The Soft Swing
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| Studio album by Stan Getz Quartet | ||||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | July 12, 1957 New York City |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 33:42 | |||
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Verve MGV 8321 |
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| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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The Soft Swing is an album by saxophonist Stan Getz and recorded in 1957 and first released on the Verve label. Per the liner notes by Stewart Clay on a 2016 CD re-release, it was the only studio session in which Getz collaborated with Mose Allison, although some Mutual broadcasts from the Village Vanguard and the Red Hill Inn (Pennsauken, New Jersey) are included as bonus tracks of the re-release.
The original liner notes by Nat Hentoff, co-editor of The Jazz Review (and reproduced on the 2016 re-release), claim that Getz was "at an unusually provocative stage in his career" and had developed "a style that was clearly his own". However, in the 2016 liner note quote from Morgan, Morgan noted a Lester Young influence on all tracks that he felt was more strong than previously and particularly on "To the Ends of the Earth". "The twelve-bar 'Down Beat' commences, rather unusually, with stop chords while Kern's much-played 'All the Things You Are' is taken slower than we have come to expect in recent years". The original liner notes indicate: "All elements of... [Getz's] style -- tone, time, phrasing and conception -- complemented each other logically. The result was an organic completeness in his musical... personality, that is relatively rare in jazz.... The only significant change in Getz's work in the past five years has not been a change in his essential style so much as a strengthening and deepening of it in emotional and rhythmic terms".
The 2016 liner notes also quote from a 2010 JazzWax interview by Marc Myers:
The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.
All compositions by Stan Getz except as indicated
On the original album (tracks 1-5):
On the 2016 CD reissue by Phono: Tracks 6 and 7 (from Mutual broadcast from the Village Vanguard, New York City, New York, June 29, 1957):
Same as tracks 1-5.
On the 2016 CD reissue by Phono: Tracks 8, 9, 10, and 11 (from Mutual broadcast from the Village Vanguard, New York City, New York, June 22, 1957):
On the 2016 CD reissue by Phono: Track 12 (from Mutual broadcast from the Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, New Jersey, February 16, 1957):
On the 2016 CD reissue by Phono: Tracks 13, 14, 15, and 16 (from Mutual broadcast from the Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, New Jersey, May 18, 1957):
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