Shorty Rogers- The Swingin' Nutcracker

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

the art pepper discog. lists most of the track info: except the following:

tracks 2,4,8.11::

a nutty marche

the swingin' plum fairy

dance espresso

oveture for shorty

now are these trys just [art out] with same personel or is it from a different session altogeher--- FYI heres what was in the art discog'

Shorty Rogers - The Swingin' Nutcracker (RCA Victor LPM 2110)

John Audino, Conte Candoli, Shorty Rogers, Ray Triscari, Jimmy Zito (tp) Harry Betts, George Roberts, Frank Rosolino, Ken Shroyer (tb) Art Pepper (as) Bud Shank (as, fl) Bill Holman, Richie Kamuca, Bill Perkins (ts) Chuck Gentry (bars) Pete Jolly (p) Joe Mondragon (b) Mel Lewis (d)

Los Angeles, CA, May 17, 1960

Flowers For The Cats

Blue Reeds

Pass The Duke

Six Pax

Jimmy Giuffre (cl) Lou Levy (p) replaces Jolly

Los Angeles, CA, May 24, 1960

Snowball

China Where?

Like Nutty Overture

[Chuck Nessa]

Time to spend money if you want real info.

[alocispepraluger102]

got it here somewhere.

saw it just a couple days ago.

[brownie]

RCA did not provide full details of the various sessions on the original LP liner notes.

Art Pepper does not play on the first session (also recorded in May 1960).

Musicians on that session are:

Shorty Rogers, Pete Jolly, Joe Mondragon and Frank Capp with a saxophone quintet (Richie Kamuca, Harold Land, Bill Perkins on tenor and Bill Holman and Bill Hood on baritone)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

brownie-chunks: yea RCA never put any useful info on their lps! they were all pizzazz with the covers but zero info w/ the liners! is that cause even though they recorded some good west coat jazz, they are still a big corporate label that sucks? im pretty skeptical about this lp, in the soundclips, i already could tell it does not match up with Duke's version, which I LOVE. Regarding the reworkings of the melodies, i do not know if that sits well with me--- HOWEVER I STILL WANT TO LISTEN TO IT JUST TO HEAR THE VARIOUS WCJ SAX PLAYERS SOLO OVER THE CHANGES. but i do not know if they melodies on this lp stand up the same way as duke's arragements led to. You guys know i have the largest collection of nutcracker lps than any of u guys here, you knew that, right? I probably have 75, some dating back to the 20s.