Collaboration (Shorty Rogers and André Previn album)

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Released 1955 Collaboration(1955) Double Play!(1957) Label RCA Victor		Length 34:54 Release date 1955 Genre Jazz

Recorded March 30, June 14 and September 14, 1954 Studio RCA Studios, Hollywood, CA Collaboration(1955) The Swinging Mr. Rogers(1955) Artists Shorty Rogers, André Previn Jazz albums West Side Story, André Previn Plays So, Shorty Rogers and His G, André Previn Plays So, Double Play!

Collaboration is an album by American jazz trumpeter Shorty Rogers and German pianist André Previn released on the RCA Victor label in 1955.

Reception

Allmusic noted "Shorty Rogers and Andre Previn split the arranging chores in a somewhat competitive fashion. Rogers arranges a standard and then that is followed by a Previn original based on the same chord structure. This procedure is followed until the halfway point of the date when they reverse roles. ...the result is a dead heat with some fine swinging solos".

Track listing

All compositions by André Previn except where noted.

"It's De-Lovely" (Cole Porter) - 2:28
"Porterhouse" - 2:47
"Heat Wave" (Irving Berlin) - 2:38
"40 Degrees Below" - 2:42
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) - 2:27
"Claudia" - 3:25
"You Do Something to Me" (Porter) - 3:07
"Call for Cole" (Shorty Rogers) - 2:18
"Everything I've Got (Belongs to You)" (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:37
"Some Antics" (Shorty Rogers) - 3:23
"It Only Happens When I Dance with You" (Berlin) - 3:02
"General Cluster" (Shorty Rogers) - 3:00

Recorded at RCA Studios in Hollywood, CA on March 30, 1954 (tracks 3, 5, 9 & 11), June 14, 1954 (tracks 4, 6, 10 & 12) and September 14, 1954 (tracks 1, 2, 7 & 8)