Martians Come Back!

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Released August 1956 Martians Come Back!(1956) Way Up There(1956) Release date 1956 Label Rhino Atlantic		Length 46:07 Artist Shorty Rogers Producer Nesuhi Ertegun Genre Jazz

Recorded October 26, November 3 and December 6, 9 & 16, 1955Los Angeles, CA Similar Way Up There, The Swinging Mr Rogers, The Fourth Dimension in Sound, Shorty Rogers Courts th, The Wizard of Oz and Other Har

Martians Come Back! is an album by American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Shorty Rogers, released on the Atlantic label in August 1956.

Reception

Jim Todd on Allmusic calls the album "a good overview of Rogers' work in the company of a who's who of West Coast jazz, playing arrangements for trumpet section and rhythm, quintet, and brass and winds with rhythm."

Track listing

All compositions by Shorty Rogers except where noted.

"Martians Come Back" - 6:13
"Astral Alley" - 4:35
"Lotus Bud" - 4:56
"Dickie's Dream" (Count Basie, Lester Young) - 5:33
"Papouche" - 4:16
"Serenade in Sweets" - 6:35
"Planetarium" - 3:37
"Chant of the Cosmos" - 6:15

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on October 26 (tracks 1 & 7), November 3 (tracks 3 & 5), December 6 (tracks 2 & 6), December 9 (track 8) and December 16 (track 4), 1955