West Coast Wailers Explained

West Coast Wailers
Type:Studio
Artist:Conte Candoli & Lou Levy
Cover:West Coast Wailers.jpg
Released:February 1958
Recorded:August 16 & 17, 1955
Los Angeles, CA
Genre:Jazz
Label:Atlantic
LP 1268
Producer:Ahmet Ertegun
Chronology:Conte Candoli
Prev Title:Powerhouse Trumpet
Prev Year:1955
Next Title:Conte Candoli Quartet
Next Year:1957

West Coast Wailers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli and pianist Lou Levy released on the Atlantic label in 1958.[1]

Reception

Allmusic noted "no matter whose name is in large print on the cover, it's the group that's performing ...Levy and Candoli got to make their statements up front, of course, but this was really a five-headed beast ...one that should have been given more of a hearing than just one album".

Track listing

  1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 8:15
  2. "Comes Love" (Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias) - 4:15
  3. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 3:36
  4. "Pete's Alibi" (Pete Candoli) - 3:26
  5. "Cheremoya" (Bill Holman) - 5:50
  6. "Jordu" (Duke Jordan) - 4:56
  7. "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson) - 5:23
  8. "Marcia Lee" (Conte Candoli) - 4:51

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1200-series/#1268 Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series