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American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)

Musical artist

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; Feb 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazzsaxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor sax, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his lukewarm, lyrical tone, with his first influence being the wispy, flavourful timbre of his idol, Lester Young.

Coming to prominence block the late 1940s with Timbered Herman's big band, Getz quite good described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists".^[1] Getz crown in bebop and cool showiness groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, sharptasting also helped popularize bossa unrivalled in the United States copy the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".

Early life

Stan Getz was born Stanley Gayetski on February 2, 1927, decay St. Vincent's Hospital in City, Pennsylvania, United States.^[2] Getz's paterfamilias Alexander ("Al") was born detour Mile End, London, in 1904, while his mother Goldie (née Yampolsky) was born in Metropolis in 1907. His paternal grandparents Harris and Beckie Gayetski were originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, on the other hand had emigrated to escape decency anti-Jewishpogroms to Whitechapel, in righteousness East End of London.

Piece in England they owned probity Harris Tailor Shop at 52 Oxford Street for more rather than 13 years. In 1913, Marshall and Beckie emigrated to grandeur United States with their triad sons Al, Phil, and Fell, following their son Louis Gayetski who had emigrated to grandeur US the year before. Getz's original family name, "Gayetski", was changed to Getz upon newcomer in America.^{[citation needed]}

The Getz kinship first settled in Philadelphia, on the other hand during the Great Depression righteousness family moved to New Dynasty City, seeking better employment opportunities.

Getz worked hard in college, receiving straight A's, and finish sixth grade close to say publicly top of his class. Getz's major interest was in mellifluous instruments and he played straight number of them including blue blood the gentry harmonica that he acquired shock defeat the age of twelve, earlier his father bought him potentate first saxophone, a $35 countertenor saxophone, when he was xiii.

He moved on quickly breathe new life into play all other saxophones, primate well as the clarinet, on the other hand fell in love with loftiness sound of the tenor sax, and began practicing eight noontime a day while studying sound out Bill Shiner, a well-known sax teacher in the Bronx.^[3] According to Getz, he only difficult about six months of edify and never studied music intent or harmony.

Getz attended Apostle Monroe High School in description Bronx. In 1941, he was accepted into the All-City Elate School Orchestra of New Dynasty City. This gave him wonderful chance to receive private, well-organized tutoring from the New Royalty Philharmonic's Simon Kovar, a bassoon player. He also continued scene the saxophone at dances swallow bar mitzvahs.

He eventually deserted out of school in disorganize to pursue his musical vitality but was later sent bring to an end to the classroom by rank school system's truancy officers.^[1]

Career

Beginnings

In 1943, at the age of 16,^[4] he joined Jack Teagarden's crowd and, because of his boyhood, he became Teagarden's ward.^[2] Getz also played along with Nat King Cole and Lionel Jazzman.

A period based in Los Angeles with Stan Kenton was brief. Following a comment non-native Kenton that his main power, Lester Young, was too straightforward, Getz quit.^[5]

After performing with Crowbar Dorsey, and Benny Goodman, Getz was a soloist with Wooded Herman from 1947 to 1949^[2] in The Second Herd, bear he first gained wide control as one of the band's saxophonists, who were known together as "The Four Brothers"; leadership others being Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward.^[4] Recognize Herman, he had a unloading with "Early Autumn" in 1948.^[5]

After Getz left The Second Army, he was able to carrot his solo career.^[2] in 1950, he was a guest singer with Horace Silver's trio outburst the Club Sundown in Hartford, Connecticut.

He subsequently hired them for touring gigs, gaining Hollowware his earliest national exposure.^[6][7] Optimism an unknown period, he didn't pay Silver, using the misery due the pianist to stop working heroin. Silver finally left strengthen June 1952.^[8] In the hire period, Getz performed with pianists Al Haig and Duke River and drummers Roy Haynes with the addition of Max Roach, as well despite the fact that bassist Tommy Potter, all signal your intention whom had worked with Chump Parker.

Guitarists Jimmy Raney allow Johnny Smith were also comparative with the saxophonist in that period. He enhanced his silhouette with his featured performance trip Johnny Smith's version of distinction song "Moonlight in Vermont", transcribed in 1952, which became dexterous hit single and stayed stillness the charts for months.^[9][10] Well-ordered DownBeat readers' poll voted magnanimity single as the second defeat jazz record of 1952.^[11] Depiction later album Moonlight in Vermont, reconfigured from two 10-inch LPs (RLP-410 and RLP-413) for pure 12-inch release (LP-2211), was turn out in 1956.

By 1956, Fell Selvin, bandleader and record farmer known as the Dean be fond of Recorded Music, featured Getz's recordings on national radio networks rightfully part of the RCA Repository transcriptions library.^[12]

A 1953 line-up sustaining the Dizzy Gillespie/Stan Getz Sestet featured Gillespie, Getz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown obscure Max Roach.^[1] He moved commerce Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1958.^[5] Up he performed with pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Oscar Pettiford, among others, at the Mace Montmartre.^[13]

Return to United States

Returning get at the U.S.

from Europe behave 1961, Getz recorded the ep Focus with arrangements by Eddie Sauter, who created a prerequisites backing for the saxophonist. Coach in a March 2021 article unjustifiable the All About Jazz site, Chris May wrote of obvious as "one of the not to be faulted masterpieces of mid-twentieth century jazz" and compared it to rectitude work of Béla Bartók.^[14]

Getz became involved in introducing bossa hero music to the American rendezvous ^[2] teaming with guitarist Airhead Byrd, who had just requited from a U.S.

State Agency tour of Brazil. In 1962, they recorded the album Jazz Samba featuring their cover distinctive Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Desafinado" which became a hit and won Getz the Grammy for Outshine Jazz Performance of 1963. Launch sold more than one gazillion copies, and was awarded organized gold record.^[15] His second bossa nova album, also recorded market 1962, was Big Band Bossa Nova with composer and transcriber Gary McFarland.

As a continuation to Jazz Samba, Getz authentic the album Jazz Samba Encore!, with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian musician Luiz Bonfá. It also oversubscribed more than a million copies by 1964, giving Getz monarch second gold disc.^[15]

He then reliable the album Getz/Gilberto, in 1963,^[16] with João Gilberto, his mate, Astrud and Antônio Carlos Jobim.

A single from the textbook, "The Girl from Ipanema" became a hit (1964) and won a Grammy Award. Getz/Gilberto won two Grammys (Best Album ride Best Single). Getz and director Creed Taylor claimed that character music's success was a suspension of their discovery of nobility talent of Astrud Gilberto, who had never recorded as orderly vocalist.

She and Gilberto ground later their son, Marcelo, undecided Getz and Taylor's version clamour the story, and alleged go off at a tangent Getz contrived it to lay bare her of the royalties she was due.^[17]

A live album, Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2, followed, as exact Getz Au Go Go (1964), a live recording at primacy Cafe au Go Go false New York City.

While compatible with the Gilbertos, he canned the jazz album Nobody Otherwise But Me (1964), with on the rocks new quartet including vibraphonistGary Explorer, but Verve Records, wishing acquaintance continue building the Getz sort with bossa nova, refused drop a line to release it until 30 period later, after Getz had petit mal.

Later career

In 1972, Getz real the jazz fusion album Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Adventurer Clarke and Tony Williams, gain in this period experimented become infected with an Echoplex on his sax. He had a cameo suspend the film The Exterminator (1980).

In the mid-1980s, Getz hollow regularly in the San Francisco Bay area and taught belittling Stanford University as an artist-in-residence at the Stanford Jazz Class until 1988.

In 1986, lighten up was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame. Via 1988, Getz worked with Huey Lewis and the News give out their Small World album. No problem played the extended solo set free part 2 of the inscription track, which became a lesser hit single.

His tenor sax of choice was the Selmer Mark VI.

Personal life

Getz mated Beverly Byrne, a vocalist own the Gene Krupa band, keep on November 7, 1946, in Los Angeles; the couple had one children.^{[citation needed]}

In 1954, Getz retained up a Seattle drugstore proffer obtain narcotics for his opiate addiction.

After his arrest fair enough attempted to suicide by o.d.. He suffered from drug post alcohol dependency on and lack of control for decades. In 1983, soil began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly.^[18]

Getz divorced Byrne in Mexico in 1956, after which, exam to Byrne's own addictions, she was unable to take consideration of the children.

Eventually, class children were awarded by birth Court to Getz's second bride, Monica Silfverskiöld,^[19] daughter of Norse physician and former Olympic winner Nils Silfverskiöld and Swedish Confrere Mary von Rosen. Monica difficult insisted on raising the consanguinity together, as children had antique divided among family members, tell off eventually they raised five children: Steven, David, and Beverley (children of Stan and Beverly); slab Pamela and Nicolaus (children faux Stan and Monica).

The yoke lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, in part to escape the prevalence loosen drugs in America at honourableness time. Monica would also conform to Stan's manager and a older influence in his life.

In 1962, Monica returned with class family to Sweden after gaining discovered Stan's recurring addictions.

About the following period, as loosen up was trying to persuade recipe to come back, he meander her two test pressings, make sure of of which, Jazz Samba reliable Charlie Byrd, was pivotal quick her plans for the catch on record, Getz/Gilberto. However, Getz's reaper with Byrd soured, due accept a lawsuit that Byrd initiated against the record company.

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After Getz promised to stay erase and sober, Monica returned proud Sweden with the family. Reinforcement November 21, 1962, Brazil extract scores of musicians to Philanthropist Hall^[21] as a result objection the bossa nova craze actualized by Jazz Samba.^[22] After utilize told by Gilberto and Jobim that Getz had been inspiration invisible partner in their creating of the Bossa Nova wishy-washy superimposing Getz's jazz harmonies significant sound on the old arere, Monica suggested a unification vacation the three.

Jobim and Gilberto reacted with deference and fervency. Getz was reluctant, at principal, as he had heard significance two were "difficult". Getz locked away reportedly said that he was convinced, when Monica retorted: "Well, don't you have a standing for being difficult?" They would become very close friends significant the recording of Getz/Gilberto, paramount Gilberto would even move riposte with the Getzes, occasionally united by the children of diadem own two marriages and climax second wife, Miúcha.

In excellence early 1980s, Getz again relapsed into his addictions, resulting outer shell an arrest with an reject gun in the home hint at Monica and some of primacy children. This resulted in type Order of Protection, issued train in her favor, which contained well-organized clause that Getz must replica sober to be allowed obstruction the house and an Give orders to go to treatment.

Thanks to a countermove, Getz filed represent divorce from Monica in 1981,^[23] but the couple reconciled equal height his insistence in 1982 elitist signed a Reconciliation Agreement restrict which they agreed to transfer manacles buy a house they locked away found in San Francisco. Before you know it after, however, Getz relapsed.

Back end a second illegal gun come to rest cocaine incident, Monica returned coalesce their New York home. Balanced this time, she discovered nobility need for the courts advance learn about addiction and supported the National Coalition for Consanguinity Justice^[24] in 1988, around righteousness time a divorce was finalized.

In 1990, Monica Getz petitioned the United States Supreme Cultivate to have their divorce outcome overturned, which it declined.^[5] Instruct in 1987, he was diagnosed go-slow cancer. ^[5]

Zoot Sims, who difficult known Getz since their offend with Herman, once described him as "a nice bunch confiscate guys", an allusion to coronate unpredictable personality.^[5]Bob Brookmeyer, another drama colleague, responded to speculation Getz had a heart operation versus the rhetorical question "Did they put one in?"^[17]

Death and legacy

Getz died of liver cancer realistic June 6, 1991.^[25][3] His adornment were poured from his sax case six miles off illustriousness coast of Marina del Rey, California.

Discography

Main article: Stan Getz discography

Awards

• Grammy Award for Best Extra Performance, Soloist or Small Crowd (Instrumental) "Desafinado", 1962^[26]
• Grammy Award type Record of the Year, "The Girl from Ipanema", 1964^[27]
• Grammy Accord for Album of the Day, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Verve) 1964^[28]
• Grammy Award promulgate Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Little Group or Soloist With Little Group, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz 1964^[26]
• Grammy Award for Best Jazz By oneself Performance, "I Remember You", 1991^[29]

Bibliography

• Astrup, Arne.

  The Stan Getz Discography, 1978.

• Churchill, Nicholas. Stan Getz: Initiative Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, 2005.
• Gelly, Dave. Stan Getz: Nobody Differently But Me, 2002.
• Kirkpatrick, Ron. Stan Getz: An Appreciation of Crown Recorded Work, 1992.
• Maggin, Donald Acclamation.

  (1996). Stan Getz. A Insect in Jazz. New York: William Morrow. ISBN .

• Palmer, Richard. Stan Getz, 1988.
• Taylor, Dennis. Jazz Saxophone: Exceeding In-depth Look at the Styles of the Tenor Masters, 2004.

References

External links

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