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Stan Getz's first album after his return to the United States, "Focus" is regarded by the artist himself as the most important of his career and a major milestone in the one of both musicians. This is a suite the artist commissioned from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. In a 1997 reissue, the record label stated that Sauter had not written the melodies for Getz but had left space in his arrangements for him to improvise and also that Getz had recorded about half of the themes live with the strings and overdubbed sax solos on other sessions. "Focus" was in the midst of the movement to integrate jazz and classical music; but like all great art, it stood then as now outside the mainstream, a monumental, inimitable hybrid. And Get'z undisputed masterpiece. Note that the theme of the first track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of the second movement of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter, who intended the track as an homage. (Qobuz)
Note: this so-called "reference" album is the official one released by Verve at the very end of 1961.
« You see, these things can be played with the string section of any symphony orchestra in the world, and they make great tour music... The legitimacy of the past three hundred years and the soul of our modern times can be put together and be beautiful.» (Stan Getz, in praise of composer Eddie Sauter, in the original-LP liner notes)
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Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings
Stan Getz, Tenor Saxophone, Main Artist - Gerald Tarack, Violin - Norman Carr, Violin - Alan Martin, Violin - Jacob Glick, Viola - Bruce Rogers, Cello - John Neves, Double Bass - Roy Haynes, Drums - Hershy Kay, Conductor - Eddie Sauter, Recording Arranger, Main Artist, Composer - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Stan Getz's first album after his return to the United States, "Focus" is regarded by the artist himself as the most important of his career and a major milestone in the one of both musicians. This is a suite the artist commissioned from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. In a 1997 reissue, the record label stated that Sauter had not written the melodies for Getz but had left space in his arrangements for him to improvise and also that Getz had recorded about half of the themes live with the strings and overdubbed sax solos on other sessions. "Focus" was in the midst of the movement to integrate jazz and classical music; but like all great art, it stood then as now outside the mainstream, a monumental, inimitable hybrid. And Get'z undisputed masterpiece. Note that the theme of the first track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of the second movement of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter, who intended the track as an homage. (Qobuz)
Note: this so-called "reference" album is the official one released by Verve at the very end of 1961.
« You see, these things can be played with the string section of any symphony orchestra in the world, and they make great tour music... The legitimacy of the past three hundred years and the soul of our modern times can be put together and be beautiful.» (Stan Getz, in praise of composer Eddie Sauter, in the original-LP liner notes)
Details of original recording : Recorded stereo at Webster Hall, New York City, July 14, 28, and September/October, 1961
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:16
- Main artists: Stan Getz Eddie Sauter
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz
© 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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