Jazz Waltz (Shorty Rogers album)

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Jazz Waltz
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Studio album by
Shorty Rogers and His Giants
Released1963
RecordedDecember 1962
StudioUnited Recording, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length39:53
Label Reprise
R 6060
Producer Chuck Sagle
Shorty Rogers chronology
Bossa Nova
(1962)
Jazz Waltz
(1963)
Mavis Meets Shorty
(1963)

Jazz Waltz is an album by American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Shorty Rogers, released on the Reprise label in 1963. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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On All About Jazz Dave Rickert said "the novelty of ¾ time in music is still fresh even today and Joe Mondragon and Mel Lewis create a seemingly infinite variety of ways to swing in waltz time. Rogers contributes a few catchy melodies (in particular the title track) and creates lovely charts". [3] Allmusic noted "Shorty Rogers' Jazz Waltz is exactly that, an exploration of ten compositions played in waltz settings. Only these big-band charts are hardly the waltzes heard on Lawrence Welk's long-running television series". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Shorty Rogers except where noted.

  1. "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee) - 4:31
  2. "Greensleeves" (Traditional) - 5:26
  3. "Walk on the Wild Side" (Elmer Bernstein) - 4:15
  4. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:55
  5. "Be as Children" - 3:33
  6. "Jazz Waltz" - 4:05
  7. "Echoes of Harlem" (Ellington) - 4:39
  8. "A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlowe, Bobby Scott) - 2:51
  9. "Terrence's Farewell" - 3:32
  10. "The Streets of Laredo" - 4:06

Personnel

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References

  1. Reprise Album Discography, Part 2: R/R9-6001 to R/RS-6199 (1961-1966) accessed October 4, 2016
  2. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Jazz Waltz – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  3. Rickerts, D., All About Jazz Review, May 12, 2003