You’ll find the links to my reviews of his concerts in Budapest, Munich, Paris, Modena/Ferrara/Torino/Genova, Bregenz/München, Milan, and Bremen/Lausanne, which I mentioned in my 25 Essential Jazz albums. I’ve reviewed a number of them here already, and still have the ambition at some point to review them all. Attending one of the last of them in 2015 actually triggered me to start this blog. Keith Jarrett has recorded A LOT of solo concerts. My rating: 4 stars (with Con Alma and Infant Eyes being truly 5 stars)Īlternatively, if you believe a bit in some audiophile voodoo, you can also get this remaster from 2xHD (it’s the one I bought and how I discovered the album in the first place). So, overall, really an album really worth exploring. But the track I truly like best is a ballad, Wayne Shorter’s Infant Eyes, which really just has a beautiful intensity and intimacy to it. The longest individual performance, Gillespie’s Con Alma, which is one of my favourite tracks on this album, has a playing time of 12:34. Live has the advantage of just giving more time to each individual musician to express themselves, with time to breathe and solo. Why? I presume it’s the live setup which gives just a special intensity to the performances. But I still like this album much more than the average Getz album from this era.
Well, on the surface, mostly easy going jazz with the typical Stan Getz sound. Apparently, these were taken from the first part of the concert which featured just this quartet, which were then followed by a second set with Joao Gilberto. I must admit I didn’t know any of the rhythm section previously, which includes Joanne Brackeen on piano, Clint Houston on bass, and Billy Hart on drums. This concert was discovered in the archives of the Keystone Corner, a San Francisco Jazz club. Stan Getz – Moments in Time (Resonance Records 1976/2018) I really get a very special introspective intensity from these late performances.Īnd then I recently discovery yet another live album that I didn’t have on my radar screen, recorded more than a decade earlier, that I really enjoy. I’ve already listed a set of fantastic performances in Europe, People Time, the collaboration with Kenny Barron, in my 25 Essential Jazz albums. And I must admit, I mostly myself stick to the great Hard Bop period.īut then there’s Getz late period. Other than that, it seems to me that Getz has somewhat had an image issue with the hardcore jazz community, as his West Coast style jazz was not really seen as exciting as the developments going on in New York City. This one is definitely worth checking out.
I bought this very early in my Jazz discovery journey as Oscar Peterson’s trio was one of my gateway drugs into Jazz, and I bought a lot of his classic Verve albums. There’s another album with Stan Getz I really enjoy, the 1958 Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio. He’s probably best known for his latin jazz collaborations with Joao Gilberto, published under the simple titles of Getz/Gilberto (yes, the Girl from Ipanema, and she still goes walking) and Jazz Samba, both among the best selling jazz albums of all times. I haven’t written that much about Stan Getz on my blog, as I don’t listen to his albums very often.
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