Sounds Unheard Of!
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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 duo followed this with another release in 1966 on the Capitol label titled Sounds!.
Reception
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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
References
- ^ Contemporary Records discography accessed May 21, 2015
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Sounds Unheard Of! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 21, 2015.