Without any shadow of a doubt STAN GETZ was one of the great individualists in the history of jazz. A unique and seminal figure, he burst upon the burgeoning bop scene with his swing background, and from the very beginning became the "great white hope" of a music that by definition was black-orientated. He always confounded those who tried to classify and pigeonhole his style, in great part thanks to his staggering instrumental mastery, but above all because of his great ability to play between two entirely different poles of sounds : one fragile and velvety, and the other virile and hard. And throughout his whole career he remained true to the image he had originally forged as a passionate and refined improviser, free from any affectations and with a seemingly limitless ability to improvise, the generator, as few have ever been, of a magical combination of feeling and lyricism. This collection brings together tor the first time and in chronological order the quartet and quintet recording sessions made between the years 1948-1952.
J. G. Calvados (From the booklet) Stan Getz
Complete Quintet Sessions
1948-1952
Tracks
1 Pardon My Bop (Getz) 2:34
2 As I Live and I Bop (Getz) 3:02
3 Interlude In Bebop (Getz) 2:44
4 Diaper Pin (Pinhead) (Getz) 2:42
5 Skull Buster (Haig) 2:26
6 Ante Room (Raney) 2:44
7 Poop Deck (Haig) 2:47
8 Pennies from Heaven (Burke, Johnston) 3:20
9 Melody Express (Gryce) 2:46
10 Yvette (Gryce) 2:57
11 Potter's Luck (Silver) 2:41
12 The Song is You (Kern) 2:50
13 Wildwood (Gryce) 3:04
14 Where or When (Hart, Rodgers) 2:27
15 Tabu (Stillman, Russell, Lecuona) 2:43
16 Moonlight in Vermont (Seussdorf, Blackburn) 3:16
17 Jaguar (Smith) 2:34
18 Sometimes I'm Happy (Youmans, Robin, Grey) 2:20
19 Stars Fell on Alabama (Parish, Perkins) 3:06
20 Nice Work if You Can Get It (Gershwin, Gershwin) 2:27
21 Tenderly (Gross, Lawrence) 3:26
22 Lullaby of Birdland (Shearing, Weiss) 2:25
23 Autumn Leaves (Kosma, Mercer, Prevert) 3:01
24 Fools Rush in (Bloom, Mercer) 2:27
25 These Foolish Things (Link, Marvell, Strachey) 2:59
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Personnel
[# 1-4] Stan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz - ts
Jimmy Raney - g
Al Haig - p
Clyde Lombardi - b
Charlie Perry - dr
Recorded in New York ; Summer 1948
[# 5-8] Al Haig Sextet
Stan Getz - ts
Jimmy Raney - g
Al Haig - p
Gene Ramey - b
Charlie Perry - dr
Carlos Vidal - cng dr
Recorded in New York ; May 5, 1949
[# 9-13] Stan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz - ts
Jimmy Raney - g
Horace Silver - p
Leonard Gaskin - b
Roy Haynes - dr
Recorded in New York ; August 15, 1951
[# 14-17] Johnny Smith - Stan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz - ts
Johnny Smith - g
Sanford Gold - p
Eddie Safranski - b
Don Lamond - dr
Recorded in New York ; March 11, 1952
[# 18-21] Johnny Smith - Stan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz - ts
Johnny Smith - g
Sanford Gold - p
Bob Carter - b
Morey Feld - dr
Recorded in New York ; November 9, 1952
[# 22-25] Tan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz - ts
Duke Jordan - p
Jimmy Raney - g
Bill Crow - b
Frank Isola - dr
Recorded in New York ; December 12, 1952