Way Up There

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Released 1957 Release date 1957 Label Hallmark Records		Artist Shorty Rogers Producer Nesuhi Ertegun Genre Jazz

Recorded March 3, October 26, and December 6, 9 & 16, 1955 Los Angeles, CA Way Up There (1955) Wherever the Five Winds Blow (1957) Similar Martians Come Back!, The Swinging Mr Rogers, Wherever the Five Winds Bl, Shorty Rogers Courts th, The Fourth Dimension in Sound

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Way Up There is an album by American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Shorty Rogers, released on the Atlantic label in 1957.

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.

"Blues Way Up There" - 5:21
"Moten Swing" (Benny Moten, Buster Moten) - 5:59
"Blues Way Down There" - 4:15
"Solarization" - 4:26
"Pixieland" - 4:26
"Wail of Two Cities" - 5:46
"Baklava Bridge" - 5:27
"March of the Martians" - 4:33

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

Personnel

Shorty Rogers - trumpet, flugelhorn

Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli, Harry Edison, Don Fagerquist - trumpet (track 5)

Bob Enevoldsen - valve trombone (tracks 6 & 7)

John Graas - French horn (tracks 6 & 7)

Paul Sarmento - tuba (tracks 6 & 7)

Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet (tracks 4 & 8)

Bud Shank - alto saxophone (tracks 1-3, 6 & 7)

Barney Kessel - guitar (tracks 1-3)

Pete Jolly (tracks 1-4), Lou Levy (tracks 5-8) - piano

Curtis Counce (track 4), Ralph Pena (tracks 5-8), Leroy Vinnegar (tracks 1-3) - bass

Shelly Manne - drums

Songs

1Blues Way Up There5:22
2Moten Swing6:04
3Blues Way Down There4:17

References

Way Up There Wikipedia

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