Stan Getz

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(Jazz Transcriptions). 54 Getz songs transcribed for all Eb instruments exactly from his recorded solos. Includes: All the Things You Are * Autumn Leaves * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Blue Skies * Come Rain or Come Shine * Con Alma * Desafinado * Funkallero * Garota De Ipanema * I Remember You * Night and Day * A Night in Tunisia * One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) * Pennies from Heaven * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) * Stella by Starlight * The Way You Look Tonight * Where or When * Yardbird Suite * and more. Also includes a bio of Getz.

Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist, for his bossa nova hits "Desafinado" and "The Girl from Ipanema." However, Getz, born in 1927, began to play professionally at age 15, and his rich musical career lasted until shortly before his death on June 6, 1991. He played in a wide variety of musical settings such as big band, orchestral, quartet, and duo. The incredible beauty of his sound sparked the late jazz great John Coltrane to say, "We would all play like Stan Getz, if we could." When Getz died, jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie said, "He was sheer genius. And there's one thing about this man, he was the most melodic player on the jazz scene." This bibliography, the first of its kind, contains a total of 2,576 bibliographic citations with 2,292 of them annotated. It includes references to periodical literature, articles from news wire services, books, dissertations, films, videos, television programs, radio broadcasts, and Web sites. The citations are primarily from English-language sources. Materials in English and French as well as a handful of items from other languages are annotated. This work includes a preface that contains the scope of the work, a user's guide, and a list of more than 340 periodicals cited. The main body of the work is divided into the following sections: album reviews, performance reviews, discographies and discographical information, transcriptions, biographical and critical works, filmography, and appendix. Album reviews are provided for 240 albums, along with the discographical details for each of these albums. The appendix contains unannotated citations to materials in Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

This songbook presents a great collection of Stan Getz solos, authentically transcribed by Steve Tayton for tenor saxophone with accompanying chord symbols. Performance notes for each song are provided along with a discography spanning over forty years. Song List: - Amorous Cat - Blood Count - Corcovado - Desafinado - East Of The Sun - I'll Remember April - One Note Samba - Soul Eyes - The Girl From Ipanema

(Jazz Transcriptions). 54 Getz songs transcribed exactly from his recorded solos, with solo analysis sections and a complete discography. Includes: All the Things You Are * Autumn Leaves * Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) * Blue Skies * Come Rain or Come Shine * Con Alma * Desafinado * Funkallero * Garota De Ipanema * I Remember You * Night and Day * A Night in Tunisia * One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) * Pennies from Heaven * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) * Stella by Starlight * The Way You Look Tonight * Where or When * Yardbird Suite * and more.

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties to telephone hold music. So how did Getz/Gilberto become the Brazilian album known around the world, crossing generational and demographic divides? Bryan McCann traces the history and making of Getz/Gilberto as a musical collaboration between leading figure of bossa nova João Gilberto and Philadelphia-born and New York-raised cool jazz artist Stan Getz. McCann also reveals the contributions of the less-understood participants (Astrud Gilberto's unrehearsed, English-language vocals; Creed Taylor's immaculate production; Olga Albizu's arresting, abstract-expressionist cover art) to show how a perfect balance of talents led to not just a great album, but a global pop sensation. And he explains how Getz/Gilberto emerged from the context of Bossa Nova Rio de Janeiro, the brief period when the subtle harmonies and aching melodies of bossa nova seemed to distill the spirit of a modernizing, sensuous city. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Stan Getz's prodigiously prolific musical career encompassed the tumultuous eras of big band, swing, be-bop, and free jazz. Though he is most famous for "The Girl from Ipanema," Getz's extraordinary talent established him in the pantheon of jazz greats. His legendary career is all the more impressive given the excesses of his personal life: He was a heroin addict until age twenty-seven; later, a violent alcoholic. Furiously self-destructive, Getz wasn't expected to outlive the 1950s, yet he continued to create beautiful music for forty more years, achieving sobriety five years before succumbing to cancer in 1991. With rich portraits of both the master and those he influenced--such giants as Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis--Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz masterfully captures a dynamic era in music, with the artistic genius, triumphs, and tragedies of Stan Getz at its center.