Stan Getz, the Complete Roost Recordings

[Guy Berger]

I'll be digging out this set for the next few days -- I've listened to it a few times since I got it last fall but not given it the attention it deserves. I'd be glad to hear any interesting thoughts by other board members.

Guy

[jazzbo]

I really dig Tiny's drumming on the live sides, and Horace's early piano appearances on the studio sides.

I need to dig these out again too, great stuff!

[mjzee]

Sound quality's not that great. Liner notes admit that no original sources were used.

I've wondered, since Cuscuna has since seemed to have found the Roost masters (witness the Sonny Stitt and Johnny Smith Mosaic boxes), he has any plans to redo the Getz box.

[Sundog]

Some great Jimmy Raney on this one. Not sure I've ever heard a guitarist play as fast and clean as Jimmy does on "Parker 51".

Edited April 28, 2005 by Sundog

[TheMusicalMarine]

I first listened to those sessions about a year and a half ago. Probably my favorite Getz. His version of "Thou Swell" kills me, and if you can't hum/whistle/tap your foot to "Potter's Luck" you're out of your mind. Awesome music.

[Chuck Nessa]

I had ancient vinyl of this stuff and the cd sound is better than I'd hoped. Good stuff.

[Brad]

Recommended here also. Some like this better than the Mosaic.

[J.A.W.]

Recommended here also. Some like this better than the Mosaic.

I have the Mosaic and prefer it to the later set. Great music.

[king ubu]

I love the Roost set! One of my favourite box sets ever! In those early Getz was so good, his sound just reaches out for your soul. And there's a few miraculous moments, musically ("Imagination", for instance, and much of the live date...)

[tonym]

'Imagination' indeed.

Ditto, one of my favourite sets and the first disc in particular as a date is some of my favourite Getz, from any period.

'Yesterdays' is a marvellous piece of tenor playing as is 'You Go To My Head'.

I also love the studio quintet date where they play 'Autumn Leaves'.

A real desert island set for me. I cannot praise it enough without getting all slushy.

[skeith]

I like this set a lot. It's some of the best Getz!!

[Michael Fitzgerald]

There are tracks in this set that are NOT in the Mosaic - three from the Storyville gig, I believe. And yes, I know the set limits/concepts are not the same (Roost Getz vs. Getz w/Raney), but I mean newly discovered stuff that *would* have made it into the Mosaic set.

Mike

[BruceH]

I love this set! Some of my favorite Getz playing is here.

Every home should have a copy.

[JohnS]

This has to be some of my favourite Getz.

[AllenLowe]

this is the best Getz there is, though I gotta admit I still have some problems with his occasional creeping narcissism - which, in my (admittedly minority ) opinion, eventually took over - but VIVA Haig, Raney, and Tiny Kahn!

Edited May 3, 2005 by AllenLowe

[Peggy-Ann]

Has anyone compared the Complete Roost Recordings to the Complete Roost Sessions?

If so, how do they differ?

[king ubu]

Has anyone compared the Complete Roost Recordings to the Complete Roost Sessions?

If so, how do they differ?

If you're talking the Spanish/Andorran (Jazz Factory/Definitive) edition, probably just a rip of the Blue Note/EMI set, if you're talking the Japanese single discs, I can see two volumes (1 CD each), each more expensive than the 3CD set...

[bluesoul]

Set on eBay for twelve bucks.   One of my favorites.

[Tom 1960]

Wow! Somebody needs to snatch that right up.