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What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David

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Released
  
1968

Label
  
Verve V/V6 8752

Artist
  
Stan Getz

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Length
  
46:12

What the World Needs Now Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968)
  
The Song Is You (1969)

Release date
  
1968

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 2, 1966, August 30–31, 1967 and February 14, 1968

Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Ter-Mar Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois and A&R Recording Studio, New York City

Similar
  
Stan Getz Plays, Getz/Gilberto, The Stan Getz Quartet in

What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David is an album by saxophonist Stan Getz which was released on the Verve label in 1968.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated "this isn't one of Getz's better gigs; his tone is not in the best of shape, and he sounds bored with some of the tunes".

Track listing

All compositions by Burt Bacharach and Hal David except where noted.

  1. "Wives and Lovers" - 3:36
  2. "The Windows of the World" - 2:43
  3. "The Look of Love" - 2:39
  4. "Any Old Time of Day" - 3:33
  5. "Alfie" - 2:51
  6. "In Times Like These" - 2:44
  7. "A House Is Not a Home" - 4:13
  8. "Trains and Boats and Planes" - 3:01
  9. "What the World Needs Now Is Love" - 2:58
  10. "In Between the Heartaches" [edited master take] - 2:17
  11. "Walk on By" - 3:32
  12. "A House Is Not a Home" [alternate take] - 4:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "In Between the Heartaches" [partial alternate take] - 2:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "My Own True Love" (Max Steiner, Mack David) - 2:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
  15. "Tara's Theme" (Max Steiner) - 2:36 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 2, 1966 (tracks 3, 14 & 15), at Ter-Mar Recording Studio in Chicago, Illinois on August 30 & 31, 1967 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11 & 12), and A&R Recording Studio, New York City (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)

    • Personnel

  • Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
  • Jim Buffington - French horn (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Jerome Richardson - woodwinds (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Chick Corea (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11 & 12), Herbie Hancock (tracks 3, 5, 9, 10 & 13-15) - piano
  • Kenny Burrell (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13), Jim Hall (tracks: 3 14 & 15), Phil Upchurch (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11 & 12) - guitar
  • Gloria Agostini - harp (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Walter Booker (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11 & 12), Ron Carter (tracks 3, 5, 9, 10 & 13-15) - bass
  • David Carey - vibraphone (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Bill Horwath - cimbalom (tracks 3, 14 & 15)
  • Roy Haynes (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11 & 12), Grady Tate (tracks 3, 5, 9, 10 & 13-15) - drums
  • Artie Butler, Bobby Rosengarden - percussion (tracks 3, 14 & 15)
  • Paul Gershman, David Mankovitz, David Nadien, Gerald Tarack - violin (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Bernard Zaslav - viola (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Charles McCracken - cello (tracks 5, 9, 10 & 13)
  • Additional unidentified brass, strings and chorus arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman (tracks 3, 14 & 15) and Richard Evans (tracks 1, 2 & 4-13)

    • References

    What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David Wikipedia
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