Jazz Waltz (Shorty Rogers album)

Jazz Waltz
Studio album by Shorty Rogers and His Giants
Released 1963
Recorded December 1962
United Recording, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length 39:53
Label Reprise
R 6060
Producer Chuck Sagle
Shorty Rogers chronology
Bossa Nova
(1962)
Jazz Waltz
(1962)
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]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

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 as indicated

  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

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
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