#music, The Father of West Coast Jazz…

Shorty Rogers…

His name was Milton Rajonsky and he was born in 1924. He was a trumpeter and an arranger and one of the main, perhaps the principal, founder of West Coast Jazz… He worked with Woody Herman and Stan Kenton during the 1950’s… Shorty Rogers died of melanoma at the age of 70 in California…

Here is one of his recordings from 1958 with a Cuban flavour to it… Well, I guess you would call it Jazz with a strong rhythm section. Whatever you call it, if it has a Cuban flavour it has to be good…

And this is how we close up a day full of extremely bang on Jazz!

CHEERS…