Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series on “Authors Alive!” book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami ...
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 ...
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 ...
Even given Stanford University’s reputation for fostering innovative thinking, Stan Getz was an unlikely choice to be the school’s first jazz artist in residence in 1986. A prodigy who hit the road at ...
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, ...
"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 ...
About 25 years ago, following Stan Getz’s appointment as Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University’s jazz program, I asked an acquaintance of his how the great tenor saxophonist was adjusting to the ...
That might have been a good thing. In March of 1976, Claudine Longet killed her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” ...
This is FRESH AIR. Saxophonist Stan Getz came up at the very end of the swing era, a star soloist with Woody Herman's orchestra in the late 1940s. From the start, Getz was known for his rapturously ...
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People ...
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