Daktari (subtitled Shelly Manne Performs & Conducts His Original Music for the Hit TV Show) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne recorded in 1967 featuring music from Daktari and released on the Atlantic label.[1] On the album, Mike Wofford plays a tack piano to evoke an African sound, and Manne is joined by percussionists Emil Richards, Larry Bunker, Frank Carlson, and Victor Feldman. According to the liner notes, Manne and fellow percussionists play ankle and wrist jingles, Thai mouth organs, angklungs, ocarinas, vibraphones, tympani, and different kinds of marimbas.
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| Released | 1967 | |||
| Recorded | November 30 and December 4 & 5, 1967 | |||
| Studio | Annex Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 32:03 | |||
| Label | Atlantic SD 8157 | |||
| Producer | Nesuhi Ertegun | |||
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Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker was a fan of the album's "vaguely African" music, sounding like it came from "Hollywood session players" rather than actual Africans. In the late 1990s, Becker modeled a percussion sequence after this style on the song "Two Against Nature" released on the Steely Dan album of the same name.[4]
Track listing
editAll compositions by Shelly Manne
- "Daktari" - 2:14
- "Out on a Limb" - 3:04
- "Clarence" - 2:18
- "Africa" - 3:10
- "Stay With Me" - 2:46
- "Elephantime" - 2:21
- "Wameru" - 2:56
- "Toto" - 2:44
- "Galloping Giraffes" - 3:11
- "Judy Judy" - 2:37
- "Ivan" - 2:27
- "Rhino Trot" - 1:51
Personnel
edit- Shelly Manne – drums, percussion
- Justin Gordon, Bud Shank, Arthur C. Smith, Frank Strozier – woodwinds
- Mike Wofford – piano
- Bob Bain – guitar
- Bill Pitman – bass
- Larry Bunker, Frank Carlsson, Victor Feldman, Emil Richards – percussion
- Richard Hazard – arranger
References
edit- ^ Atlantic Records Catalog: 8100 series accessed August 18, 2015
- ^ "Shelly Manne: Daktari". Retrieved August 24, 2021.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 936. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Steely Dan Interview - Against All Odds | Guitar.com". www.guitar.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2016.