More Stan Getz
More Bossa Nova
- This 1968 jazz classic boasts outstanding Double Plus (A++) sound from first note to last
- Stan interprets these songs beautifully – for those who don’t mind a bit of easy listening from time to time, this is music worth playing
- Another top jazz recording from Rudy Van Gelder – big, bold and lively, just the right sound for this music
- “Forget those snobs who dismiss this album, Getz does a wonderful job interpreting some of Bacharach’s hits. He ‘jazzes’ up ‘A House is not a Home’ with a nice upbeat tempo and ‘Alfie’ is lush with his wonderful tenor sax.”
As expected, if you clean and play enough copies of a standard domestic major label album like this Verve, sooner or later you will stumble upon a good one. The best copies are filled with studio ambience, with every instrument occupying its own space in the mix and surrounded by air. On those pressings, there is not a trace of grain, just the silky sweet highs we’ve come to expect from analog done right.
This is, of course, the premise behind Hot Stampers themselves. They are out there to be stumbled upon. You can’t tell what pressing, from what era, from what country is going to be The One (Keanu, are you listening?) until you actually sit down, clean and play a big pile of them.