Music

Focus 1961

By Stan Getz

  • avant-garde jazz, cool jazz, jazz, post-bop
  • 38 min
  • 7 tracks
  • Verve

Focus is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone with a string orchestra, piano, bass, and drums. The album is a seven-part suite, which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. Widely regarded as a high point in both men's careers, Focus was later described by Getz as his favorite among his own records. The pair would next collaborate on their soundtrack to the 1965 film Mickey One.

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Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.

  • sparerichly built
  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • classical in formformally daring
  • intimateepic

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