West Coast Wailers

West Coast Wailers
Studio album by Conte Candoli & Lou Levy
Released	February 1958
Recorded	August 16 & 17, 1955; Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz
Label	Atlantic ; LP 1268
Producer	Ahmet Ertegun
Conte Candoli chronology

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West Coast Wailers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli and pianist Lou Levy released on the Atlantic label in 1958.^[1]

Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials. He also recorded with Supersax, a Charlie Parker tribute band that consisted of a saxophone quintet, the rhythm section, and either a trumpet or trombone.

Lou Levy (pianist) American pianist and jazz musician

Louis A. "Lou" Levy was an American jazz pianist

Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Allmusic noted "no matter whose name is in large print on the cover, it's the group that's performing ...Levy and Candoli got to make their statements up front, of course, but this was really a five-headed beast ...one that should have been given more of a hearing than just one album".^[2]

Track listing

"Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 8:15
"Comes Love" (Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias) - 4:15
"Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 3:36
"Pete's Alibi" (Pete Candoli) - 3:26
"Cheremoya" (Bill Holman) - 5:50
"Jordu" (Duke Jordan) - 4:56
"Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson) - 5:23
"Marcia Lee" (Conte Candoli) - 4:51

Personnel

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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Bill Holman (musician) American composer

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References

↑ Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed September 14, 2015
1 2 Ruhlmann, William. West Coast Wailers – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 14, 2015.

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[1] Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed September 14, 2015

[Allmusic-2] 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. West Coast Wailers – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 14, 2015.