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Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn (180g)
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180-gram pure virgin audiophile vinyl. Newly remastered limited one pressing edition.
Peter Gunn was an American TV series that aired on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator
(and part-time writer and director) was Blake Edwards, who later gained fame for the celebrated
Pink Panther movies, among many others. In addition to Peter Gunn, Edwards would collaborate
on a number of his films with composer and band director Henry Mancini (1924-1994). A total of
114 thirty-minute episodes of Peter Gunn were produced. The title character (played by Craig
Stevens) was a private investigator in the classic film noir tradition, which was a popular genre on
American TV in the late 1950s. However, Gunn was different from the standard detectives like
Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. He was a sophisticated “hipster”, a dapper dresser who loved cool
jazz; where other gumshoes were often coarse, Peter Gunn was portrayed as the epitome of "cool".
He operated in a nameless waterfront city, and was a regular patron of Mother's, a wharfside jazz
club (hence the title of some tunes); his girlfriend, Edie Hart (played by Lola Albright), was a sultry
singer employed there. Famous jazz musicians occasionally made guest appearances, such as
trumpeter Shorty Rogers in an early episode, or Shelly Manne himself, who recorded the first jazz
album featuring the show’s music and appeared on screen playing “My Manne Shelly”. Peter Gunn
was one of the first television shows to have its own original score and it was the first to feature a
modern jazz soundtrack. So successful was the music that Manne made a sequel LP shortly after
the appearance of the album reissued here. Two tracks from the sequel (including “My Manne
Shelly”) have been added here as a bonus. |
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ARTISTS
Conte Candoli (trumpet); Herb Geller (alto sax); Victor Feldman (vibes, marimba); Russ Freeman (piano); Monty Budwig (bass); Shelly Manne (drums) |
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