Shorty Rogers: Afro-Cuban Influence/S.R.Meets...

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  • Label: FreshSound
  • Order number: 7560231
  • Release date: 22.9.2010

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Featuring: Shorty Rogers (flgh), Don Fagerquist (tp), Frank Rosolino (tb), Bob Enevoldsen (v-tb), Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, Bill Holman (saxes), Pete Jolly (p), Buddy Clark (b), Shelly Manne (d), Carlos Vidal, Modesto Duran, Frank Guerrerro, Mike Pacheco (perc)

Shorty Rogers is best known on the international jazz scene as a symbol of West Coast Jazz. However, this is a very incomplete picture, for his talents and interests extended far beyond the rather limited concept originally denoted by that term. His work around Hollywood also included a series of major studio assignments, orchestrating, playing, and a broad variety of recording ventures of his own, including, among others, big band writing and movie scores. In 1958, attracted by the wild brassy sounds of the Pérez Prado orchestra and its fierce Afro-Cuban rhythms, he assembled a jazz big band, along with eight percussionists, in an adventurous, electrifying album called “Afro-Cuban Influence.”

A year later he was engaged to compose the movie soundtrack of the MGM production Tarzan, the Ape Man. It produced another accomplished Rogers’ score, this time with a jungle-like atmosphere. All the ingredients and devices that distinguished his characteristic big band writing are here, propelled by a volcanic drum section, and garnished with atmospheric solos over the orchestral background. This excellent soundtrack later became the equally admirable album “Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan.” (freshsoundrecords. com)

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