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 ...

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

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, ...

Armando “Chick” Corea, the Grammy Award-winning pianist who played alongside fellow jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz and Miles Davis, died Feb. 9. He was 79 years old. Corea’s death was ...

What does it say about the state of jazz that the three best jazz albums of the year are previously unreleased recordings made some two to four decades ago? It doesn’t say what you might be ...

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 ...

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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 ...