Stan Getz

• 2 ORIGINAL ALBUMS ON 1 CD

• 24 BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED

This release includes the complete Stan Getz album Focus (Verve V6-8412), which presents the great saxophonist backed by strings, playing music composed and arranged by Eddie Sauter. This set presents the original album in its entirety (two 45-rpm versions that are listed in discographies are in fact edited versions of the tracks included on the LP). As a bonus, another entire Getz album: Cool Velvet (Verve MGVS68379), which features the tenor player again backed by strings, this time performing standards arranged by Russell Garcia.

PERSONNEL:

• STAN GETZ, tenor saxophone on all tracks, plus:

• (1-7): FOCUS: Hershey Kay and His Orchestra:
• Gerald Tarack, Alan Martin (vln), Jacob Glick (viola),
• Bruce Rogers (cello), John Neves (b), Roy Haynes (d), Hershel Kay (cond),
• Eddie Sauter (comp, arr), The Beaux Arts String Ensemble.
• New York, July-October 1961.

• (8-17) Bonus Album: COLL VELVET
• Russell Garcia’s Orchestra: Blanche Birdsong (harp),
• Dave Hildinger (vib), Jan Johansson (p), Fred Dutton (b),
• Sperie Karas (d), plus large string section, Russ Garcia (arr, cond).
• Baden-Baden, Germany, March 1960.

TRACKS:

• 01) I’m Late, I’m Late
• 02) Her
• 03) Pan
• 04) I Remember When
• 05) Night Rider
• 06) Once Upon A Time
• 07) A Summer Afternoon
• 08) The Thrill Is Gone
• 09) It Never Entered My Mind
• 10) Early Autumn
• 11) When I Go, I Go All The Way
• 12) A New Town Is A Blue Town
• 13) ‘Round Midnight
• 14) Born To Be Blue
• 15) Whisper Not
• 16) Goodbye
• 17) Nature Boy

• TOTAL TIME: 78:22