Sounds Unheard Of!

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Sounds Unheard Of!
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Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedEarly 1962
StudioContemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Label Contemporary M5006/S6006
Producer Lester Koenig
Shelly Manne chronology
Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate
(1961)
Sounds Unheard Of!
(1962)
2-3-4
(1962)

Sounds Unheard Of! (subtitled Percussion & Guitar!! Shelly Manne!! and Jack Marshall!!! In a Spectacular Demonstration of Musical Daring and Brilliant New Stereo!!) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne and guitarist Jack Marshall recorded in early 1962 and released on the Contemporary label. [1] The album was produced as a stereo test and demonstration record to be used by hi-fi enthusiasts to test the performance of their audio systems. The two men followed this with another release in 1966 on the Capitol label titled Sounds! .

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Reception

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "On a dozen standards, Marshall's playing serves as interludes between the percussion displays of Manne; the liners give a full description of every device he hits. The music is fairly routine even if the sound is excellent for the period". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Poinciana" (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) - 3:10
  2. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:05
  3. "The Continental" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson) - 3:26
  4. "By Myself" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:19
  5. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:54
  6. "Begin the Beguine" (Cole Porter) - 3:35
  7. "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:09
  8. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 2:39
  9. "The Piccolino" (Irving Berlin) - 3:11
  10. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:17
  11. "The Boy Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 2:42
  12. "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) - 3:12

Personnel

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References

  1. Contemporary Records discography accessed May 21, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Sounds Unheard Of! – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 21, 2015.