American jazz drummer
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 543-544. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1998.
See also Shelly Manne and His Men for additional credits.
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 Rumseys Lighthouse Cafe on Hermosa Beach.
Opened his own nightclub, Shellys 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 1950s.
The leading percussionist on film and TV soundtracks of the 1950s and 60s, Manne enjoyed a particularly fruitful collaboration with the composer Henry Mancini.
