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, ...

Easy Living; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Spring is Here; For All We Know; My Old Flame; Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?); But Beautiful; Close Enough for Love; A Time for Love. Stan Getz: tenor ...

Made by Henri Selmer. Paris, France. 1983-1984. overall: 34 in x 27 in x 6 in; 86.36 cm x 68.58 cm x 15.24 cm ...

Stan Getz was both the subject and the honoree in the performance of Don Menza’s septet Thursday night at Charlie O’s in Van Nuys. And what better way to honor the jazz icon than with a Four ...

Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime ...

The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a touchstone of jazz and bossa nova, the ...

This latest reissue in the Verve Originals series—which in early 2009 brought us the superb five-CD box set Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums—tends to be overlooked when lists of tenor saxophonist Stan ...