Artist: Shorty Rogers
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
A fine middle-register trumpeter whose style seemed to practically define "cool jazz," Shorty Rogers was actually more significant for his arranging, both in jazz and in the film studios. After gaining other get with Will Bradley and Red Norvo and serving in the military, Rogers rose to fame as a fellow member of Woody Herman's First and Second Herds (1945-1946 and 1947-1949), and in some manner he managed to bring some swing to the Stan Kenton Innovations Orchestra (1950-1951), distinctly enjoying writing for the stratospheric flights of Maynard Ferguson. After that association ran its track, Rogers settled in Los Angeles where he light-emitting diode his Giants (which ranged from a fivesome to a nonet and a large band) on a series of rewarding West Coast jazz-styled recordings and wrote for the studios, serving greatly to take jazz into the movies; his heaps for The Wild One and The Man With the Golden Arm are in particular memorable. After 1962, Rogers stuck nearly solely to composition for television and films, merely in 1982 he began a return in jazz. Rogers reorganized and headed the Lighthouse All-Stars and, although his possess playing was non quite as hard as previously, he remained a welcome comportment both in clubs and recordings.
