Sounds Unheard Of!
1962 studio album by Shelly Manne and Jack Marshall
| Sounds Unheard Of! | ||||
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| Studio album by Shelly Manne and Jack Marshall | ||||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | Early 1962 | |||
| Studio | Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Contemporary M5006/S6006 | |||
| Producer | Lester Koenig | |||
| Shelly Manne chronology | ||||
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Sounds Unheard Of! (subtitled Percussion & Guitar!! Shelly Manne!! and Jack Marshall!!! In a Spectacular Demonstration of Musical Daring and Brilliant New Stereo!!) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne and guitarist Jack Marshall recorded in early 1962 and released on the Contemporary label.[1] The album was produced as a stereo test and demonstration record to be used by hi-fi enthusiasts to test the performance of their audio systems. The two men followed this with another release in 1966 on the Capitol label titled Sounds!.
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "On a dozen standards, Marshall's playing serves as interludes between the percussion displays of Manne; the liners give a full description of every device he hits. The music is fairly routine even if the sound is excellent for the period".[2]
Track listing
- "Poinciana" (Nat Simon, Buddy Bernier) - 3:10
- "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:05
- "The Continental" (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson) - 3:26
- "By Myself" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:19
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:54
- "Begin the Beguine" (Cole Porter) - 3:35
- "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:09
- "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 2:39
- "The Piccolino" (Irving Berlin) - 3:11
- "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:17
- "The Boy Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 2:42
- "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) - 3:12
Personnel
- Shelly Manne - percussion
- Jack Marshall - classical guitar
References
- ^ Contemporary Records discography accessed May 21, 2015
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Sounds Unheard Of! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
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albums
- The Three & The Two (1954)
- The West Coast Sound (1955)
- Swinging Sounds (1956)
- More Swinging Sounds (1956)
- Shelly Manne & His Friends (1956)
- My Fair Lady (1956)
- Li'l Abner (1957)
- Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (1957)
- The Gambit (1958)
- Bells Are Ringing (1958)
- Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn (1959)
- Son of Gunn!! (1959)
- The Proper Time (1960)
- Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate (1961)
- Sounds Unheard Of! (1962)
- 2-3-4 (1962)
- Empathy (1962)
- My Son the Jazz Drummer! (1962)
- My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast (1964)
- Manne–That's Gershwin! (1965)
- Sounds! (1966)
- Jazz Gunn (1967)
- Perk Up (1967)
- Daktari (1967)
- Outside (1969)
- Mannekind (1972)
- Essence (1977)
albums
- At the Black Hawk 1 (1959)
- At the Black Hawk 2 (1959)
- At the Black Hawk 3 (1959)
- At the Black Hawk 4 (1959)
- At the Black Hawk 5 (1959)
- Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (1961)
- Live! Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (1961)
- Boss Sounds! (1966)
- Alive in London (1970)
- French Concert (1977)
- Young Billy Young (1969)
