Stan Getz - Anniversary 1989 & Serenity 1991 - 2CD - 320Kbps - Jazz # DrBn

Companion pieces from the same sessions:



CD 1 / Stan Getz, Anniversary, 1989







CD 2 / Stan Getz, Serenity, 1991







Five months after he turned 60, the tenor saxophonist brought his quartet to Copenhagen’s Cafe Montmartre on July 6, 1987. The entire concert - recorded live, broadcasted on radio, and also later released as two separate live albums - shows Stan Getz at an incredible new musical high.

The radio broadcast from that evening was so fruitful that it yielded not just one of Getz’s best albums but two: ANNIVERSARY, released in 1989, and SERENITY, in 1991. The first half of the show is the slower, bluer Stan, and is collected on Anniversary. The second half, released after the success of the first, makes up Serenity, is the more upbeat and driving material.

Both are essential Getz items. Not just great live albums, but great albums in their own right.



Stan Getz - Anniversary 1989 / Serenity 1991



2 CDs / 320Kbps



CD 1 - Anniversary, 1989:

1. El Cahon

2. I Can’t Get Started

3. Stella By Starlight

4. Stan’s Blues

5. I Thought About You

6. What Is This Thing Called Love

7. Blood Count



CD 2 - Serenity, 1991:

1. On Green Dolphin Street

2. Voyage

3. Falling In Love

4. I Remember You

5. I Love You



Personnel:

Stan Getz, tenor saxophone

Kenny Barron, piano

Rufus Reid, bass

Victor Lewis, drums



All tracks originally recorded for Denmark Radio

at the Cafe Montmartre Jazzhus, Copenhagen, Denmark

on July 6, 1987



P.S.

Stan Getz had not heard the classic Ellington-Hodges recording of Billy Strayhorn's BLOOD COUNT from August 1967, and had never played it until the Pure Getz session in 1982. Yet Getz outdid Hodges and pretty much owned the tune from that point on.

In May 1987, about two years after he had conquered his alcohol and drug addictions, Getz learned that he himself had cancer. BLOOD COUNT had thus taken on an added underlying significance when Getz performed it brilliantly two months later at the Montmartre Club, as heard here.

As Getz said shortly before his death in 1991:

"I think about Strayhorn when I play the song. You can hear him dying. When it's in a minor key, you can hear the man talking to God."



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