...his scores didn't suit grandstand players [with the exception of high-note specialist Maynard Ferguson) and called for a cooperative and very precise kind of executive skill. Shorty Rogers—trumpet, ...
Sunday, April 14, will mark the 100th anniversary of Shorty Rogers' birth. The trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger who was a founding father of West Coast jazz died in 1994 from melanoma ...