Stan Getz News

O nce upon a time, in deep Southside Chicago - past the railroad tracks, past old Comiskey Park and just past Washington Park - one could find an opulent, 200-room building called the Pershing Hotel.

Popular Danish TV personality Mikael Bertelsen will host the European Film Awards ceremony Dec.

Bassist Harvie S has worked with a who's who of jazz artists, including saxophonists Stan Getz and Michael Brecker and vocalists Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy.

If you thought that Stan Getz only played cool and airy tenor sax then this is the CD to make you think again.

DO LIST ~FRIDAY OCT 3, 2008~ Algoma Fall Festival presents Oscar Lopez, Rita Chiarelli, & Clare Jenkins avec Band at Algoma Water Tower Inn's Pavilion at 8 p.m. For further information call 945-7299 or visit ...

Brazilian jazz, flamenco and Latin classica guitar music will fill the air at Unity Church of Bonita Springs at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct.

Chick Corea has performed with everyone from Miles Davis and Gary Burton to Anthony Braxton and Nancy Wilson.

"Getting Sentimental over You" "And Then Again" "The Way You Look Tonight" "Chega de Saudades" "Fotografia" "Wave" Performers Kenny Barron: piano Eliane Elias: piano Freddie Bryant: guitar Marc Johnson: bass ...

The newly refurbished Brooklyn Historical Society unveils its latest exhibit, "Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor" on Dec.

Jazz vocalist Stephanie Nakasian is a singers' singer whose triumphal return to the Topeka Jazz Workshop on Sunday afternoon at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center set spirits free and toes a-tappin'. A ...

The nights are getting cooler, but the Las Vegas Jazz Society will heat them up this weekend with back-to-back concerts at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.

Nagel Heyer Records This release, dedicated to jazz promoter, producer and late founder of the German label bearing his name, Nagel Heyer, should come as a pleasant surprise to the fans of tenor saxophonist ...

After that reworked Stanley Kubrick clip , here's another clever marriage of words and images.

Jazz saxophone phenomenon and extraordinary classical string quartet come together to perform Getz' Focus - The Lied Center of Kansas, CornerBank and The Eldridge present Branford Marsalis and Alexander String ...

This lot are a trio of Mexican-Americans from Chicago who ally their love of bossa nova, easy listening and lounge pop to stranger, more experimental sounds and textures Paul Lester Alla ... Now That's What We ...

Cheers for the performance of students and teachers at the Signature Schools, the state's first charter high school.

Although his name is not as well known as some of the contemporary artists receiving constant airplay today, Dori Caymmi has a unique ability in drawing in any unsuspecting listener's immediate attention.

Courtesy Loren Blahovec The Joe Hary Quartet, clockwise from top, Joe Hary, trumpet/vocals; Jim Baker, drummer; Loren Blake , piano/vocals; and Bill Stahl, bass/vocals. Even without live music, expect a big ...

One of the all-time great tenor saxophonists, Stan Getz was known as "The Sound" because he had one of the most beautiful tones ever heard.

The voice of the jazz bossa nova, Astrud Gilberto, became a star thanks to 'The Girl From Ipanema' and her collaboration with saxophonist Stan Getz and singer/guitarist/composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.