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Shelly Manne & His Men - Shelly Manne & His Men, Vol. 2

Primary Artist
Shelly Manne & His Men
Album Title
Shelly Manne & His Men, Vol. 2
Release Date
December, 1953 
Time
45:01 
Review by Richard S. Ginell
Shelly Manne's second "workshop" 10" LP is even more advanced than his first, at times reaching outside the West Coast cool jazz idiom toward contemporary classical music -- with no cover tunes this time. Where the first album was centered on a sax ensemble, Vol. 2 is devoted to a four-man brass group -- with Russ Freeman or Marty Paich on piano and Joe Mondragon on bass -- and this seems to have unleashed a wilder surge of creative freedom among Manne's six arrangers/composers. Read More
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