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From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln)
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Subject: Re: suggestions about sweet tenor?
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 12:04:50 EDT
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> I am interested in purchasing tenor saxophone recordings that are
> (relatively) slow and (absolutely) pretty......  I want to ......
> concentrate on small combos with the accent on the sax.  I would
> appreciate any suggestions - artists or albums or specific cuts -
> that you could offer.

One of the best album of "pretty" tenor saxophone ever produced was the
album titled "FOCUS" featuring Stan Getz, with full orchestra conducted
and arrangements by Eddie Sauter of the Benny Goodman and later the
Sauter & Finnegan band fame.  This album was produced in the late 50's
or early '60s - sorry I don't remember the label - and contains some of
the most hauntingly beautiful jazz tenor melodic playing, both written
and improvised, and lush but exquisitely appropriate background
arrangements you will ever hear.  The "tunes" are all originals by
either Getz or Sauter; most are "ballads" but there are a couple of
"middle tempo" cuts.  I'm afraid it was mastered only in "mono" - it
came out just before stereo took off.

I lent my only copy out years ago and it never came back.

I have no idea if the album is still in "print" anywhere, but it's well
worth searching for in the "rare" record stores.  I hadn't thought of
the album in years, but now thanks to you that I have, I'm about to
dash out and do that very thing.