Search results for "Stan Getz"

Stan Getz: Menina Moca (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

“Menina Moca” (Young Lady) is a warm, semi-sweet samba confection recorded during the crest of the Brazilian jazz wav...

Stan Getz (with Bob Brookmeyer): Rustic Hop (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz helped raise money for his own salary as artist-in-residence at Stanford University by gi...

Stan Getz: When The World Was Young (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

As Stan Getz must have known – since his only live recording of this tune was made in Paris – the original song, titl...

Bill Evans & Stan Getz: The Peacocks (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

The first time I met Stan Getz, at his California home in 1983, he made a tape of a Bill Evans recording for me as a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson: Pennies from Heaven (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Every cloud has a copper lining, according to this Depression-era song: "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from h...

Stan Getz & Bill Evans: Funkallero (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

In this rare studio encounter between two of the era's most lyrical and romantic improvisers, we find an uncharacteri...

Stan Getz: Rustic Hop (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

This early 1950s track by the Stan Getz Quintet not only features the agile swinging of one of the most popular tenor...

Stan Getz: I Want to Be Happy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Stan Getz formed a working relationship with Oscar Peterson during his participation in Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Ph...

Stan Getz: Flamingo (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 05, 09

Although tenorist Stan Getz's smooth sound and lyrical melodicism made him a cool jazz icon, he also possessed a gift...

Stan Getz: Here's That Rainy Day (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

This album was a sequel to the first Getz/Gilberto record, which received nine Grammy nominations as well as great co...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOSSA NOVA

Bossa nova never was a dance, despite the 1963 hit “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” (“the dance of love”). It was a mu...

Woody Herman (with Stan Getz): Early Autumn (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 07, 09

When asked about this solo years later, Getz noted that he didn't own copies of his old recordings, then added: "I do...

Stan Getz: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

This version of the standard is close to ideal, from its contrapuntal opening by Getz and Raney to the melodic and rh...

Stan Getz & Bill Evans: Night and Day (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

The inclusion of Elvin Jones on this recording may seem odd, and though it has some stimulating moments, it is certai...

Stan Getz: Stella by Starlight (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

This is typically the kind of piece that people will classify as "West Coast jazz," although it was recorded in New Y...

Woody Herman: Early Autumn (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

During the 1950s, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz became the most popular of Lester Young's followers. But his breakthro...

Stan Getz: Blood Count (1982 studio version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Billy Strayhorn wrote it; Duke Ellington recorded it; but make no mistake—Stan Getz owned this song. In the 1980s, G...

Stan Getz: Corcovado (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

What do Perry Como, Miles Davis, and James Galway have in common? They’ve all covered Jobim’s “Corcovado” -- only “I...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOSSA NOVA

Bossa nova never was a dance, despite the 1963 hit “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” (“the dance of love”). It was a mu...

Stan Getz: Only Trust Your Heart (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

A leading Lester Young-influenced tenor saxophonist during the 1950s, Stan Getz’s career had begun to falter before h...

Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 02, 08

Whenever Getz and Gillespie shared the same stage, it was more than music . . . it was a battle. Was there some bad ...

Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz: Exactly Like You (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

This all-star session brought together two of the period’s leading performers, who normally ran in different circles....

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