Way Up There

Way Up There
Studio album by Shorty Rogers and His Giants
Released 1957
Recorded March 3, October 26, and December 6, 9 & 16, 1955
Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic
LP 1270
Producer Nesuhi Ertegun
Shorty Rogers chronology
Martians Stay Home
(1955)
Way Up There
(1955)
Wherever the Five Winds Blow
(1957)

Way Up There is an album by American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Shorty Rogers, released on the Atlantic label in 1957.[1][2]


Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Allmusic calls the album "a good overview of Rogers' work in the company of a who's who of West Coast jazz, playing arrangements for trumpet section and rhythm, quintet, and brass and winds with rhythm".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Shorty Rogers except as indicated

  1. "Blues Way Up There" - 5:21
  2. "Moten Swing" (Benny Moten, Buster Moten) - 5:59
  3. "Blues Way Down There" - 4:15
  4. "Solarization" - 4:26
  5. "Pixieland" - 4:26
  6. "Wail of Two Cities" - 5:46
  7. "Baklava Bridge" - 5:27
  8. "March of the Martians" - 4:33

Personnel

References

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