinatra / The Moon Was Yellow / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.58

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Cheerful Little Earful / Contemporary / 10.15.56
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Swing Man / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Sammy Yates
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
The Trumpeteers / Handwriting on the Wall / Score / Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / Wake Up Everybody / live, Soul Train / 1975

Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Playlist in B Flat

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:01:00 +0000

I like this guitar, too, Frank.

Coffeetime, January 9, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis [alt take] / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.21.61
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Here’s a Little Package / Bluebird [unissued] / 6.23.32 / vocal = Chris Fletcher
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Ain’t Got No Blues Today / Capitol / 9.11.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Strong Man / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Paul Smith / Paul Smith Quartet / All for You / Skylark / Hollywood 11.13.53 / celeste!
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / I Had the Craziest Dream / New Jazz / 11.13.59
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky [alt take] / Brunswick [unissued] / 2.19.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Sonny Clark / Sonny’s Crib / News for Lulu / Blue Note / 10.9.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fool Am I / Okeh / 3.12.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile Again / Savoy / 10.12.50
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Beaux Arts / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Sonny Boy / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Kay Starr / So Tired / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.48
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Só Danço Samba / A&M / Hollywood 1967
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / Ruler of My Heart / Minit / 1963
The Sapphires / Your True Love / Swan / 1963

Walkin’ Away with My Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Mr. King’s gotta pretty red guitar!

Coffeetime, January 2, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / 3.2.61
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Life Is a Song (Let’s Sing It Together) / Bluebird / 1935 / vocal = Skeeter Palmer
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / New Year’s Resolution / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47
Max Bennett / Hence! / Do You Know Why? / Bethlehem / 1956 / vocal= Helen Carr

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Mr. Blues Pour Flirter / Once in A While / Brunswick / Paris 4.22.63
Stan Getz / At Large / Amour / Verve / live, Kildevæld Church, Copenhagen, Denmark 1.60
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Harry Warren / Would You Like to Take a Walk / Clef / LA 11.15.54 / Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Donegal Cradle Song / Decca / 5.19.33 / Hughes, Benny Carter, Henry Red Allen, Wayman Carver, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Dicky Wells, Nick Rodriguez, Lawrence Lucie, Sid Catlett
Leon Belasco & his Orchestra / There’s a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / 1947 / vocal = Patty Andrews (of the Andrews Sisters); celeste!
The Four Southerners / Dan, the Back Door Man / Decca / 3.18.37
Suzi Miller & The Johnston Brothers / That’s All I Want from You / Decca / 1955 / with Johnny Douglas & his Orchestra and The Tony Kinsey Trio
Freddie King / Takin’ Care of Business / Federal / 1962

set 3
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / Gettin’ Around / Prestige / 6.17.60
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Park Avenue Patter / Black Velvet / Golden Crest / 4.11.57
Harry “Sweets” Edison / Sweets / Love Is Here to Stay / Clef / LA 9.4.56 / Herman Leonard, cover
Kenny Clarke & his 52nd Street Boys / Bebop / Royal Roost / Victor / 9.5.46
The Pied Pipers / Walkin’ Away with My Heart / Capitol / Hollywood 1946 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Four Blues / Bell Bottom Trousers / DeLuxe / 1945
Bob Dorough / Devil May Care / I Had the Craziest Dream / Bethlehem / 10.56 / Dorough p & voc, Warren Fitzgerald t, Bill Takus b, Jerry Segal d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / Time Out / Kathy’s Waltz / Columbia [unissued] / 1959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)
Sal Salvador / I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / Bethlehem / 1957 / Salvador g, Phil Woods as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa vib, Johnny Williams p, Sonny Dallas b, Jimmy Campbelll d
Pauline & her Perils [Six Hits and a Miss minus two Hits] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.30.39 / with the King Cole Trio (a little celeste by Nat King Cole, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b) and vocal = Pauline Byrns with Vince Degen, Howard Hudson, Mack McLean, & Bill Seckler
The Four Vagabonds / Move It Over / Standard Transcription / 1942
Chuck Willis / My Baby’s on My Mind / Columbia / 6.27.51
Willie Jones / Where’s My Money / Mr. Peacock Records / 1961
Golden Gate Quartet / Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel in the Valley) / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Esquires / Get On Up and Get Away / My Sweet Baby / Bunky / Chicago 1967

Hello, Mister Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:01:00 +0000

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

Coffeetime, December 19, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal) / Fantasy / LA 1965 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess

Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

bed
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / Chicago 10.66 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 1957
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965

bed
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.46 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Note: the first break at 2:30 is misaligned for my back announcing only. All the rest of the show it aligned properly. That was for those listening over the radio and from the archive for the first 48 hours. Now (5 pm Sunday), a corrected version is on the archive.

Coffeetime, December 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55

Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes / Jazzville / Legend / Dawn / 6.56 / Rouse ts, Watkins fh, Gildo Mahones p, Paul West b, Art Taylor d

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”)
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b

King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

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

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got)

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Me and my WMBR pals at the station. :P

Coffeetime, December 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55

Jay Jay [J.J.] Johnson / Get Happy / Blue Note / 6.22.53 / Jimmy Heath ts

Miff Mole’s Molers / Davenport Blues / Okeh / 3.7.27

Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Winter Weather / Bluebird / 12.26.41
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / Moonlight in Vermont / Columbia / 4.10.56 / with Paul Weston & his Music

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Philips / fall 1962
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue & Sentimental/ Blue Note / 12.23.61
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Tomorrow / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt

Mills Brothers / The Yam / Decca / 8.23.38

Sammy Kaye (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) / (Don’t Wait ’Til) The Night Before Christmas / Victor / 11.11.38 / vocal = The Three Barons
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill

set 3
Bill Smith / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Stablemates / Prestige / 11.9.56

Georgie Auld / Autumn in New York / Roost / 1.24.51

Howard McGhee’s All Stars / Fluid Drive / Blue Note / 1950

Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / AFRS Raymond Scott Show / 10.44 / vocal = Dorothy Collins

Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / radio broadcast, Christmas Jubilee, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 1945

The Orioles / (It’s Gonna Be A) Lonely Christmas / Jubilee / 1948

Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d

Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Button Up Your Overcoat / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d

Blossom Dearie / Old Devil Moon / Barclay / Paris 1.16.56 / Dearie p, Bobby Jaspar fl, Benoit Quersin b, Christian Garros d

Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir”
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Merry Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho! / Christmas Is / Capitol / Hollywood 7.17.67

Booker T. & The MG’s / In the Christmas Spirit / Santa Claus Is Coming to Town / Stax / 1966

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:59:00 +0000

Pretty guy, pretty guitar… and he plays it pretty, too.

Coffeetime, November 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa [alt take] / Riverside [unissued] / 5.11.61
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Cool Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Village Gate / 5.61
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / Carvin’ the Rock / Blue Note / 6.9.53
George Olsen & his Music / Who / Victor / 11.6.25 / vocal = Olsen, Bob Rice, Fran Frey, & Jack Fulton
Helen Humes / It’s Better to Give Than to Receive / Philo / LA 12.22.45
Blossom Dearie / Once Upon a Summertime / Manhattan / Verve / 9.58

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

set 2
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / The Wind / Atlantic / summer 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Shout
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Octet / Paich-Ence / GNP / Hollywood 2.55
Jutta Hipp & Zoot Sims / Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims / These Foolish Things / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.28.56
Bing Crosby / I’m Thru with Love / Brunswick / 6.12.31
Savannah Churchill & her All Star Seven / Tell Me Your Blues and I Will Tell You Mine / Gennett / 1942 / Jimmy Lytell & his All Star Seven: Lytell cl, Russ Case t, Will Bradley tb, Frank Signorelli p, Carmen Mastren g, Haig Stevens b, Chauncey Morehouse d
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Love Is a Wonderful Thing / United / Chicago 9.51
Rosemary Clooney / Tenderly / The Lady Is a Tramp / Columbia / 1955

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / The Tender Gender / Cadet / 4.66
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Cherry Point / Blue Note / 10.21.63
Sacha Distel / Nuages / French TV / 1959
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / No Love No Nothin’ / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1943 / vocal = Phyllis Lane
The Du Droppers / Chain Me, Baby (Blues of Desire) / Robin / 8.52
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / That Old Feeling / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, [Tommy Flanagan p,] Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Conrad Gozzo / Goz the Great! / Do That Again Daddy / RCA Victor / LA 3.7.55 / Gozzo t, Murray McEachern tb, Paul Smith p, Tony Rizzi g, Sam Cheifetz b, Alvin Stoller d
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / Marooned in a Monsoon / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d
Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Herbie Mann – Sam Most Quintet / Let’s Get Away from It All / Bethlehem 10.55 / Herbie Mann, Sam Most fl, Joe Puma g, Jimmy Gannon b, Lee Kleinman d
King Cole Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Margie Day / One Steady Date / Dot / 3.51 / with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
Highway QC’s / There’s Something on My Mind / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968

Undisputed Truth / Girl You’re Alright / Gordy / Detroit 1972

If I Give My Playlist to You

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:01:00 +0000

Django, you couch potato, you!

Coffeetime, November 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Phinupi / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Sam Lanin & his Orchestra / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 6.11.28 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track, Baby / Decca / LA 12.8.47 / duet with Martha Davis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.61
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 6.9.53
The Guitars, Inc / Soft and Subtle / Nature Boy / Warner Brothers / LA 1959
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) / RCA / Rome winter 1949 [Paris, April 16, 1947]
Fannie May Goosby / Fortune Teller Blues / Brunswick / Atlanta 4.28 / Goosby p
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Pug Nose / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Talkin’ Care / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Harry James & his Orchestra / Stardust / radio broadcast transcription / Roseland Ballroom, NYC 7.8.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Bars / If I Give My Heart to You / Josie / 1954 / with Billy Mure’s Orchestra [aka Sebastian Mure]
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / Early Autumn / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Will You Still Be Mine / Verve / LA 1959
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / Jump It with a Shuffle / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.47
Bette McLaurin / Do You Know Why / Coral / 12.9.52 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Baby, Don’t You Quit Now / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; with Charlie Shavers t
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song
The Opals / You Can’t Hurt Me No More / Okeh [unissued alt take] / Chicago 5.26.64

When My Heart Beats Like a Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:57:00 +0000

BB can still smile despite his lost thrill.

Coffeetime, November 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Cute / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Infatuation / Victor / 3.12.34 / vocal = Barry Wells
Pete Brown’s Band / Sunshine Blues / Savoy / 8.1.44 / vocal = Pete Brown
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58

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

set 2
The Trio / The Trio / For Heaven’s Sake / Riverside/ 6.61
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar’s New Jazz / So Easy to Love / Swing / Paris 10.14.54
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust [alt take] / Decca [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.44
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pardon Me Pretty Baby / Parlophone / 6.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
The Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
B.B. King / When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / Kent / Memphis 1962

set 3
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / I Never Knew / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Wes Montgomery / Born to Be Blue / Riverside [unissued] / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley 6.25.62
Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / That’s All / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / Autumn Leaves / Contemporary / LA 11.23.60
George Jenkins & his All Stars / Drum Magic / Antipathy / Tampa / LA 1955
Peggy Lee / I Get the Blues (When It Rains) / V-Disc 682 / LA 1946 / with Les Paul Trio
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / My Time Is Expensive / Peacock / Houston 1.49 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / A Woman with Soul / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963
The Southern Sons / I Heard Zion Mourn / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
Bettye Swann / The Soul View Now! / Tell It Like It Is / Capitol / 1969

By the Light of the Silvery Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Lovely necklace on a lovely woman.

Coffeetime, November 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactoveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Beepdurple / Prestige / 5.8.65
Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Albinia Jones / Evil Gal Blues / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas’s Swing Seven
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / My Old Flame / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Adrian Rollini / Georgia on My Mind / private recordings / early 1937 / with Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitars, vocal = Barry McKinley
Evelyn Knight / South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Decca / Hollywood 4.25.49
Viviane Greene / A Picture of You / Decca / LA 6.24.50
Danny Kaye / Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Decca / Hollywood / 12.14.47
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Same Old Saturday Night / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Princess / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / Long Beach, CA 4.10.61
Serge Chaloff Sextette / A Bar a Second / Savoy [unissued] / 3.5.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Marie / Victor / 1.29.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ The Darkest Hour / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Morning After / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Oh! Look at Me Now / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Swingin’ in the Moore Park / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Victor / 7.13.42 / with the Deep River Boys
Hadda Brooks / Don’t You Think I Ought to Know / Modern / Hollywood 1947
Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / Argo / Chicago 6.62
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / You’re All I Need / I Can’t Help But Love You / Tamla / Detroit 1968
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / If This World Were Mine / Tamla / Detroit 1967

That Old Devil Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Love the goatee, Cy.

Coffeetime, October 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Marc V / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Each Time I Think of You / Blue Note / 5.2.61 / 1.10.45

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Tippin’ In / Victor / 1.10.45

Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Don’t Be Like That / Victor / 1.27.27 / vocal = Harold Strokes
Bixie Crawford / I Got Your Water On / King [unissued] / LA 1949 / with Buddy Banks Sextet
Julie London / London By Night / My Man’s Gone Now / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Mobley’s Musings / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / But Beautiful / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Vince Guaraldi / A Flower is Lovesome Thing… / Autumn Leaves / Fantasy / LA 1957
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / My Hi-De-Ho Man / Decca / 10.27.36
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Walkin’ / So Good / Mercury / 1.3.57 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956

set 3
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Rastus / Blue Note / 7.14.60
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Charlie Parker / Bird’s Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47 / Parker as, Erroll Garner p, Red Callender b, Doc West d
Mills Brothers / Sweet Lucy Brown / Decca / 2.20.35
Marie Greene & her V-Disc Merry Men / It Had to Be You / V-Disc #629A / 11.45 / duet with Joe Dosh
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Cy Coleman / Cool Coleman / Witchcraft / Westminster / 1958
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Susie’s Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 3.4.56
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / I See Your Bass Before Me / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Pauline & her Perils (aka Six Hits & a Miss) / I Can’t Get Started / Keystone transcription / circa 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Kay Starr / It’s Whatcha Do with Whatcha Got / Standard Transcription / LA 1946 / with Buzz Adlam & orchestra
Peggy Lee / Jump for Joy / Old Devil Moon / Capitol / Hollywood 12.20.57
Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Gino Washington / I’ll Be Around (When You Want Me) / Mala / 1968 / with The Altrasonics & The Versatones
The Sapphires / Who Do You Love? / Swan / 1963

I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Move star handsome Steve Gibson, his pretty guitar, & The Toppers

Coffeetime, October 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Hill’s Edge / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Checkmate / Riverside / 8.23.56
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 9.21.37
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin’ to Myself / Victor / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Dinah Washington / Blues for a Day / Apollo / LA 12.45
Buddy Collette / Detour Ahead / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962 / vocal = Irene Kral

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.56
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Yesterdays / Roost (Royal Roost) / 12.15.55
Bing Crosby / I’ve Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 1.26.33
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / C.O.D. / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Camille Howard / I Ain’t Got the Spirit / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50
Bobby Darin / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 9.4.62 / with Billy May & orchestra

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / Stella by Starlight / Prestige / 1.11.57
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Easy Living / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moodamorphosis / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
The Toppers / I'm Living for You / Savoy / 12.8.44
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / Willow Weep for Me / Mainstream / 1965

set 4
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Opus de Funk / Contemporary / LA 3.14.59
King Cole Trio / Dream a Little Dream of Me / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ken Nordine / Colors / Olive / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38

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

Put Some Money in the Playlist

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:56:00 +0000

If Milton says we’re gonna make it, then I guess we are!

Coffeetime, October 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43

Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet

Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra

Dinah Washington / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Mercury / 6.8.48

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49

Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, & Johnny Mercer voc

Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / live / LA 1958
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Playlist in Hand

noreply@blogger.com (Angelynn Grant) — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:58:00 +0000

Dinah, can you teach me how to get that glamorous eyeliner?

Coffeetime, October 3, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Groovin’ Higher / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 / Viscosity / Blue Note / 6.6.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Oh, Lady Be Good / Columbia / 12.9.40
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wanderer / HMV / London 1.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44 / with celeste!
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Little Girl Blue / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.61

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 2.62 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Melody Man’s Dream / Okeh / 10.21.27
Willard Robison & his Levee Loungers / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Columbia [unissued] / 3.12.29 / Robison p & voc, rest unknown
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash; with celeste!
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / ABC-Paramount / 1957
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Don’t Want No Woman / Duke / Memphis 1957 / with Bill Harvey Orchestra

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / Ugetsu / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
The Four Southerners / Dan, The Back Door Man / Decca / Chicago 3.18.37
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / That Old Feeling / Liberty / LA 9.55
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Walkin’ Home / Tampa / LA 1954
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) / Mercury / 3.60 / orchestra conducted by Belford Hendricks
The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44

last soulful song
Monique / If You Love Me (Show Me) / Maurci / Chicago 1966
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971