Boss Sounds!

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Boss Sounds!
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Live album by
Released1966
RecordedJune 20, 1966
Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Length43:36
Label Atlantic SD 1469
Producer Nesuhi Ertegun
Shelly Manne chronology
Sounds!
(1966)
Boss Sounds!
(1966)
Jazz Gunn
(1967)

Boss Sounds! (subtitled Shelly Manne & His Men at Shelly's Manne-Hole) is a live album by drummer Shelly Manne recorded in 1966 and released on the Atlantic label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic review called it "Fine hard bop music". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Margie" (Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, Benny Davis) - 7:31
  2. "Idle One" (Frank Strozier) - 7:20
  3. "The Breeze and I" (Ernesto Lecuona, Al Stillman) - 6:51
  4. "Frank's Tune" (Strozier) - 9:25
  5. "Wandering" (Don Specht) - 6:17
  6. "You Name It" (Russ Freeman) - 6:19

Personnel

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References

  1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 1400 series accessed August 18, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Boss Sounds! Shelly Manne & His Men at Shelly's Manne-Hole – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 936. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.