Stan Getz

   
Artist: Stan Getz

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Other
   Rock
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Apasionado

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


   
 Stan Meets Chet

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 At The Shrine

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Cafe Montmartre

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Imagination

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 21


   
 Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14


   
 Stan Getz's Finest Hour

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 What The World Needs Now

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15


   
 Ultimate

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Complete Roost Recordings (CD3)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 22


   
 The Complete Roost Recordings (CD2)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Complete Roost Recordings (CD1)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 23


   
 Best of the West Coast Sessions

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 This Is Jazz (Vol. 14)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live At The New Morning In Paris

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 7


   
 Sextet Utopia

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 6


   
 Maestros Del Jazz Blues (Vol.5)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 18


   
 Verve Jazz Masters 8

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson Trio

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Girl From Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years (CD 4)

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Girl From Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years (CD 1)

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Bossa Nova Years

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 50


   
 The Lyrical

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 6


   
 Voyage

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 6


   
 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 9


   
 Captain Marvel

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 6


   
 The Song Is You

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10


   
 Sweet Rain

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 5


   
 Summertime (with Joao Gilberto)

   Year: 1964   
Tracks: 16


   
 Stan Getz Meets Joao and Astrud Gilberto

   Year: 1964   
Tracks: 19


   
 Big Band Bossa Nova

   Year: 1962   
Tracks: 8


   
 Focus

   Year: 1961   
Tracks: 9


   
 Cool Velvet and Voices

   Year: 1960   
Tracks: 21


   
 Award Winner: Stan Getz

   Year: 1957   
Tracks: 15


   
 West Coast Jazz

   Year: 1955   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema) CD4

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema) CD3

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema) CD2

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema) CD1

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Millennium Bossa Nova

   Year:    
Tracks: 20


   
 Jazz Masters 8

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Jazz Masters 53

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Compact Jazz: Stan Getz

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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One of the all-time enceinte tenor saxophonists, Stan Getz was known as "The Sound" because he had one of the almost beautiful tones ever so heard. Getz, whose main early influence was Lester Young, grew to be a major influence himself and to his credit he never stopped up evolving.


Getz had the opportunity to dally in a variety of major swing big bands while a teenager due to the World War II draught. He was with Jack Teagarden (1943) when he was just 16 and this was followed by stints with Stan Kenton (1944-1945), Jimmy Dorsey (1945), and Benny Goodman (1945-1946); he soloed on a few records with BG. Getz, world Health Organization had his recording debut as a leader in July 1946 with foursome titles, became famed during his time period with Woody Herman's Second Herd (1947-1949), soloing (along with Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward, and Serge Chaloff) on the original version of "Four-spot Brothers" and having his sound well-featured on the lay "Early Autumn." After going away Herman, Getz was (with the exception of some tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic) a leader for the stay of his life.


During the early '50s, Getz skint away from the Lester Young style to form his own musical indistinguishability and he was soon among the about popular of all jazzmen. He discovered Horace Silver in 1950 and secondhand him in his quartette for several months. After touring Sweden in 1951, he formed an exciting five that co-featured guitar player Jimmy Raney; their interplay on up-tempo tunes and tonal blend on ballads was quite memorable. Getz's playacting helped Johnny Smith have a hit in "Moonlight in Vermont," during 1953-1954 Bob Brookmeyer made his mathematical group a five and, despite some drug problems during the decade, Getz was a unceasing poll winner. After disbursal 1958-1960 in Europe, the tenorman returned to the U.S. and recorded his personal favorite album, Focus, with arranger Eddie Sauter's Orchestra. Then, in February 1962, Getz helped usher in the bossa nova era by recording Nothingness Samba with Charlie Byrd; their rendition of "Desafinado" was a big hit. During the next year, Getz made bossa nova-flavored albums with Gary McFarland's swelled band, Luiz Bonfá, and Laurindo Almeida, just it was Getz/Gilberto (a collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto) that was his biggest vender, thanks in large role to "The Girl From Ipanema" (featuring the vocals of Astrud and João Gilberto).


Getz could have washed-out the following ten jutting to bossa nova merely alternatively he de-emphasized the music and chose to play more ambitious jazz. His regular mathematical group during this era was a piano-less quartette with vibraphonist Gary Burton, he recorded with Bill Evans (1964), played throughout the 1965 Eddie Sauter soundtrack for Paddy One, and made the greco-Roman album Sweet-flavored Rain (1967) with Chick Corea. Although not all of Getz's recordings from the 1966-1980 period ar essential, he proven that he was non shy to take chances. Dynasty with organist Eddie Louiss (1971), Police chief Marvel with Chick Corea (1972), and The Peacocks with Jimmy Rowles (1975) ar highschool points. After utilizing piano player Joanne Brackeen in his 1977 little Joe, Getz explored some aspects of fusion with his side by side unit which featured keyboardist Andy Laverne. Getz regular victimized an Echoplex on a duet of songs only, despite some misfires, most of his dates with this unit are worthwhile. However, purists were sticking when he signed with Concord in 1981 and started using a strictly acoustic computer backup deuce-ace on most dates. Getz's sidemen in later on age included pianists Lou Levy, Mitchell Forman, Jim McNeely, and Kenny Barron. His terminal recording, 1991's Mass Time, (despite some shortness in the tenor's intimation) is a smart as a whip span set with Barron.


Throughout his calling Getz recorded as a leader for Savoy, Spotlite, Prestige, Roost, Verve, MGM, Victor, Columbia, SteepleChase, Concord, Sonet, Black Hawk, A&M, and EmArcy among other labels (not to mention roger Sessions with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gerry Mulligan) and in that location are oodles of worthy records by the tenor voice presently available on CD.





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