Stan Getz: Focus (Verve Vault Series) [ Vinyl ]

Title: Focus (Verve Vault Series)
Artist: Stan Getz
Label: Verve
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 602478261718
Genre: Misc Product
Release Date: 2025-11-14
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 180 GRAM VINYL

Focus, recorded at Webster Hall in New York City and released in 1961 on Verve Records, stands as a singular entry in saxophonist Stan Getz's discography. Focus pairs Getz's expressive tenor saxophone with a string orchestra conducted by Hershy Kay. Getz's parts were entirely improvised, as he navigated pre-composed frameworks with melodic invention and emotional clarity. The album represents a true collaboration between Sauter and Getz, and a radical departure from the conventions of jazz "with strings" albums of the time. Sauter's charts emphasize contrapuntal writing, rhythmic complexity, and harmonic ambiguity, while Getz - unedited and unrehearsed in the traditional sense - weaves a lyrical, instinctive line throughout. The result remains one of the most original and artistically daring projects in Getz's recorded legacy; the artist's favorite of all the records he made. The Verve Vault Series is always mastered from analog tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Tracks:
1.1 I'm Late, I'm Late
1.2 Her
1.3 Pan
1.4 I Remember When
1.5 Night Rider
1.6 Once Upon A Time
1.7 Summer Afternoon