Cafe Montmartre

by Stan Getz

Overview

Before his death after a several year battle with cancer, Stan Getz continued to release a flurry of outstanding recordings. Cafe Montmartre is a compilation of several live performances at the famous Copenhagen club with pianist Kenny Barron, selected from three earlier CDs, the 1987 quartet dates Anniversary! and Serenity, plus the two-disc set People Time from 1991. Getz was a masterful ballad interpreter and delivers with the mournful tribute "I Remember Clifford" and an absolutely haunting, emotionally charged take of Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" (written as its composer lay dying of cancer). Barron makes a strong case as one of Getz's very best accompanists, while bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Ben Riley (present only on the 1987 material), are also superb. With the tenor saxophonist and his musicians delivering one outstanding take after another on the original releases, it must have been very difficult to choose only nine of the 26; those on a budget will want this anthology, but Getz fans owe it to themselves to seek out the complete original discs instead. ~ Ken Dryden

Product Details

Release Date:	08/31/2018
Label:	Verve
UPC:	0600753833643
Rank:	53797

Tracks

1. People Time
2. Blood Count
3. I Can't Get Started
4. Soul Eyes
5. I'm Okay
6. First Song

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Stan Getz   Primary Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Kenny Barron   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Piano
Rufus Reid   Double Bass
Victor Lewis   Drums
Daniel Richard   Sequencing

Technical Credits

Daniel Richard   Compilation Producer,Selection
Vernon Duke   Composer
Thad Jones   Composer
Benny Golson   Composer
Doc Watson   Composer
Eduardo del Barrio   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Charlie Haden   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
James Van Heusen   Composer
Billy Strayhorn   Composer
Randy Newman   Composer
Abbey Lincoln   Composer
Ann Hamilton   Composer
Mal Waldron   Composer
Dan Hamilton   Composer
Herman Rarebell   Composer
Benny Carter   Composer
Victor Feldman   Composer
Jan Persson   Photography
Michelle Mercier   Release Preparation
Soren Svendsen   Photography
Susanne Mertz   Photography
Jean-Pierre Larcher   Cover Photo
Alexis Frenkel   Mastering,Transfers
Alain Tercinet   Liner Notes
Maureen Murphy   Release Coordinator
Martin Davis   Translation