Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá’s 1963 bossa nova classic gets a lush, dead-quiet Verve Acoustic Sounds 180-gram vinyl reissue that comes remarkably close to an original pressing.

Here are 13 clips of Getz on the air and on the screen: Here's Steve Allen visiting a sound stage at Universal-International in 1955 to prep for his title role in The Benny Goodman Story. The clip ...

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 ...

In 1964, many British Invasion rock groups were making their way into the American music charts. For a while, though, England was getting a little competition from another musical import. Teens may ...

Stan Getz returned to the United States in 1961 after two years of living in Denmark and playing throughout Europe. That fall, while preparing for Focus, which was to become his favorite personal ...

"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 ...

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, ...

With a tone as light and clear as a country day in May, Stan Getz early on came to symbolize the musical genre forever after known as “cool.” It was both an innocent, youthful sound and a hip ...

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 ...

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.

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