Trivia

The leading percussionist on film and TV soundtracks of the 1950's and 60's, Manne enjoyed a particularly fruitful collaboration with the composer Henry Mancini.

Inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1997.

Jazz drummer.

Member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra from 1946 to 1952. Around the same period also worked with Shorty Rogers, George Shearing, Woody Herman and at Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse Cafe on Hermosa Beach.

Opened his own nightclub, Shelly's Manne-Hole in Los Angeles on North Cahuenga Boulevard in 1960. It remained in operation until 1973.

A key figure in the West Coast-based 'cool' jazz movement of the 1950's.

See also Shelly Manne and His Men for additional credits.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 543-544. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.