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Infobox musical artist | name = Stan Getz| image = Dad Katie 1987 Lincoln Center2.jpg| caption = With his granddaughter Katie in 1987 at the Lincoln Center | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Stanley Gayetzky| Known as = Stan Getz| Born = Birth date|1927|2|2 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States| Died = death date and age|1991|6|6|1927|2|2 Malibu, California , United States| origin =| instrument = Tenor saxophone | genre = Jazz Bossa nova West coast jazz Cool jazz | occupation = Saxophonist | years_active = 19431991| label = Verve Records | associated_acts = Kenny Barron , Bill Evans , J.J. Johnson , Bob Brookmeyer , Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Byrd , Chet Baker , Gary Burton , Cal Tjader , Woody Herman , Joćo Gilberto , Tom Jobim , Victor Lewis | website =| notable_instruments = Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6568/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic Biography Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman 's big band , Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stan-getz-p6568/biography as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz went on to perform in bebop , cool jazz and third stream , but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova , as in the worldwide hit single " The Girl from Ipanema " (1964).
Early life
Getz was born on February 2, 1927, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . His parents were Ukrainian Jews who emigre|emigrated from the Kiev area in 1903. The family later moved to New York City for better employment opportunities. Getz worked hard in school, receiving straight As, and finished sixth grade close to the top of his class. Getz's major interest was in musical instruments, and he felt a need to play every instrument in sight. He played a number of them before his father bought him his first saxophone at the age of 13. Even though his father also got him a clarinet, Getz instantly fell in love with the saxophone and began practicing eight hours a day.
He attended James Monroe High School (New York) in the Bronx. In 1941, he was accepted into the All City High School Orchestra of New York City. This gave him a chance to receive private, free tutoring from the New York Philharmonic's Simon Kovar , a bassoon player. He also continued playing the saxophone. On early recordings he had used a White Plastic Brilhart Tonalin mouthpiece. He eventually dropped out of school in order to pursue his musical career, but was later sent back to the classroom by the school system's truancy officers.
In 1943 at the age of 16, http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_getz_stan.htm Pbs.org "Oxford University Press" PBS - Jazz - A film By Ken Burns he was accepted into Jack Teagarden 's band, and because of his youth he became Teagarden's ward. Getz also played along with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton . After playing for Stan Kenton , Jimmy Dorsey , and Benny Goodman , Getz was a soloist with Woody Herman from 1947 to 1949 in 'The Second Herd', and he first gained wide attention as one of the band's saxophonists, who were known collectively as ' Four Brothers (jazz standard)|The Four Brothers ', the others being Serge Chaloff , Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward . With Herman, he had a hit with "Early Autumn" and after Getz left 'The Second Herd' he was able to launch his solo career. He would be the leader on almost all of his recording sessions after 1950.
Career
In the mid to late 1950s working from Scandinavia, Getz became popular playing cool jazz with Horace Silver , Johnny Smith , Oscar Peterson , and many others. His first two quintets were notable for their personnel, including Charlie Parker 's rhythm section of drummer Roy Haynes , pianist Al Haig and bassist Tommy Potter . A 1953 line-up of the Dizzy Gillespie /Stan Getz Sextet featured Gillespie, Getz, Oscar Peterson , Herb Ellis , Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown and Max Roach .
Returning to the U.S. from Europe in 1961, Getz became a central figure in introducing bossa nova music to the American audience. Teaming with guitarist Charlie Byrd , who had just returned from a U.S. State Department tour of Brazil, Getz recorded Jazz Samba in 1962 and it became a hit. The title track was an adaptation of Antonio Carlos Jobim 's " One Note Samba ". Getz won the Grammy Awards of 1963|Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for " Desafinado ", from the same album. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a music recording sales certification|gold disc .cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | pages= 146147 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 As a follow-up, Getz recorded the album, Jazz Samba Encore! , with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfį . It also sold more than a million copies by 1964, giving Getz his second gold disc.
He then recorded the album Getz/Gilberto , in 1963,page 208 of "italic" The Latin Beat "italic" by Ed Morales with Antonio Carlos Jobim|Tom Jobim , Joćo Gilberto and his wife, Astrud Gilberto . Their " The Girl from Ipanema " won a Grammy Award . The piece became one of the most well-known latin jazz tracks. Getz/Gilberto won two Grammys (Best Album and Best Single). A live album , Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 , followed, as did Getz Au Go Go , a live recording at the Cafe Au Go Go . Getz's affair with Astrud Gilberto brought an end to his musical partnership with her and her husband, and he began to move away from bossa nova and back to cool jazz. While still working with the Gilbertos, he recorded the jazz album Nobody Else But Me , with a new quartet including vibraphone|vibraphonist Gary Burton , but Verve Records , wishing to continue building the Getz brand with bossa nova, refused to release it. It eventually came out 30 years later, after Getz had died.
In 1972, Getz recorded in the fusion idiom with Chick Corea , Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke , and in this period experimented with an Echoplex on his saxophone. He had a cameo in the film The Exterminator (1980).
In the mid-1980s Getz worked regularly in the San Francisco Bay area and taught at Stanford University as an artist-in-residence at the Stanford Jazz Workshop until 1988. http://www.nndb.com/people/814/000085559/ Nndb.com In 1986, he was inducted into the Down Beat Down Beat|Jazz Hall of Fame . During 1988, Getz worked with Huey Lewis and the News on their Small World (album)|Small World album. He played the extended solo on the title track, which became a minor hit single.
His tenor saxophone of choice was the Selmer Mark VI .
Personal life
Getz married Beverly Byrne, a vocalist with the Gene Krupa band, on November 7, 1946; they had three children together.
Getz became involved with drugs and alcohol while a teenager. In 1954, he was arrested for attempting to rob a pharmacy to get a morphine fix. As he was being processed in the prison ward of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center , Beverly gave birth to their third child one floor below. Getz tried to escape his Drug addiction|narcotics addiction by moving to Copenhagen . He married Swedish people|Swedish Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat Monica Silfverskiöld on November 3, 1956, and had two children with her: Pamela and Nicolas. Getz divorced Monica in 1987.
Zoot Sims , who had known Getz since their time with Herman, once described him as 'a nice bunch of guys', as a consequence of the wide behavioural range of which Getz was capable. Getz died of Hepatocellular carcinoma|liver cancer in June 6, 1991. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered at sea, off the coast of Malibu, California .
In 1998, the 'Stan Getz Media Center and Library' at Berklee College of Music was dedicated through a donation from the Herb Alpert Foundation.
Discography
Main|Stan Getz discography
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist or Small Group (Instrumental) "Desafinado," Stan Getz. 1962
Grammy Award for Record of the Year, "The Girl From Ipanema," 1964
Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joćo Gilberto (Verve)1964
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist With Small Group, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz 1964
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Solo Performance, "I Remember You" Stan Getz 1991
Bibliography
The Stan Getz discography , Astrup, Arne. 1978
Stan Getz , Palmer, Richard. 1988.
Stan Getz: an appreciation of his recorded work , Kirkpatrick, Ron. 1992.
Stan Getz: nobody else but me , Gelly, Dave. 2002.
Stan Getz: an annotated bibliography and filmography , Churchill, Nicholas. 2005.
Jazz saxophone: an in-depth look at the styles of the tenor masters , Taylor, Dennis, 2004.
References
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External links
Portal|Biography
http://www.stangetz.net/ Official Stan Getz homepage
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