A rare meeting between two jazz greats, 'Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio,' will join the Verve Vault series early next ...

The story of Stan Getz (1927-1991) has to begin with Lester Young. Before Young, tenor sax players seemed awash in testosterone. Their sound was full, rich, deep, blown hard out of the instrument's ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 1989, two years before his death from cancer, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz entered the studio with producer Herb Alpert and an all-star rhythm section, booked for multiple sessions over four days.

"One should always listen closely when people are saying goodbye," Katherine Hepburn tells us in "Stage Door." Likewise, Stan Getz, the great tenor saxophonist, found a way to make sure that people ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series on “Authors Alive!” book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami ...

Murakami Haruki is a true music lover. Music permeates his life and work, and seeps naturally into his prose. Music—and jazz in particular—is essential to any discussion of his work. His writing is ...

I had my questions prepped and my portable cassette recorder ready to go. My first question was whether he had any idea that recording his dreamy sax solo on 1949’s “Early Autumn” with the Woody ...

N E W   Y O R K, Nov. 28 -- The estate of jazz saxophonist Stan Getz haswon the rights to the Internet domain name “stangetz.com” in adispute arbitrated by a United Nations panel. The World ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The airy tone and supple inflections of the Stan Getz saxophone are beautifully captured on this live recording from ...