Artist: Stan Getz
Album: Opus de Bop
Genre: Bop, Cool
Label: Savoy Jazz / Nippon Columbia
Released: 1991
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Opus de Bop (Jones) - 2:33
- Running Water (Getz) - 2:47
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Bloom-Koehler) - 2:40
- And the Angels Swing (Getz) - 2:46
- Fool's Fancy (Powell) - 2:37
- Bebop in Pastel (Stitt) - 3:00
- Ray's Idea (Brown) - 2:48
- Bombay (Dorham) - 2:57
- Eb-Pob (Navarro-Parker) - 2:25
- Goin' to Minton's (Navarro) - 2:54
- Fat Girl (Navarro) - 2:21
- Ice Freezes Red (Navarro-Dameron) - 2:38
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- Personnel:
- Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
- Hank Jones - piano
- Curly Russell - bass
- Max Roach - drums
#5-8: - Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone
- Kenny Dorham - trumpet
- Bud Powell - piano
- Al Hall - bass
- Wallace Bishop - drums
#9-12: - Fats Navarro - trumpet
- Leo Parker - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
- Tadd Dameron - piano
- Gene Ramey - bass
- Denzil Best - drums
#1-4:
Some of tenor-saxophonist Stan Getz's earliest recordings are included on this well-conceived LP. Getz displays a harder sound than one might expect on sextet sides with trombonist Kai Winding and trumpeter Shorty Rogers from late 1945 and on four selections with a quartet from mid-1946. The final four selections (from May 1949) are more typical as Getz (along with fellow tenors Al Cohn and Zoot Sims) plays hard-swinging cool bop; the three tenors can barely be told apart. Bop collectors will want this interesting music.
Review by Scott Yanow