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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

step into the lounge!

Sunday, June 19, 2016 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

http://www.divavillelounge.org

Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Bessie Smith	Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer	The Essential Bessie Smith
The Washingtonians (Duke Ellington)	East St. Louis Toodle-Oo	The Duke: Columbia Years	Columbia
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra	Christopher Columbus	Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz	Proper UK

Louis Jordan	Juneteenth Jamboree	Let the Good Times Roll	Bear Family	today is Juneteenth!
Harry Belafonte	Sweetheart from Venezuela	Pure Gold		Belafonte was noted civil rights activist & friend of Dr. King
Lena Horne	Watch What Happens	Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Brunettes	DRG	Horne and her dear friend Billy Strayhorn worked for the civil rights movement, hosting fundraisers for Dr. King when he was in NY
Nina Simone	Love Me or Leave Me	Pottery Barn Dinner at Eight		Simone was outspoken advocate for civil rights
Dinah Washington	Come Rain or Come Shine	Dinah Jams!	Emarcy	feat. Max Roach, civil rights activist

Duke Ellington Orchestra	Come Sunday	Black, Brown and Beige	Prestige	performed live at Carnegie Hall, 1943. Ellington felt jazz was a new art form that was uniquely part of the black American experience
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Creole Love Call	Black, Brown and Beige	Prestige	Ellington was not outspoken in the civil rights movement but tried to elevate the black experience with his music and the way he lived his life
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me	Black, Brown and Beige	Prestige	in the 30s and 40s black performers on tour were not allowed to stay at "white" hotels. in many communities especially in the South, this meant there were no nice hotels for bands to stay in. Instead of staying in the shabby hotels that were all that was available for black travelers, the Ellington orchestra stayed in a luxury train with 2 Pullman cars, running water, cooking facilities, electricity and bathrooms. When townspeople asked Ellington what it was about he would say, "this is how Presidents travel."
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Emancipation Celebration	Black, Brown and Beige	Prestige
Duke Ellington Orchestra v/ Herb Jeffries	Jump for Joy	The Blanton-Webster Band	RCA	written for "Jump for Joy," 1941 musical Ellington wrote about the African American identity

Johnny Hodges	Used to Be Duke	Used to be Duke	Verve	great request, I hope you're still listening!
Ella Fitzgerald	How Long Has This Been Going On/ When Your Lover Has Gone	Twelve Nights in Hollywood	Verve
Eartha Kitt	Just An Old-Fashioned Girl	Legendary	BMG
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto	Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)	Getz/Gilberto	Verve
John Coltrane	Alabama	A John Coltrane Retrospective	Impulse!	wonderful request, so appropriate for Juneteenth

Benny Goodman Orchestra	Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)	The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert	Columbia

Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers	Doctor Jazz	Jazz Greats Vol. 17
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	Struttin' With some Barbecue	"Satchmo" Amabassador of Jazz	Verve	this is not the 1927 recording I was expected, I will track down when it was recorded & update the liner notes later
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestras	Dear Old Southland	Hot Fives and Sevens	JSP	great request, thank you!
Hoagy Carmichael	Georgia On My Mind	First of the Singer-Songwriters	Proper UK	rec. 1930
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli	It Had to Be You	The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order	JSP
George Gershwin	Prelude #2	Gershwin Plays Gershwin	Naxos	rec. 1928

Edith Piaf	La Vie En Rose	30th Anniversaire	Capitol
Harry James & His Orchestra	Ciribiribin	Strictly Instrumental	Memoir
Benny Goodman Orchestra v/ Peggy Lee	Why Don't You Do Right	The Complete Recordings 1941-1947	RCA
Peggy Lee	Don't Smoke in Bed	Cocktail Hour Vol. 2	Columbia River
Artie Shaw	Nightmare	Begin the Beguine	Membran
Duke Ellington Orchestra	I'm Checking Out -- Goombye	V-Disc		goombye & happy Father's day!