Active until 1982 | Genre Jazz | |
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Albums The L.A. Four Scores!, Just Friends Members Ray Brown, Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank, Jeff Hamilton | ||
The L.A. Four (or The L.A. 4) was a jazz quartet that performed in Los Angeles, California, from 1974 to 1982.
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Its members were guitarist Laurindo Almeida, saxophonist and flutist Bud Shank, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Shelly Manne, replaced by Jeff Hamilton after 1977. They performed a mixture of straight-ahead jazz on the "cool" side, influenced by European Classical music, and bossa nova and samba (Almeida was born in Brazil). They recorded ten albums before disbanding. Chuck Flores was the group's original drummer but did not record with them.
The group toured Australia in 1976.
Discography
Songs
SundancersThe LA Four Scores! · 1975
Nouveau BachJust Friends · 1978
Hammertones1998
References
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