Popo (album)


Popo is a West Coast jazz album with a previously unreleased 1951 recording session by trumpeter Shorty Rogers and his quintet. It was first released on LP in 1980 by Don Schlitten on his Xanadu label. Due to his prominence, the album cover gives credit to alto saxophonist Art Pepper as co-leader alongside Rogers who actually led the studio session on December 27 that also featured pianist Frank Patchen, Howard Rumsey on bass, and Shelly Manne on drums. At the time the musicians also played together at the Lighthouse club in Hermosa Beach as Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars. Shortly after Art Pepper would lead his first quartet.

Track listing

  1. "Popo" – 4:19
  2. "What's New?" – 2:17
  3. "Lullaby in Rhythm" - 5:22
  4. "All the Things You Are" - 2:58
  5. "Robbins Nest" - 4:49
  6. "Scrapple from the Apple" - 6:19
  7. "Body and Soul" - 3:20
  8. "Jive at Five" - 5:27
  9. "Tin Tin Deo" - 4:06
  10. "Cherokee" - 6:36

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