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Remembering Stan Getz with Kristen Strom at Stanford Jazz Festival at
Courtesy of Brenna Noonan | Posted on May 2, 2014
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Sun, July 13, 2014
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Easily one of the best-known tenor players in jazz history, Stan Getz emerged with the big bands of Stan Kenton, Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman. Getz made his mark in the worlds of bebop and cool jazz with Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and other stars of the day. But his massive breakthrough came in the early 1960s with a string of Brazilian-themed albums on Verve, in which he melded jazz sensibilities with bossa nova and samba rhythms. Getz/Gilberto scored two Grammy Awards and made “The Girl From Ipanema” a pop standard. Getz also played a key role at Stanford Jazz Workshop, where he taught and performed during the ‘80s...