DOUBLE UHQCD

STAN GETZ QUARTET

LIVE AT ZARDI'S 1956

38,00€

UHQCD 1

Sweet Lorraine

Tickle Toe
Introduction by Stan Getz

Untitled No. 1 - Take 1

Little Girl Blue

Out of Nowhere

East Of The Sun

The Nearness of You

Little Girl Blue - Take 2

Easy Living

Whispering

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Untitled No. 2 - Take 1

UHQCD 2

I May Be Wrong

Imagination

Out of Nowhere

Little Girl Blue
Sweetie Pie

Easy Living

But Not for Me

Untitled No. 1 - Take 2

Summertime

Night in Tunisia

Lover, Come Back to Me

Ah-Moore (Amour)

Melancholy Baby

An Elegant Sax on Hollywood Boulevard – Vol. I

On 22 and 27 June 1959, Stan Getz and his quartet gave two legendary concerts in a club on Hollywood Boulevard. Black and white people, Saxophone players, pianists and singers all flocked to play the clubs and their sound resonated round the world from these sun-drenched settings. What drew all these jazz musicians of the time such as Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan and, of course, Stan Getz to these venues? They were escaping the chilly East Coast for both a warmer climate and a more relaxed environment than the tense South. It sustained a musical melting pot encouraged by a governor free of racial prejudice, the Republican Goodwin J. Knight, not to mention a booming labour market and the glamour of the movie industry – in a nutshell, the mythical appeal of the West Coast. Their favourite clubs: the Tiffany, the Haig, and most of all, the celebrated Zardi’s Jazzland, where Getz and his musicians performed these two evenings. The recordings remained unpublished on vinyl until this present edition.

In spring 2025 we came across the original tapes in the suburbs of Chicago. The set list of the two concerts is diverse but the line up is identical, with pianist Lou Levy, brilliantly representing the sound of the West Coast and whose style dovetailed perfectly with Getz’s budding forms of inspiration of that year, Max Bennett was on base and Gary Frommer on drums.

Getz here conveys the gentle atmosphere and cool mood he liked so much. The evening’s voyage concludes with a swinging improvisation that has the members of the audience reaching for the incandescent starry skies of California.

Stan Getz, saxophone
Lou Levy, piano
Max Bennett, bass
Gary Frommer, drums

Ref.: TLR-2504060
Photo: © 1958 Jean-Pierre Leloir
1st Edition
UHQCD made in Japan
Recorded at Zardi's, Los Angeles, USA, on 22&27.VI.1956
MONO ℗ 1956 Private Collection

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STAN GETZ QUARTET

LIVE AT ZARDI'S 1956

The History of this discovery

It took nearly 70 years to find the tapes of these two June 1956 concerts by the Stan Getz Quartet at the legendary Los Angeles club: Zardi's! A total of 28 tracks, including irresistible ballads and standards such as "Sweet Lorraine," "Tickle Toe," "Little Girl Blue," and two never-before-heard original compositions...

Le Journal du Dimanche

“The restorations of The Lost Recordings are worthy of those devoted to master paintings”

"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."