Focus (jazz album)

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Focus
Studio album by Stan Getz
Released	1961
Recorded	July 14,28 and September 1961
Genre	Cool jazz
Length	Original: 37:54. Reissue: 43:20
Label	Verve Records
Producer	Creed Taylor
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Stan Getz chronology
Jazz Jamboree '60 (1960) Focus (1961) Jazz Samba (1962)

Focus is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone. The album is a suite which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. The string ensemble included members of the Beaux-Arts Quartet.

The theme of the opening track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. (Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter's, and he intended the track as an homage.)

[edit] Track listing

1. "I'm Late, I'm Late" – 8:08
2. "Her" – 6:11
3. "Pan" – 3:55
4. "I Remember When" – 5:01
5. "Night Rider" – 3:55
6. "Once Upon a Time" – 4:46
7. "A Summer Afternoon" – 5:58 – 37:54

A 1997 reissue on CD contained the following additional tracks:

1. I'm Late, I'm Late (45 rpm issue) – 2:28
2. I Remember When (45 rpm issue) – 2:58

[edit] Personnel

• Stan Getz: tenor saxophone
• Alan Martin: violin
• Gerald Tarack: violin
• Norman Carr: violin
• Jacob Glick: viola
• Bruce Rogers: cello
• Roy Haynes: drums
• Eddie Sauter: arrangements
• Hershey Kay: conductor

Also possibly:

• John Neves: bass

1, string parts of 2, 3: 14 probably at Webster Hall NYC at least orchestra parts 4-6, 9 and probably 7: 28 WH NC Getz on 2-7,9 sept oct unknown location

[edit] External links

• FreeCDDB entry