Strings & Trombones is an album by Bud Shank, featuring Bob Brookmeyer, which was recorded in 1954 and 1955 for the Pacific Jazz label.[1][2] The album compiles Shank's earlier 10-inch LPs Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer and Bud Shank and Three Trombones.

Strings & Trombones
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedApril 3, June 22 & November 29, 1954, and January 7, 1955
Studio
GenreJazz
LabelPacific Jazz
PJ 1213
ProducerRichard Bock
Bud Shank chronology
Laurindo Almeida Quartet Featuring Bud Shank
(1953-54)
Strings & Trombones
(1956)
Bud Shank – Shorty Rogers – Bill Perkins
(1954-55)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]

Allmusic rated the album with three stars.[3]

Track listing edit

  1. "Low Life" (Johnny Mandel) - 3:56
  2. "With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair" (Jack Lawrence, Clara Edwards) - 5:07
  3. "You Are Too Beautiful" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:59
  4. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 2:56
  5. "Rustic Hop" (Bob Brookmeyer) - 4:13
  6. "Wailing Vessel" (Bob Cooper) - 2:41
  7. "Cool Fool" (Cooper) - 3:18
  8. "Little Girl Blue" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:16
  9. "Sing Something Simple" (Herman Hupfield) - 2:35
  10. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) - 4:16
  11. "Valve in Head" (Bud Shank) - 3:10

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed January 13, 2016
  2. ^ Pacific Jazz/Pacifica Album Discography, accessed January 13, 2016
  3. ^ a b Strings and Trombones – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2016.