DON'T BOGART THAT ABALONE

There's no doubt that most of us would have liked to see what it was like in a different era and a different music scene, in a different environment. Not necessarily permanently, just to test the waters and see what it was like. It might be a rock 'n' roll era. The fifties in Memphis, or Chicago? The sixties in Detroit or Memphis? London in the mid to late sixties? San Francisco? Bakersfield in the early sixties? Shit, Lagos, Nigeria in the early seventies? Man, I'd love to have been in any of those places back in the day(s). Another time travel fantasy for me is to have been in Southern California in the days before rock 'n' roll, before surf music, before Gidget, before the surf craze that followed, before the Beach Boys, before all that shit. When the beaches were less crowded, and you could catch dinner in the ocean. When lobster and abalone were literally free. Feast on that while feeling the burn of a day in the sun, and the powdery skin from forgetting to take a post-dip shower. Pop a few cool ones, and hang out, or head out, whatever. No hurray. Get anywhere you need to go on the PCH. Stan Getz is the soundtrack.

I love hearing his stuff when I get home from the beach. Any Getz is good for that. Here's some random stuff I was able to find. If you don't have any of his stuff, there's a handful of multi-CD sets of his early stuff that are budget priced, usually containing four or five LPs. Don't OD on the bossa nova. Great as it is, he was much more than that.

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Listen:
Stan Getz and Zoot Sims - Five Brothers mp3 at Pixie Radio 1949
Stan Getz - Lullaby of Birdland mp3 at Tumblr
Stan Getz - Samba Triste mp3 at Tumblr
Stan Getz - Serenade In Blue mp3 at Tumblr
Stan Getz - I Remember Clifford mp3 at maelgaudry (?)
Stan Getz - O Grande Amor mp3 at Tumblr