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The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"
by Jack Bowers
The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...
Shelly Manne at the Black Hawk
When Shelly Manne agreed to play San Francisco's Black Hawk club in September 1959, he viewed the gig as a working vacation. For months, the West Coast drummer had endured a grueling schedule, spending days in Hollywood's movie and TV studios and nights at Los Angeles-area clubs. Taking on the extended San Francisco engagement with his ...
Vic Lewis (1919-2009)
Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...
Shelly Manne & His Men At The Black Hawk
by David A. Orthmann
Two decades after Shelly Manne's untimely death at the age of sixty-four, the unassuming artistry of the once popular bandleader and widely recorded sideman is largely overlooked, if not forgotten. Manne's utilitarian drumming contains elements from stylists ranging from Dave Tough, to Papa Jo Jones, to Kenny Clarke. Befitting a musician who spent his formative years ...
Modern Jazz Performances of Songs From Li'l Abner
By Shelly Manne
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Jubilation T. Cornpone 2. The Country's In the Very Besy of Hands 3. If I Had My Druthers 4.
Unnecessary Town 5. Matrimonial Stomp 6. Progress Is The Root Of All Evil 7. Oh, Happy Day 8.
Namely You 9. Past My Prime.
Yesterdays
By Shelly Manne
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Cabu
2. Bags' Groove
3. Poinciana
4. Straight, No Chaser
5. Yesterdays
Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays
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 ...
Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays
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 ...
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 ...
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