The Very Best Of

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Total Tracks: 74   Total Length: 263:40

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Kevin Whitehead

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10.01.09
Shorty Rogers, The Very Best Of
2009 | Label: Master Classics Records / The Orchard

This compilation is comprised of several Shorty Rogers records. The breakdown is as follows:

Modern Sounds (octet, 1951)
Popo
Didi
Four Mothers
Over the Rainbow
Apropos
Sam and the Lady

Cool & Crazy (big band, 1953
Coop de Graas
Infinity Promenade
Short Stop
Boar Jibu
Contours
Tale Of An African Lobster
Chiquito Loco
The Sweetheart Of Sigmund Freud

Hot Blood (big band, 1953): music from the film The Wild One
Blues for Brando
Chino
Hot Blood (The Wild One)
Windswept

Shorty Courts the Count (big band, 1954)
Jump for Me
Topsy
It's Sand, Man
Basie Eyes
Doggin' Around
Down for Double
Over and Out
H & J
Taps Miller
Tickletoe
Swingin' the Blues
Walk, Don't Run

Collaboration (nonet, 1954)
It's Delovely
Porterhouse
Heat Wave
40 Degrees Below
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Claudia
You Do Something To Me
Call For Cole
Everything I've Got (Belongs To You)
Some Antics
It Only Happens When I Dance With You
General Cluster
* bonus track from the same sessions: Lullaby of Birdland

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Good material all mixed up

nanibgal

This is a rip-off of the Shorty R. Proper box with everything out of order, which is rather infuriating. For full discographical information, see http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201006/2101155741.html

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The Very Best of

4HARK

Shorty's various groups are on this cd.This is a swinging cd. Good arrangements and good solos.A keeper and real good reminder of how great Shorty was and all the fine players that worked with him.

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