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Context
Composition by Shorty Rogers opening Modern Sounds, his first album as a leader, released by Capitol. He brings together future West Coast jazz stars, including Art Pepper, Jimmy Giuffre, Hampton Hawes, and Shelly Manne.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to West Coast, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of West Coast: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Cool (Birth of the Cool), Bossa nova, jazz samba.