Jazz is our delight brother cats. Life is so boring sometimes that you and I, my jazz friends, deserve to take a pause and enjoy the marvel of music to lift us up. You can't find a more delightful listening experience than this encounter between Getz and Jeru. It is fantastic believe me. This record is something that when I turn back to it, it makes me discover again why I love jazz. It has been one of the first jazz albums I did buy, something like 15 years ago ... it's still refreshing after all these years. It is light, funny, swinging, splendid ... it is simply one of the best examples of Jazz you can find out there. Jazz the fifties way of course, not that thing that today some people call jazz that is unbelievably boring. This is Jazz. And you can't stop to stomp your feet. You have a fantastic rhythmn section, Stan Levey and Ray Brown, MEN, so the swing is garanteed =)))))). Lou Levey played the piano (one of the best in the west coast movement). Than you have a couple of the best soloists that ever graced the history of Jazz music, Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan (The man who plays the bari, nothing more to add here). The program begins with the splendid "Let's fall in love" and it's all there. They're all swingers except for the wonderful tune "A ballad" which is, of course, a ballad. You evena have a Charlie Parker number, Scrapple. The joy of swing, a music that these guys plays perfectly, light as butterflies, deep as oceans. They´re trze masters !!! Every tune is a master interpretations. Than Stan and Jeru change horns and demonstrate to us (if necessary) how good thay could play with another type of instrument. It is simply a perfect album, jazzcats, if you don't own it... YOU SHOULD ! (by Jazzcat Stef)
Personnel:
Ray Brown (bass)
Stan Getz (saxophone)
Stan Levey (drums)
Lou Levy (piano)
Gerry Mulligan (saxophone)
Tracklist:
01. Let's Fall in Love (Arlen/Koehler) 6.25
02. Anything Goes (Porter) 3.35
03. Too Close For Comfort (Block/Holofcener/Weiss) 6.54
04. That Old Feeling (Brown/Fain) 5.55
05. This Can't Be Love (Hart/Rodgers) 8.44
06. A Ballad (Horvitz/Mulligan) 5.41
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07. Scrapple From The Apple (Parker) 8.05
08. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Hart/Rodgers) 8.59
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