Bargain indeed; $2 would be $17.50 in today's dollars.
I understand your feeling about jazz with strings; the arrangements often seem to put too many constraints on the jazz player. However, I happen to like that record a lot and posted it early in this thread; beautiful arrangements and beautiful playing by Desmond. What "Muzak" (I'm showing my age) could have been been and seldom was. If I leave my jazz expectation behind I find the music very enjoyable.
Here's another that I like a lot. Very interesting concept and a great example for anyone wanting to understand the meaning of "Third Stream". It does a great job of straddling the line between jazz and classical with interesting and challenging string arrangements while leaving the solo saxophone entirely improvised. Considered by Getz himself as the best record he ever made:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfOleD7-7Oj90W890D0puroQgM7yTR-0P&v=sXxybiV4Pxs
I understand your feeling about jazz with strings; the arrangements often seem to put too many constraints on the jazz player. However, I happen to like that record a lot and posted it early in this thread; beautiful arrangements and beautiful playing by Desmond. What "Muzak" (I'm showing my age) could have been been and seldom was. If I leave my jazz expectation behind I find the music very enjoyable.
Here's another that I like a lot. Very interesting concept and a great example for anyone wanting to understand the meaning of "Third Stream". It does a great job of straddling the line between jazz and classical with interesting and challenging string arrangements while leaving the solo saxophone entirely improvised. Considered by Getz himself as the best record he ever made:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLfOleD7-7Oj90W890D0puroQgM7yTR-0P&v=sXxybiV4Pxs