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Jazz Musician of the Day: Stan Getz
All About Jazz is celebrating Stan Getz's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Stan GetzBeginnings... 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 ...
The Story of Jazz Guitar
by AAJ Staff
While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...
Sonny Rollins: Still Seeking the Lost Chord
by R.J. DeLuke
The Saxophone Colossus. The greatest living improvising musician. A musical god. Sonny Rollins has been called all these things at one time or another by fans across the globe, as well as by those involved in the pursuit of music criticism and jazz history. There's no question he is the greatest remaining icon to come out ...
Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes
by Jakob Baekgaard
There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...
Stan Getz: At The Shrine
By Stan Getz
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Chocolate Sundae; When Your Lover Has Gone; Candy; Ballade (Lush Life, Lullaby of the Leaves, Makin'Whoopee, It
Never Entered My Mind); Woodyn' You.
Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums
By Stan Getz
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Jazz Samba: Desafinado; Samba Dees Days; O Pato; Samba Triste; Samba De Uma Nota So; E Luxo So; Baia.
Big Band Bossa Nova: Manha De Carnival; Balanco No Samba; Melancolico; Entre Amigos; Chega De Saudade; Noite Triste; Samba De Uma Nota So; Bim Bom.
Jazz Samba Encore!: Sambalero; So Danco Samba; Insensatez; O Morro Nao Tem Vez; Samba De Duas Notas; Menina Flor; Mania De Maria; Saudade Vem Correndo; Um Abraco No Getz; Ebony Samba.
Getz/Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema; Doralice; P'ra Machucar Meu Coracao; Desafinado; Corcovado; So Danco Samba; O Grande Amor; Vivo Sohando.
Getz/Almeida: Minina Moca; Once Again; Winter Moon; Do What You Do Do; Samba Da Sahra; Maracatu-Too.
Candido: Fountain of Youth
by AAJ Staff
By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...
Miucha: Miucha com Vinicius, Tom, Joao
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The concept behind this attractive but all-too-succinct compilation sounds like a question from a tropical version of the Trivial Pursuits game: Who is the only vocalist to have recorded at one point or another with all three of bossa nova's holy trinity--Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto and Vinicius de Moraes? It's surprising that there is only ...
Paul Desmond: Take Ten
by Doug Ramsey
This article appears in Chapter 28 of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey (Parkside Publications, 2005). When Desmond had time off from the Brubeck group, he was likely to be recording under his own name. Beginning with the first Desmond Blue session, he and Jim Hall ...
My Shining Hour
Featuring the music of Stan Getz
Duration: 3:25
