Time: 59:29
Size: 136.2 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[6:21] 1. Airegin
[8:36] 2. Wildwood
[5:45] 3. Where Do You Go
[9:20] 4. Autumn Leaves
[6:21] 5. Jordu
[7:05] 6. When The Sun Comes Out
[6:38] 7. Yesterday's Gardenias
[7:13] 8. Woody'n You
[2:06] 9. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
These previously unreleased 1961 live performances from Birdland, show Getz bringing his tenor saxophone mastery to new heights in a truly stunning comeback.
It wasn’t only music lovers who crowded Stan Getz’ club performances in New York when he returned to the US in January 1961 after more than two years away in Europe. The young tenor, who had long since extended the already legendary and unorthodox Lester Young line into something of his own, represented an approach that contrasted with the revolutionary turmoil in the jazz of the time. And it was against that background that these unreleased performances were recorded and broadcast live at Birdland during Getz’ quartet engagement in the fall of that year with Steve Kuhn, Jimmy Garrison and Roy Haynes.
It was a quality group and, with Getz then at a sublime peak of emotional and intellectual balance allied to unfailingly melodic inventiveness, the quartet explored a stimulating program of jazz standards and ballads with a gripping blend of strength, delicacy and subtly nuanced dynamics. Suffused with the leader’s eloquent tenor, the sheer beauty of the music often caused a hush to fall over the audience, who must by then have realized that, revolution or not, they were indisputably in the presence of one of the greats.
Stan Getz (tenor sax); Steve Kuhn (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Roy Haynes (drums). Recorded live at Birdland, November 11 and 18 (#5-9), 1961. Note: While you may notice slight imperfections in the sound of these recordings, inherent to the source tapes, they do not subtract at all from the top level performances within.
It wasn’t only music lovers who crowded Stan Getz’ club performances in New York when he returned to the US in January 1961 after more than two years away in Europe. The young tenor, who had long since extended the already legendary and unorthodox Lester Young line into something of his own, represented an approach that contrasted with the revolutionary turmoil in the jazz of the time. And it was against that background that these unreleased performances were recorded and broadcast live at Birdland during Getz’ quartet engagement in the fall of that year with Steve Kuhn, Jimmy Garrison and Roy Haynes.
It was a quality group and, with Getz then at a sublime peak of emotional and intellectual balance allied to unfailingly melodic inventiveness, the quartet explored a stimulating program of jazz standards and ballads with a gripping blend of strength, delicacy and subtly nuanced dynamics. Suffused with the leader’s eloquent tenor, the sheer beauty of the music often caused a hush to fall over the audience, who must by then have realized that, revolution or not, they were indisputably in the presence of one of the greats.
Stan Getz (tenor sax); Steve Kuhn (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Roy Haynes (drums). Recorded live at Birdland, November 11 and 18 (#5-9), 1961. Note: While you may notice slight imperfections in the sound of these recordings, inherent to the source tapes, they do not subtract at all from the top level performances within.
Stan Getz Quartet At Birdland
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