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Captain Marvel
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998608627
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 86086
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Studio: Sony
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Rating:  - A "Macho" Samba...indeed!!
My Man Stan!!!....hey!!...who CAN'T listen to cuts "La Fiesta" and "Captain Marvel" and NOT start dancin'???...both cuts hit you like a BLOW TORCH!! Of course, it's the drums & bass that drive you but Stan's fiery sax charts the course!! Both tunes are meant to be played LOUD!
This is BOSSA NOVA times 10!!!....a very muscular SAMBA!...MACHO SAMBA!! This is the first Stan Getz CD that I heard him WAIL (La Fiesta)!!...(normally Stan's not a wailer...he burns at a melodic simmer..."sweet ... Read More
Rating: - Wow....Captain Marvel.
Anyone who doesn't like Stan Getz obviously has yet to hear this album. To bring this group together and play these very challenging pieces and nail all of them is amazing. The way Chick Corea dances around the rhodes is unbelievable. Tony Williams drives every one of these tunes with his energy. Most other drummers would be accused of playing too busy, but Tony Williams only adds to the sound with his work. Stanley Clarke is a beast on the upright, playing it with more agility than most can handle ... Read More
Rating: - 4.5 Stars: A Different Getz from His Bossa Nova Period
For those of us who have heard Getz mostly in his bossa nova incarnations, this CD is closer at times to rock than jazz, mostly because of the explosive drumming of Tony Williams. The first two tracks are the best. "La Fiesta" and "Five Hundred Miles High" fuse Getz's love for Latin music with his virtuoso understanding of the saxophone. None of the tracks here are weak, however. Getz might not get the kind of praise that jazz fans give to Miles Davis or John Coltrane, but very often, Getz's music never ... Read More
Rating: - Captain Marvel Stan
by Marshall Bowden
By the time Stan Getz recorded Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, and Airto Moreira, he had been in the music business for nearly thirty years, and was widely revered as world-class jazz musician with a unique tenor sax voice. Getz began his career during the big band era, and cut his teeth with bandleaders as diverse as Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman. A leader of swinging small groups throughout the '50s, Getz spent some time in Europe ... Read More
Rating: - Great music.
This is a great CD. Don't miss it. Buy it now.
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