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''My Fair Lady'', recorded by "Shelly Manne & His Friends" and released in 1956 by Contemporary Records, is the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical.〔Gordon, p. 143. Gordon gives the year as 1957, but this is certainly an error. The album cover and other sources give it as 1956.〕 It was an instant hit and became one of the best-selling jazz albums of its day.〔Gordon, pp. 142-43. See also Brand, p. 87.〕 == Origins == ''Shelly Manne & his Friends * ( *André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar): modern jazz performances of songs from My Fair Lady'', as the full name appeared on the 12-inch LP jacket (Contemporary Records C3527), was begun when drummer Shelly Manne, pianist André Previn, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions of miscellaneous show tunes. (The three, having already recorded together as "Shelly Manne and His Friends", had some experience performing as a trio.) Previn and Manne were exchanging ideas with producer Lester Koenig, who suggested they do some tunes from the current Broadway musical ''My Fair Lady''.〔Though this musical became the longest-running Broadway musical of its day, it had at this time been running on Broadway for only five months.〕 Manne and Previn were so impressed with the Lerner and Loewe songs for the show, that they decided to record more of them. They ended up filling the entire album with ''My Fair Lady'' tunes. Koenig brought in the complete score, and that evening Manne and Previn, between them, worked out the arrangements and recorded the entire album in one session, with Vinnegar providing the third "very important musical voice in the trio."〔Brand, p. 87.〕 Lively and appealing, and clearly aimed at popular taste, the music also showed some daring, in the vein of the experimentation that was a factor in much West Coast jazz in the 1950s.〔Gordon, p. 143.〕 Previn, with considerable musical training, and having composed several film scores himself, was able to suggest certain technical modifications to the harmony and other aspects of the music. Manne, as the date's leader, provided suggestions of his own, for example to treat what was a fast number in the show as a slow ballad instead. The final number, "I Could Have Danced All Night", was given a Latin touch, with Manne even adding the sound of a tambourine. "There was a total thing going back and forth," as Manne later put it.〔Quoted in Gordon, p. 143.〕 The sound was recorded by Roy DuNann, later recognized as one of the great recording engineers.〔See the comments by Thomas Conrad in his April 2002 article in ''Stereophile'' magazine. (See external links, below.)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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