77 Sunset Strip - Frank Ortega & Sy Oliver

After Sunset (stereo)

Free Way Mambo (mono)

77 Sunset Strip
Frankie Ortega & Sy Oliver
Produced by Marty Palitz
Cover Design by Sy Leichman
Diamond Jubilee
A Product of Jay-Gee Record Co., Inc.
Cover and Liner Printed by MacMurray Press, N.Y.
SDJLP 1106 & JLP 1106
1959

Personnel (Dining At Dino's, 77 Sunset Strip, Kookin' For Kookie, Free Way Mambo)
Frankie Ortega - Piano
Bert Hanson - Bass
Walther Sage - Drums
Sy Oliver - Arranger-Conductor
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Richard Perry - Trumpet
James Nottingham - Trumpet
Frank Sarraci - Trombone
Lawerence Brown - Trombone
Rodnet Levit - Trombone
Philip Bodner - Alto Sax and Clarinet
Sam Taylor - Tenor Sax
Seldon Powell - Tenor Sax
Dave McRae - Baritone Sax
Al Chernet - Guitar
Donald Lamond - Drums

Personnel (Lady In Distress, After Sunset, Spencer Stakes Out, Sunset Stripper, Stu's Muse, What Private Eyes)
Frankie Ortega - Piano
Bert Hanson - Bass
Walther Sage - Drums and Bongos
Sy Oliver - Arranger-Conductor
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Ernst Royal - Trumpet
Lawerence Brown - Trombone
Rodney Levitt - Trombone
George Dorsey - Alto Sax
Philip Bodner- Tenor Sax and Clarinet
Daniel Bank - Baritone Sax
Dave McRae - Baritone Sax
Kenneth Burell - Guitar
Donald Lamond - Drums

From Billboard - May 11, 1959: Sexy cover gives the package display value. Ortega, who is featured in the TV film series "77 Sunset Strip," provides solid swingy instrumental treatments of listenable jazz-flavored selections, including the title theme, and other tunes keyed to the series – Kookin' For Kookie," "What Private Eyes," etc. Effective backing by Sy Oliver.

From the back cover: The beat of the Frankie Ortega Trio is a familiar one on the West Coast. They are featured regularly in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe. They were heard recently, for the first time, on the East Coast – at the Embers in New York.

"77 Sunset Strip" is the sound and style of the Frankie Ortega Trio set in the moving music of Sy Oliver for this album and will probably be used in future episodes. The feeling of the program, the frenzy of "jazz" climate is here.

The Trio is featured in all of the numbers. The trio means Frankie Ortega on piano. Bert Hanson on bass and Walter Sage on drums. Frank is a native of Los Angeles. He studied with Edith Knox, joined the Roger Wagner Chorale when he was 10, remained with them for 6 years. Frank organized his first band when he was 17.

Bert Hanson first studied violin. Then he played cello with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Bruno Walter, Stokowski and more. Walter Sage studied with Ian Kerr, Tympanist of the Cleveland Orchestra. He played with the Peter Merenblum Symphony. Each member of the Trio began his career in classical music.

Sy Oliver is one of our greatest arranger-conductors. He created the 2-beat style of Jimmy Lunceford. He played and wrote many of the great Tommy Dorsey arrangements. He has scored for Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese.

The orchestra playing around the Frankie Ortega Trio here include some of the country's best and best-known jazz musicians. Many are featured as soloists through this "77 Sunset Strip" album.

77 Sunset Strip
Kookin' With Kookie
Spencer Stakes Out
What Private Eyes
After Sunset
Sunset Stripper
Stu's Blues
Lady In Distress
Dining At Dino's
Free Way Mambo