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| 1. | Coop The Graas
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| 2. | Infinity Promenade
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| 3. | Short Stop
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| 4. | Boar-Jibu
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| 5. | Contours
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| 6. | Tale Of An African Lobster
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| 7. | Chiquito Loco
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| 8. | The Sweetheart Of Sigmund Freud
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| 9. | Pay The Piper
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| 10. | At Home With Sweets
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| 11. | Pink Squirrel
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| 12. | Blues Express
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Jazz / Cool
Recorded: 1956
Shorty Rogers Trumpet
Conrad Gozzo, Maynard Ferguson, Tom Reeves, John Howell, Milt Bernhart, Harry Betts, John Haliburton, John Graas, Gene Englund, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, Marty Paich, Curtis Counce, Shelly Manne, Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli, Harry Edison, Bob Enevoldsen, Frank Rosolino, George Roberts, Paul Sarmento, Charlie Mariano, Art Pepper, Bill Holman, Jack Montrose, Lou Levy, Ralph Pena, Stan Levey
Born in Massachusetts but renowned for his west coast jazz innovations, trumpeter and arranger Shorty Rogers made his mark as a bandleader with this fine collection of big-band charts from the spring of 1953. He had already cut some solo discs under the moniker Shorty Rogers & His Giants, an eight-piece ensemble that paralleled the groundbreaking work of Miles Davis' 1951 Birth of the Cool group. After another Giants session in January 1953, Rogers began his big-band work with the eight sides heard here. He penned and arranged all the material, which ranges from dense and driving cuts like "Boar-Jibu" and the latin swinger "Chiquito Loco" to the tonally rich ballad "Contours." Rogers shows a deft hand throughout, managing to make his complex and varied material sound seamless and eminently swinging. Helping out are such Giants alums as alto saxophonist Art Pepper, trombonist Milt Bernhart, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre, and drummer Shelly Manne. A classic from the '50s big-band era, which is also available in its entirety on Bluebird's Short Stops collection. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide
Shorty Rogers
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Apr 14, 1924 in Great Barrington, MA
Died: Nov 07, 1994 in Van Nuys, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Bop, Cool, Swing, Bossa Nova, West Coast Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz
A fine middle-register trumpeter whose style seemed to practically define "cool jazz," Shorty Rogers was actually more significant for his arranging, both in jazz and in the movie studios. After gaining early experience with Will Bradley and Red Norvo and serving in the military, Rogers rose to fame as a member of Woody Herman's First and Second Herds (1945-1946 and 1947-1949), and somehow he managed to bring some swing to the Stan Kenton Innovations Orchestra (1950-1951), clearly enjoying writing for the stratospheric flights of Maynard Ferguson. After that association ran its course, Rogers settled in Los Angeles where he led his Giants (which ranged from a quintet to a nonet and a big band) on a series of rewarding West Coast jazz-styled recordings and wrote for the studios, helping greatly to bring jazz into the movies; his scores for The Wild One and The Man With the Golden Arm are particularly memorable. After 1962, Rogers stuck almost exclusively to writing for television and films, but in 1982 he began a comeback in jazz. Rogers reorganized and headed the Lighthouse All-Stars and, although his own playing was not quite as strong as previously, he remained a welcome presence both in clubs and recordings.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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