Shelly Manne & His Men - The West Coast Sound, Vol. 1
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Artist: Shelly Manne & His MenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Ojc
Soundtracks:
- Grasshopper - Shelly Manne, Manne, Shelly
- La Murcura - Shelly Manne, Traditional
- Summer Night - Shelly Manne, Dubin, Al
- Afrodesia - Shelly Manne, Rogers, Shorty
- You and the Night and the Music - Shelly Manne, Dietz, Howard
- Gazzelle - Shelly Manne, Russo, Bill
- Sweets - Shelly Manne, Russo, Bill
- Spring Is Here - Shelly Manne, Hart, Lorenz
- Mallets - Shelly Manne, Rogers, Shorty
- You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Shelly Manne, Dubin, Al
- You're My Thrill - Shelly Manne, Lane, Burton
- Fugue - Shelly Manne, Giuffre, Jimmy
Free Music Notes for The West Coast Sound, Vol. 1
Free Music Review: If you like West Coast, this is a fine choice.
Hit: 4 Stars
Shelly Manne had a distinguished career as a drummer and here he works with a kind of Who's Who in West Coast Jazz -- Bob Cooper, Jimmy Giuffre, Marty Paich, Art Pepper and Bud Shank, among others.
The sound we mostly associate with West Coast jazz comes less from the solos than from the smooth arrangements. They sound more like miniature versions of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton than like home-grown small ensembles designed around a few instruments. And they tended to use oddball instruments -- French horns and whatnot. You ought to hear Bob Cooper on another album struggling with a jazz interpretation of "I Can't Get Started" -- on an oboe!
Most of the soloists are competent and professional musicians without being particularly innovative. Gerry Mulligan (not heard here) was an exception. So was Jimmy Giuffre who went on a few years after this recording to come out with a very personal breakthrough album that included a couple of tunes by Jerome Kern in which Giuffre shook of the cliches and did some extraordinary things. And after that went on to play experimental jazz in empty night clubs because evidently no one but musical theorists could understand them.
But here everyone is pretty much at his peak. It was 1953 and 1955 after all, the heyday of West Coast Jazz and its popularity. Aficionados had Howard Rumsey and his Lighthouse All-Stars in their minds constantly.
The musicians all seemed to know one another and to have worked together at various times in different venues. This is a good example of their having fun while producing some memorable work.
The West Coast Sound, Vol. 1 Poster
Japanese remastered reissue of 1955 album packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.Jazz Music CDs
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