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Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

In 1959, Shelly Manne led his L.A.-based Men (why not Menne?) north to Frisco's famed Blackhawk for a multi-album liv...

Shelly Manne: Sorta Blue (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Conte Candoli was Superman's sibling. Pete Candoli, lead trumpeter in Woody Herman's mid-1940s First Herd, would char...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

In 1959 producer Lester Koenig had the good sense to record Shelly Manne & His Men for four nights at San Francisco's...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Shelly Manne: Fallout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On his two albums of Peter Gunn music, Shelly Manne's streamlining was to Henry Mancini's hulking originals what Cali...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Henry Mancini: My Manne Shelly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Henry Mancini was the sincerest man in Hollywood. Donning different s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Shelly Manne: Bernie's Tune (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

1950s West Coast jazz often got a bum rap for being overly arranged and effete. Tracks like this one put the lie to ...

Shelly Manne: Pas de Trois (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Concurrent sentences under warden Stan Kenton left Shelly Manne and Shorty Rogers, like career criminals acquiring ne...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Shelly Manne: Lean on Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

This tune is definitely not one of the most often played, and this trio was definitely not Shelly Manne’s usual worki...

Shelly Manne: I Could Have Danced All Night (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Five months after My Fair Lady's Broadway premiere, André Previn was tapped to turn the Edwardian-era musical into mo...

Shelly Manne: I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Listening to André Previn's jazz recordings, I sometimes get the impression that he is out slumming . . . Having a go...

Lew Tabackin: Rites of Pan (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 24, 09

Tabackin's Rites of Pan album has just been reissued on CD for the first time. On this early all-flute program, Taba...

Peggy Lee: Fever (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Peggy Lee not only swings you into bad health, she gives you "Fever" to boot. For her signature 1958 hit, Peggy slyly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Shorty Rogers: Didi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

Before West Coast cool jazz turned ponderous and overambitious, in the same spirit that tainted Stan Kenton’s work, t...

André Previn: I Feel Pretty (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

André Previn was among the first to record a jazz version of West Side Story songs, and his adaptation has a very Wes...

Barney Kessel: Viva el Toro! (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 03, 09

The late-'50s craze for jazz versions of Broadway and television shows scored hits (several fine Porgy and Bess album...

Lee Konitz: Subconscious-Lee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

This tune, which Lee Konitz would re-record several times during the following decades, is particularly interesting i...

Lennie Niehaus: You Stepped Out of a Dream (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 03, 09

Neglected master composer/arranger of West Coast, counterpoint-styled Jazz, and no slouch as an alto saxman eith...

Lennie Niehaus: Bunko (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

The first track Lennie Niehaus recorded as a leader was a sprightly "I'll Take Romance." Well, I'll take Niehaus, and...

Cal Tjader: When Lights Are Low (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

Cal Tjader recorded prolifically for Berkeley's Fantasy label, but his last project is my favorite. Released as Brea...

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