All About Jazz is celebrating Stan Getz's birthday today! Beginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent\'s Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was ...

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, ...

Stan Getz would have been 75 on Saturday. But he never came close to reaching that milestone, dying of cancer on June 6, 1991, in Malibu. Sixty-four years may seem considerable for a jazz life, when ...

December 11, 2019 • The past is always present — but with a practically endless selection of music to choose from via the web, it's nice when some of the world's best record labels help excavate it ...

There's nothing dated about a new 2-disc album that revisits Getz's 1961 nightclub recording at New York's Village Gate. Listening to it now, it's hard to overstate what a terrific tenor he was. This ...

Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was born on October 30, 1932. His parents had come from the Kiev area in the ...