Oh wow!! I just found an interview with Flip Mann from last year!! I think she's still alive!! That's amazing! Check it out if you're interested.
http://www.jazzwax.com/2015/07/interview-mrs-shelly-manne.html
I'd love to talk with her. She'd show up at Foxfield Riding School at Westlake Village late on a Thursday night and ... it's was fun. We rode during the day of course, but those late night Thursday people were special. A super nice and energetic lady!!
Thanks for the memory, Al!! :encouragement:
Yer welcome, and I let a typo slip through on his name, it has an "e" at the end.
He was one of the mainstays of the West Coast Jazz scene.
Veering wildly along here, from his Wiki page:
"In the 1950s, however, jazz began to be used for all or parts of film soundtracks, and Manne pioneered in these efforts, beginning with The Wild One (1953). As jazz quickly assumed a major role in the musical background of films, so did Manne assume a major role as a drummer and percussionist on those soundtracks. A notable early example was 1955's
The Man with the Golden Arm; Manne not only played drums throughout but functioned as a personal assistant to director Otto Preminger and tutored star Frank Sinatra.[53] The Decca soundtrack LP credits him prominently for the "Drumming Sequences".
From then on, as jazz became more prominent in the movies, Manne became the go-to percussion man in the film industry;"
And :
"Henry Mancini in particular found plenty of work for him; the two shared an interest in experimenting with tone colors, and Mancini came to rely on Manne to shape the percussive effects in his music.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961),
Hatari! (1962) and
The Pink Panther (1963) are only a few of Mancini's films where Manne's drums and special percussive effects could be heard.....Notable examples of later scores that Manne wrote himself and also performed in are, for the movies, Young Billy Young (1969) and Trader Horn (1973), and, for television,
Daktari, 1966–1969. With these and other contributions to cartoons, children's stories, movies, television programs (and even commercials), Manne's drumming became woven into the popular culture of several decades."
Like you said: Who?
The most widely heard drummer you never heard of....a one-man
Wrecking Crew of the drums...
Sooo,,,,what do drums have to do with strings?
In her book
As Serious As Your Life Valerie Wilmer introduced me to the concept that all instruments are evolved from drums and strings are just another type of drumskin .....
