Stan Getz Plays Music From the Soundtrack of Mickey One

by Stan Getz

Product Description:

Personnel includes: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Eddie Sauter (conductor); Harvey Estrin (alto saxophone, piccolo, flute, alto flute, clarinet); Al Block (tenor saxophone, piccolo, flute, clarinet); Clark Terry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jimmy Buffington (French horn); Eddie Bert, Sonny Russo (trombone); Herbert Baumel, Norman Carr, Bernard Eichen (violin); Charles McCracken, Bruce Rogers (cello); Roger Kellaway (piano); Barry Galbraith (guitar); Richard Davis (bass); Mel Lewis (drums); Elden Bailley (percussion).

Recorded at Fine Recording, New York, York on August 16, 17 & 20, 1965. Originally relesed MGM (4312). Includes liner notes by Doug Ramsey and Arthur Penn.

Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Kevin Reeves (Polygram Studios).

This is part of the Verve Master Edition series.

The legacy of Mickey One, Arthur Penn's controversial 1965 film (starring the insufferably cute and young Warren Beatty), is the score, a stunning musical collaboration between Eddie Sauter and Stan Getz. The two musicians had met in the mid-'40s while a teenage Getz had one of the sax chairs in Benny Goodman's big band and Sauter was providing the latter with arrangements.

Sauter uses less bombast and fewer obvious hooks in these original compositions than contemporaries John Barry (007/Bond) and Henry Mancini ("Pink Panther") respectively--his is a more subtle art. With influences ranging from Bartok and Stravinsky to Americana and polka bands, this ambitious opus achieves an effect that is, in itself, almost cinematic. Together with Getz's superb and inspired flights of improv (including some double- and triple-track self-accompaniment), the duo create a colorful and appropriately complex urban soundscape.