A Fantastic STUDIO Album - But NOT Live at the Cafe Au Go Go
Blue Coronet | east coast | 02/14/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Getz Au Go Go is a great Stan Getz album, including Astrud Gilberto and the young Gary Burton. According to Phil Schaap's research for the Girl From Ipanema Box set (6 lps or 4cds), Verve did record Stan with this group at the Cafe Au Go Go, at the Carnegie Hall Concert, and then also recorded this same group in the studio. What survived is the Carnegie Hall recordings and the studio recordings, not the Cafe Au Go Go recordings. Phil Schapp believes that the decision by the label for Getz Au Go GO was to use the studio recording and in "Post-Production" add audience applause to the studio tracks for this album. This does not detract from the beauty of this album, but does set the record straight."