Among the most versatile and hard-working drummers in jazz, Shelly Manne performed in just about every style and sub-genre within the entire idiom in his lifetime. During a career that spanned more than 45 years, Manne indulged in Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde, Third Stream and jazz fusion, among other styles, and appeared on the soundtracks to hundreds of films and television programs. He also featured on the albums of a wide array of other legendary musicians, including those by Chet Baker, Ornette Coleman, Benny Carter, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton, Oliver Nelson and Frank Sinatra. It is generally accepted however that Shelly Manne's finest work and playing appeared while leading his own bands, most notably during the early years of his solo career. This four CD collection, containing nine original records, collates the finest of Shelly Manne's early studio output as bandleader. Featuring more than five hours of faithfully-restored and remastered music, this set is the perfect tribute to a musician whose work remains a blueprint for those who believe that every style has room for development, change and, when appropriate, radicalisation.
- Disc 1 -
1 Flip
2 Autumn in New York
3 Pas de Trois
4 Three on a Row
5 Steeplechase
6 Abstract No. 1
7 The Sound Effects Manne
8 Everything Happens to Me
9 Billie's Bounce
10 With a Song in My Heart
11 A Slight Minority
12 Speak Easy
13 Grasshopper
14 La Murcura
15 Summer Night
16 Afrodesia
17 You and the Night and the Music
18 Gazelle
19 Sweets
20 Spring Is Here
21 Mallets
22 You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
23 You're My Thrill
24 Fugue
- Disc 2 -
1 The Dart Game
2 Bea's Flat
3 Parthenia
4 Un Poco Loco
5 Bernie's Tune
6 Doxy
7 Slan
8 A Gem from Tiffany
9 Get Me to the Church on Time
10 On the Street Where You Live
11 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
12 Wouldn't It Be Loverly
13 Ascot Gavotte
14 Show Me
15 With a Little Bit of Luck
16 I Could Have Danced All Night
- Disc 3 -
1 Concerto for Clarinet and Combo: 1st Movement
2 Concerto for Clarinet and Combo: 2nd Movement
3 Concerto for Clarinet and Combo: 3rd Movement
4 Sophisticated Rabbit
5 My Old Flame
6 Bag's Groove
7 Peter Gunn
8 The Floater
9 Sorta Blue
10 The Brother
11 Soft Sounds
12 Fallout
13 Slow and Easy
14 Brief and Breezy
15 Dreamsville
16 A Profound Gass
- Disc 4 -
1 Take the 'A' Train
2 The Sicks of Us
3 Slowly
4 Lean on Me
5 Cherokee
6 Me and Some Drums
7 The Washington Twist
8 Danny Boy
9 Let's Go Back to the Waltz
10 With a Song in My Heart
11 Goodbye
12 I Believe in You
