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tony wrote:

Sean wrote:Tony, Stan Getz was great, I was fortunate enough to see him when he played in Dublin, you would be hard pressed to find a poor recording by him. What a beautiful warm tone he had, his sound was unique and he had many imitators too.

Lucky you Sean I assume he is dead now! Agree fully beautiful warm tone describes exactly the sound. Really sublime. First album I got was the one with girl from ipanema and to me was fairly bland(very good but the album designed to sell a truck load) but this one really shows what he was about I am assuming without doing research that this was earlier in the career.

Yes, Getz is dead. The Brazilian bossa nova stuff with Carlos Jobim was awful, bland is a good description, it was very popular.
Tony, if you are in the market for recordings by Stan Getz well then these are worth considering:

Sweet Rain


Captain Marvel


Live at Montmarte


Focus, this is with a string orchestra. Sauter wrote the arrangement for Getz and strings. They recorded it, neither Sauter nor Getz were happy wit the result, so they recorded it a second time with Getz improvising over Sauter's arrangement and that's what was commited to disc, it works really well.


The Peacocks

Thanks a lot Sean I will certainly search out those cd's thanks for the suggestions. I had already decided to to for the montmartre as I really like live recordings but will keep an eye out for the others also.

tony wrote:Thanks a lot Sean I will certainly search out those cd's thanks for the suggestions. I had already decided to to for the montmartre as I really like live recordings but will keep an eye out for the others also.

Great choice, he has a lovely trio supporting him: pianist Joanne Brackeen, bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and drummer Billy Hart.

the first recording to convince me that remasters are Janus faced demons...

this one is superb, others I've had were dynamically compressed, artificially silent and deaf to sense of venue....

it's also a hook for the looming move to vinyl....

Yes, that is definitely the version to get, if only to hear how Flamenco Sketches developed between Take 1 and Take 2.

my favourite female jazz singer...





and a CD set of Mingus



now I already have some of these on vinyl so I took the chance to do a direct comparison. (My system is sounding pretty nice recently - perhaps more anon)

I compared side 2 of "Blues & Roots" and could easily switch between CD and vinyl. While the CD had a slight advantage in detail the vinyl was far more musical and the performance more intimate and tangible. On this recording anyway... vinyl wins.

Just downloaded from Qobuz this morning.
Listened to it over lunch and very impressed with arrangements of well known Piazzolla numbers.
Sound quality is excellent and instrumentation is very imaginative - very modern big band, fine playing.

I don't think I like this album.

Double vinyl.
Beautiful interpretations.
Beautiful sonics.

I was watching that young lady in 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown' on DVD last night. (A great DVD BTW, The Story of the Funk Brothers)

She can really sing!