Stan Getz • Capitan Marvel

 

Review
by Thom Jurek  
One of the more remarkable aspects of Stan Getz's 1972 masterpiece is just how organic he was able to keep the sound. The band surrounding Getz on this Columbia date was led by Chick Corea with his Return to Forever (electric) bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Tony Williams, and Brazilian master percussionist Airto. With the exception of Clarke, all the rest had played with Miles Davis in his then-experimental electric bands. Corea's Return to Forever was just getting itself off the fusion ground, while Williams had been with John McLaughlin and Larry Young in Lifetime on top of his experience with Davis. But make no mistake, this is a Stan Getz record, his gorgeous tenor tone furiously and fluidly playing through all of Corea's difficult changes on Corea's Latin carnival jam, "La Fiesta," and shapeshifting his way through mode changes on "Five Hundred Miles High." The nucleus for the bedrock of Return to Forever was in the Getz laboratory of extended complex harmony and a strict adherence to melodic improvisation. Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" is the space in which Getz teaches the band about dynamic, texture, and ambience -- he even has Clarke bowing his bass. This band, combining as it did the restlessness of electric jazz with Getz's trademark stubbornness in adhering to those principles that made modern jazz so great, made for a tension that came pouring out of the speakers with great mutual respect shining forth from every cut -- especially the steamy Latin-drenched title track. Captain Marvel is arguably the finest recording Getz made during the 1970s.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/captain-marvel-mw0000045641

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Reseña
por Thom Jurek  
Uno de los aspectos más notables de la obra maestra de Stan Getz de 1972 es lo orgánico que fue capaz de mantener el sonido. La banda que rodeaba a Getz en esta fecha de Columbia estaba liderada por Chick Corea con su Return to Forever (eléctrico), el bajista Stanley Clarke, el baterista Tony Williams y el maestro brasileño de la percusión Airto. A excepción de Clarke, todos los demás habían tocado con Miles Davis en sus entonces experimentales bandas eléctricas. El grupo Return to Forever de Corea acababa de despegar del terreno de la fusión, mientras que Williams había estado con John McLaughlin y Larry Young en Lifetime, además de su experiencia con Davis. Pero no nos equivoquemos, este es un disco de Stan Getz, con su magnífico tono de tenor tocando furiosamente y con fluidez todos los difíciles cambios de Corea en la mermelada de carnaval latina de Corea, "La Fiesta", y cambiando de forma a través de los cambios de modo en "Five Hundred Miles High". El núcleo de la base de Return to Forever estaba en el laboratorio de Getz de armonía compleja extendida y una estricta adherencia a la improvisación melódica. Lush Life" de Billy Strayhorn es el espacio en el que Getz enseña a la banda la dinámica, la textura y el ambiente; incluso hace que Clarke arquee su bajo. Esta banda, que combinaba la inquietud del jazz eléctrico con la terquedad característica de Getz para adherirse a los principios que hicieron grande al jazz moderno, creó una tensión que salía de los altavoces con un gran respeto mutuo que brillaba en cada corte, especialmente en la vaporosa canción del título. Captain Marvel es posiblemente la mejor grabación que Getz hizo durante la década de 1970.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/captain-marvel-mw0000045641

Tracks:
1 - La Fiesta
Written-By – Chick Corea
2 - Five Hundred Miles High
Written-By – Chick Corea
3 - Captain Marvel
Written-By – Chick Corea
4 - Times Lie
Written-By – Chick Corea
5 - Lush Life
Written-By – Billy Strayhorn
6 - Day Waves
Written-By – Chick Corea, Neville Potter


Credits:
    Art Direction – John Berg
    Artwork [Airbrushing] – Roger Huyssen
    Bass – Stanley Clarke
    Design – Teresa Alfieri
    Design [Cover Logo] – Gerard Huerta
    Drums – Tony Williams*
    Electric Piano – Chick Corea
    Engineer [Recording] – Dixon Van Winkle
    Engineer [Remix] – John Guerriere, Russ Payne
    Percussion – Airto Moreira
    Photography By [Back Cover] – Don Hunstein
    Recorded By – Dixon Van Winkle
    Tenor Saxophone, Producer – Stan Getz

Recorded March 3, 1972, at A&R Studios, New York.

Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Fusion, Instrumental
Year:    1975
https://www.discogs.com/master/123548-Stan-Getz-Captain-Marvel
   

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