I play music for people. I don’t play for the masses. I play for one person at a time. [The music that Stan Getz made over the years was consistently moving and powerful. But he was probably putting ...
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 ...
Audience favorite Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra returns to celebrate the music of Grammy Award-winning jazz bandleader, ...
Bob Kenselaar's Jazz in the Aquarian Age column continues at AAJ with an unearthed 1979 interview with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz. “The music that Stan Getz made over the years was consistently ...
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, ...
Photo by MGM Records (Billboard, page 1, 6 November 1965) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original ...
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 ...
Stan Getz and Cal Tjader were two of the younger superstars of jazz when they decided to record an album together during 1958. Stan Getz (1927-1991) is remembered as one of the premier jazz ...
The Fujitsu Concord Jazz Fest celebration of summery bossa nova, originally skedded as a June concert, finally nestled at Carnegie Hall, with an autumnal tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. With exotic ...
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 ...
What did Chick Corea learn from the time he spent playing in the bands of Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz and other jazz giants? Everything. “I’ve had the best teachers, haven’t I?” said Corea, ...
run. Steve Getz, son of venerable tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, who died in 1981, opened Williamsburg’s first jazz club on Oct. pulled out of the deal. "The reason [the club closed] is a lack of ...