Popo is aWest Coast jazz album with a previously unreleased 1951 recording session bytrumpeterShorty Rogers and his quintet. It was first released on LP in 1980 byDon Schlitten on hisXanadu label. Due to his prominence, the album cover gives credit toalto saxophonistArt Pepper as co-leader alongside Rogers who actually led the studio session on December 27 that also featured pianist Frank Patchen,Howard Rumsey on bass, andShelly Manne on drums.[1] At the time the musicians also played together at theLighthouse club inHermosa Beach as Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars.[2] Shortly after Art Pepper would lead his first quartet (withHampton Hawes).[3]
^On a live recording from January 6, 1952 they were supplemented by trombonist Milt Burnhart andJimmy Giuffre on tenor saxophone (first released in Japan in 1991). Cf.listing of the Lighthouse session in the Art Pepper discography on Jazzdisco.org).
^Live recordings from February 1952 at the Surf Club in Hollywood were released asThe Early Show (1976) andThe Late Show (1980), also on Xanadu. Cf.both sessions on Jazzdisco.org.
