By the time Stan Getz recorded Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, and Airto Moreira, he had been in the music business for nearly thirty years, and was widely revered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1975 Vinyl release of Captain Marvel on Discogs. Stan Getz Biography by Scott Yanow + Follow Artist. Tenor saxophonist with a luxuriant tone who helped the spread of cool jazz in the '50s and furthered the bossa nova explosion of the '60s. Read Full Biography. Overview ↓ Biography. Captain Marvel is a jazz album by saxophonist Stan Getz released in 1972 on the Columbia Records label. The album features performances by Getz with Chick Co.
Stan Getz - Capitan Marvel (1974)
In the early 1970s, jazz tenor sax icon Stan Getz was clearly not standing still. While some other players of his generation were content to do (and re-do) what they'd done in the past, Getz got together with some of the best cutting-edge talent, all of whom (Corea, Williams, Moreira) had been in the bands of fellow legend Miles Davis. Also featured is Stanley Clarke, here only 20 years old and about to become one of the jazz fusion movement's biggest stars.
Except for the lovely Billy Strayhorn ballad 'Lush Life,' all the compositions are by Corea, and would later on be heard in his own Return to Forever band. There's an infectious, joyous, Latin-tinged lilt to the tunes, which inspires Getz to some of the best playing of his career. His tone retains the 'cool' by which he's been characterized--but he blows hot, too. Getz's playing on '500 Miles High' is focused ferocity. This album, unavailable for years, is one of Getz's (and Corea's) best.
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