Track Listing

1. Litha
2. O Grande Amor
3. Sweet Rain
4. Con Alma
5. Windows

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187807 in Music
• Released on: 1984-02-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
5 remastered tracks with Stan on tenor sax backed by Ron Carter on bass, Grady Tate on drums, & Chick Corea on piano. Originally released in 1967 on Verve Records. Polygram. 1983.

Customer Reviews

Superlative Getz
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."

NICE CHALLENGE
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.

Getz looks forward in a true classic album
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".