Home » Search Center » Results: Li'l Abner
Results for "Li'l Abner"
Article: Album Review
Shelly Manne & His Friends: Li'l Abner
by Derek Taylor
Breaking stride with many of his jazz contemporaries, Shelly Manne always had an ear attuned toward popular entertainment. In the 1950s, Broadway musicals, film scores and television shows were the fodder of the day--and the drummer regularly mined these sources for material. The Contemporary label was ready and willing to release the results of these jazz-commercial ...