This is music that may be impossible to listen to while remaining still. The instant Stan Getz and Laurindo Almeida take off with "Minina Moca" ("Young Lady"), the party's on. Although the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 1964, with America in the throes of Beatlemania, “The Girl from Ipanema” breezed into the Top Five and sparked the bossa nova craze. This unlikely hit was a collaboration between American tenor sax ...

Stan Getz was a study in contrasts. A man with an unsurpassed talent for melodic beauty and understated musical elegance, he none-the-less fought viciously with his personal demons. Addicted to heroin ...

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 ...

In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People ...

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 ...

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 ...