RECORDING: Backgrounder: Russ Garcia – 4 Horns and a Lush Life

There are great jazz albums and then there are tasty great jazz albums. This is the latter—Russ Garcia’s Four Horns and a Lush Life (Bethlehem). Recorded in Hollywood in November 1955, the band featured four gorgeous trombonists: Frank Rosolino, Herb Harper, Maynard Ferguson and Tommy Pederson (tb) joined by Dick Houlgate (bs), Marty Paich (p), Red Mitchell (b), Stan Levey (d) and Russ Garcia (arr,conductor)….