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Artist: Shelly Manne & His Men
Album: The West Coast Sound Volume 1
Genre: Cool Jazz, Hard Bop
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1956/2009
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. Grasshopper (Manne) - 2:50
02. La Mucura (Trad.) - 3:03
03. Summer Night (Warren-Dubin) - 3:19
04. Afrodesia (Rogers) - 3:31
05. You and the Night and the Music (Dietz-Schwartz) - 3:09
06. Gazelle (Russo) - 3:01
07. Sweets (Russo) - 2:54
08. Spring Is Here (Rodgers-Hart) - 2:43
09. Mallets (Rogers) - 3:27
10. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (Warren-Dubin) - 3:14
11. You're My Thrill (Washington-Lane) - 3:05
12. Fugue (Giuffre) - 2:46
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Personnel:
Bob Enevoldsen - valve trombone
Art Pepper (#2,5,6,9), Bud Shank (#4,7,11,12), Joe Maini, Jr. (#1,3,8,10) - alto saxophone
Bob Cooper (#2,4-7,9,11,12), Bill Holman (#1,3,8,10) - tenor saxophone
Jimmy Giuffre - baritone saxophone
Marty Paich (#2,4-7,9,11,12), Russ Freeman (#1,3,8,10) - piano
Curtis Counce (#2,5,6,9), Joe Mondragon (#4,7,11,12), Ralph Pena (#1,3,8,10) - bass
Shelly Manne - drums
Drummer Shelly Manne's first sessions for Contemporary contain plenty of definitive examples of West Coast jazz. This CD has four titles apiece from a 1953 septet date with altoist Art Pepper, Bob Cooper on tenor, baritonist Jimmy Giuffre, and valve trombonist Bob Enevoldsen, four from a few months later with Bud Shank in Pepper's place, and four other songs from 1955 when Manne headed a septet with altoist Joe Maini and Bill Holman on tenor in addition to Giuffre and Enevoldsen. With arrangements by Marty Paich (who plays piano on the first two dates), Giuffre, Shorty Rogers, Bill Russo, Holman, and Enevoldsen, the music has plenty of variety yet defines the era, ranging from Russo's "Sweets" (a tribute to trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison), Giuffre's "Fugue," and the Latin folk tune "La Mucura" to updated charts on older swing tunes. Highly recommended and proof (if any is really needed) that West Coast jazz was far from bloodless.
Review by Scott Yanow