Doing research on Shorty Rogers for my next anthology - Jazz Trumpet A Reader Volume 2 - and remembered this gem which Shorty composed and arranged for Terry Gibbs's new big band which premiered in 1959. Shorty and Terry were very close friends dating back to their time together on Woody Herman's big band in the late 1940s. Shorty's uses of brass in the shout chorus displays one of his classic riffs and as does his use of them in his ending.
