ONE LP PORTRAITS: COMPILATION: Flip Manne: President - Los Angeles Jazz Society

{quote}This is called 'One on One' - it's Shelly with Russ Freeman - he was a very good jazz pianist - unique.He left the jazz world and composed for movies and tv - made a lot of money but stopped playing jazz!This is one of the last things Shelly did - it's just the two of them playing off each other - it's very original. They played together alot at one time - every once in a while Shelly would try to get him to come out and play - {quote}just come out and play Russ!{quote} Russ was a perfectionist and he didn't feel he could do it as well he used to so he just wouldn't play anymore, so it was kind of too bad.{quote}Flip Manne: Sun Valley CA. May 2013Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne: One on One 1982Los Angeles Jazz Society
Flip Manne: President - Los Angeles Jazz Society, Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne: One on One

 

"This is called 'One on One' - it's Shelly with Russ Freeman - he was a very good jazz pianist - unique. 

He left the jazz world and composed for movies and tv - made a lot of money but stopped playing jazz! 

This is one of the last things Shelly did - it's just the two of them playing off each other - it's very original.  

They played together alot at one time - every once in a while Shelly would try to get him to come out and play - "just come out and play Russ!"  

Russ was a perfectionist and he didn't feel he could do it as well he used to so he just wouldn't play anymore, so it was kind of too bad." 

Flip Manne: Sun Valley CA. May 2013 

 

 

Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne: One on One 1982 

Los Angeles Jazz Society