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Yesterdays

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

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Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays

Read "Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Shelly Manne & His Men Yesterdays Pablo 2003 Shelly Manne, who died suddenly of a heart attack on September 26, 1984, left behind an impressive body of recorded work as a leader and sideman. Like Dave Tough, one of his formative influences, Manne was a musician first and ...

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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 Friends: Li'l Abner

Read "Li'l Abner" reviewed 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 ...

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

Read "Modern Jazz Performances of Songs From Li'l Abner" reviewed by David Rickert


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 ...

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Plays Harold Arlen and West Side Story

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2. Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good) 3. When the Sun Comes Out 4. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe 5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 6. Come Rain or Come Shine 7. Over the Rainbow 8. Out of This World 9. Last Night When We Were Young 10. Man That Got Away 11. Blues in the Night 12. Prologue/The Jet Song 13. Something's Coming 14. Maria Interlude 15. Maria 16. Tonight 17. America 18. Cool 19. One Hand, One Heart 20. I Feel Pretty/Somewhere.

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Plays Checkmate

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Checkmate 2. The Isolated Pawn 3. Cyanide Touch 4. The King Swings 5. En Passant 6. Fireside Eyes 6. The Black Knight.

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The Navy Swings

Label: Solid Records (6)
Released: 2002
Track listing: It Could Happen to You; TEEF; Steve; The King Swings; Green Dolphin Street; The Champ; A Gem For Tiffany; Love For Sale; Wouldn't You; The Breeze And I; Speak Low; Fan Tan; Morris Minor; Frank's Tune; Summertime; Alone Together; March Of The Siamese Children; The Man I love; Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; Yesterdays; Easy High-Flying Phyllis; Here's That Rainey Day; The Navy Swings;

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Pretty / Groovy

Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Look for the Silver Lining; Time After Time; Travelin' Light; My Funny Valentine; There Will Never Be Another You; The Thrill Is Gone; But Not for Me Band Aid The Lamp Is Low; Carson City Stage; Long Ago (and Far Away); Easy to Love; Winter Wonderland; Batter Up.

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Shelley Manne: Plays Checkmate

Read "Plays Checkmate" reviewed by David Rickert


One would hardly think that music for television would form a solid basis for improvisation, being largely incidental music meant to set scenes rather than draw in the ear. However, Johnny Williams (the same John Williams who later created memorable music for Star Wars and the Harry Potter movies) was a composer who was able to ...


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