If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. Saxophonist Stan Getz shines in this disc, recorded early in his career with top-flight musicians who created ...

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 ...

Any list that you put together, for any genre of music, will leave out a tremendous number of artists and songs. Jazz, in particular, will defy most descriptions. There are stories that Miles Davis, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...