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Fifty Years on from These Historic Recordings, Multi-saxist Jimmy Giuffre is a Most Potent Force in Contemporary Jazz. For the First Half of the 1950s, Giuffre, in Cahoots with Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne, Could Be Viewed as L.a.'s Jazz Equivalent of the Three Musketeers. Be it as Members of the Orchestras of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton Or the Lighthouse All-stars and Shorty's Own Giants They were Close to Inseparable. It was During his Tenure with the Giants that Texas-born Jimmy Giuffre Successfully Launched his Own Solo Recording Career. The 'tangent in Jazz' Sessions that Comprise the Second Half of this Release, Defines that All-important Juncture Where Giuffre Marked Out his Future Directions: Creating Jazz Music with What He Contentiously Termed "a Non-pulsating Beat."