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Yesterdays: Live In Europe

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Cabu 2. Bag's Groove 3. Poinciana 4. Straight, No Chaser 5. Yesterdays.

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Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays

Read "Yesterdays" reviewed by Russell Moon


Shelly Manne took his Men on a European tour with Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic organization in the winter of 1960. Along the way, Granz recorded the quintet's February 22 (Zurich) and March 2 (Copenhagen) gigs. Manne was a Contemporary Records artist at the time; however, Fantasy Records has acquired the rights to both Granz's ...

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Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays: Live In Europe

Read "Yesterdays: Live In Europe" reviewed by David Rickert


Shelly Manne’s Blackhawk recordings are the standard by which all other West Coast jazz projects are judged; they even earned the coveted coronet in the Penguin Guide. What a treat it is, then, that these live recordings from a year later have resurfaced. Norman Granz invited Manne to tour Europe with the JATP with virtually the ...

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Checkmate

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Checkmate/ The Isolated Pawn/ Cyanide Touch/ The King Swings/ En Passant/ Fireside Eyes/ The Black Knight.

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Shelly Manne & His Men: Checkmate

Read "Checkmate" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Jazz and television were an easy match in the Sixties, especially in the context of the cop, spy and detective shows that were Hollywood’s bread and butter of the era. Noirish blues and angular tempoed chase themes fit the action on these shows perfectly, as did the Cool connotations of West Coast Jazz. Among the more ...

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Jazz Gunn / Daktari

Label: Atlantic
Released: 2001
Track listing: A Bluish Bag; Silver Tears; Sweet; Theme For Sam; A Quiet Happening; Night Owl; Peter Gunn;

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Mallets / La Mucura

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1953
Track listing: Mallets; La Mucura;

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Fugue / Sweets

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1953
Track listing: Fugue; Sweets;

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You're My Thrill / Afrodesia

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1953
Track listing: You're My Thrill; Afrodesia;


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