Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida [Digipak]Stan Getz
Release Date: 06/03/2008
Original Release:
1963
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1025920_CD
UPC # 602517679238
Label: Verve (USA)
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Performer: Stan Getz
Distributor: Universal Distribution Notes: Personnel: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Laurindo Almeida (guitar); George Duvivier (bass); Jose Soorez, Dave Bailey, Edison Machado (drums); Luiz Parga, Jose Paulo (percussion). Recorded in March 1963. Three weeks after completing his meeting with Luiz Bonf� and only two days after the epochal Getz/Gilberto sessions, Stan Getz was back in the studio recording more bossa nova. Producer Creed Taylor was obviously striking while the iron was hot, getting in as many Brazilian sessions as he could, yet the quality of the music-making remained consistently marvelous. Continuing his practice of running through one star guitarist after another, this time Getz has Laurindo Almeida as the designated rhythm man, featured composer, and solo foil. The rhythm section is an authentically swinging mixture of American sidemen (including Steve Kuhn on piano and George Duvivier on bass) and Brazilian percussionists. Almeida didn't like to improvise, so his solos stay close to the tunes, inflected with a perfectly matched feeling for the groove along with classical poise. Jobim's "Outra Vez" is a particularly lovely example of Getz's freedom and effortless lyricism contrasted against Almeida's anchored embroidering. Sessions like these might have been seen as cashing in on the boom at the time, yet in the long view, one should be thankful that these musicians were recording so much cherishable material. ~ Richard S. Ginell
Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz possessed a full, luxuriant tone and a highly melodic improvisational sense. Though he produced consistently rewarding music for the duration of his near 50-year career, he achieved the greatest success in the early '60s when he led the American part of the bossa nova explosion. Indeed, this brilliant fusion of jazz and Brazilian rhythms yielded the tune, "The Girl From Ipanema," which became one of the biggest selling jazz records in history.
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