Stan Getz - Vintage Getz (2003)

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"It's a pleasure to be here" says Stan Getz, surveying the Californian landscape from the open-air stage he's performing on. "It's different to the dives I play in." And it clearly inspired this famously uncompromising saxophonist in the performance that's captured on this DVD-Video.The first set is chiefly made up of material by pianist Jim McNeely. who writes with a fine melodic touch, and it sets the great cool saxophonist off into a series of beautifully-shaped improvisations that will repay many viewings and listenings. Stan`s quartet also includes a scintillating rhythm team is bassist Marc Johnson, who had come from working with Bill Evans in the pianist's last trio, and drummer Victor Lewis. A brisk canter through Bud Powell's bebop classic 'Tempus Fugit' is the climax of the set, and will leave you eager for more.There's a brief nod to his popularity as one of the leaders of jazz bossa nova in the sixties, and a delightful treatment of Dave Brubeck's engaging theme 'In Your Sweet Way'. But the major setpieces in the programme are Stan`s astonishingly beautiful ballad interpretations of two Billy Strayhorn compositions: 'Lush Life', dedicated to the memory of the saxophonist's father, and the haunting 'Blood Count', a piece which Strayhorn completed in the last days of his life. The glorious Getz tone has never sounded better than it does here. Once again, there's inventive and full-bodied support from the accompanying trio of Jim McNeely, Marc Johnson and Victor Lewis, and an appropriately enthusiastic audience too.

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