Stan Getz In Concert

 

Yvette

Stand Getz In Concert

Pickwick/33 SPC-3031

1966

From the back cover: Stan Getz, one of the true virtuosos of the jazz tenor saxophone, has undergone a fascinating metamorphosis in recent years. He has trod a path all too unfamiliar to the great majority of jazz artists, wherein, by a specific device, has has managed to "catch-on" in the far broader world of pop music.

For years, Getz worked the highways and by-ways of jazz, the small, smoky clubs, where the faces around the jazzman's stand blurred down to non-identity in the haze of the extended solo probings of the horn. In this field alone, Getz has always been worth a lot more than the price of admission.

But with the advent of in the United States of the notable Brazilian bossa nova import, Getz suddenly began to reach new heights, as he teams in turn with such other artists as Charlie Byrd; guitarist-singer, Joao Gilberto, and the wispy-voiced Astrud Gilberto in carrying the bossa nova message into the mainstream of popular music.

No longer were the jazz cognoscenti and the avant-gardists alone in their admiration of this towering talent. And no longer did Getz identify himself with the introverted school of jazz musicians whose music was enough without any visible communication with the paying customers. Getz became a showman who was in touch and who cared, and his playing and the fans' appreciation of it, got bigger and bigger.

Getz continues to be a giant in both his worlds. He is also a great favorite overseas as well, where he occasionally travels with his horn and his group, in between the increased periods of time he spends at his smart Westchester County home in the northern suburbs of New York City with his wife Monica, and their children.

But let it never be forgotten in the bright glare of massive popular acclaim, that Getz, first and foremost, is a musician, a "jazz cat," if you will, whose wonderfully fluid, inventive horn with its foresight attacks, was entertaining the "in" crowd of jazz fans for  years before the bossa nova ever moved north.

This album serves as a more than adequate reminder of the sheer jazz talent of the man, Stan Getz. Here is a specially collected group of offerings that will serve to remind the long-term fandom of his continuing greatness, and that will show his many new, primarily pop-minded friends, that there is also the finely articulated music man here, who has shown the way to many others and who will continue to blaze new and exciting trails.

Such is the nature of the artistry of Stan Getz. – Ren Grevatt

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