These two early 60s quintet dates are marvelous, a mother lode of timeless horn artistry. They’re both straight reissues — no alternate takes or unreleased tracks of any sort. The first, originally ...
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 ...
NPT's Liane Hansen speaks with trumpeter/producer and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert. He remembers tenor sax player Stan Getz, whose recording Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions is only now ...
On January 29, 1977, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz was in Copenhagen, Denmark, performing at the city's famed Jazzhus Montmartre club. He was joined by Joanne Brackeen (p,el-p), Niels-Henning Ørsted ...
In fact, his acclaim as a bossa nova pioneer during this period overshadowed his career as a bebop saxophonist, leading Verve Records to delay subsequent Getz jazz releases out of fear they would ...