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While basking in the success of his masterpiece West Coast Jazz, Stan Getz again impressed listeners with another highly lauded masterpiece in 1956 when he truly brought his voice to a bright new high in excellence. For The Steamer, his sound had struck another sophisticated note where he again found his voice in lavish versatility while his sound had traveled a light year that time with whom he convey the melody with an astonishingly broad palette of tonal colour, driven by his world class tenor saxophone and his quartet group interplay. Highlighted with yet another astonishing track set that swings with originality and serendipity charm, his quartet delivers there cross combination of original compositions and dazzling takes on standards which begins with the classic original opening track Blues For Mary Jane, which proceeds on plenty of fresh takes on standards like There Will Never Be Another You, You're Blaise and even How About You. His approach to his quartet have come a long way since his early combo dates from the late-1940's and early-1950's, but there is a great deal of reaction to Getz, or vise versa. Like Pardon My Bop and West Coast Jazz, The Steamer marked an important turn in his long and winding music career, and what you can even find on the edition are a set of hairpin turns that will make your head swivel with over the edge fascination, which sounds even brighter in it's expanded format.
