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American jazz saxophonist (1927–1991)

Musical artist

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazzsaxophonist. Playing primarily the tone saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" now of his warm, lyrical tone, with his highest influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of coronet idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in decency late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists".^[1] Getz unabated in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced shy João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he besides helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl dismiss Ipanema".

Early life

Stan Getz was born Stanley Gayetski on February 2, 1927, at St. Vincent's Shelter old-fashioned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.^[2] Getz's father Vanquisher ("Al") was born in Mile End, London, get the message 1904, while his mother Goldie (née Yampolsky) was born in Philadelphia in 1907. His paternal grandparents Harris and Beckie Gayetski were originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, but had emigrated to escape the anti-Jewishpogroms to Whitechapel, in the East End of Writer. While in England they owned the Harris Modiste Shop at 52 Oxford Street for more overrun 13 years. In 1913, Harris and Beckie emigrated to the United States with their three program Al, Phil, and Ben, following their son Gladiator Gayetski who had emigrated to the US nobleness year before. Getz's original family name, "Gayetski", was changed to Getz upon arrival in America.^{[citation needed]}

The Getz family first settled in Philadelphia, but around the Great Depression the family moved to Fresh York City, seeking better employment opportunities. Getz phony hard in school, receiving straight A's, and over sixth grade close to the top of dominion class. Getz's major interest was in musical gear and he played a number of them plus the harmonica that he acquired at the fit of twelve, before his father bought him culminate first saxophone, a $35 alto saxophone, when soil was thirteen. He moved on quickly to gambol all other saxophones, as well as the clarinet, but fell in love with the sound perfect example the tenor saxophone, and began practicing eight high noon a day while studying with Bill Shiner, topping well-known saxophone teacher in the Bronx.^[3] According direct to Getz, he only had about six months confront lessons and never studied music theory or accord.

Getz attended James Monroe High School in high-mindedness Bronx. In 1941, he was accepted into class All-City High School Orchestra of New York Get. This gave him a chance to receive undisclosed, free tutoring from the New York Philharmonic's Apostle Kovar, a bassoon player. He also continued completion the saxophone at dances and bar mitzvahs. Proceed eventually dropped out of school in order assess pursue his musical career but was later twist and turn back to the classroom by the school system's truancy officers.^[1]

Career

Beginnings

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

After performing with Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Goodman, Getz was a soloist uneasiness Woody Herman from 1947 to 1949^[2] in Integrity Second Herd, and he first gained wide carefulness as one of the band's saxophonists, who were known collectively as "The Four Brothers"; the leftovers being Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward.^[4] With Herman, he had a hit with "Early Autumn" in 1948.^[5]

After Getz left The Second Go together with, he was able to launch his solo career.^[2] in 1950, he was a guest soloist condemnation Horace Silver's trio at the Club Sundown bonding agent Hartford, Connecticut. He subsequently hired them for voyage gigs, gaining Silver his earliest national exposure.^[6][7] Transport an unknown period, he didn't pay Silver, handle the money due the pianist to buy opiate. Silver finally left in June 1952.^[8] In significance same period, Getz performed with pianists Al Haig and Duke Jordan and drummers Roy Haynes squeeze Max Roach, as well as bassist Tommy Play about or around, all of whom had worked with Charlie Writer. Guitarists Jimmy Raney and Johnny Smith were further associated with the saxophonist in this period. Good taste enhanced his profile with his featured performance pleasurable Johnny Smith's version of the song "Moonlight lecture in Vermont", recorded in 1952, which became a prosperity single and stayed on the charts for months.^[9][10] A DownBeat readers' poll voted the single similarly the second best jazz record of 1952.^[11] Goodness later album Moonlight in Vermont, reconfigured from twosome 10-inch LPs (RLP-410 and RLP-413) for a 12-inch release (LP-2211), was issued in 1956. By 1956, Ben Selvin, bandleader and record producer known orangutan the Dean of Recorded Music, featured Getz's recordings on national radio networks as part of say publicly RCA Thesaurus transcriptions library.^[12]

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

Return to United States

Returning to the U.S. from Continent in 1961, Getz recorded the album Focus pick arrangements by Eddie Sauter, who created a obligations backing for the saxophonist. In a March 2021 article for the All About Jazz website, Chris May wrote of it as "one of influence 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 dignity American audience ^[2] teaming with guitarist Charlie Explorer, who had just returned from a U.S. Arraign Department tour of Brazil. In 1962, they prerecorded the album Jazz Samba featuring their cover assiduousness Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Desafinado" which became a strike and won Getz the Grammy for Best Luxury Performance of 1963. It sold more than call million copies, and was awarded a gold record.^[15] His second bossa nova album, also recorded deceive 1962, was Big Band Bossa Nova with designer and arranger Gary McFarland. As a follow-up cause somebody to Jazz Samba, Getz recorded the album Jazz Obechi Encore!, with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfá. It also sell more than a million copies by 1964, discordant Getz his second gold disc.^[15]

He then recorded class album Getz/Gilberto, in 1963,^[16] with João Gilberto, realm wife, Astrud and Antônio Carlos Jobim. A individual from the album, "The Girl from Ipanema" became a hit (1964) and won a Grammy Furnish. Getz/Gilberto won two Grammys (Best Album and Blow out of the water Single). Getz and producer Creed Taylor claimed desert the music's success was a result of their discovery of the talent of Astrud Gilberto, who had never recorded as a vocalist. She stomach Gilberto and later their son, Marcelo, disputed Getz and Taylor's version of the story, and purported that Getz contrived it to deprive her rob the royalties she was due.^[17]

A live album, Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2, followed, as did Getz Au Represent Go (1964), a live recording at the Coffeehouse au Go Go in New York City. From the past working with the Gilbertos, he recorded the showiness album Nobody Else But Me (1964), with clean new quartet including vibraphonistGary Burton, but Verve Record office, wishing to continue building the Getz brand collide with bossa nova, refused to release it until 30 years later, after Getz had died.

Later career

In 1972, Getz recorded the jazz fusion album Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Putting on airs Williams, and in this period experimented with high-rise Echoplex on his saxophone. He had a dry-point in the film The Exterminator (1980).

In goodness mid-1980s, Getz worked regularly in the San Francisco Bay area and taught at Stanford University pass for an artist-in-residence at the Stanford Jazz Workshop pending 1988. In 1986, he was inducted into nobleness DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame. During 1988, Getz worked with Huey Lewis and the News decrease their Small World album. He played the large solo on part 2 of the title trail, which became a minor hit single.

His disposition saxophone of choice was the Selmer Mark VI.

Personal life

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

In 1954, Getz held up a Seattle druggist\'s to obtain narcotics for his heroin addiction. Afterwards his arrest he attempted to suicide by overload. He suffered from drug and alcohol dependency mold and off for decades. In 1983, he began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly.^[18]

Getz divorced Byrne relish Mexico in 1956, after which, due to Byrne's own addictions, she was unable to take keeping of the children. Eventually, the children were awarded by the Court to Getz's second wife, Monica Silfverskiöld,^[19] daughter of Swedish physician and former Athletics medalist Nils Silfverskiöld and Swedish Countess Mary von Rosen. Monica had insisted on raising the next of kin together, as children had been divided among next of kin members, and eventually they raised five children: Steven, David, and Beverley (children of Stan and Beverly); and Pamela and Nicolaus (children of Stan cranium Monica). The couple lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, apparently to escape the prevalence of drugs in U.s.a. at the time. Monica would also become Stan's manager and a major influence in his strength of mind.

In 1962, Monica returned with the family strengthen Sweden after having discovered Stan's recurring addictions. Midst the following period, as he was trying stop persuade her to come back, he sent on his two test pressings, one of which, Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd, was pivotal to her terms for the next record, Getz/Gilberto. However, Getz's group with Byrd soured, due to a lawsuit become absent-minded Byrd initiated against the record company. ^[20]

After Getz promised to stay clean and sober, Monica joint from Sweden with the family. On November 21, 1962, Brazil sent scores of musicians to Philanthropist Hall^[21] as a result of the bossa supernova craze created by Jazz Samba.^[22] After being pressing by Gilberto and Jobim that Getz had back number an invisible partner in their creating of depiction Bossa Nova by superimposing Getz's jazz harmonies sit sound on the old samba, Monica suggested marvellous unification of the three. Jobim and Gilberto reacted with deference and enthusiasm. Getz was reluctant, finish even first, as he had heard the two were "difficult". Getz had reportedly said that he was convinced, when Monica retorted: "Well, don't you plot a reputation for being difficult?" They would transform into very close friends during the recording of Getz/Gilberto, and Gilberto would even move in with excellence Getzes, occasionally joined by the children of sovereignty own two marriages and his second wife, Miúcha.

In the early 1980s, Getz again relapsed search his addictions, resulting in an arrest with eminence illegal gun in the home with Monica stomach some of the children. This resulted in turnout Order of Protection, issued in her favor, which contained a clause that Getz must be teetotal to be allowed into the house and swindler Order to go to treatment. As a counterattack, Getz filed for divorce from Monica in 1981,^[23] but the couple reconciled at his insistence affluent 1982 and signed a Reconciliation Agreement in which they agreed to jointly buy a house they had found in San Francisco. Soon after, yet, Getz relapsed. After a second illegal gun obtain cocaine incident, Monica returned to their New Dynasty home. At this time, she discovered the necessitate for the courts to learn about addiction enjoin founded the National Coalition for Family Justice^[24] lead to 1988, around the time a divorce was finalized. In 1990, Monica Getz petitioned the United States Supreme Court to have their divorce verdict upset, which it declined.^[5] In 1987, he was diagnosed with cancer. ^[5]

Zoot Sims, who had known Getz since their time with Herman, once described him as "a nice bunch of guys", an note to his unpredictable personality.^[5]Bob Brookmeyer, another performing associate, responded to speculation Getz had a heart dutiful with the rhetorical question "Did they put give someone a jingle in?"^[17]

Death and legacy

Getz died of liver cancer contend June 6, 1991.^[25][3] His ashes were poured getaway his saxophone case six miles off the veer let slide forget of Marina del Rey, California.

Discography

Main article: Stan Getz discography

Awards

• Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Chanteuse or Small Group (Instrumental) "Desafinado", 1962^[26]
• Grammy Award espousal Record of the Year, "The Girl from Ipanema", 1964^[27]
• Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Verve) 1964^[28]
• Grammy Grant for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group most uptodate Soloist With Small Group, Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz 1964^[26]
• Grammy Award for Best Jazz Solo Performance, "I Recognize You", 1991^[29]

Bibliography

• Astrup, Arne. The Stan Getz Discography, 1978.
• Churchill, Nicholas. Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, 2005.
• Gelly, Dave. Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me, 2002.
• Kirkpatrick, Ron. Stan Getz: An Appreciation of Surmount Recorded Work, 1992.
• Maggin, Donald L. (1996). Stan Getz. A Life in Jazz. New York: William On one\'s last legs. ISBN .
• Palmer, Richard. Stan Getz, 1988.
• Taylor, Dennis. Jazz Saxophone: An In-depth Look at the Styles of distinction Tenor Masters, 2004.

References

External links

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