Final Concert Recordings

Stan Getz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Eagle Records
• ASIN: B00005R8GJ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #30 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Cool Jazz

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Apasiondo

2. On a Slow Boat to China

3. Soul Eyes

4. Espagnira (Espanola)

5. Coba

6. Seven Steps to Heaven

7. El Cajon

Disc: 2

1. Yours and Mine

2. Voyage

3. Lonely Lady

4. Blood Count

5. What Is This Thing Called Love?

6. People Time

7. Amorous Cat

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Recorded at the Munich Philharmonic Hall in 1990 before a highly appreciative audience, the 63-year-old Stan Getz gives his final concert performance, and it is an excellent one indeed. His instantly recognizable tenor sax tone, well known for its rounded mellifluousness, has, by this time, grown fuller, with an attractive edge to it. He sounds in tip-top form as he and his quartet play a varied program of up-tempo swingers ("Seven Steps to Heaven," "What Is This Thing Called Love") and numerous lush ballads (Thad Jones's "Yours and Mine," Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count"). Kenny Barron's piano style complements Getz perfectly, and the two seem particularly inspired on this evening. On several numbers, synthesizers are used to simulate the string sections of Getz's 1989 recording, Apasionado, and these textural pieces ("Espagnira," "Coba") add a studiolike lushness to the live concert. Stan Getz was a major force on tenor sax for over 40 years, and this final document-- a marvelous recording of an inspired performance--is a fitting testimony to his greatness. --Wally Shoup

Product Description

2 CD's recorded live in Germany 1990 at Munich Philharmonic Hall, with Kenny Barron, Alex Blake & Eddie Del Barrio. Gorgeously packaged in tri-fold digipak from Eagle Jazz.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Stan Getz rides (or sails) again!, November 7, 2001

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rash67 (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Concert Recordings (Audio CD)

I am always reluctant to buy 2 CD sets, especially when the artist has been dead for a decade! One would think to good stuff is already out. But Stan the Man, the greatest saxophonist of all time, continues to be amazingly prolific in death.

Despite the title, "People Time" is actually Stan Getz last known recording, silvered some three months before his death. This CD set is from a concert at the Munich Philharmonic, July 1990, 11 months before his death.

For a 63 year old guy who would be gone from us in a year, Stan sound amazingly sprightly and energetic here. Moreso than he does on "People Time"! He was on a Zen marcobiotic diet, excercised, and had discontinued his, umm, unheathful habits, and was feeling good here. He bops through a number of happy, upbeat songs, five from his latest album with Herb Alpert, "Apasionado".

Apasionado had a lot of New Age (NOT Smooth Jazz) influences, trying to be part of the latest thing in 1990. "Coba", the title track and "Espanira" have a strong classical Spanish influence like Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain". He plays a Miles Davis tune "Seven Steps to Heaven". The orchestra on the "Apasionado" CD is herein replayed by the song writer Eddie Del Barrio on synthesizer. In his later years, Stan liked to feature new music by lesser known people in his group.

Other tunes include numbers from "Anniversary" & "People Time". Also with him is Kenny Barron, clearly the best Jazz piano accompanyist in the business, then and now. Stan plays Barron's tune "Voyage".

Only four cuts are ballads and here Stan shines, as always. Especially on "People Time" & "Blood Count". I like disc two the best, should they ever become available seperately. Also "Amorous Cat", which I'd never heard elsewhere from Getz, sounds particularly sensual, like a cat rubbing itself on your leg!

The acoustic is a little echoy and bright, sometimes the drums and piano seem closer than the sax. Later in the concert he asks for, and gets, a more focused sound.

Steve Getz has said that his father's instantly recongizable music has a "healing quality". I believe that is true. May more of his music continue to be found!

Stan fans and collectors will enjoy this album, another good posthumous release. Four stars for a performance every bit as good as Stan in his prime, three stars for recording quality, under my extra tough grading system!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring performance exhibiting perfection in each genre, February 20, 2003

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raised12th - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Concert Recordings (Audio CD)

The expression "a full Mastery of one's instrument" is arguably impossible to attain, but a handful of musicians (the likes of Getz, Tatum, Evans, Dizzy, and Bird) are often credited with having done just that. The Final Concert is proof positive that perfection, or near perfection, is possible. Getz, with the help of some of the world's most talented musicians, performs a variety of compositions in different tempos & genres, that most musicians can only dream of doing. Technically & Lyrically this CD is a masterpiece, and a must have for any lover of Jazz. We can only hope that the Getz estate has many more of these gems hiden away.
STAN LIVES ON!!!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some songs bring me to tears, March 16, 2006

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Mr. Drs E. J. Bakker "jumais" (the netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Concert Recordings (Audio CD)

this is not a beautiful recording but a great record if you know what i mean. stan in great shape and of course kenny barron........what a piano player....