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, ...

Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime ...

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 ...

The musical specter of John Coltrane is so massive and dense that its creative gravity often does not allow even a whiff of his contemporary saxophone players. While certainly acknowledged as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Stanley turned 13, everybody in his corner of The Bronx heard about it — whether they wanted to or not. Why? His father gave him a saxophone. It was a battered, $35 hock-shop special, and Stanley ...

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 ...