Stan Getz & Gary McFarland – Big Band Bossa Nova (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:42 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Jazz, Bossa Nova
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 album by saxophonist Stan Getz with the Gary McFarland Orchestra. The album was arranged and conducted by Gary McFarland and produced by Creed Taylor for Verve Records. Bossa nova means ‘new wave’ or ‘new trend’, and this album rode that wave, making No. 13 on the Billboard album chart in 1963 in the wake of the success of Jazz Samba (1962) and prior to the release of Getz/Gilberto (1964). Sandwiched as it is between the two classic albums of the era, it sometimes gets unfairly overlooked. The piano playing of Hank Jones is particularly good while Jim Hall plays acoustic guitar in the Charlie Byrd role. Four of the tracks are written by the arranger Gary McFarland, while the other tracks come from the Brazil’s Jobim, Gilberto and Bonfa; Getz recorded Jazz Samba Encore with Jobim and Bonfa a few months later in February 1963.
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Lena Horne, Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland – Lena & Gabor (1970/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:53 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Skye Records
Lena & Gabor is an album by American vocalist Lena Horne and Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó, arranged and produced by Gary McFarland. It was recorded in 1969 and released on the Skye label. The album was Lena Horne’s first album release in four years and saw her return to the charts with the single “Watch What Happens”. The Skye Records label declared bankruptcy in 1970 and the backcatalog was acquired by Buddha Records and the album was re-issued in 1971 as Watch What Happens.
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Gary McFarland – Today (1970/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:18 minutes | 472 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Skye Records
Gary McFarland was an influential composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist, prominent on Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s, when he made “one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz”. This album, recorded in September 1969, features Top-of-the-pops instrumental covers of “My Cherie Amour”, “Everybody’s Talking”, some background bossa nova and a criminally wasted cast of all-stars: Hubert Laws, Curtis Fuller, Sam Brown, Ron Carter, Grady Tate and Airto. McFarland’s cover of the Beatles’ “Get Back” is excellent though.
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