Focus (jazz album)

Infobox Album
Name = Focus
Type = Album
Artist = Stan Getz


Released = 1961
Recorded = July 14,28 and September 1961
Genre = Cool jazz
Length = Original: 37:54. Reissue: 43:20
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Creed Taylor
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2t65mpsd9f6o]
Last album = Jazz Jamboree '60 (1960)
This album = Focus (1961)
Next album = Jazz Samba (1962)

"Focus" is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone. The album is a suite which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. The string ensemble included members of the Beaux-Arts Quartet.

The theme of the opening track, "I'm Late, I'm Late", is nearly identical to the opening minutes of Béla Bartók's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta". (Bartók had been an early supporter of Sauter's, and he intended the track as an homage.)

Track listing

#"I'm Late, I'm Late" – 8:08
#"Her" – 6:11
#"Pan" – 3:55
#"I Remember When" – 5:01
#"Night Rider" – 3:55
#"Once Upon a Time" – 4:46
#"A Summer Afternoon" – 5:58 – 37:54

A 1997 reissue on CD contained the following additional tracks:
# I'm Late, I'm Late (45 rpm issue) – 2:28
# I Remember When (45 rpm issue) – 2:58

Personnel

* Stan Getz: tenor saxophone
* Alan Martin: violin
* Gerald Tarack: violin
* Norman Carr: violin
* Jacob Glick: viola
* Bruce Rogers: cello
* Roy Haynes: drums
* Eddie Sauter: arrangements
* Hershey Kay: conductorAlso possibly:
* John Neves: bass

1, string parts of 2, 3: 14 probably at Webster Hall NYCat least orchestra parts 4-6, 9 and probably 7: 28 WH NCGetz on 2-7,9 sept oct unknown location

External links

* [http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.php?cat=jazz&id=5508fa07 FreeCDDB entry]