Album For Today

[Serial_Apologist]

really have goose bumps now

As I remember it, The Shadows produced an album with much jazzier instrumentals on than could be associated with Cliff, around the early 60s.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Not as far from jazz as you may think...

The "rock" drummer on Duane's record was....Shelly Manne, paying his mortgage.

BN.

[grippie]

I was once introduced to Shelly Manne and shook his hand. he had a very soft limp handshake, I thought perhaps some sort of preservation his arm extremities. A really nice person.

[Ian Thumwood]

Can't understand how Shelly Manne has become such a forgotten figure. I know that the West Coast jazz movement is a bit discredited these days (rather unfairly) but Manne was always on the money. I think he was an essential incredient of Shorty Roger's "Giants" sessions and was always intrigued by this session althoguh this is not the most interesting track from recollection:-

[charles t]

Thanks to Ian - and all - for their appreciations of Shelly.

I was at the closing night of the original ManneHole, off Hollywood Blvd. (for Teddy Edwards). Site was then relocated on Wilshire Blvd. into a high-rise office building with an adjoining kitchen...but didn't take.

He was always at the forefront in promoting jazz...I remember his sponsoring an afternoon at The Libby Bowl in Ojai with a group which included Gunther Schuller - performing the music of Scott Joplin!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ok lets go for broke this is one of my favourite albums of all time, played incessantly through my adolescence and a lot since then!

..yer get more bounce with Curtis eh ....

something about the way Shorty Rogers solos ...

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

These Shorty Roger's albums are great! It's strange that they were considered "Modern" in their time as they do't necessarily take the music much further forward that Basie. Makes you appreciate justhow ahea ofthe game Basie actually was. (For me, hugely significant and perhaps representing one of the most significant developments in music before Charlie Parker - from a rhythmic point of view, I would suggest as important) However, they are hugely enjoyable and represent the apogee of West Coast jazz for me.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Shelly Manne's drumming and contribution to Ornette's second album (1959) is remarkable. Not just another session to be got thro but totally at one with the music and concept.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

This is more like it...

[burning dog]

An old fashioned mainstream album from British musicians who haven't always played this style but seem to really enjoy it, and have no sesne of giving us a history lesson, the first track would make a good example for the Swing thread.

[grippie]

BBC4 tonight three items

22:45 - 00:20
Arena

Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way

00:20 - 01:20
1959: The Year that Changed Jazz



01:20 - 02:20
Omnibus

Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz

02:20 - 03:35

[Jazzrook]

The overlooked altoist Eric Kloss & tenorist Booker Ervin playing 'Summertime' with a superb rhythm section of Jaki Byard, Richard Davis & Alan Dawson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Hg2D1XfBE

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Kenny and Norma at it again [at 84 how does he do it]
Mirrors

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... and this looks pretty unmissable

[Jazzrook]

I've been listening to blues since the early '60s but have only recently discovered Jimmy Witherspoon's wonderful 1958 album 'Singin' the Blues'(JAZZBEAT 539) featuring Harry "Sweets" Edison, Teddy Edwards & Hampton Hawes. I think it's a classic which deserves to be better known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zS6jwQ82s