Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2025
Label: Verve (Verve Vault Series)
Track List
Side A
- I’m Late, I’m Late
- Her
- Pan
Side B
- I Remember When
- Night Rider
- Once Upon A Time
- A Summer Afternoon
Notes
180-gram vinyl pressed at Optimal in Germany
Focus, recorded at Webster Hall in New York City and released in 1961 on Verve Records, stands as a singular entry in saxophonist Stan Getz’s discography. Focus pairs Getz’s expressive tenor saxophone with a string orchestra conducted by Hershy Kay. Getz’s parts were entirely improvised, as he navigated pre-composed frameworks with melodic invention and emotional clarity.
The album represents a true collaboration between Sauter and Getz, and a radical departure from the conventions of jazz “with strings” albums of the time. Sauter’s charts emphasize contrapuntal writing, rhythmic complexity, and harmonic ambiguity, while Getz — unedited and unrehearsed in the traditional sense — weaves a lyrical, instinctive line throughout. The result remains one of the most original and artistically daring projects in Getz’s recorded legacy; the artist’s favorite of all the records he made. The Verve Vault Series is always mastered from analog tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal.
