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STAN GETZ
Jazz / Jazz / Bossa Nova



IT GETZ NO BETTA
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Member Since10/8/2006
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"It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.” ~Stan Getz~

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Poem for Stan Getz

By Peter La Barbera

It's like the moonlight.

It's like love on a special night.

It's like something cherished that you'll never want to forget.

It's like life is good and things are going in the right direction.

It's like unison and harmony and improvisation that connects with the listener.

It's all the things beautiful and harmonious.

It's like a lot of the nice things we seem to have forgotten about through the years.

It's like loving that first flower in May.

It's like celebrating the Sunrise.

It's like People Time.

It's like that feeling when you first catch the scent of the salt air.

It's like softly as in a morning's sunrise.

It's like that special feeling when you're literally lifted off the ground with joy.

It's like Dear Old Stockholm.

It's like all things smell good and taste good and feel good and sound good.

It's like you and me and all of those wonderful memories embedded into the inner soul of our being.

It's like being alive and enjoying every minute of the ride - even the hard times when it seems that nothing is ever going to work right.

It's like accepting things the way they are and forgetting about trying to change them.

It's like East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

It's like bathing in scented water.

It's like bathing in scented water with you

It's like bathing in scented water with all of you.

It's like being alive and screaming with joy if only just for that one reason.

It's like not caring about the trivial matters that try to dampen our every day.

It's like celebrating the joy of living.

It's like a good pesto sauce on a hot July afternoon with a chilled bottle of dry, white wine.

It's like a Stan Getz solo.

Jesus, do I miss him.

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Getz/Coltrane - Dusseldorf, Germany, 1960



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Downbeat Jan 1955

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During recording of "People Time". 3 months before he left us.

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Dave, Stan, Steve, Nick, Bev, Pam

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InfluencesLester Young and most Classical composers
Sounds LikeStan Getz
Record LabelVerve/Universal & others


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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket “My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often—in fact, mostly—at the expense of everything else in my life.” ~Stan Getz

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Artists like to improve on nature. The great landscape painters took run of the mill scenes and turned them into works of art. By employing evocative language poets can make their readers yearn so much for the Elyesian fields of their imagination that it hurts. In his sixth symphony, Beethoven took an ordinary country brook and turned it into a stream that could easily bubble through the Garden of Eden. On a less exalted level, great jazz musicians take ordinary tunes and turn them into great art. Through the years there have been many, many examples of this, right from the days when King Oliver played West End Blues and Bix Beiderbecke turned I'm Coming Virginia into a small, perfectly formed tone poem. One of the great transformers of the ordinary was Stan Getz (1927-1991). Getz first made his name in the forties with Woody Herman's Second Herd. One of the most famous numbers he recorded with the band was the Ralph Burns tune Early Autumn. As well as being a beautiful song, the number demonstrates Getz's masterly way with a melody. First there is the immaculate saxophone tone; like an alto flute; pure and mellow. Getz treats the melody by adding subtle touches here and there; it is masterly. Like when a painter adds a touch of white to the corner of a painted eye. Getz had an amazing technique, he could play anything on the saxophone. On the album Stan Getz Quartets, Getz recorded a tune called 'Crazy Chords'. In the recording Getz roars through some extreme key changes touching .. signatures no average sax player in his or her right mind would chose to play. Yet Getz makes it sound like he was taking a stroll by a brook. On the same album as 'Crazy Chords' there's a fine example of the way Getz treats a slow ballad. 'What's New' is one of the great songs. Played straight it is beautiful, but Getz with a stroke of the brush here and there transforms the melody into a work of art. Like a Rembrant in sound. Until 1958 Getz played some of the best jazz in the United States and with some of the best jazzmen in the country: Al Haig, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Jimmy Raney and Horace Silver. In 1958 he moved to Europe and worked mainly with European musicians like the wonderful Swedish baritone player Lars Gullin, pianist Martial Solal and Bengt Hallberg and with other US ex-patriots like Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clarke. In 1961 Getz returned to New York to record what is undoubtedly the best example of a partnership between a jazz musician and strings - the album Focus. Focus is a superb achievement. Getz sails above and around the composer Eddie Sauter's brilliant string arrangements. It's an example of a stunning musician at the height of his considerable powers. The album Getz made after Focus was Jazz Samba. This contained his greatest hit the Samba, 'Desafinado'. Again 'Desafinado' is a simple tune that Getz turns into high art. After 'Desafinado' Getz's career took a giant step forward. Bossa Nova became a craze for a while and Getz was one of its chief exponents. But it did not reduce his commitment to improve on nature. ~ Written by Colin Frame ~

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"All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody.” ~Stan Getz~

Al Haig, Stan, Tommy Potter - Birdland 1949 Photo by Herman Leonard

“There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. These are the qualities I want to retain in my music.” ~Stan Getz~

Stan & granddaughter Katie

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KEITH - (UKSC FINALIST)

Keith Fellows



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

GOOD TO BE FRIENDS
Miss Z

Miss Z



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

Thanks!

Stan is great!
Loops and Bridges

Loops and Bridges



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

Thanks for the add. Just love love your music!!! greetings from Norway
Sergey

Sergey



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

Thank you for the ADD))
Luciano Piazza

Luciano Piazza



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

Thanks for the add!
With all my best wishes..Luciano
Masondo

Masondo



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM


Hi Stan, thanx for the add. I enjoyed listening to your tracks. Nice to meet you.

Much love

Masondo
ForTheJaZz

ForTheJaZz



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

hi stan
thank U
grt...jimmy
SAM

SAM



Nov 25 2009 1:06 AM

thank for the ADD
pascale

pascale



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

bonjour
J'ai un nouveau recueil de poèmes qui vient de sortir aux éditions "Le Manuscrit. Son nom est "Tempo";pour le consulter vous pouvez suivre ce lien:
http://manuscrit.com/book?aspx?id=13123
Bonne lecture
Manolo Soldan

Manolo Soldan



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

HELLO THANKS FOR THE ADD , ALL THE BEST
Die Jazzpiraten

Die Jazzpiraten



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

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Der Kontrabassist im Ruhrgebiet
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Die Seite für feine Jazzevents im Ruhrgebiet
Christos Stassinopoulos

Christos Stassinopoulos



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

Thank you for renewing our friendship!
With my very best wishes,
Christos Stassinopoulos – tenor
MANQ

MANQ



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

THANKS FOR THE ADD!!!
SIGNOR WOLF FUNK EXP

SIGNOR WOLF FUNK EXP



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

CIAO!
"THE ITALIAN FAMILY" is With U!
RESPECT!
From :
THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN FELLAS FUNK BAND
" Signor Wolf FUNK EXP "



Rob Staniford

Robert Staniford



Nov 25 2009 12:59 AM

I hoe your week's turning out to be all you wish.

Rob
AfraSonic

AfraSonic



Nov 18 2009 3:36 PM

THANX FOR THE ADD!!!!
Bruno Gallone

Bruno Gallone



Nov 18 2009 3:29 PM

Thanks for the add Stan. I hope you find time to have a quick listen to some of my songs – comments are always welcome.

All the best

Bruno
ELLA RABESON

ELLA RABESON



Nov 18 2009 3:26 PM

thank you for the add.
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Nov 18 2009 3:26 PM

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Jazz Break



Nov 18 2009 3:26 PM

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Mikeè

Mikeè



Nov 18 2009 3:25 PM

Thank you very much for friendship / Mike
MéliMélo

MéliMélo



Nov 18 2009 3:25 PM

Good sonud!





On HENRI encore

On HENRI encore



Nov 18 2009 3:25 PM

Olá et chapeau bas !
Shirou Sawada

Shirou Sawada



Nov 4 2009 11:37 PM

Thanks so much for add!
I love Stan's sound.
bujany

bujany



Nov 4 2009 11:37 PM

THX very much for the Add....
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