A Winter’s Playlist

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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