Cafe Montmartre [Live]

Cafe Montmartre is a compilation of several live performances at the famous Copenhagen club with pianist Kenny Barron, selected from three earlier CDs, the 1987 quartet dates Anniversary! and Serenity, plus the two-disc set People Time from 1991. Getz was a masterful ballad interpreter and delivers with the mournful tribute "I Remember Clifford" and an absolutely haunting, emotionally charged take of Billy Strayhorn´s "Blood Count" (written as its composer lay dying of cancer). Barron makes a strong case as one of Getz´s very best accompanists, while bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Ben Riley (present only on the 1987 material), are also superb.