Stan Getz Quintets: Clef & Norgran Studio Albums

Stan Getz

CD 1: STAN GETZ PLAYS • Stella By Starlight • Time On My Hands • ‘Tis Autumn • The Way You Look Tonight • Lover Come Back To Me • Body And Soul • Stars Fell On Alabama • You Turned The Tables On Me
THE ARTISTRY OF STAN GETZ • Thanks For The Memory • Hymn Of The Orient • These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) • How Deep Is The Ocean? • Have You Met Miss Jones? • Erudition • Cool Mix • Rustic Hop
INTERPRETATIONS SIDE A • Love And The Weather • Spring Is Here • Crazy Rhythm
CD 2: INTERPRETATIONS SIDE B • Willow Weep For Me • The Nearness Of You • Pot Luck
INTERPRETATIONS #2 • Minor Blues • Fascination’ Rhythm • I Don’t Know What Tme It Was • Tangerine BONUS TRACKS • Pot Luck – single version • It Don’t Mean A Thing – alternative version
QUARTET SES • I Hadn’t Anyone ‘Til You • Down By The Sycamore Tree • With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair • Nobody Else But Me • I Hadn’t Anyone ‘Til You – alternate take • Nobody Else But Me – alternate take
CD 3: INTERPRETATIONS #3 • It Don’t Mean A Thing • The varsity Drag • Give Me The Simple Life • Oh, jane Snavely • I’ll Remember April BONUS TRACKS • We’ll Be Together Again – EP version • We’ll Be Together Again – LP version • Feather Merchant • Flamingo • Blue Bells • Round Up Time

Wholenote Discoveries - April 2011
With his seductive, smooth sound and innate sense of phrasing it was a sure thing that tenor sax man Stan Getz would be in the forefront of the Cool Jazz era that arrived in the early fifties. His career took off and he recorded extensively with groups bearing his name, backing soloists and with some bands of the day. Norman Granz of Jazz at the Philharmonic fame recorded the Stan Getz Quintets in nine sessions from 1952 through 1955. Backing Getz were selectively Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone), Tony Fruscella (trumpet), Duke Williams or John Williams or Jimmy Rowles (piano), Jimmy Raney (guitar), Bill Crow or Teddy Kotick or Bobby Whitlock or Bill Anthony (bass), Frank Isola or Al Levitt or Max Roach (drums). Over the years some of these tracks were scattered across the Verve catalogue but now they all have been assembled, including three unissued tracks, remastered and issued in a 3 CD package of an extraordinary sophisticated design. Inside is the kind of repertoire and seductive performances one would hear in a small bar or the basement of a jazz club. Very nostalgic listening. Bruce Surtees
Verve Select proudly presents Quintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums, a 3 CD, 45 track set that’s the first-ever collection of Stan Getz’s earliest recordings for Norman Granz, the founder of the Verve family of labels. Incredibly, two-thirds of this collection has never been on CD, and it is now available for the first time in nearly 60 years – in a beautifully packaged, wonderfully detailed box set that is a long overdue tribute to a jazz superstar’s fine early recordings.

Price: $53.98