Eddie Sauter's guest appearances

Eddie Sauter

Big Band Bash

CiTR -- The Jazz Show

Artie Shaw

Woody Herman

Stan Kenton

Ella Fitzgerald

Don Cherry

Leonard Bernstein

Andy Kirk

Bob Crosby

Tony Bennett

Richard Rodgers

Mose Allison

Hoagy Carmichael

Herbie Hancock

Cole Porter

Joe Henderson

OwlTail

This week I'm continuing with a listener's request from a few months ago. He wanted me to do a few shows on some of the Big Band arrangers. A few months ago I did a show on Sy Oliver and today we are focusing on Eddie Sauter. Eddie wrote some fantastic arrangements for Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Ray McKinley and a few others. Sometimes Eddie's arrangements were too sophisticated and Benny would alter them. One of his best arrangements was done for saxophonist Stan Getz for the album Focus. I hope you enjoy this look at one of the greatest arrangers of the big band era, Mr. Eddie Sauter. Please visit this podcast at http://bigbandbashfm.blogspot.com

This week I'm continuing with a listener's request from a few months ago. He wanted me to do a few shows on some of the Big Band arrangers. A few months ago I did a show on Sy Oliver and today we are focusing on Eddie Sauter. Eddie wrote some fantastic arrangements for Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Ray McKinley and a few others. Sometimes Eddie's arrangements were too sophisticated and Benny would alter them. One of his best arrangements was done for saxophonist Stan Getz for the album Focus. I hope you enjoy this look at one of the greatest arrangers of the big band era, Mr. Eddie Sauter. Please visit this podcast at <a href="http://bigbandbashfm.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bigbandbashfm.blogspot.com</a>

The Arrangers: Eddie Sauter

Stan Getz

This incredibly innovative album is from 1961 and combines the intuitive artistry of the one and only Stan Getz with the innovative string compositions by Eddie Sauter. Tenor saxophonist Getz is one of the most lyrical and distinctive voices on that instrument and displays all his great talents on this album of which he was most proud. Many great Jazz stars recorded with strings but nothing ever matched this recording in terms of freshness, originality and creativity. Eddie Sauter's compositions stand on their own and with Getz weaving in and out of the passages the magic of this recording is totally evident. It's no wonder that of all the hundreds of recordings Stan was on, this was the album he was most proud of and it was his favourite. The recording was done over several sessions in 1961 and issued quickly to great acclaim  on Verve and was called "Focus". Seven wonderful moods are explored here by Getz and Sauter snd they are all worth your time.

Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter: "Focus"