Shorty Rogers

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Genre: Cool/West Coast Jazz
Hometown: Los Angeles

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Shorty Rogers was an agile trumpet player with a light and always swinging style, but his largest contributions to jazz came from his wondrous arranging and composing abilities. The Giants, his popular West Coast ensemble, kept fluctuating from a small group to a mid-sized outfit to a full big band, and his music was featured in such quintessential 1950s films as The Wild Ones and The Man With the Golden Arm. He had a rare instrumental hit single in 1962 with "Martians, Go Home" but by the middle of that decade, Rogers had abandoned jazz for full-time studio and movie work. In 1983 he returned to his first love, playing and recording regularly until his death in 1994.

- Nick Dedina

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		Witchcraft (2:57)
		Trickleydidlier (4:41)
		Isn't It Romantic (5:44)
		Lotus Bud (6:17)
		Oh Play That Thing (6:31)
		Martians Go Home (7:55)
		It's Delovely (with Shorty Rogers & His Giants) (2:30)
		Not Exactly (2:34)
		That's What I'm Talkin' 'Bout (5:33)
		Jump For Me (3:57)
		Samba Triste (Melancholy Samba) (2:55)
		Over The Rainbow (3:01)
		Pirouette (3:14)
		You're Just In Love (3:15)
		Not Really The Blues (4:58)
		Contours (3:20)
		Argyles (2:48)
		Basie Eyes (3:24)
		Swingin' The Blues (4:26)
		Dickie's Dream (5:32)