Combo

Henry Mancini | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B0000064Y1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,560 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the coolest record ever made, August 20, 1998

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[e-mail] (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Combo (Audio CD)

I admit it... I didn't listen to rock&roll as a kid. My parents didn't like it and I was too naive to rebel at that time (that came later). My dad was a big Henry Mancini fan, and so I would play "Peter Gunn" and the upbeat cuts from "Hatari" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" all the time (I would skip over the boring ballads, you know, like "Moon River"). "Combo!" was my favorite, though. It had one particular element that leapt out of the grooves and shook me by my eight-year-old shoulders: a jazz harpsichord. I thought this was SO COOL. I took a lot of heat for preferring Henry Mancini in those days... but I am absolutely convinced that my eclectic tastes these days are a direct result of falling in love with music this creative, subtle and beautifully crafted. It's finally out on CD, and almost 40 years later it is still SO COOL. The players include Art Pepper and Shelly Manne -- and the harpsichordist is none other than John Williams! I also want to emphasize that I don't look upon this album as some kind of nostalgic bachelor-pad-lounge-retro-so-campy-it's-good experience... this is a real jazz album, to my mind Mancini's best -- and I guarantee that if you play it, SOMEBODY is going to say "Who is THAT??" Do check it out. This would be at the very top of my Desert Island list.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still great!, November 7, 2002

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"magiclary" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Combo (Audio CD)

I am so old... I bought this album the first time around (remember vinyl?) wore it out, bought another one on vinyl. Bought it on 8-track. Bought it on reel-to-reel. Bought it on cassette. Can you tell I think it is one of the greatest small-combo jazz recordings ever? Yeah. Think of it: Bob Bain, Shelly Manne, Ted Nash AND Pete Candoli.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars git your gunn here, January 4, 2002

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SCMLA "SoCal Martial Law Alerts" (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Combo (Audio CD)

i'm not a big jazz fan, but there's something SO COOL about this sound ... i can't quite put my finger on it ... sexy? maybe that's it? it's certainly not like the big band music that my dad has been listening to for nigh unto 80 years. (now, i love my dad, but how it's possible listen to the SAME THING OVER & OVER & OVER AGAIN, i'll never understand! aaaaahhhhh!!!!!) & i just love this "gunn" version of Tequila!