Shelly Manne

 

Artist:  Shelly Manne

Birth Name:  Sheldon Manne

Born:  June 1, 1920.  New York City, New York, USA

Died:  September 26, 1984 (Aged 64).  Los Angeles, California, USA

Genre:  Jazz, Cool Jazz, Be Bop, West Coast Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Film Score, Post Bop

Occupation:  Drummer, Percussionist, Composer,, Bandleader

Instruments: Drums, Percussion

Shelly Manne was an American Jazz Drummer from New York City.  His father Max Manne and Uncles were Drummers.  He rapidly developed his style in the clubs of 52nd Street in New York in the late 1930s and 1940s.  His first professional job with a known big band was with The Bobby Byrne Orchestra in 1940.   He recorded with Jazz Stars like Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers, and Don Byas, he also worked with a number of musicians mainly associated with Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, and Rex Stewart, and performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.  He became part of the working bands of Woody Herman and, especially, Stan Kenton.

Title:  2-3-4 (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) (2026)

Genre:  Jazz, Cool Jazz, Be Bop, West Coast Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Film Score, Post Bop

Label:  Impulse!

Rating:  *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:

 1. Take The "A" Train (7:23)

 2.  The Sicks Of Us (5:53)

 3.  Slowly (5:27)

Side B:

 1.  Lean On Me (6:18)

 2.  Cherokee (3:22)

 3.  Me And Some Drums (5:54)

Personnel:

Shelly Manne:  Drums

Coleman Hawkins:  Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:  A1,3, B1, 3, Piano on Track B3

Hank Jones:  Piano on Tracks:  A1, 3, B1, 2

Eddie Costa:  Piano on Tracks:  A2, B1-3

George Duvivier:  Bass on Tracks:  A1-3, B1, 2

2-3-4 is an album by Shelly Manne, originally released in 1962 by Impulse! remastered ad reissued on July 31, 2026 by Impulse!.  Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Edition, 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.

Marty Robbins

 

Artist:  Marty Robbins

Birth Name:   Martin David Robinson

Born:  September 26, 1925.  Glendale, Arizona, USA

Died:  December 8, 1982 (Aged 57).  Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Genre:  Country, Western Outlaw Country, Rockabilly, Blues Folk, Country Pop, Traditional Country, Cowboy, Film Score

Occupation:  Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor

Instruments:  Vocals, Guitar

Marty Robbins was an American Singer, Songwriter, Actor and Multi-Instrumentalist.  He was one of the most popular and successful Country and Western Singers.  He was also an early Outlaw Country pioneer.  In 1952, he released his first No. 1 Country Song."I'll Go On Alone", his second No. 1 "Singing The Blues" and two more No. 1 A White Sport Coat" and "The Story Of My Life".  In 1959, he released his signature song "El Paso", which he won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.  He recorded more than 500 songs and 60 albums, and won two Grammy Awards, was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame, and was named the 1960s Artist of the Decade by the Academy Of Country Music.  His songs were covered by many other famous artists, including Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, and Elvis Presley.  His music continues to have an influence in Pop Culture today.

Title:  Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs (2026) 

Genre:  Country, Western, Outlaw Country, Rockabilly, Blues Folk, Country Pop, Traditional Country, Cowboy, Film Score

Label:  Number One Essentials

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Big Iron (4:00)

 2.  Cool Water (3:12)

 3.  Billy The Kid (2:20)

 4.  A Hundred And Sixty Acres (1:42)

 5.  They're Hanging Me Tonight (3:08)

 6.  The Strawberry Roan (3:27)

 7.  The Streets Of Laredo (2:47)

 8.  Five Brothers (2:15)

Side Two:

 1.  El Paso (4:23)

 2.  In The Valley (1:51)

 3.  The Master's Call (3:09)

 4.  Running Gun (2:14)

 5.  Down In The Little Green Valley (2:28)

 6.  Utah Carol (3:13)

 7.  The Hanging Tree (2:47)

 8.  The Story Of My Life (2:33)

Personnel:

Marty Robbins:  Lead Guitar, Guitar

Grady Martin:  Lead Guitar

Hillous Butrum:  Guitar

Jack H. Pruett:  Rhythm Guitar

Bob L. Moore:  Bass

Floyd Chance:  Bass

Louis Dunn:  Drums

The Glaser Brothers:  Backing Vocals

Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by Marty Robbins, originally released on September 1959 by Columbia Records, remastered and reissued on January 23, 2026 by Number One Essentials.  Pressed on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.

Archie Shepp

 

Artist:  Archie Shepp

Born:  May 24, 1937.  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Film Score,Vocal Jazz

Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Educator

Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Piano, Vocals

Archie Shepp is an American Jazz Musician, Composer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He began playing Banjo with his father, then studied Piano and Saxophone while attending high school in Germantown.  He played in a Latin Jazz Band for a short time before joining the band of Avant-Garde Pianist Cecil Taylor.  His first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet, was released on Savoy Records in 1962, and featured a composition by Ormette Coleman.  He formed the New York Contemporary Five, John Coltrane's admiration for him led to recordings for Impulse! Records, joined by Rosewell Rudd (Trombone), Alan Shorter (Trumpet), Reggie Workman (Bass), and Charles Moffett (Drums).

Title:  Four For Trane (Verve Vault Series) (2025)

Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Film Score,Vocal Jazz

Label:  Verve

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Syeeda's Song Flute (8:30)

 2.  Mr. Syms (7:41)

Side Two:

 1.  Cousin Mary (7:14)

 2.  Naima (7:09)

 3.  Rufus (6:24)

Personnel:

Archie Shepp:  Tenor Saxophone

Alan Shorter:  Flugelorn

John Tohical:  Alto Saxophone

Roswell Rudd:  Trombone

Reggie Workman:  Double Bass

Charles Moffett:  Drums

Four For Trane is a studio album by Archie Shepp, originally released on January, 1965 by Impulse!, remastered and reissued on December 12, 2025 by Impulse!  Pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl.

Johnny Griffin

 

Artist:  Johnny Griffin

Birth Name:  John Arnold Griffin III

Born:  April 24, 1928.  Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died:  July 25, 2008.  (Aged 80).  Availles-Limouzine, France

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Post Bop, Film Score

Occupation:  Musician

Instrument:  Tenor Saxophone

Johnny Griffin was an American Jazz Tenor Saxophonist.  Nicknamed "The Little Giant".  He is a pioneering figure in Hard Bop.  He recorded prolifically as a bandleader in additiona to stints with the pianist Thelonious Monk and the drummer Art Blakey.  In partnership with his fellow Tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, and as a member of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band after he moved to Europe in the 1960s.  He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

Title:  A Blowing Session (Blue Note Classic Edition) (2025)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Post Bop, Film Score

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1. The Way You Look Tonight (9:41)

 2.  Ball Bearing (8:11)

Side Two:

 1.  All The Things ou Are (10:14)

 2.  Smoke Stack (10:13)

Personnel:

Johnny Griffin:  Tenor Saxophone

Hank Mobley:  Tenor Saxophone

John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet

Wynton Kelly:  Piano

Paul Chambers:  Bass

Art Blakey:  Drums

A Blowing Session is the second studio album by Johnny Griffin, originally released on September, 1967 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued on December 12, 2025 by Blue Note, featuring John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey.  Blue Note Classic Edition 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.

Archie Shepp

Artist:  Archie Shepp

Born:  May 24, 1937.  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Film Score,Vocal Jazz

Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Educator

Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Piano, Vocals

Archie Shepp is an American Jazz Musician, Composer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He began playing Banjo with his father, then studied Piano and Saxophone while attending high school in Germantown.  He played in a Latin Jazz Band for a short time before joining the band of Avant-Garde Pianist Cecil Taylor.  His first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet, was released on Savoy Records in 1962, and featured a composition by Ormette Coleman.  He formed the New York Contemporary Five, John Coltrane's admiration for him led to recordings for Impulse! Records, joined by Rosewell Rudd (Trombone), Alan Shorter (Trumpet), Reggie Workman (Bass), and Charles Moffett (Drums).

Title:  The Magic Of Ju-Ju (2025)

Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Film Score,Vocal Jazz

Label:  Verve

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  The Magic Of Ju-Ju (18:37)

Side Two:

 1.  You're What This Day Is All About (1:51)

 2.  Shazam (4:43)

 3.  Sorry 'Bout That (10:07)

Personnel:

Archie Shepp:  Tenor Saxophone

Martin Banks:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Mike Zwerin:  Bass Trombone, Trombone

Reggie Workman:  Bass

Norman Connors:  Drums

Beaver Harris:  Drums

Frank Charles:  Talking Drum

Dennis Charles:  Percussion

Ed Blackwell:  Rhythm Logs

 The Magic Of Ju-Ju is an album by Archie Shepp, originally released in May 1968 by Impulse!, remastered and reissued on March 14, 2025 by Verve.  180 Gram Audiophile Quality Vinyl.

Shelly Manne

 

Artist:  Shelly Manne

Birth Name:  Sheldon Manne

Born:  June 1, 1920.  New York City, New York, USA

Died:  September 26, 1984 (Aged 64).  Los Angeles, California, USA

Genre:  Jazz, Cool Jazz, Be Bop, West Coast Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Film Score, Post Bop

Occupation:  Drummer, Percussionist, Composer,, Bandleader

Instruments: Drums, Percussion

Shelly Manne was an American Jazz Drummer from New York City.  His father Max Manne and Uncles were Drummers.  He rapidly developed his style in the clubs of 52nd Street in New York in the late 1930s and 1940s.  His first professional job with a known big band was with The Bobby Byrne Orchestra in 1940.   He recorded with Jazz Stars like Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Shavers, and Don Byas, he also worked with a number of musicians mainly associated with Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, and Rex Stewart, and performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.  He became part of the working bands of Woody Herman and, especially, Stan Kenton.

Title:  Jazz From The Pacific Northwest (Deluxe Editon, Limited Edition(2024)

Genre:  Jazz, Cool Jazz, BeBop, West Coast Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Film Score, Post Bop

Label:  Reel To Real Recordings

Rating:   *****

Format:  CD

Tracks:jazz

Disc 1:  

 1.  Stop, Look And Listen (6:21)

 2.  The Vamp's Blues (11:14)

 3.  Quartet (Suite In Four Movement) (17:50)

Disc 2:

1.  Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (10:12)

 2.  Summertime (12:13)

 3.  Dearly Beloved (2:54)

 4.  Funny (10:19)

 5.  Secret Love (11:25)

 6.  Surrey With The Fringe On Top (3:14)

Personnel:

Disc 1:  Recorded At The Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California,October 4, 1958

Shelly Manne:  Drums

Monty Budwig:  Bass

Russ Freeman:   Piano

Herb Geller:  Alto Saxophone

Stu Williamson:  Trumpet

Disc 2:  Recorded At The Penthouse In Seattle, Washington, September 7 and 15, 1966:

Shelly Manne:  Drums

Monty Budwig:  Bass

Hampton Hawes:  Piano

Frank Strozler:  Flute, Alto Saxophone

Conte Candoll:  Trumpet

Ruth Price:  Voice

Jazz From The Pacific Northwest is a live album by Sheely Manne & His Men, released on April 20, 2024 by Reel To Real Recordings.  Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition in 2 CD.