For his casual listeners, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz peaked during the bossa nova craze of the early to mid 1960s. And as Verve's five-disc, 2008 box set, The Bossa Nova Albums, reminded casual and ...
Armando “Chick” Corea, the Grammy Award-winning pianist who played alongside fellow jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz and Miles Davis, died Feb. 9. He was 79 years old. Corea’s death was ...
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, ...
Even given Stanford University’s reputation for fostering innovative thinking, Stan Getz was an unlikely choice to be the school’s first jazz artist in residence in 1986. A prodigy who hit the road at ...
In fact, his acclaim as a bossa nova pioneer during this period overshadowed his career as a bebop saxophonist, leading Verve Records to delay subsequent Getz jazz releases out of fear they would ...
Released in 1962, 'Big Band Bossa Nova' from Stan Getz’s is getting a vinyl reissue via the Verve Acoustic Sounds Series.
Getz/Gilberto gets a stunning SACD upgrade via Jamie Howarth’s Plangent Process and Bernie Grundman’s analog-to-DSD cut. Hear this jazz classic reissue like never before. Some readers here may recall ...
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 ...
There's nothing dated about a new 2-disc album that revisits Getz's 1961 nightclub recording at New York's Village Gate. Listening to it now, it's hard to overstate what a terrific tenor he was. This ...
Jazz vocalist Diane Schuur was born blind. She was also born with perfect pitch, which she used to teach herself piano as a child in Tacoma, Wash. Schuur began performing professionally in 1963, at ...
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