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Steps to the Desert & Midrash Mish Mosh
by Elliott Simon
In Swing Era NYC, drummer Shelly Manne's sense of time and melody gained sufficient notice that when bop arrived, he played with both Dizzy and Bird. Stints with the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands provided national exposure and in the '50s he took these influences to California and became a linchpin in the new West ...