{"product_id":"shelley-manne-his-men-volume-2-shelly-manne-his-men-volume-2-cd-contemporary-jazz-1998-us-seller-ships-free","title":"Shelley Manne \u0026 His Men Volume 2: Shelly Manne \u0026 His Men Volume 2 CD Contemporary Jazz 1998","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShelly Manne's second \"workshop\" 10\" LP is even more advanced than his first, at times reaching outside the West Coast cool jazz idiom toward contemporary classical music -- with no cover tunes this time. Where the first album was centered on a sax ensemble, Vol. 2 is devoted to a four-man brass group -- with Russ Freeman or Marty Paich on piano and Joe Mondragon on bass -- and this seems to have unleashed a wilder surge of creative freedom among Manne's six arrangers\/composers. Indeed, some pieces virtually abandon jazz altogether. Bill Holman's \"Lullaby\" amounts to a gentle, free-flowing etude for brass and mallets, and Jimmy Giuffre's \"Alternation\" has no apparent key signature or steady pulse, a series of abstract proclamations colored by percussive effects. Shorty Rogers' extended \"Shapes, Motion, Colors\" takes off in all kinds of directions, with some straight-forward swinging portions that resemble contemporary classical music and a dialog for bass and tom-toms to close. However, Bob Cooper keeps his \"Divertimento for Brass and Rhythm\" swinging at all times, Marty Paich's \"Dimension in Thirds\" is a joyous piece loaded with brasses playing in thirds (big surprise), and Jack Montrose's \"Etude De Concert\" is a serious, intricate piece of work that somehow maintains a jazz feeling even when not explicitly spelling out the pulse. Manne is such a great, empathetic drummer that he is able to give most of this experimentation a solid rhythmic core on which to play. Given this music's esoteric bent, it's not surprising that it was reissued on CD only in a limited edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e{CD0114}\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Music Masters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525360587001,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/2087\/3465\/files\/IMG-0634.jpg?v=1790200018","url":"https:\/\/azmusicmasters.com\/products\/shelley-manne-his-men-volume-2-shelly-manne-his-men-volume-2-cd-contemporary-jazz-1998-us-seller-ships-free","provider":"Music Masters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}