Stan Getz Focus CD

 I bought this album on vinyl because Zoot Sims told me to!
Like the reviewer from Abilene I've been waiting for years for it to be reissued on CD. Post bop and pre-bossa, I still think this album defined Stan Getz as THE most innovative melodist...ever! This is NOT a Stan Getz with Strings album (although he did do a SGWS at one point). This is a genre of it's own Getz' solos over the Eddie Sauter orchestra are a free-form, flowing, set of tone poems by the formost jazz poet-laureate. If you don't buy this one, it is definitely your loss. Fantastic!!!
Submitted by John (Buckeye, AZ) 
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 Getz at his best
Heard about newage music, Getz did it first and no one has done it better since. Eddie Sauter'a arraingments and Stan's horn, WOW you do not get better music anywhere. I looked for this for over 20 years. I have worn the grooves of the LP and hoped I would find it on CD. Cheers
Submitted by lvoit (Abilene Texas) 
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 Iconoclastic
Understand that this was Stan Getz's "favorite" album. That is saying something folks. Pick it up and see why.
Submitted by basil (Columbia, MD, USA)
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 Stan plays like an Angel
corria el año de 1961 y el compositor de jazz Eddie Sauter, mejor conocido en los años 50´s como Sauter-Finegan Band, tenia en mente hacer una acoplacion de musica clasica y Jazz, algo que muy pocos en aquella epoca se atrevia a hacer, pero mas que nada era una obra de orquesta de cuerdas con sax tenor y en la lista estaban Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker y Stan Getz, quedando este ultimo listo para la grabacion de la obra maestra FOCUS, ademas a ultima hora quedo integrado en la apertura "I´m late.." el baterista Roy Haynes, tal pieza es una derivacion del allegro movement de Bartók, en general es un disco que para nuestra epoca sige siendo abstracta, compleja y hermosa, "once upon a time" los dejara sin aliento sumamente misteriosa y la forma maginifica de interpretacion de stan, no cabe duda que este disco esta fuera de todo lo convencional del jazz jamas antes escuchado. solo para avanzados en el arte del jazz.
Submitted by gregarious (Monterrey, Mx.)
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