Imported from Europe is an album by saxophonist Stan Getz, released on the Verve label in 1959.Stan Getz Catalog, accessed July 25, 2016Verve Records: Album Entry , accessed July 25, 2016
Reception The AllMusic review by Jason Ankeny stated: "Imported from Europe channels the frosty ambience of its geographic origins to create one of Getz's most evocative efforts -- a decisively modern and cerebral session, it's nevertheless humanized by the warm, rich tone of Getz's tenor sax".
Track listing "Bengt's Blues" (Bengt Hallberg) - 4:15 "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) - 6:43 "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 7:18 "Topsy" (Edgar Battle, Eddie Durham) - 6:25 "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 4:15 "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) - 3:42 "Stockholm Street" (Lars Gullin) - 4:12 Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on August 26, 1958 (tracks 2–4), September 15, 1958 (tracks 5 & 6) and September 16, 1958 (tracks 1 & 7)
Personnel Stan Getz - tenor saxophone Benny Bailey - trumpet Åke Persson - trombone Bjarne Nerem (tracks 6 & 7), Erik Nordström - tenor saxophone Lars Gullin - baritone saxophone Bengt Hallberg (tracks 1 & 5–7), Jan Johansson (tracks 2–4) - piano Gunnar Johnson - bass William Schiopffe - drums
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