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1 day ago · It focused the essential elements of the photograph, Shelly in profile, brushes mid air, high tom, and cymbals to make a defining image of West Coast Jazz. Shelly’s original ten-inch LP was released as a twelve-inch LP, The West Coast Sound – Shelly Manne and His Men Volume 1, C3507, using the same edited photo with additional cropping and blurring of the wall behind Shelly.
4 days ago · This was his second session for Contemporary in 1961, and while the first featured him as a co-leader with Teddy Edwards, he is clearly in charge here, working with fellow Angelenos Phineas Newborn Jr., Leroy Vinnegar, and Shelly Manne to bring these seven songs to life.
2 days ago · The group is great – with soulful work from Bobby Bryant on trumpet, Jerome Richardson on soprano sax and flute, Buddy Collette on tenor and flute, and Jack Nimitz on baritone – and the rhythm section has some great Fender Rhodes from Mike Wofford, given more push from the electric bass of Chuck Dominico, and some open-ended drum work from Shelly Manne.
3 days ago · - Robert Gordon, Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene in the 1950s [1986]. Although not specifically credited, the following piece on Shorty Rogers appeared under the continually running “The West Coast of Jazz” series in the February 5, 1959 edition of Down Beat magazine.
4 days ago · “We'll Be Together Again” — 3, 4, 5 The Verve Small Group Sessions: BUY: 7:31 AM: Luther Allison “Knocks Me Off My Feet” — I Owe It All To You: BUY: 7:36 AM: Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Darn That Dream” — Olympia, 6 Octobre, 1962: BUY: 7:44 AM: Tony Campise “Out of Nowhere” — Once In A Blue Moon: BUY: 7:50 AM: Frank Wess ...
1 day ago · Maybe it’s the light, but this week’s collection of essential new-not-new really has put us in a particularly good mood… Firstly this week, two absolute triple-lock, platinum-ranked, all-time-Drift-Essential™ albums with A Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory and Outkast’s Stankonia. Low End Theory still sounds outstand
1 day ago · The Monkees Present (full title being The Monkees Present Micky, David, Michael, [citation needed] also known as simply Present) is the eighth studio album by the American pop rock band the Monkees, released in 1969 by Colgems Records. It was the second Monkees album released after the departure of Peter Tork and the last to feature Michael ...
