He would announce 'We will now play a number by our pianist, 'Ain't You a Mess', glaring at the conversationalists as he spoke the words of the tune title").

Such an instance can be heard on the broadcast track that closes our CD [the 2016 Phono re-release], on which Stan Getz sits out, which is 'Ain't You a Mess'."

The original liner notes by Nat Hentoff, co-editor of The Jazz Review (and reproduced on the 2016 re-release), claim that Getz was "at an unusually provocative stage in his career" and had developed "a style that was clearly his own".

"The twelve-bar 'Down Beat' commences, rather unusually, with stop chords while Kern's much-played 'All the Things You Are' is taken slower than we have come to expect in recent years".

The original liner notes indicate: "All elements of... [Getz's] style -- tone, time, phrasing and conception -- complemented each other logically.