West Coast All Stars - Diablo's Dance (Shorty Rogers)

Conte Candoli, Carl Fontana, Teddy Edwards, Pete Jolly, Chuck Berghofer, Joe LaBarbera. Do these names ring any bells? If not, look elsewhere as these West Coast giants gathered for a magnificent concert at JazzOpen Stuttgart in 2001 to show the world what separates the men from the boys. Sadly not one of the elder members of this great outfit is any longer with us, reason enough to cherish these moments even more. This is E. Harburg's "If Only I Had A Brain" which aptly describes me and this YerTube endeavor of mine, featuring a show-stopper trombone solo by Carl Fontana showing that he belongs up there with Frank Rosolino and J.J. Johnson.