Apasionado [Digipak]

Performer: Stan Getz
Artist: Jeff Porcaro; Kenny Barron; Paulinho Da Costa; Oscar Castro-Neves
Engineer: Niko Bolas
Producer: Herb Alpert
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Stan Getz (saxophone); Eddie Del Barrio (conductor, synthesizer); William Green (saxophone); Noland Smith Jr., Rick Baptist, Oscar Brashear (trumpet); George Bohanon, Reginald Young (trombone); Tom Johnson (tuba); Kenny Barron (piano); Mike Lang (electric piano, synthesizer); Oscar Castro Neves, Michael Landau (electric guitar); Jimmy Johnson (bass); Jeff Porcaro (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion). Personnel: Stan Getz (saxophone); Oscar Castro-Neves (electric guitar); William Green (saxophone); Oscar Brashear, Rick Baptist (trumpet); George Bohanon, Reginald Young (trombone); Tom Johnson (tuba); Mike Lang (electric piano, synthesizer); Eddie Del Barrio (synthesizer); Jeff Porcaro (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion). Audio Mixer: Niko Bolas. Audio Remixer: Niko Bolas. Photographers: Dean Chamberlain; Michael Miller . Arrangers: Eddie Del Barrio; Herb Alpert. This rather commercial album (the next to last of Stan Getz's long career) is saved only by the great tenor's tone and creativity. The originals by Eddie del Barrio and Herb Alpert are quite forgettable and the backup by a variety of studio musicians is anonymous. But somehow the wonderful playing of Stan Getz makes this a worthwhile session despite it all.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The title track features some beautifully lyrical tenor saxophone playing from Getz..."

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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