Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzsky , more known under the name of Stan Getz (February 2nd 1927 - June 6th 1991) was a musician of American Jazz . He is regarded as one of the largest players of Saxophone tenor. It was called " The Sound" , " Son" , because of its full sonority, pure and rich person that John Coltrane itself envied.

Biography

Stan Getz, born on February 2nd, 1927 with Philadelphia, makes its beginnings with the saxophone tenor at Dick Rogers in 1942, whereas it was 15 years old. Before being committed by Stan Kenton in 1944, it carries out training courses at Jack Teagarden, Dale Jones and Bob Chester. Then he plays with the orchestras of Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Randy Brooks, Buddy Morrow and Herbie Fields. Installed in California, it joins Butch Jones, directs a trio, and is engaged by Woody Hermann (1947-1949). Within this formation, it takes part in work of the " Brothers" , nickname of the section of the saxophonists. One finds there Zoot Sims, Herbie Stewart and Serge Chaloff. Their style is characterized by a new sound of a great lightness, a beautiful homogeneity and much of vehemence.

Later, Stan Getz takes the head of an small group including/understanding Jimmy Raney, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Haig or Horace Silver. It occurs in Scandinavia in 1951 and 1955, collaborate in the rounds of the J.A.T.P. (1957-1958), often resides in Europe (1958-1959).

In 1962, it discovers the Brésil and the Bossa nova. It records with New York in 1963 the famous album Getz/Gilberto with the " père" worked nova, João Gilberto and also the participation of its wife Astrud in particular in a version of the standard of Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes: has Garota de Ipanema which will become in English The Girl from Ipanema and will be the version of this piece the most known and most played on the radios. It is Getz itself which had the idea to make take again the words of the English song by Astrud Gilberto, which was not known as singer at the time, the words that João sings at the beginning, in Portuguese.

He directs small groups, among which appear Gary Burton, the singer Astrud Gilberto, the guitarist Charlie Byrd and occur in many rooms, of which Go-Go of New York, or he records, with Astrud, the album Getz in Go-Go which contains in particular a very personal version of another standard of Jazz: Summertime .

He was one of the happy profiteurs of this vogue of worked and discoverer of young talents like the pianists Chick Corea, Joanne Brackeen and Andy Laverne. He also helped with the redécouverte of a tasty pianist in the person of Jimmy Rowles. He played until the end of his life with much of musicians, primarily in four-bit byte, with always as much of inspiration.

Stan Getz is at the time one of most important the saxophonist of white jazz. Leader of the cool school, it combines a sonority soft and felted with phrased and rhythmic cutting Lester Young. Tender, éthérée, elegant, its music is opposed to the roughness disciples of Coleman Hawkins, to the crudeness of the blues and the eccentricities of the Bebop. It had a dominating influence on the evolution of the jazz, initially via the white musicians of the west coast, then by its influence on the designs of Miles Davis. About the middle of the years 1950, at the time when the Hard bop supplants the Cool jazz, Stan Getz evolves inside even of its style, to a more virile expression. Its sonority dilates; its technique allows him a more total exploitation of the resources of the instrument; it mixes softness and punch, becomes an artist complete, improviser always in liveliness, vehement and refined, assuming the most ambitious tasks like most routine, at ease as well with Dizzy Gillespie or Chet Baker as with string orchestras or rates/rhythms Brazilian.

Extracts of its discography

At Storyville (1951)
West Coast Jazz (1955)
Hamp and Getz (1955)
The Steamer (1956)
For Musicians Only (1956)
Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio (1957)
At The Operated House (1957)
Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-fi (1957)
Focus (1961)
Jazz Samba (1962)
Stan Getz With Cal Tjader (1963)
Stan Getz And Luiz Bonfa Jazz Samba Still! (1963)
Getz/Gilberto (1963) - Grammy Award
Getz/Gilberto#2 (1964)
Getz With-Go-Go the (1964)
Stan Getz & Bill Evans (1964)
Sweet Rain (1967)
Captain Marvel (1972)
The Best Off Two Worlds (1976)
The Peacocks (1977)
Serenity (1991)
People Time (1991) - with Kenny Barron
The Roost Recordings 1950-1954 (1997) Supplements
Worked & Ballads- The Lost Sessions (2003) - recorded since 1989, but left only in 2003

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