Shelly Manne

drums · 1920–1984 · New York

Drummer from New York based in Los Angeles, a figure of West Coast jazz; sideman of Dizzy Gillespie (1945), then leader of Shelly Manne & His Men and of the club Manne-Hole.

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Styles

• West Coast
• Cool (Birth of the Cool)

Landmark tracks

• Pas de Trois (1954)
• Three on a Row (1954)
• Abstract No. 1 (1954)
• A Slight Minority (1954)

Cited in 1 radio episode

• May 5, 2026: Shelly Manne & His Men Live at the Black Hawk - 1959 (Jazzlive, TSF Jazz, in French)

Sources

• EN : Shelly Manne

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