Research Catalog

Title

West coast sounds / Shorty Rogers and his orchestra, featuring the Giants, 1950-1956.

Author

Rogers, Shorty, 1924-1994

Publication

[Barcelona] : Fresh Sound Records, [2006], ℗2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sims, Zoot
• Shank, Bud
• Geller, Herb, 1928-2013
• Giuffre, Jimmy
• Manne, Shelly
• Giants (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

1 audio disc : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

• Jazz > 1951-1960
• Jazz > 1941-1950

Note

• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Jordi Pujol, playlist with durations, and personnel listing in English (23 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Disc 1: recorded in Hollywood Aug. 28, 1950 (1-3), July 1, 1951 (4-9), Jan. 12 (10-13) and Jan. 15 (14-17), Mar. 26 (18-21), and Apr. 2, 1953 (22-25). Disc 2: recorded in Hollywood July 14, 1953 (1-4), Feb 2 (5-8), Feb.9 (9-12), and Mar.3, 1954 (13-16), Dec. 15, 1955 (17) and July 5, 1956 (18-21).

Contents

• Disc 1: A mile down the highway / B. Hilliard, D. Mann (2:18) -- He can come back anytime / Johnny Lehman (2:52) -- Do it again / G. Gershwin, B. DeSylva (2:55) -- Four mothers / Jimmy Giuffre (2:48) -- Didi (2:26) ; Sam and the lady (3:06) ; Popo (3:01) / Shorty Rogers -- Over the rainbow / Arlen, Harburg (3:00) -- Apropos (2:38) ; Pirouette (3:11) ; Bunny (3:27) / Shorty Rogers -- Powder puff / Shelly Manne (2:51) -- The pesky serpent / JImmy Giuffre (2:39) -- Diablo's Dance / Shorty Rogers (3:17) -- Indian Club / Jimmy Giuffre (2:37) -- Morpo (3:29) ; Mambo del crow (3:03) ; Coop de graas (2:58) ; Infinity promenade (3:34) ; Short stop (3:16) ; Boar-jibu (3:34) ; Contours (3:21) ; Tale of an African lobster (3:24) ; Chiquito loco (3:27) ; The sweetheart of Sigmund Freud (2:39) / Shorty Rogers.
• Disc 2: Hot blood (The wild one) (3:17) ; Blues for Brando (2:51) ; Windswept (3:11) ; Chino (2:37) / Leith Stevens -- Topsy / Eddie Durham, Edgar Battle (3:18) -- It's sand, man / Ed Lewis (2:56) -- Basie eyes / Shorty Rogers (3:22) -- Doggin' around / Hershel Evans, Edgar Battle (2:34) -- Jump for me / Count Basie (3:57) -- Over and out / Shorty Rogers (3:12) -- Down for double / Freddie Green (2:53) -- Swingin' the blues / Eddie Durham, Count Basie (4:25) -- H & J / Harry Edison, Joe Jones (2:58) -- Tickletoe / Lester Young (2:36) -- Taps Miller / Count Basie (3:19) -- Walk, don't run / Shorty Rogers (3:13) -- Audition / Elmer Bernstein (2:43) -- Pay the piper (3:53) ; At home with sweets (5:07) ; Pink squirrel (3:36) ; Blues express (4:13) / Shorty Rogers.

OCLC

• 85804204
• ocm85804204
• SCSB-13623490

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries