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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

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Recorded
  
1957 September 29, October 7

Length
  
38:04 (mono), 35:25 (stereo)

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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.

Contents

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.

Verve MGV 8265 / V 8490 (mono)

LP Side A

  1. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) – 7:57
  2. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:28

LP Side B

  1. "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn) – 7:47
  2. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 3:42
  3. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:52
  4. "Blues In the Closet" (Oscar Pettiford) – 6:18

Verve MGVS 6027 / V6 8490 (stereo)

LP Side A

  1. "Billie's Bounce" (Parker) – 10:15
  2. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 7:40

LP Side B

  1. "Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar, Meyer, Wolfe Kahn) – 7:36
  2. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:46
  3. "Blues In the Closet" (Pettiford) – 6:08


CD re-issues have included all or most tracks from both concerts on a single disc

Personnel

  • Stan Getz – tenor saxophone (except "Yesterdays")
  • J.J. Johnson – trombone (except "It Never Entered My Mind")
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Connie Kay – drums

    • Songs

    1Billie's Bounce (Stereo Version)J J Johnson9:46
    2My Funny ValentineJ J Johnson8:11
    3Crazy Rhythm (Stereo Version)J J Johnson7:59

    References

    Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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