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Shelley Manne and his Friends: Modern Jazz Performances of Songs From Li'l Abner

by David Rickert
March 15, 2003

Sometimes mediocre albums can be more frustrating than lousy albums, simply because one can see the possibility of a great performance lurking behind the clouds. Shelley Manne certainly could have followed his best-selling jazz adaptation of My Fair Lady with a better choice than Li’l Abner, a lackluster musical with a Broadway run shorter than the ...