Stan Getz News

Drummer Eddie Marshall was a focal point of Bay Area jazz for decades, not only because of his sterling musical abilities but also because of the grand warmth and energy that just made people want to be around him.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

How do you sell top-flight musicians on playing a gig that pays peanuts? You tell them it's a paid rehearsal and a community service.

Grace Kelly says that the first saxophonist she heard was Stan Getz: "I just fell in love with his sound, his tone.

There are two important benefit concerts on the schedule for this month and next.

He was one of the first pioneers of the saxophone, and, in addition to inspiring and influencing some of the greatest more modern players, particularly the school of Stan Getz and Zoot Simms, Young made the saxophone famous, an instrument of choice.

He was a blazing be-bopper one minute, an Indian sitar the next, a vocal acrobat in parts, and even ripped off a kind of Satchmo-meets-Native American chant.

Horace Silver is a prolific composer, an accomplished bandleader, and one of the main originators of the styles known as hard bop and soul jazz.

Bob Brookmeyer , a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the ... (more)

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and Neptune.

Beginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent\'s Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb.

And while they're in town, Wendholt, Kolker, Ugonna Okegwo and Victor Lewis will hold clinics for jazz students Friday and Saturday at H.H. Dow High School and "I'm amazed that we could get them," said Ed Carney, who organized Saturday's concert.

Acoustic bassist John Patitucci is the featured performed at a special concert by the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, taking place at the Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online or at the door.

Ben Riley began his four-year association with Thelonious Monk on a moment's notice, joining the It's Monk's Time recording session devoid of any previous playing experience in Monk's quartet, or even the benefit of a single rehearsal.* Riley thus stepped into the drum chair of one of the greatest working jazz bands of the mid-1960s and made his ... (more)

According to Nielsen SoundScan, music fans bought 3.9 million vinyl records in 2011 -- the most in two decades.

As remarkable as it may seem that Stan Levey was a self-taught drummer, even more remarkable are the circumstances and encounters that caused his name to be linked irrevocably to such legendary figures as Parker, Gillespie, Roach, Stan Getz and other bop-era pioneers.

For many decades now the music of modern Brazil has flowed to our shores bringing rhythmic richness and exotic sounds.

Bekkas is a leading Gnawa musician who sings and plays the oud, as well as acoustic guitar and guembri, the three-stringed bass-like instrument that provides the trance-inducing pulse of Gnawa music.

He's played with Charlie "Bird" Parker, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, and Joe Henderson, and from 1965 to 1967, he was touring pianist for the legendary Aretha Franklin.

In 1966 daringly original jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler toured Europe as part of an annual "Newport in Europe" package.