John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...

NPT's Liane Hansen speaks with trumpeter/producer and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert. He remembers tenor sax player Stan Getz, whose recording Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions is only now ...

Jazz Saxophonist, STAN GETZ. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Getz got his start playing with Woody Herman's band. He later went on to form his own quartet. He has worked with such greats as Dizzy ...

Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz (1927-1991) is one of the most important jazz stylists of the last century. Schooled in the '40s big bands of Teagarden, Kenton, and others, Getz first rose to prominence ...

Stan Getz was both the subject and the honoree in the performance of Don Menza’s septet Thursday night at Charlie O’s in Van Nuys. And what better way to honor the jazz icon than with a Four ...

Legendary jazz producer Joel Dorn in recent years has become quite the detective. After resurrecting many long-lost albums for the CD age at 32 Jazz and then moving on to Label M, he reached a ...

In a vivid performance marked by aesthetic panache and stellar musicianship, tenor saxophonist Alex Chilowicz teamed with members of the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra to ...

Know what's really cool to a music lover? When record labels that own a big chunk of an important artist's output release it as thoroughly, as nicely and as affordably as Sony is doing in its “The ...

At a 1976 concert featuring American saxophone superstar Stan Getz and Brazilian singer and guitarist João Gilberto, Getz ...

Three Excellent Audiophile-Worthy Vintage Jazz Reissues From Universal Music, Verve Records & Acoustic Sounds Feature Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson w/ Bill Evans Three ...

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