Stan Getz News

While pop music in the mid-1960s was being roiled by the feverish insurgence of the British Invasion and the fiery soul of Stax and Motown, a new strain of exotic rhythms managed to slip in through the back door and quickly exert a powerful hold over the mainstream American ear.

"Dressing A Colonial Lady," a Wednesday Evening Lecture at the Ipswich Historical Society on Wednesday, July 15, with Adam and Mary Spencer, will use a reproduction gown to demonstrate how ladies in the 17th century got dressed.

Stan Getz characterized the challenge that tenor saxophonists face as singing perfectly on an imperfect instrument.

For those who dig jazz, whether it's cool, slow and blue or red hot and hoppin', there's the Edmonton International Jazz Festival , which runs through Sunday, July 5th.Acts at the festival so far have included John Abercrombie Organ Trio and Branford Marsalis Quartet.

As a child at the age of 12, John Riley began his musical career as a drummer in a rock band playing at sock hops.

Joyce Moreno says music tends to be a more ubiquitous part of everyday life in Brazil than in some parts of the world.

I thought I knew Bill Clinton, but then I came across a cable channel rerun on which the ever-evolving British rocker, the acclaimed musical guru Elvis Costello, was interviewing him.

This year's Stanford Jazz Festival launches its 38th season on June 26 with an eclectic menu of jazz, including swing, bebop, cool, big band, modern, blues and Latin shows.

Barbican Jazz plays host to three rapidly rising jazz stars, all making their London concert debut following impressive club shows over the past year.

Jonas Kullhammar marvels at what he's learned from guys like Victor Lewis. Lewis is "the drummer who played with everybody, all these legends" - Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Woody Shaw, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins.

SOLVANG SALUTES FREDDIE HUBBARD: Although the Solvang Jazz Festival is but a toddler at this stage, with only two fests behind it so far, with this September's third annual affair, the festival will be celebrating a sense of circular history - going back to the head, so to speak.

Program 7: RNW Archives 1974 This year's European Jazz Stage series sees us bringing you a new take on some classic recordings.

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Join us for a European jazz vacation, with 13 weeks of performances from the continent's hottest clubs, concert halls and festivals, including the spectacular North Sea Jazz Festival.

New York, NY 212-581-3080 Guitarist and Connecticut native Joe Diorio earned his reputation as a creative jazz soloist in bands led by jazz legends Sonny Stitt, Horace Silver, Stan Getz and Freddie Hubbard.

He has performed and/ or recorded with many of the great names and legends of jazz including: Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, Michael Brecker, Bud Shank, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, Freddy Hubbard, Art Farmer, Clark Terry, Joe Venuti, Mal Waldron, Jaki Byard, Kenny Drew Sr., Chick Corea, Milt Jackson, Slim Gaillard, John ...

Paquito D'Rivera was born in Havana on June 4, 1948, and grew up a musical prodigy in a devoted family.

And now for the Daily Double question: What longest reigning living monarch also happens to be an accomplished saxophone player? Answer: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.

Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins.

Verve Music Group This latest reissue in the Verve Originals series-which in early 2009 brought us the superb five-CD box set Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums -tends to be overlooked when lists of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's early classics are compiled.