Track Listing

1. Blues For Mary Jane
2. There Will Never Be Another You
3. You're Blase
4. Too Close For Comfort
5. Like Someone In Love
6. How About You?
7. How About You? (Complete Alternative Take)
8. There Will Never Be Another You (Incomplete And Breakdown Takes)
9. You're Blase (False Start)
10. Like Someone In Love (Incomplete Take)
11. How About You? (False Starts And Breakdown Take)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122207 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Recorded in Hollywood in 1956, this is one of the great milestone albums of Getz's career. Before it came the pale, watercolour ballads of his early years, still to come were such masterpieces as "Focus and "Getz/Gilberto" but The Steamer catches him at a brief moment of consolidation. On numbers like "How About You?" and "Too Close For Comfort", he stretches out into that easy lope which always brought out the best of his up-tempo playing--long, looping phrases, phenomenal dexterity and an apparently endless fund of ideas. In the ballads, his shy, buttoned-down lyricism never sounded more affecting. The accompanying rhythm section consists of three of Hollywood's finest--pianist Lou Levy, drummer Stan Levey and Leroy Vinnegar on bass. This release, in the Verve Master Edition series, includes alternate takes and even a few breakdowns and false starts. Apart from revealing that even great artists can make mistakes, these provide a fascinating insight into Getz's s recording methods. --Dave Gelly

Chronique amazon.fr
L'une des grandes sessions californiennes de Stan Getz au cours des années cinquante. Chef de file du jazz cool, le saxophoniste ne pouvait que se rapprocher de ce jazz de l'Ouest, si proche de sa musique, de ces jazzmen qui, comme lui, revendiquent l'influence de Lester Young. De Lester, Getz a surtout retenu une approche mélodique de l'improvisation. Il a bien sûr assimilé le langage harmonique de Charlie Parker, mais ses phrases, construites avec logique et rigueur, recherchent avant tout l'émotion. C'est bien un musicien tourné vers le lyrisme qui s'exprime dans ces plages, la plus célèbre de The Steamer restant "Blues For Mary Jane", dédiée à Mary Jane Outwater, la secrétaire de Norman Granz. Lou Levy, le pianiste du trio qui l'accompagne, a joué avec Getz dans l'orchestre de Woody Herman. Son jeu orchestral, ancré dans le bop mais largement ouvert au swing, convient bien au saxophoniste qui bénéficie avec Leroy Vinnegar à la basse et Shelly Manne à la batterie, d'une souple et confortable assise rythmique. --Pierre de Chocqueuse