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Strings & Trombones is an album by Bud Shank, featuring Bob Brookmeyer, and recorded in 1954 and 1955 for the Pacific Jazz label. The album compiles Shank’s previous 10 inch LPs Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer and Bud Shank and Three Trombones.

Track listing:
“Low Life” (Johnny Mandel) – 3:56
“With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair” (Jack Lawrence, Clara Edwards) – 5:07
“You Are Too Beautiful” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:59
“When Your Lover Has Gone” (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:56
“Rustic Hop” (Bob Brookmeyer) – 4:13
“Wailing Vessel” (Bob Cooper) – 2:41
“Cool Fool” (Cooper) – 3:18
“Little Girl Blue” (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:16
“Sing Something Simple” (Herman Hupfield) – 2:35
“You Don’t Know What Love Is” (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) – 4:16
“Valve in Head” (Bud Shank) – 3:10

Personnel:
Bud Shank – alto saxophone
Bob Brookmeyer (tracks 1-5), Bob Enevoldsen (tracks 6-11), Maynard Ferguson (tracks 6-11), Stu Williamson (tracks 6-11) – valve trombone
Claude Williamson – piano
Buddy Clark (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Joe Mondragon (tracks 3, 4 & 6-11) – bass
Larry Bunker (tracks 1-5), Shelly Manne (tracks 6-11) – drums
String section arranged by Bob Cooper (tracks 6-11)

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Released: 1956
Recorded: April 3 & June 22, 1954, November 29, 1954 and January 7, 1955
Capitol Studios and Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
Label: Pacific Jazz
PJ 1213
Producer: Richard Bock