It is a substantial and hugely entertaining collection.

Stan Getz is widely regarded as one of the all-time great jazz tenor saxophonists, coming to the fore in the bebop era of the late 1940s and early '50s, and becoming a pioneer of the west coast 'cool school' of jazz musicians, helping to popularise Latin forms like the bossa nova within the idiom. During the mid-1950s, while recording for Norman Granz's Norgran and Verve labels, and with the long-playing vinyl LP era now under way, he recorded many sessions and projects in collaboration with other like-minded musicians and bandleaders, which resulted in a string of notable albums. This 44-track 4-CD set comprises titles from the classic Verve albums 'Interpretations' with Bob Brookmeyer, 'Diz And Getz' with Dizzy Gillespie, 'Hamp And Getz' with Lionel Hampton, 'West Coast Jazz' with Conte Candoli, 'The Steamer' with his Quartet, 'Sittin' In' with Dizzy Gillespie and Coleman Hawkins, 'Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio', and 'Getz Meets Mulligan' with Gerry Mulligan. The creative stimulus provided by these encounters naturally makes for some fascinating and high class jazz. Apart from the main collaborators, the performances feature many other notable musicians of the day, and it makes for a substantial and hugely entertaining collection.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Love And The Weather
• Spring Is Here
• Crazy Rhythm
• Willow Weep For Me
• Pot Luck
• The Nearness Of You
• Girl Of My Dreams
• It Don't Mean A Thing
• It's The Talk Of The Town
• Siboney
• Exactly Like You
• I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
• Impromptu

Disc 2:

• Cherokee
• Louise
• Ballad Medley
• Jumpin At The Woodside
• Gladys
• Four
• East Of The Sun
• A Night In Tunisia
• Suddenly It's Spring
• Summertime

Disc 3:

• Shine
• Blues For Mary Jane
• There'll Never Be Another You
• You're Blasé
• Too Close For Comfort
• Like Someone In Love
• How About You
• Dizzy Atmosphere
• Ballad Medley 1

Disc 4:

• Pennies From Heaven
• There's No You (I'm Glad There's You)
• I Was Doing All Right
• Tour's End
• Bronx Blues
• I Want To Be Happy
• That Old Feeling
• This Can't Be Love
• Ballad
• Let's Fall In Love
• Too Close For Comfort
• Anything Goes

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 288 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/09/26

UPC: 824046720025