Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House

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Released 1957 Release date 1957 Label Verve Records		Artist Stan Getz Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz

Recorded 1957 September 29, October 7 Length 38:04 (mono), 35:25 (stereo) Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House(1957) Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet(1958) Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House(1957) J. J. in Person!(1958) Similar Stan Getz albums, Jazz albums

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House is a 1957 live album by Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Connie Kay on drums. Two different versions of the same material, one recorded in Chicago and one recorded in Los Angeles by the same musicians, were released by Verve under the same title. One recording was mono and the other was stereo.

Multiple releases and misidentified recording dates / locations

The original album liner notes apparently misidentified which recording came from which location on which date but later CD re-issue liner notes claim to have the corrected information.

"Note: The liner notes to the compact disc reissue of these titles…(Verve 831-272-2), by jazz historian Phil Schaap corrects the date and location information of this concert recording as listed in the Jespen, Bruyninckx, and Fini discographies"'.'

According to the later CD liner notes, the stereo recording was made at the Civic Opera House in Chicago on September 29, 1957 and the mono recording was made at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on October 7, 1957.