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.Atlantic Records Catalog: 8100 series accessed August 18, 2015 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.
Reception
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.
Track listing All 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 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
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