jazzhound Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Just picked up a two lp set on Verve. This is not usually my bag but this is just superlative stuff. Rather incredible. I never heard Stan play like this. check it out if you haven't ventured into this realm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Jazzhound, Stan Getz At The Shrine has been a favorite of mine for many decades. It's a definite winner in my book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest youmustbe Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 I had never heard this, never really wanted to. But I found the 2lp set, perfect condition for 10 bucks and figured what the heck! Blew me away!! Yeah, Stan is 'The Natural'!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganized Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 I had never heard this, never really wanted to. But I found the 2lp set, perfect condition for 10 bucks and figured what the heck! Blew me away!! Yeah, Stan is 'The Natural'!!!! I avoided Stan for a long time thinking that his bossa stuff was pretty much all there was...Well a friend of mine pointed out my mistake and told me to get 'early' Stan or 'late' Stan.....how right he was.. Stan is the man....there is a lot to enjoy there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Interesting, slightly different feel on that record, and I believe it was bit more apparent there than on any studio album made by that group -- a kind of Mulligan-esque, noodling groove. I know that Brookmeyer's time with Mulligan followed his stint with Getz, but much of it stems from Brookmeyer, I think, and the rest from John Williams and Frank Isola. It's like the time feel is a walking/talking/kicking-a-can-down-the-road thing, with a good deal less of the mercurial, bop-like fluidity that was typical at any tempo of Getz's quintet with Jimmy Raney. I like both, but this approach, again, seemed a bit different. The difference is epitomized, as I recall, by "Tasty Pudding" (Johnny Mandel's piece I think) -- both the piece itself and the groove they get on it. I guess you could say neo-Basie as well as Mulligan-esque, but something definitely was in the air along those lines at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest youmustbe Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Tasty is Al Cohn's, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Tasty is Al Cohn's, I believe. It is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 And it's Art Mardigan, not Isola, on most of the tracks. In addition to the feel of the tune, I think I had Mandel in mind because of the title's play on words ("Hasty Pudding/Tasty Pudding"), a la Mandel"s "Keester Parade" and "Groover Wailin'" ( off of NYC's one-time celebrated civic greeter, Grover Whalen). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Jazzhound, Stan Getz At The Shrine has been a favorite of mine for many decades. It's a definite winner in my book. Same here. My favorite Getz band. It's none other than Duke Ellington who introduces the Getz unit at this Shrine concert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 This really deserves to be in print. It's one of my favorite live albums, and a fantastic Getz session! The whole band was on fire that night! I had to move heaven and earth to get the OOP CD, but I'm glad I did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 A somewhat little-known (I believe) but superb Getz album from the '50s (AFAIK never out on CD, at least in the US) is "The Soft Swing" from 1957, with Mose Allison, Addison Farmer, and Jerry Segal. It's maybe the most rhythmically relaxed Getz on record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I see it's a Verve "e album." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 And it can be listened to here: http://www.rhapsody.com/stangetz/thesoftswing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I had to move heaven and earth to get the OOP CD, but I'm glad I did! How much heaven, and how much earth?? -- if you don't mind me asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 A somewhat little-known (I believe) but superb Getz album from the '50s (AFAIK never out on CD, at least in the US) is "The Soft Swing" from 1957, with Mose Allison, Addison Farmer, and Jerry Segal. It's maybe the most rhythmically relaxed Getz on record. The Soft Swing was released on CD in Japan in 1999, Verve POCJ-2721. You're right though, it was never issued on CD in the United States. Great album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 This really deserves to be in print. It's one of my favorite live albums, and a fantastic Getz session! The whole band was on fire that night! I had to move heaven and earth to get the OOP CD, but I'm glad I did! I got the old CD fairly easily from a private seller on Amazon.com. I sold my Japanese copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 The Soft Swing is one of the 50 POCJs that are being reissued on 13th January 2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 The Shrine is great music, some of the very best Getz on record. His best period imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 31, 2006 Report Share Posted December 31, 2006 I had to move heaven and earth to get the OOP CD, but I'm glad I did! How much heaven, and how much earth?? -- if you don't mind me asking. Well, not that much, really. But it was not available ANYWHERE on-line at the time. I had to do one of those deals at Amazon where you pre-order, and if a copy comes up that's in your price-range, you get it. I had to wait almost a year before someone put a copy up for sale... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 This really deserves to be in print. It's one of my favorite live albums, and a fantastic Getz session! The whole band was on fire that night! I had to move heaven and earth to get the OOP CD, but I'm glad I did! This is out of print now??? What the hell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Lovely performance, but am I the only one who finds the sound a little wacky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Lovely performance, but am I the only one who finds the sound a little wacky? All recorded sound is a little wacky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 All recorded sound is a little wacky. Words of much wisdom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeith Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I know At the Shrine is a critically acclaimed album, but for some reason I have never liked it very much and I love Getz. I can think of at least a dozen of his I like better off the top of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 I know At the Shrine is a critically acclaimed album, but for some reason I have never liked it very much and I love Getz. I can think of at least a dozen of his I like better off the top of my head. Like many jazz musicians who had a reasonably lengthy career, Getz went through a number of different periods. The Getz of the quintet with Raney and Al Haig is different than the quintet with Brookmeyer and John Williams, which is different from the Verve recordings with Lou Levy, and then the Bossa Nova period, the time with Chick Corea, and then eventually on to the group with kenny Barron. I left out a number but you get the point. The sensibility of the quintet with Brookmeyer and John Williams as typified by the Shrine recording is a musical delight. I would not say it was better or worse than many (though not all) of the other Getz periods/groups. The great thing is that we have all of them to enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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