Sweet Rain [Import]

Stan Getz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 1984)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B0000046NN
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,615 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Litha

2. O Grande Amor

3. Sweet Rain

4. Con Alma

5. Windows

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superlative Getz, February 1, 2004

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Duncan Reid (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Rain (Audio CD)

In 1967, Stan was making the transition from Bossa Nova back to Bop and Cool Jazz. Elements of all these forms are blended in Dizzy's bossa "Con Alma." Young Chick Corea (piano) brought his brilliantly complex compositions, "Litha" and "Windows, which, like "Con Alma," have stretches of bop intensity mixed with cool jazz lyricism. Moreover, there is a more jazzy version of the great bossa nova tune "O Grande Amor."

The staggering creativity and versatility of Getz throughout this album literally had me reeling, especially on the opening track, "Litha" and the poignant title track where he explores the lower register of the tenor sax in a unique way. From start to finish, Corea is excellent as is Ron Carter on bass and Grady Tate on drums. All in all, this is an underrated and innovative jazz masterpiece and is as essential for any jazz lover as the more well known "Kind of Blue," "Time Out," and "Sketches of Spain."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Getz looks forward in a true classic album, September 24, 2008

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Dennis W. Wong - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Rain (Audio CD)

For a lot of people who were familiar with Stan Getz, many associated him too closely as the Bossa nova king such as Gary Burton but this album refuted the point brilliantly. Not only was he a hard core bopper but he could do modal tunes like Chick Corea's "Litha", Mike Gibbs title tune, and Gillespie's perennial bop tune,"Con Alma. This last tune he plays to perfection but then just everything he does here is great. There are traces of the Coltrane influence in his sudden leaps on "Con Alma" and David Baker carefully annotated Getz's brilliant solo on this piece de resistance. And of course there is the beauty of his tone or "marshmellow" tone as Freddie Hubbard called it, in the bossa "O Grande Amor" which he brilliantly delinerates here. If you're ready to be converted, do check this album--it stands head and shoulders next to "Focus" as Getz's best!! Or as fellow friend/musician Miles Davis said in an interview, "He could play the telephone book and make it sound beautiful--he has so much taste!!" And John Coltrane who listed Stan as one of his favorites along with Dexter Gordon said. "Everyone should sound like that".

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NICE CHALLENGE, February 7, 2005

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Philip Kringas "philip" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Rain (Audio CD)

This jazz record is so different in style to so many of his works that it confirms my belief that Stan Getz never stopped changing and evolving during his musical career. Unlike so many other artists it appears Stan enjoyed taking on new challenges and expanding his horizons.

Although this record may initially take a number of listenings to really appreciate it, I feel that this challenge has produced a jazz masterpiece. Listen and be rewarded.