Flamingo
Context
Opening track of Stan Getz at The Shrine, Getz's first live recording, captured on November 8, 1954, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on the last night of a tour that also included Ellington, Brubeck and Mulligan. Norman Granz released it as a double album on Norgran on March 1, 1955, with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.