Talk:West Coast Jazz (Stan Getz album)

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The West Coast jazz album and West Coast jazz[edit]

I'm thinking that the second paragraph of the lead might need some reworking. It doesn't sound right to me to say that "none of the musicians on the album were associated with the West coast jazz style." All of the musicians on the album except Getz himself were associated with "West Coast jazz" even if they didn't always play or even rarely played in the style usually linked with that name. As for any "in-joke", Gioia even suggests that it might have been Getz himself, in his choice of the opening tune "East of the Sun", who was joking, poking fun at whoever came up with the album title on behalf of the record company, which title played into the East Coast–West Coast battle contrived by journalists and record companies.

Even if it was the producer, Norman Granz, who was creating an in-joke by issuing an album with this name (it was his record company, so he at least must have allowed it), one thing that is still not right is claiming that none of the musicians were associated with West Coast jazz. Really, all but Getz were. It wouldn't matter if the musicians never thought of themselves as "West Coast jazz musicians". Others thought of them (except Getz) as such. So at least that wording could use some revision. --Alan W (talk) 05:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]