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Shorty Rogers/Andre Previn - Collaboration - RCA (black dog, mono)

The sound of a promised future that we never quite received.

Maybe the most West Coast record ever. I bought it when it came out, got rid of it a few years later (despite its great Jim Flora cover) because I'd been converted to Silver, Blakey, Rollins et al. and didn't want my burgeoning little collection to be polluted by this precious stuff, then heard it again decades later and realized how much clever, goofy fun it was. Also, the way the band plays those complex petit point charts is pretty amazing.

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Tony Bennett/The McPartlands and Friends Make Magnificent Music (Improv). Selections from a 1977 gig. The friends include Buddy Tate, Vic Dickenson, Herb Hall and Charlie Byrd. Marian McPartland plays a great "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise," and Bennett sings "While We're Young," a song that always gets to me, with composer Alec Wilder in the audience.

Mal Waldron Quintet with Steve Lacy - One-Upmanship (Inner City). I bought this one over 30 years ago. Lacy's solo on "The Seagulls of Kristiansund" is stunning.

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Shorty Rogers/Andre Previn - Collaboration - RCA (black dog, mono)

The sound of a promised future that we never quite received.

Maybe the most West Coast record ever. I bought it when it came out, got rid of it a few years later (despite its great Jim Flora cover) because I'd been converted to Silver, Blakey, Rollins et al. and didn't want my burgeoning little collection to be polluted by this precious stuff, then heard it again decades later and realized how much clever, goofy fun it was. Also, the way the band plays those complex petit point charts is pretty amazing.

Yes, records like this shatter the misconceptions about so-called "West Coast Jazz."

Too bad my copy doesn't have the Jim Flora cover. It has a photo of Andre and Shorty.

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