This is a jazz purchase on the basis of it being two names I felt I ought to find out more about - US saxophonist Stan Getz, and Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson. I'm pretty sure I picked it up in a charity shop for next to nothing, and less sure that I've ever played it.
From the start it's clear this really isn't the sort of jazz I enjoy, the rehashing of 'old classic songs' in a jazz idiom, but in defence of the group, it's done so well as to make it a decent listen. Getz could improvise a sax solo around any basic tune, and Peterson's piano wizardry is well known.
But it's really just barroom background, without anything standing out. There are three Getz compositions, Tour's End is a lively bebop style sax piece, Bronx Blues is a straightforward twelve bar blues, as is the brighter Blues For Henry.
But I'm not sure it's a CD I'll be returning to, other than as a neutral background if my wife vetoes my playlist for some social occasion.
2* - pleasant background music, but nothing that makes me want to hear more.
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