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 Come Back!
(1955)Martians Come Back!1955		 Way Up There
(1955)		 Wherever the Five Winds Blow
(1957)Wherever the Five Winds Blow1957

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]

Jim Todd on 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 where noted.

  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
  • Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on March 3 (track 4), October 26 (track 8), December 6 (track 5), December 9 (tracks 6 & 7) and December 16 (tracks 1-3), 1955

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed September 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of Jazz: Shorty Rogers discography accessed March 23, 2016
  3. 1 2 Todd, Jim. Martians, Come Back!/Way Up There – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
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