{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Way Up There | type = Studio | artist = [[Shorty Rogers]] and His Giants | cover = Way Up There.jpg | alt = | released = 1957 | recorded = March 3, October 26, and December 6, 9 & 16, 1955<br><small>Los Angeles, CA</small> | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]<br><small>LP 1270</small> | producer = [[Nesuhi Ertegun]] | chronology = [[Shorty Rogers]] | prev_title = [[Martians Come Back!]] | prev_year = 1955 | next_title = [[Wherever the Five Winds Blow]] | next_year = 1957 }} '''''Way Up There''''' is an album by American jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger [[Shorty Rogers]], released on the [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] label in 1957.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/atlantic-records/catalog-1200-series/#1270 Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series] accessed September 8, 2015</ref><ref>[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/claudio-roditi/ Encyclopedia of Jazz: Shorty Rogers discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827143329/https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/claudio-roditi/ |date=August 27, 2016 }} accessed March 23, 2016</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[Allmusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} Jim Todd on [[Allmusic]] calls the album "a good overview of Rogers' work in the company of a who's who of West Coast jazz, playing arrangements for trumpet section and rhythm, quintet, and brass and winds with rhythm."<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Jim |last=Todd |class=album |id=mw0000668121 |title=''Martians, Come Back!/Way Up There '' – Review |accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref>
== Track listing == All compositions by Shorty Rogers except where noted. # "Blues Way Up There" - 5:21 # "[[Moten Swing]]" ([[Benny Moten]], Buster Moten) - 5:59 # "Blues Way Down There" - 4:15 # "Solarization" - 4:26 # "Pixieland" - 4:26 # "Wail of Two Cities" - 5:46 # "Baklava Bridge" - 5:27 # "March of the Martians" - 4:33 *Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on March 3 (track 4), October 26 (track 8), December 6 (track 5), December 9 (tracks 6 & 7) and December 16 (tracks 1–3), 1955
== Personnel == *[[Shorty Rogers]] - [[trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]] *[[Conte Candoli]], [[Pete Candoli]], [[Harry Edison]], [[Don Fagerquist]] - trumpet (track 5) *[[Bob Enevoldsen]] - [[valve trombone]] (tracks 6 & 7) *[[John Graas]] - [[French horn]] (tracks 6 & 7) *Paul Sarmento - [[tuba]] (tracks 6 & 7) *[[Jimmy Giuffre]] - [[clarinet]] (tracks 4 & 8) *[[Bud Shank]] - [[alto saxophone]] (tracks 1–3, 6 & 7) *[[Barney Kessel]] - [[jazz guitar|guitar]] (tracks 1–3) *[[Pete Jolly]] (tracks 1–4), [[Lou Levy (pianist)|Lou Levy]] (tracks 5–8) - [[piano]] *[[Curtis Counce]] (track 4), [[Ralph Peña (musician)|Ralph Peña]] (tracks 5–8), [[Leroy Vinnegar]] (tracks 1–3) - [[double bass|bass]] *[[Shelly Manne]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
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