Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel

ASIN: B00000DBTG

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
Throughout his career, Stan Getz thrived on the challenges presented by a hot young rhythm section, spinning out long, fleet lines with his airy, gauzelike sound. This session from 1972 is one of his finest efforts. The emphasis is Latin and electric, with Chick Corea on electric piano, Stanley Clarke on electric bass, Airto Moreira on percussion, and the crucial factor, Tony Williams, on drums. Together they generate tremendous rhythmic movement and concentrated musical energy on five of Corea's tunes, and Getz's response is superb, combining cool lyricism and an inner fire in a way that suggests musical cold fission. "La Fiesta" and "Captain Marvel" are particularly potent, while the brief version of Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" is a concentrated and deeply moving vignette. --Stuart Broomer

Tracks:

La Fiesta
Five Hundred Miles High
Captain Marvel
Times Lie
Lush Life
Day Waves
Crystal Silence
Captain Marvel
Five Hundred Miles High

Customer Reviews:

A "Macho" Samba...indeed!!.......2007-04-10

My Man Stan!!!....hey!!...who CAN'T listen to cuts "La Fiesta" and "Captain Marvel" and NOT start dancin'???...both cuts hit you like a BLOW TORCH!! Of course, it's the drums & bass that drive you but Stan's fiery sax charts the course!! Both tunes are meant to be played LOUD!

This is BOSSA NOVA times 10!!!....a very muscular SAMBA!...MACHO SAMBA!! This is the first Stan Getz CD that I heard him WAIL (La Fiesta)!!...(normally Stan's not a wailer...he burns at a melodic simmer..."sweet heat"). Although this was recorded in the early 70s...it's NOT dated...it still SWINGS...beyond belief!! I own many (22) Stan Getz CDs...but I don't think he ever burned as hot on these testosterone-induced Latin numbers. There's a couple of quiet numbers ("Crystal Silence") that are quite lovely...ballads, of course, define Mr. Getz.

Why Stan didn't grab Chick Corea, Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke and make a follow-up, I'll never know. He probably thought those young cats would give him cardiac arrest...but he need'nt worry...not only does he keep UP...he LEADS!!

I must admit though, after listening to this CD...I had to catch my breath...and take a shower...it's HOT!!! Buy it...and sweat with a smile!

Wow....Captain Marvel........2006-05-11

Anyone who doesn't like Stan Getz obviously has yet to hear this album. To bring this group together and play these very challenging pieces and nail all of them is amazing. The way Chick Corea dances around the rhodes is unbelievable. Tony Williams drives every one of these tunes with his energy. Most other drummers would be accused of playing too busy, but Tony Williams only adds to the sound with his work. Stanley Clarke is a beast on the upright, playing it with more agility than most can handle on the electric. He carries the band along with his melodic bass lines and fast runs up and down the neck. Airto is always just there, not overpowering the drums but still clearly audible. And of course Stan Getz has the sound. Together they make an unbelievable album that everyone should hear several times. If you haven't heard this album yet take the time to find it and get it and listen to it.

4.5 Stars: A Different Getz from His Bossa Nova Period.......2006-03-10

For those of us who have heard Getz mostly in his bossa nova incarnations, this CD is closer at times to rock than jazz, mostly because of the explosive drumming of Tony Williams. The first two tracks are the best. "La Fiesta" and "Five Hundred Miles High" fuse Getz's love for Latin music with his virtuoso understanding of the saxophone. None of the tracks here are weak, however. Getz might not get the kind of praise that jazz fans give to Miles Davis or John Coltrane, but very often, Getz's music never sounds cold or calculated in the way more celebrated jazz sometimes does. The liner notes to Captain Marvel are by the late, great, and infamous Albert Goldman. Captain Marvel is a great album.

Captain Marvel Stan.......2006-02-15

by Marshall Bowden
By the time Stan Getz recorded Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, and Airto Moreira, he had been in the music business for nearly thirty years, and was widely revered as world-class jazz musician with a unique tenor sax voice. Getz began his career during the big band era, and cut his teeth with bandleaders as diverse as Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman. A leader of swinging small groups throughout the '50s, Getz spent some time in Europe following a career disruption caused by long-standing drug problems. He returned to the U.S. in time to help sustain the Brazilian jazz-bossa craze, recording a series of albums with Joao Gilberto and wife Astrud Gilberto that remain among the most popular jazz recordings of all time. Getz continued to work and record at home and abroad throughout the 1960s, but by the end of the decade and the start of the next, things were changing rapidly. Traditional post-bop jazz was on the ropes, and there were a lot of new sounds in the air, many of them thanks to Miles Davis and his amazingly talented coterie of young sidemen. Getz was interested in putting together a new book of tunes for his return to New York following a European stay.

Chick Corea, a young pianist who had cut his teeth with Miles Davis's first electric bands, recorded a couple of amazing trio dates under his own name, and then moved on to form the avant-garde improvisational group Circle, was in the process of writing for and forming a new band that would be known as Return to Forever. The group would expand on Davis's moves toward electric music and musical forms that communicated more directly with the listener than the abstract jazz of the late 1960s. Corea and Getz crossed paths, and the idea of forming a quintet with Getz took hold. Corea brought along percussionist Airto Moreira and 20 year-old bass phenom Stanley Clarke. Rehearsals began, but according to the original liner notes by Albert Goldman, the project wasn't quite jelling until Getz brought in drummer Tony Williams. Corea's reminiscences in the new liner notes suggest that he brought the entire group to Getz, which makes sense since Corea and Williams had known each other for some time, even before they played together with Miles. In any event, the band worked out the arrangements and opened at New York City's Rainbow Room to wild acclaim and lines of potential listeners outside. Following the engagement, that group went into the studio and recorded Captain Marvel, long acknowledged as one of the best jazz recordings of the '70s and a return to form for Getz. Sony Legacy has now reissued the album, remastered and with three additional tracks that only add to the album's legendary status.

Corea composed five of the six tracks on the original album, and that fact says much about both Corea as a composer and Getz as a mature artist who knew talent when he heard it. There are many other artists who would not have felt comfortable recording the compositions of another, younger musician and allowing their young band so much room on something of a "comeback" album, but Getz was never an artist subsumed by ego, preferring instead to do whatever was necessary to provide the best musical experience possible. It also didn't hurt that the pieces themselves had a heavy Latin flavor, which lent itself well to Getz' propensity for rhythmic improvisation, nor that Corea's soaring melodic lines allowed Getz the opportunity to utilize his beautiful, romantic tenor tone in their service.

"La Fiesta" became a mainstay, not only in Return to Forever's book, but in the books of virtually every big band out there. Maynard Ferguson and Woody Herman had arrangements, as did every small working jazz ensemble at the time. Alternating between a paso doble and a bright, major-key melody that is as catchy as a Top-40 pop song, it's an irresistible piece that instantly creates goodwill between musicians and audience. Clarke roams at will across the lower range of the group's sound while Williams keeps the pace with an almost unbelievable energy, fusing the vigor of flamenco and the unexpected accents of bebop with the exciting drama of rock.

Corea's Fender Rhodes work is transcendent on the entire album. The only musician with as fully developed a conception of the electric piano was Herbie Hancock, but the way the two pianists approached the instrument was worlds apart. To Corea the instrument's very sound connoted magic, and the fullness and beauty of the tones he wrings from it could not have been done with an acoustic piano. He's the perfect foil for Getz, both supporting him and driving him forward without ever becoming intrusive. The first bonus track, a performance of the Corea ballad "Crystal Silence", shows how this new electric instrument could profoundly expand the language available to jazz keyboard players. In the wrong hands, of course, it could be cloying, but Corea is one of the best to ever play the instrument. The alternate versions of "Captain Marvel" and "Five Hundred Miles High" show that this band was creating at a high level, and that the improvisation undertaken by Getz and Corea, in particular, was everything that jazz music had ever been and should be. In short, the fact that Getz was recording with a group of musicians who were leading jazz in the direction of fusion did nothing to alter his distinctive style. Though he was updating his sound and using the music of the day as a springboard, he was in no way attempting to merely do something that seemed fashionable at the time. Captain Marvel was a Stan Getz album because Getz was the nominal "leader" and the only horn player here, but ultimately this was a collaborative album by a group of musicians who were highly attuned to each other, and that is why the album has endured, and still sounds fresh today, some thirty years since it was recorded.

Great music........2006-01-05

This is a great CD. Don't miss it. Buy it now.

Cliffhangers! Music From The Classic Republic Serials

Average customer rating:

cliffhangers!music from the classic republic serials
This collection far exceeded my expectations.
Excellent, thrilling, action-packed, chilling

Cliffhangers! Music From The Classic Republic Serials

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000014XI
Release Date: 1996-03-12

Tracks:

Perils Of Nyoka: Young Emblem-Republic Logo
Perils Of Nyoka: Arabian Intrigue
Perils Of Nyoka: Desert Intrigue
Adventures Of Captain Mavel: Tal Chotali
Dick Tracy's G-Men: Satanic Fury
Zorro's Fighting Legion: Sub Surface Action
Zorro's Fighting Legion: Sword Play
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The Fighting Devil Dogs: Storm And Falling Trees
The Fighting Devil Dogs: In Deep Despair
The Fighting Devil Dogs: Devil Dogs Hurry In D Minor
King Of The Royal Mounted: Main Titled/Chapter Card/Technical Credits
King Of The Royal Mounted: Maple Leaf Forever
King Of The Royal Mounted: Mounties Get Their Man
King Of The Royal Mounted: Doc's Explination (Chase & Snow Avalanche)
King Of The Royal Mounted: Mounted Fury
King Of The Royal Mounted: Renegade Trail
King Of The Royal Mounted: After The Man
King Of The Royal Mounted: Linda
King Of The Royal Mounted: Get Your Man
Daredevils Of The Red Cicle: Main Title
Daredevils Of The Red Cicle: On The Run
Mysterious Dr. Satan: Car Transfer
Hawk Of The Wilderness: Miller's Folly
Drums Of Fu Manchu: Perilous Task
Adventures Of Red Rider: Main Title
Adventures Of Red Rider: Adventures Of Red Rider Chapter Card
Adventures Of Red Rider: Malicious Purpose
Adventures Of Red Rider: Little Beaver
Adventures Of Red Rider: Horse Chase
Adventures Of Red Rider: Ace Hanlon
Adventures Of Red Rider: Little Beaver (Part 2)
Adventures Of Red Rider: Oh, Susanna Chase
Adventures Of Red Rider: At The Brink
Adventures Of Red Rider: Adventures Of Red Ryder Tech Credits

Customer Reviews:

cliffhangers!music from the classic republic serials.......2002-03-20

Great album!
I just sat back,closed my eyes,and relived great memories of these great serials that I saw as a kid.The music is so accurate
that it could have been lifted from the films instead of re-creations.I reccomend it highly!

This collection far exceeded my expectations........1999-10-18

I've been a huge fan of Republic Pictures serials for many years and was thrilled to discover this collection. James King and the CinemaSound Orchestra have captured the pulse pounding tempo of those classic Republic Serials perfectly!!! The music brought back fond memories of watching Commando Cody (The Rocket-Man), the Masked Marvel and all the rest. If you are a Republic Serial fan or just love great motion picture music, this CD is a must have for your collection.

Excellent, thrilling, action-packed, chilling.......1999-04-11

As loyal, dedicated fans of Republic Serials, we found this soundtrack to be one of a kind. When you listen to this, you will return to those thrilling days of yesteryear at the Saturday matinee, when our heros were threatened by Zardoz, the Crimson Ghost, Dr. Satan and 39013, and couldn't wait for Dick Tracy to arrive on the scene.

Average customer rating:

Pulsating sax
Dancin' Delight!!
It's So GETZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
Getz the elastic band
painfully bright Fusion misadventure

Captain Marvel
Stan Getz
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

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General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music

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Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00000DBTG
Release Date: 1999-01-19

Tracks:

La Fiesta
Five Hundred Miles High
Captain Marvel
Time Lie
Lush Life
Day Waves

Amazon.com essential recording

Throughout his career, Stan Getz thrived on the challenges presented by a hot young rhythm section, spinning out long, fleet lines with his airy, gauzelike sound. This session from 1972 is one of his finest efforts. The emphasis is Latin and electric, with Chick Corea on electric piano, Stanley Clarke on electric bass, Airto Moreira on percussion, and the crucial factor, Tony Williams, on drums. Together they generate tremendous rhythmic movement and concentrated musical energy on five of Corea's tunes, and Getz's response is superb, combining cool lyricism and an inner fire in a way that suggests musical cold fission. "La Fiesta" and "Captain Marvel" are particularly potent, while the brief version of Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" is a concentrated and deeply moving vignette. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

Pulsating sax.......2005-03-07

I have only recently begun to listen and to appreciate jazz music (i.e 12 months ago) . People like Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins, Art Pepper and Stan Getz are true legends in the musical world.

Captain Marvel is a claasic recording which displays the wonderful talents of Stan Getz, one of the top Tenor men in jazz history. The saxophone and rhythm section here is pulsating and riveting from beginning to end with no weak points. I now own several records of Stan and "Captain Marvel" proves once again that he was not content to stay with only one style of music but wanted to be continually challenged with a variety of musical styles.

The recording quality is also excellent with all instruments clearly defined even though the energy is high for most of the record. If you are a fan of Stan or jazz in general then this record comes higly recommended. If you are able get the release with the bonus tracks then do so as it provides over 68 minutes of wonderful music.

Dancin' Delight!!.......2004-10-27

Stanley!!!....hey!!...who CAN'T listen to cuts "La Fiesta" and "Captain Marvel" and NOT start dancin'???...both cuts hit you like a BLOW TORCH!! Of course, it's the drums & bass that drive you but Stan's sax charts the course!! This is BOSSA NOVA times 10!!!....a very muscular SAMBA!...MACHO SAMBA!! This is the first Stan Getz CD that I heard him WAIL (La Fiesta)!! Although this was recorded in the early 70s...it's NOT dated...it still SWINGS...beyond belief!! I own many (22) Stan Getz CDs...but I don't think he ever burned as hot on these testosterone-induced Latin numbers.

Why Stan didn't grab Chick, Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke and make a follow-up, I'll never know. He probably thought those young cats would give him cardiac arrest...but he need'nt worry...not only does he keep UP...he LEADS!! I must admit though, after listening to this CD...I had to catch my breath...and take a shower...it's HOT!!! Buy it...and sweat with a smile!

It's So GETZZZZZZZZ!!!!!.......2004-04-13

I had the opportunity to catch Getz perform at the Village Gate, NYC shortly after this recording, so maybe I'm biased. I believe Getz had the ability to make any style sound so relaxed...COOL....You know,.... Mellowwwwwww!!!!That was Stan The Man. Pick up on this fussion, Latin, synthoid, what's-a-ma-jiggy sound. Dig Captain Marvel! It's so....GETZZZZZZZ!!!!!

Getz the elastic band.......2004-03-15

If you take the work that Stan Getz produced prior to this record and compare it to material recorded after, you will find that not only is this record a rare gem for its uniqueness, but you learn a little something about Getz himself. This record proves, through its personnel usage and material choice, that Stan Getz was one of the most elastic, or versatile saxophonists ever. He also was committed to a constant betterment of himself and his career, looking for new avenues of expression. In no way is this album a "sell-out", and to suggest such a thing is offensive. Getz manages to maintain his signature style and sound but adapt it to distinctly changing times without sounding dated. The record is genius, the tunes are genius, and the idea to make it was genius. One of my favorite fusion records. The cover art isn't bad either.

painfully bright Fusion misadventure.......2001-06-16

During this period of his life, Stan Getz was having a lot of personal problems. Also, in order to be trendy, he decided he, too, would play Jazz Fusion. One one the worst decisions of his life, he would abandon these Fusion experiments in the 80's and resurrect his career. His beautiful sound is lost amongst the Fusion rumblings and grumblings.

Beyond the bad Jazz Fusion idea, the CD sound is glaringly bright, glassy, harsh and almost painful to hear.

Tracks:

Fiesta
Five Hundred Miles High
Captain Marvel
Time's Lie
Lush Life
Day Waves

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