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Focus

Studio album by Stan Getz

Released

1961

Recorded

July 14,28 and September 1961

Genre

Cool jazz

Length

Original: 37:54. A studio album is an original collection of new tracks by a recording artist Stanley Gayetzky ( February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia – June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California) usually known by A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Cool jazz is a Jazz style that emerged in the late 1940s in New York City. Reissue: 43:20

Professional reviews

All Music Guide [1]

Stan Getz chronology

Jazz Jamboree '60 (1960)

Focus (1961)

Jazz Samba (1962)

Focus is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Verve Records is an American Jazz Record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Creed Taylor (b1929 in Lynchburg Virginia) is an American Record producer. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Stanley Gayetzky ( February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia – June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California) usually known by Jazz Samba is a Bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on February 13 1962 Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Stanley Gayetzky ( February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia – June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California) usually known by The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the Saxophone family a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s The album is a suite which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. Edward Ernest Sauter ( December 2, 1914 in Brooklyn – April 21, 1981 in New York City) was a composer and jazz arranger The string ensemble included members of the Beaux-Arts Quartet.

The theme of the opening track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25 1881&ndashSeptember 26 1945 was a Hungarian Composer and Pianist, considered to be one of the greatest (Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter's, and he intended the track as an homage. )

Track listing

"I'm Late, I'm Late" – 8:08
"Her" – 6:11
"Pan" – 3:55
"I Remember When" – 5:01
"Night Rider" – 3:55
"Once Upon a Time" – 4:46
"A Summer Afternoon" – 5:58 – 37:54

A 1997 reissue on CD contained the following additional tracks:

I'm Late, I'm Late (45 rpm issue) – 2:28
I Remember When (45 rpm issue) – 2:58

Personnel

Also possibly:

John Neves: bass

1, string parts of 2, 3: 14 probably at Webster Hall NYC at least orchestra parts 4-6, 9 and probably 7: 28 WH NC Getz on 2-7,9 sept oct unknown location

External links

FreeCDDB entry

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