Artist: Shorty Rogers
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
A all right middle-register trumpeter whose stylus seemed to practically define "cool jazz," Shorty Carl Rogers was actually more significant for his transcription, both in jazz and in the moving picture studios. Subsequently gaining other get with Will Bradley and Red ink Norvo and helping in the armed forces, Virginia Katherine McMath rosebush to fame as a fellow extremity of Woody Herman's First base and Second Herds (1945-1946 and 1947-1949), and in just about style he managed to bring some swing to the Stan Kenton Innovations Orchestra (1950-1951), distinctly enjoying writing for the stratospheric flights of Maynard Ferguson. Later on that tie ran its lead, Ginger Rogers settled in Los Angeles where he light-emitting diode his Giants (which ranged from a quintet to a nonet and a large band) on a series of rewarding West Coast jazz-styled recordings and wrote for the studios, serving greatly to take jazz into the movies; his lashings for The Wild One and The Serviceman With the Golden Arm are in particular memorable. Afterwards 1962, Rogers stuck well-nigh alone to piece for television and films, simply in 1982 he began a return in jazz. Virginia McMath reorganized and headed the Pharos All-Stars and, although his possess playing was not quite an as severely as previously, he remained a welcome comportment both in clubs and recordings.
