The Fourth Dimension in Sound

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The Fourth Dimension in Sound
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Studio album by
Shorty Rogers
Released1962
RecordedNovember 10, 22 & 24, 1961
Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz
Length37:17
Label Warner Bros.
BS 1443/WS 8102
Producer Shorty Rogers
Shorty Rogers chronology
An Invisible Orchard
(1961)		The Fourth Dimension in Sound
(1962)		 Bossa Nova
(1962)

The Fourth Dimension in Sound (subtitled A Musical Experiment in the Adaptation of Instruments to Modern Electronics) is an album by bandleader and arranger Shorty Rogers recorded in late 1961 and released on the Warner Bros. label. [1] [2] The album was produced principally as a stereo test and demonstration record to be used by hi-fi enthusiasts to test the performance of their audio systems.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "As was true of many records from the early 1960s, the emphasis on this out-of-print Lp (especially in the lengthy liner notes) is on the stereophonic sound rather than the music. ... The music is better than the liner notes (which spend most of their time describing the sound) lets on but is not all that significant, emphasizing swing standards along with an occasional Latin novelty." [3]

Track listing

  1. "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) - 3:40
  2. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) - 3:34
  3. "Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:56
  4. "Lover" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:49
  5. "Marie" (Irving Berlin) - 4:06
  6. "Kook-a-Ra-Cha Waltz" (Traditional) - 2:51
  7. "You're Just in Love" (Berlin) - 3:15
  8. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 2:42
  9. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf) - 3:03
  10. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert Wright and George Forrest) - 3:07
  11. "Taboo" (Margarita Lecuona, Bob Russell) - 3:14

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Warner Brothers Album Discography Part 2: XS-1400 to W/WS-1599 (1960-1965) accessed October 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of Jazz: Shorty Rogers discography Archived 2016-08-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 2, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. The Fourth Dimension in Sound – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1231. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (11 August 1962). "Shorty Rogers: The Fourth Dimension in Sound" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 74. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
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