Stan Getz Music

This cd is fool of cool and mellow tempos along with some upbeat swinging rhythms. Once you put it in the cd player you won't want to take it out.

This album takes two amazing musicians and brings them together for incredibleness. If you don't have it and you like jazz, get it.

WONDERFUL 1957 RECORDING WITH OSCAR PETERSON, STAN GETZ, RAY BROWN AND HERB ELLIS. MELLOW JAZZ AT ITS' ULTIMATE PEAK. GETZ' LIGHT AND BREEZY STYLE OF PLAYING COMPLEMENTS OSCAR'S ACCOMPANIMENT SUPERLATIVELY. SOME OF THE BEST RECORDED WORKS BY EITHER OF THESE GREAT MUSICIANS (AND THAT'S SAYING A LOT).

Now that the men who collaborated in this session 50 years ago have passed away, this disk provides memories of jazz artists who will never be heard from any other way. Their unique style ic as classic as classical music.

This recording is in my top ten jazz recording list. This should be in every jazz fans collection. When the terms swing, groove, or playing in the pocket are thrown around, this recording should be on of the first to come to mind. Getz and Peterson are in total communication. Their phrasing and ideas are in total aggrement and their lines are fluid and creative. The technique is amazing but never unmusical. There is an obvious Lester Young influence coming through Getz, but one never feels that it's a rip-off like so many players are guilty of. This album is also just a hell of a lot of fun to listen to. Get it!!

If you are a Stan Getz fan, or just a fan of jazz,
get it. The other reviewer summed up the quality.

I have just finished watching this DVD and it is great! The sound is amazing and the picture quality is fantastic. If you are a fan of Stan Getz you might already have the music, it was released on a two cd set "The Final Concert Recording." I have always been a huge fan of Stan's tone. I never saw Stan live but I highly recommend this DVD for fans of Stan and for fans of jazz.This concert was recorded in 1990 at the Munich Philharmonic Hall. The other great musicians on this DVD are Kenny Barron, Eddie del Barrio, Frank Zottoli, Alex Blake and Terri Lyne Carrington.

Makes you fall in love with jazz all over again. Finest music ever created. Easy to see why Stan was The Man on the tenor sax. Kenny Barron, on piano, is a genius in his own right.

I realize Stan's was a tumultuous life, I read the tome, but am not judging that here (never had the right to judge anyway), what I am praising is the pure artistry and magical playing. Absolute wonder.

Captured on video and in excellent fidelity, this Munich concert is a wonderful display of the collaborative relationship of Stan Getz and the pianist, Kenny Barron. Considering that Stan had already been diagnosed with cancer and left us scarcely one year later, it's amazing how strong and convincing he sounds. Some great jazz standards(e.g., "Seven Steps to Heaven"), American pop standards (e.g., "What is This Thing Called Love") as well as a few titles that are unobtrusively augmented by synthesizers, it is an all around terrific document of a great artist. Highly receommended!

The last work of the greatest saxophonist that ever lived. What more can you say. He died the following year of lung cancer, yet was able to put forth the most mellow tones that this instrument is capable of producing. His accompaniament on piano, drums and base are just as inspired.

This is third force music - a fusion of Jazz and Classical where the orchestra plays the score while Stan the Man improvises on a vaguely defined melodic line.

The early pressings of this album were shrill. This later one, the Musical Heritage Society version is much better, not as bright, more balanced. You still find Stan on one side and the orchestra on the other which is somewhat disconcerting, but the music is intregueing.

Eddie Sauter who worked with Stan on his classic album "Focus" was told to pull out all the stops and write his best material. This album is often engaging, very orchestral, really a concerto for sax and orchestra. There are long passages of thoughtful, beautiful music. And you have Fieldler, so the orchestra is first rate. The overall effect is occationally overreaching, not by Stan but Sauter's writing. It doesn't scales the heights of "Focus", but is interesting and very much in the same direction.

Be careful to only buy the Musical Heritage version.

Stan improvises while the orchestra plays. Arthur Fiedler conducts. Another attempt at his great album "Focus" (Verve), Stan again plays music by Eddie Sauter and others.

The playing and the arrangement are much better here than the disasterous "Mickey One", but the CD suffers from a VERY dry acoustic. Stan in the left speaker, orchestra in the right.

Stan sounds screechy. It's a shame, this one could have been good. Maybe it can be remixed.