Title: Stan's ballads establish lonely mood in spikey nervous score
Product review: Stan Getz worked with Eddie Sauter on "Focus" (Verve), one of Stan's best efforts and the record he was proudest of. Throughout his life he again tried to improvise with Sauter's arrangements and an orchestra with a score.This time it didn't work. the music is very episodic (as most soundtracks are); only in the longer, lonely ballads does Stan show his stuff and establish an effective mood. The rest is full of fits and starts. Nervous, anxious music, spikey , dissonant, and experimental avante garde like the introduction to West Side story or Bernstein on a bad day .Recording quality is quite bright and harsh.
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