Daktari (album)

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Released 1967 Artist Shelly Manne Producer Nesuhi Ertegun Genre Jazz		Length 32:03 Release date 1967 Label Warner Jazz

Recorded November 30 and December 4 & 5, 1967Annex Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA Daktari(1967) Young Billy Young(1967) People also search for Jazz Gunn, Moose the Mooche

Shelly manne daktari

Daktari (subtitled Shelly Manne Performs & Conducts His Original Music for the Hit TV Show) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne recorded in 1967 featuring music from Daktari and released on the Atlantic label. On the album, Mike Wofford plays a tack piano to evoke an African sound, and Manne is joined by percussionists Emil Richards, Larry Bunker, Frank Carlson, and Victor Feldman. According to the record liner notes, Manne and fellow percussionists play ankle and wrist jingles, Thai mouth organs, angklungs, ocarinas, vibraphones, tympani, and different kinds of marimbas.

Reception

The Allmusic site rated the album 2 stars.

Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker was a fan of the album's "vaguely African" music, sounding like it came from "Hollywood session players" rather than actual Africans. In the late 1990s, Becker modeled a percussion sequence after this style on the song "Two Against Nature" released on the Steely Dan album of the same name.