On the '53 session, the musicians were Shorty Rogers (tp), Bud Shank (as), Dave Pell and Jimmy Giuffre (ts), Bob Cooper (bar), Frank Patchen (p), Howard Rumsey (b), Shelly Manne (d) and Charles Schrouder (vcl).
JazzWax clips. Two from the Boots Brown rock-and-roll repertoire:
Here's Boots Brown and His Blockbusters playing Shortnin' Bread from 1952 (on the German Electrola label). Wow, Jimmy Giuffre could wail!...
Here's Boots Brown and His Blockbusters playing Juicy, from 1958, which oddly doesn't turn up in the Rogers discography. What's interesting is that two guitars take the lead, a sound that may have influenced Britain's John Barry Seven...
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