| Portrait of Shorty | ||||
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| Studio album by Shorty Rogers and His Giants | ||||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Recorded | July 15 and August 11, 1957 Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 41:07 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor LPM 1561 | |||
| Shorty Rogers chronology | ||||
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Portrait of Shorty is an album by American jazz trumpeter composer and arranger Shorty Rogers which was released on the RCA Victor label in 1958.[1][2][3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[4] On All About Jazz Jack Bowers stated "there’s plenty of cleverly contoured music to appreciate. And it must be said that no other trumpeter ever sounded exactly like Shorty, who had a lively and swinging language all his own. His voicings for the trumpet section were similarly unexampled, and made any Rogers arrangement almost immediately identifiable. ...everything works, thanks to Shorty’s remarkable charts and the uncanny ability of his colleagues to speak volumes in only a few phrases".[6]
The tune "Play, Boy" was written especially for and first appeared on a two-record (LP) set issued in 1957 by Playboy Magazine honoring the winners of the magazine’s first Jazz Poll. Shorty Rogers had placed fourth in the trumpet voting.[7]
All compositions by Shorty Rogers.
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