The Soft Swing (studio album)
by Stan Getz

The Soft Swing by Stan Getz
Year: 1957
Overall rank: 48,488th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 5 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1957 (212th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (1,373rd)
Award Best albums of all time (48,488th)
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STAN GETZ (SAX) - FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS: FOCUS/THE SOFT SWING/WEST COAST JAZZ/COOL
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Stan Getz bestography

The Soft Swing is ranked 14th best out of 48 albums by Stan Getz on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Stan Getz is West Coast Jazz which is ranked number 14044 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 81.

Stan Getz album bestography « Higher ranked (47,869th)
Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema
This album (48,488th)
The Soft Swing
Lower ranked (48,655th) »
Sweet Rain

(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Soft Swing track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (4 out of 5 tracks have been rated).

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From 07/11/2022 17:17
A very generic, and a bit uninspiring album from Stan, but very listenable. The sax sounds come pretty close Paul Desmonds
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Best Albums of 1957
1. Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
2. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
3. The "Chirping" Crickets by The Crickets
4. Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
5. Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis
6. 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis
7. With His Hot And Blue Guitar by Johnny Cash
8. After School Session by Chuck Berry
9. Ray Charles by Ray Charles
10. Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet by Miles Davis Quintet
11. The Clown by Charles Mingus
12. Miles Ahead by Miles Davis + 19
13. Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk Septet
14. Dance Album by Carl Perkins
15. After Midnight by Nat King Cole
16. Singin' The Blues by B.B. King
17. Way Out West by Sonny Rollins
18. Singin' To My Baby by Eddie Cochran With The Johnny Mann Orchestra And Chorus
19. Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps by Gene Vincent
20. Kenya by Machito
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