STAN GETZ QUARTET LIVE IN COPENHAGEN 1987
Featuring Kenny Barron; Live at Cafe Montmartre on July 6, 1987; First Time Ever on DVD!
Stan Getz Quartet
According to discographies, the extraordinary quartet formed by the inimitable Stan Getz with Kenny Barron on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and Victor Lewis on drums would record together on one sole occasion: two sets performed at Copenhagen's Cafe Montmartre on the night of July 6, 1987. Both sets were recorded and subsequently issued on two of Getz's most acclaimed albums of his later career: Anniversary and Serenity.
Fortunately, the first set was also filmed (it contains songs from both albums, as the material from the LPs was mixed throughout the two sets) and is presented here for the first time ever on DVD.
Getz was finally drug and alcohol free by 1987 (at the age of 60) but he was very sick and would die in 1991. Getz once referred to Barron as "my musical other half." The two musicians first recorded together on March 9, 1986, for the album Voyage (which also featured Victor Lewis, George Mraz and Michael "Babatunde" Olatunji). Getz and Barron would continue to work and record together until the saxophonist's death. Their last recorded collaboration (and Getz's last recording ever) was a duo performance at Caf Montmartre, in Copenhagen, on March 3-6, 1991, just three months before the saxophonist's death.
This 1987 Montmartre set finds Getz returning to a strictly jazz repertoire of standards and ballads (setting aside his experiments with jazz-fusion and bossanova), which he plays with deep emotion and sensitivity.
Contents
- El Cahon
- Voyage
- I Can't Get Started
- Stella By Starlight
- What is This Thing Called Love
- I Thought About You
- Stan's Blues
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Price: $39.95
Product Details: DVD (ALL REGION)
80 Minutes, Color
Product Code: 8436028690824
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