Getz Au Go Go [Live]

Stan Getz, Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046TR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Actually, it's not a live recording...., June 24, 2003

By 

L Buckley (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getz Au Go Go (Audio CD)

A point I haven't seen mention online is that this is a studio recording with overdubbed applause. Producer Phil Schapp

explained this in a commentary published in 1989 in the Bossa Nova Years collection, below:

"I did not find much original tape for Getz Au Go Go, but I did unravel a mystery. Clearly something was up when Verve

decided to follow up the triumph of 'The Girl from Ipanema' with a second recording of Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto.

Verve recorded her with Stan at the Cafe Au Go Go. They recorded her with Stan at the legendary Carnegie Hall Bossa

Nova Concert. *And* they recorded the two using the very same songs in the studio! The "post-production" decision

was to use the studio material with phony applause, claiming it came from the live Au Go Go date...NOT SO. This set all

but eliminates this gaffe.

Stan Getz appeareed with his new group at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village during May 1964. The gig ran from

May1-31, 1964. The recording was done on May 22, '64 *not* June '64 which has long been listed. AStrud Gilberto

appeared with this unit for at least two weeks....On October 6, 1964--and perhaps on other dates as well--Astrud Gildberto

recorded with Stan Getz in the Studio, remaking the songs she had sung with Getz at the Au Go Go and would sing three

days later with Getz at Carnegie Hall. The studio material and the Carnegie Hall recording are what have survived"

--Phil Schaap, 'Technical and Discographical Comments,' published in booklet of complilation The Girl from Ipanema:

The Bossa Nova Years.

To further confuse the issue, elsewhere in the booklet of the same collection is this note about Getz Au Go Go:

"Live material recorded May 22, 1964 in New York. Astrud Gilberto's vocals recorded at later dates at Rudy Van Gelder's

(see Phil Schapp's commentary)." [I suppose the "live material" in question is handclapping, and Getz and the band

were recorded alongside Astrud at the later dates at Rudy Van Gelder's--NH]

And here are the original (and obviously misleading) liner notes, taken from the Verve Website:

It was one of those rare nights of absolute communication - the New York City opening of the New Stan Getz Quartet.

Stan had chosen the Cafe Au Go Go for this occasion because of its fine acoustics and its intimacy. Atmosphere was

paramount to the first New York presentation of the New Stan Getz Quartet and Astrud Gilberto because of the soft, easy

quality of their music. Astrud had already won acclaim for her work with Getz in the album Getz/Gilberto (V/V 6-8548),

which also stars Astrud's husband Joao Gilberto as well, and this threesome's single from the album The Girl From

Ipanema was rapidly rising on the best-selling charts.

This, is the stunning New Stan Getz Quartet with Astrud Gilberto at Cafe Au Go Go. Reflected here are the excitement,

warmth and communication of that memorable engagement.

-Gene Lees, from the liner notes of Getz Au Go Go

An online Getz discography ... also muddles history by claiming that the Oct.

6 session, which Schapp reports to be a studio session at Rudy Van Gelder's, was a recorded at a return visit to the Au Go

Go:

Stan Getz Quintet
Stan Getz (ts) Gary Burton (vib) Kenny Burrell (g) Gene Cherico (b) Helico Milton (d) Astrud Gilberto (vo)
``Cafe au Go Go'', Greenwich Village, NYC, October 6, 1964
It Might as Well Be Spring Verve V6 8600
The Telephone Song -
* Getz au Go Go (Verve V6 8600)

BTW, the Nobody Else but Me album (same band, minus Astrud) was recorded March 4, two months before the Au Go

Go engagement began (if the record is correct).

NH

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contemplative classic, December 3, 2001

By 

grayhackle (murray kentucky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getz Au Go Go (Audio CD)

Although Astrud Gilberto has drawn most of the attention given this album over the years, what makes it a classic is the interaction of the then young Gary Burton with Getz and bassist Gene Cherico. They do the best version EVER of "Here's that Rainey Day" and one of the best of "Summer Time." The bossa novas and Gilberto are charming and wonderful, but it is their lyric, swinging treatment of the standards that make this one of the best jazz albums of all time, perhaps to be ranked with Miles Davis' "Blue" and Bill Evans "Conversations with Myself."

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars solid effort by a good, if forgotten, getz band, August 7, 2002

By 

Ben Wilson (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getz Au Go Go (Audio CD)

The real shame of this particular edition of the Getz quartet is that it was so underrecorded. A reviewer below blames Norv (sic) Granz, Verve's owner. Sorry, buddy, but Norman Granz hadn't owned Verve since 1961, so he never saw any of the profit from the Getz "bossa nova" albums -- can't blame him. True, Getz did eventually tire of the bossa hoopla -- but then again, so did Paul Desmond, who was one of it's biggest exponents. Just like everything else that becomes popular, consumerism kills it, then proceeds to beat it in the ground. At any rate, this is a quality band. Gary Burton on vibes gives the band a different texture, and Astrud's voice fits in perfectly with the cool (gasp!) sound of this group. This quartet was also documented on the "Nobody Else But Me" album and the "Getz/Gilberto #2" cd, recorded live at Carnegie Hall. Both are worth picking up. Incidentally, there is a rare lp on the CanAm label of a recording of this quartet in concert in Canada. If you're a completist, look for that, too.