Pair Of Kings - Stan Getz & Horace Silver

 

Penny

For Stompers Only

Pair Of Kings

Stan Getz & Horace Silver

Baronet Records B-102

1962

From the back cover: Stan Getz in the archetypical musician of the cool school. Born February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia he lived in New York City from the age of ten. After flirting briefly with the bass and bassoon, he took up the saxophone while playing in New York's all-city orchestra. Leaving Jame Monroe High School in the Bronx, he joined an orchestra led by one Stinky Rogers but was promptly ordered to return to school.

Subsequent name-band experience from the age of 16 took him through the orchestras of Jack Teagarden, Dale Jones and Bob Chester and then in 1944 and '45, Stan Kenton. Later he was briefly heard with Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, as well as with various name bands such as Randy Brooks, Buddy Morrow and Herbie Fields. While he was living in Hollywood in 1947, after working with Butch Stone's band, he joined a new orchestra then being organized by Woody Herman. From September, 1947 until early 1949 Stan was part of a famous Herman saxophone section known as the "Four Brothers" and immortalized by Jimmy Giuffre in a tune by that name. (The other members were Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward on tenors and Serge Chaloff on baritone; Al Cohen later replaced Steward). The Getz solos on such records as Early Autumn marked the dawn of a new modern era in tenor sax styles. Though the original model of all the "Brothers" was unmistakably Lester Young and their styles at first seemed largely similar, it was Getz who emerged first to form his own combo and establish himself as one of the great individualists of the cool generation.

Horace Silver, a native of Norwalk, Conn. born there in 1928, Horace was a tenor saxophonist like Stan when he first played local gigs, but he had switched to piano when Stan Getz heard him one evening in Hartford and was soon invited to join the Getz quintet, which which he remained on tour for a year. It was during this period that six of these titles were recorded.

Silver's piano style, which is finally receiving the recognition it deserves, is a result not of outward striving towards atonalities and modern classic complexities, but of an inner development and search for deeper "soul" and meaning to the blues roots of jazz. Words like "funk" and "soul" are open to many subjective interpretations, let's suggest that you listen awhile and discover that whatever the word, or the tune, Silver plays real swinging piano.

Side One

Stan Getz - Tenor Sax

Horace Silver - Piano

Jimmy Raney - Guitar

Tommy Potter - Bass

Roy Haynes - Drums

Joe Callaway for Potter; Walter Bolden for Hayes on 4 and 6

Yvette

Wild Wood

Melody Express

Penny 

Potter's Luck

Split Kick

Side Two

Stan Getz - Tenor Sax

Jimmy Raney - Guitar (Al Haig (1-2-3-4)

Horace Silver - Piano

Jimmy Raney - Guitar

Al Haigh (1-2-3-4); Horace Silver (5-6) - Piano

Tommy Potter (3-4); Joe Calloway (5-6) - Bass

Tiny Kahn (1-2); Roy Haynes (3-4); Walter Bolden (5-6) - Drums

Rubber Neck

Mosquito Knees

Sweetie Pie

Hershey Bar

Tootsie Roll

For Stompers Only