Track Listing

1. Confirmation
2. Child Is Born
3. Tune Up
4. Lover Man - Albert Dailey, Stan Getz
5. Night in Tunisia
6. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
7. 'Round Midnight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1042485 in Music
• Released on: 2001-03-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
Japanese exclusive CD release for this out-of-print 1983 album featuring the great tenor saxophonist Stan Getz & pianist Albert Dailey. 2001 release. Standard jewel case.

Amazon.com
Recorded in 1983, Poetry reunited Stan Getz with pianist Al Dailey. Their previous collaborations (notably 1974's The Master for Columbia) were in a quartet context; this CD eschews bass and drums, and on two selections, "Round Midnight" and "Lover Man", even Getz himself lays out. The tenorist was from the outset a wonderful judge of pianists, and over the years his bands featured some of the finest; it is nonetheless doubtful if any surpassed Dailey's partnerships with him. Indeed, Poetry is arguably the equal of People Time, the magnificent date Getz made with Kenny Barron and which was probably his last studio recording. On Poetry the playing throughout is adventurous and ravishing. Bop classics such as "Confirmation" and "Tune Up" rub shoulders with Thad Jones's gorgeous "A Child Is Born" and an old Getz favorite, the rhapsodic "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." The musicians' rapport is palpable, while the aforementioned solo piano numbers abound in poignancy no less than grandeur: within a year of recording them, Dailey would be dead, aged just 46. Now Getz too is gone, adding increased pathos to performances of noble beauty. An album to treasure for as long as you retain the slightest interest in jazz. --Richard Palmer

Customer Reviews

Stunning
This CD hits you on the first track and does not let you go.

I admit to having a weakness for jazz duets, be it a horn and a piano, or guitar and piano, or any other combination. This is right up my alley.

The tunes are old chestnuts, wonderful to hear again. And the skills of these two departed giants are extraordinary.

Stan highlights an old friend with lyric piano technique
As Stan Getz, the greatest Jazz saxophonist of all time, got older, (and sick with cancer), he decided he wanted to use his considerable popularity to highlight some of the talented but lesser known musicians who had accompanied him earlier in his career. The "Peacocks" album is another example of this. Dailey died a year or so after this long out-of-print recording hit the market.

So he produced this album which highlights Albert Dailey in an intimate session with out the usual drums and bass.

The result is pleasant and listenable. Dailey is quoted as saying he "doesn't like saxophone". Stan is dumbfounded. "Not even Charlie Parker or Coltrane?" he asks.

Dailey His two unaccompanied solo's on the standards "Lover Man" and "Around Midnight" are quite innovative and show a great lyric technique.

Recording quality is good, you can hear the interior lines without the bass and drums. A minor quibble, the sax is close and the piano is a bit too distant. This is worth having and representative of the bulk of Stan Getz's albums, hence my 3 star review, by my tough grading system.