Son Of Gunn - Shelly Manne

 

Joanna

Son Of Gunn!!

Shelly Manne & His Men

Play More "Peter Gunn"

Produced by Lester Koenig

Recorded May 21 and 26, 1959 at Contemporary Records in Los Angeles.

Sound by Roy DuNann

Cover Design: Guidi/Tri Arts

Contemporary Records M 3566

1959

Cover Photo of Shelly Manne as a super-hip private eye by Peter James Samerjan, taken at Jazz-Seville in Hollywood.

Music composed by Henry Mancini from the score of the NBC-TV series "Peter Gunn," starring Craig Stevens. The individual titles are from various characters or scenes on the program. My Manne Shelly, for example, was written to be played by Shelly Manne & His Men, who were featured in one episode.

From the back cover: The record business in the United States during the first half of 1959 was taken over by Peter Gunn, that suave, Brooks Brothers-suited private eye who digs jazz. The Henry Mancini music from the TV program was the No. 1 best-selling popular album, and Ray Anthony's record of The Peter Gunn Theme was the best-selling single in the country. Shelly Manne, long-time friend and admirer of Mancini, has been that regular drummer on the Peter Gunn show since the latter part of 1958. This, of course, is in addition to Shelly's activities as leader of his own famous jazz group. As a result of his association with Mancini, Shelly and His Men recorded their own best-selling version of the Mancini music for Contemporary in January 1959 (M3560 and stereo S7025). When Mancini came up with a new set of compositions based on his score for the TV show, it was inevitable that Shelly would record them as well.

When Shelly first thought of doing the Peter Gunn music, Mancini urged him to feel free to change the original conceptions to any direction Shelly felt he wanted to go. In fact, in both Shelly's first album and in this one, Shelly and The Men use Mancini's compositions as points of departure for their own highly personal interpretations. A comparison of each track in this album with the corresponding track in Mancini's album might prove an interesting demonstration of "jazzmen at work" for the jazz fan or critic. – Lester Young

Odd Ball

Blue Steel

Spook!

Joanna

Goofing' At The Coffee House

Walkin' Bass

My Manne Shelly

Blues For Mother

A Quiet Gass

Lightly