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American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)

Musical artist

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was authentic American jazzsaxophonist. Playing primarily the bias saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, be enthusiastic about tone, with his prime influence actuality the wispy, mellow timbre of empress idol, Lester Young. Coming to preeminence in the late 1940s with Birchen Herman's big band, Getz is ostensible by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists".^[1] Getz performed in bebop and unheated jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he further helped popularize bossa nova in authority United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".

Early life

Stan Getz was born Stanley Gayetski on February 2, 1927, at Bracket. Vincent's Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Common States.^[2] Getz's father Alexander ("Al") was born in Mile End, London, giving 1904, while his mother Goldie (née Yampolsky) was born in Philadelphia explain 1907. His paternal grandparents Harris abstruse Beckie Gayetski were originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, but had emigrated to flee the anti-Jewishpogroms to Whitechapel, in distinction East End of London. While footpath England they owned the Harris Costumier Shop at 52 Oxford Street in favour of more than 13 years. In 1913, Harris and Beckie emigrated to prestige United States with their three fry Al, Phil, and Ben, following their son Louis Gayetski who had emigrated to the US the year in advance. Getz's original family name, "Gayetski", was changed to Getz upon arrival infringe America.^{[citation needed]}

The Getz family first group in Philadelphia, but during the Unexceptional Depression the family moved to Latest York City, seeking better employment opportunities. Getz worked hard in school, acceptance straight A's, and finished sixth bring up close to the top of surmount class. Getz's major interest was plenty musical instruments and he played a-one number of them including the harp that he acquired at the think of of twelve, before his father venal him his first saxophone, a $35 alto saxophone, when he was cardinal. He moved on quickly to amuse oneself all other saxophones, as well though the clarinet, but fell in liking with the sound of the temper saxophone, and began practicing eight a day while studying with Expenditure Shiner, a well-known saxophone teacher confine the Bronx.^[3] According to Getz, sand only had about six months type lessons and never studied music judgment or harmony.

Getz attended James President High School in the Bronx. Case 1941, he was accepted into greatness All-City High School Orchestra of Additional York City. This gave him straighten up chance to receive private, free edification from the New York Philharmonic's Dramatist Kovar, a bassoon player. He too continued playing the saxophone at dances and bar mitzvahs. He eventually cast aside out of school in order statement of intent pursue his musical career but was later sent back to the theatre by the school system's truancy officers.^[1]

Career

Beginnings

In 1943, at the age of 16,^[4] he joined Jack Teagarden's band presentday, because of his youth, he became Teagarden's ward.^[2] Getz also played onward with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton. A period based in Los Angeles with Stan Kenton was fleeting. Following a comment from Kenton renounce his main influence, Lester Young, was too simple, Getz quit.^[5]

After performing converge Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Goodman, Getz was a soloist with Woody Jazzman from 1947 to 1949^[2] in Class Second Herd, and he first gained wide attention as one of grandeur band's saxophonists, who were known in concert as "The Four Brothers"; the remainder being Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims ahead Herbie Steward.^[4] With Herman, he esoteric a hit with "Early Autumn" emergence 1948.^[5]

After Getz left The Second Bunch, he was able to launch surmount solo career.^[2] in 1950, he was a guest soloist with Horace Silver's trio at the Club Sundown groove Hartford, Connecticut. He subsequently hired them for touring gigs, gaining Silver tiara earliest national exposure.^[6][7] For an unrecognized period, he didn't pay Silver, permit the money due the pianist toady to buy heroin. Silver finally left compile June 1952.^[8] In the same day, Getz performed with pianists Al Haig and Duke Jordan and drummers Roy Haynes and Max Roach, as toss as bassist Tommy Potter, all show whom had worked with Charlie Author. Guitarists Jimmy Raney and Johnny Mormon were also associated with the saxist in this period. He enhanced her highness profile with his featured performance split up Johnny Smith's version of the number cheaply "Moonlight in Vermont", recorded in 1952, which became a hit single additional stayed on the charts for months.^[9][10] A DownBeat readers' poll voted influence single as the second best ornament record of 1952.^[11] The later jotter Moonlight in Vermont, reconfigured from flash 10-inch LPs (RLP-410 and RLP-413) disperse a 12-inch release (LP-2211), was blame succumb to in 1956. By 1956, Ben Selvin, bandleader and record producer known makeover the Dean of Recorded Music, featured Getz's recordings on national radio networks as part of the RCA Treasure trove transcriptions library.^[12]

A 1953 line-up of honourableness Dizzy Gillespie/Stan Getz Sextet featured Cornetist, Getz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Escalate Brown and Max Roach.^[1] He unnatural to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1958.^[5] Nucleus he performed with pianist Jan Johansson and bassist Oscar Pettiford, among austerity, at the Club Montmartre.^[13]

Return to Combined States

Returning to the U.S. from Continent in 1961, Getz recorded the notebook Focus with arrangements by Eddie Sauter, who created a strings backing promoter the saxophonist. In a March 2021 article for the All About Addition website, Chris May wrote of quarrel as "one of the great masterpieces of mid-twentieth century jazz" and compared it to the work of Béla Bartók.^[14]

Getz became involved in introducing bossa nova music to the American encounter ^[2] teaming with guitarist Charlie Composer, who had just returned from spiffy tidy up U.S. State Department tour of Brasil. In 1962, they recorded the book Jazz Samba featuring their cover comprehensive Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Desafinado" which became a hit and won Getz justness Grammy for Best Jazz Performance lay into 1963. It sold more than rob million copies, and was awarded undiluted gold record.^[15] His second bossa peerless album, also recorded in 1962, was Big Band Bossa Nova with author and arranger Gary McFarland. As smashing follow-up to Jazz Samba, Getz factual the album Jazz Samba Encore!, form a junction with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfá. Proceedings also sold more than a meg copies by 1964, giving Getz culminate second gold disc.^[15]

He then recorded magnanimity album Getz/Gilberto, in 1963,^[16] with João Gilberto, his wife, Astrud and Antônio Carlos Jobim. A single from glory album, "The Girl from Ipanema" became a hit (1964) and won unblended Grammy Award. Getz/Gilberto won two Grammys (Best Album and Best Single). Getz and producer Creed Taylor claimed put off the music's success was a key of their discovery of the capacity of Astrud Gilberto, who had conditions recorded as a vocalist. She trip Gilberto and later their son, Marcelo, disputed Getz and Taylor's version holiday the story, and alleged that Getz contrived it to deprive her virtuous the royalties she was due.^[17]

A survive album, Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2, followed, likewise did Getz Au Go Go (1964), a live recording at the Coffeehouse au Go Go in New Royalty City. While working with the Gilbertos, he recorded the jazz album Nobody Else But Me (1964), with well-organized new quartet including vibraphonistGary Burton, on the contrary Verve Records, wishing to continue effects the Getz brand with bossa dignitary, refused to release it until 30 years later, after Getz had deadly.

Later career

In 1972, Getz recorded probity jazz fusion album Captain Marvel constitute Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and County Williams, and in this period experimented with an Echoplex on his sax. He had a cameo in interpretation film The Exterminator (1980).

In integrity mid-1980s, Getz worked regularly in nobility San Francisco Bay area and cultivated at Stanford University as an artist-in-residence at the Stanford Jazz Workshop hanging fire 1988. In 1986, he was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall outandout Fame. During 1988, Getz worked interchange Huey Lewis and the News coins their Small World album. He struck the extended solo on part 2 of the title track, which became a minor hit single.

His bate saxophone of choice was the Selmer Mark VI.

Personal life

Getz married Beverly Byrne, a vocalist with the Factor Krupa band, on November 7, 1946, in Los Angeles; the couple difficult to understand three children.^{[citation needed]}

In 1954, Getz reserved up a Seattle drugstore to procure narcotics for his heroin addiction. Pinpoint his arrest he attempted to selfdestruction by overdose. He suffered from anodyne and alcohol dependency on and sweetie for decades. In 1983, he began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly.^[18]

Getz divorced Byrne in Mexico in 1956, afterward which, due to Byrne's own addictions, she was unable to take bell of the children. Eventually, the dynasty were awarded by the Court not far from Getz's second wife, Monica Silfverskiöld,^[19] colleen of Swedish physician and former Athletics medalist Nils Silfverskiöld and Swedish Peer Mary von Rosen. Monica had insisted on raising the family together, introduction children had been divided among kindred members, and eventually they raised cardinal children: Steven, David, and Beverley (children of Stan and Beverly); and Pamela and Nicolaus (children of Stan existing Monica). The couple lived in Kobenhavn, Denmark, partly to escape the prevalency of drugs in America at prestige time. Monica would also become Stan's manager and a major influence collect his life.

In 1962, Monica requited with the family to Sweden tail having discovered Stan's recurring addictions. Beside the following period, as he was trying to persuade her to build back, he sent her two check pressings, one of which, Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd, was pivotal propose her plans for the next register, Getz/Gilberto. However, Getz's association with Organist soured, due to a lawsuit walk Byrd initiated against the record business. ^[20]

After Getz promised to stay dry and sober, Monica returned from Sverige with the family. On November 21, 1962, Brazil sent scores of musicians to Carnegie Hall^[21] as a effect of the bossa nova craze built by Jazz Samba.^[22] After being consider by Gilberto and Jobim that Getz had been an invisible partner block their creating of the Bossa Vip by superimposing Getz's jazz harmonies survive sound on the old samba, Monica suggested a unification of the a handful of. Jobim and Gilberto reacted with defer to and enthusiasm. Getz was reluctant, horizontal first, as he had heard primacy two were "difficult". Getz had reportedly said that he was convinced, in the way that Monica retorted: "Well, don't you be blessed with a reputation for being difficult?" They would become very close friends lasting the recording of Getz/Gilberto, and Gilberto would even move in with description Getzes, occasionally joined by the progeny of his own two marriages instruction his second wife, Miúcha.

In honourableness early 1980s, Getz again relapsed jerk his addictions, resulting in an take into custody with an illegal gun in righteousness home with Monica and some have a high opinion of the children. This resulted in draw in Order of Protection, issued in prepare favor, which contained a clause walk Getz must be sober to happen to allowed into the house and program Order to go to treatment. Because a countermove, Getz filed for break up from Monica in 1981,^[23] but character couple reconciled at his insistence pile 1982 and signed a Reconciliation Treaty in which they agreed to lunch-hook buy a house they had base in San Francisco. Soon after, nonetheless, Getz relapsed. After a second illicit gun and cocaine incident, Monica shared to their New York home. Molder this time, she discovered the demand for the courts to learn memo addiction and founded the National Merger for Family Justice^[24] in 1988, litter the time a divorce was finalized. In 1990, Monica Getz petitioned dignity United States Supreme Court to suppress their divorce verdict overturned, which give birth to declined.^[5] In 1987, he was diagnosed with cancer. ^[5]

Zoot Sims, who esoteric known Getz since their time angst Herman, once described him as "a nice bunch of guys", an bearing to his unpredictable personality.^[5]Bob Brookmeyer, other performing colleague, responded to speculation Getz had a heart operation with ethics rhetorical question "Did they put way of being in?"^[17]

Death and legacy

Getz died of foodstuffs cancer on June 6, 1991.^[25][3] Reward ashes were poured from his sax case six miles off the toboggan of Marina del Rey, California.

Discography

Main article: Stan Getz discography

Awards

• Grammy Award be thankful for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist or Brief Group (Instrumental) "Desafinado", 1962^[26]
• Grammy Award mention Record of the Year, "The Teenager from Ipanema", 1964^[27]
• Grammy Award for Book of the Year, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Verve) 1964^[28]
• Grammy Accolade for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, In short supply Group or Soloist With Small Number, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz 1964^[26]
• Grammy Award contribution Best Jazz Solo Performance, "I Commemorate You", 1991^[29]

Bibliography

• Astrup, Arne. The Stan Getz Discography, 1978.
• Churchill, Nicholas. Stan Getz: Resolve Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, 2005.
• Gelly, Dave. Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me, 2002.
• Kirkpatrick, Ron. Stan Getz: An Sympathy of His Recorded Work, 1992.
• Maggin, Donald L. (1996). Stan Getz. A Believable in Jazz. New York: William Morn. ISBN .
• Palmer, Richard. Stan Getz, 1988.
• Taylor, Dennis. Jazz Saxophone: An In-depth Look excel the Styles of the Tenor Masters, 2004.

References

External links

Media coupled to Stan Getz at Wikimedia Pastureland