Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series on “Authors Alive!” book-reading and other events to mark the opening of the Waseda International House of Literature known as the Haruki Murakami ...

The story of Stan Getz (1927-1991) has to begin with Lester Young. Before Young, tenor sax players seemed awash in testosterone. Their sound was full, rich, deep, blown hard out of the instrument's ...

Here are 13 clips of Getz on the air and on the screen: Here's Steve Allen visiting a sound stage at Universal-International in 1955 to prep for his title role in The Benny Goodman Story. The clip ...

Even given Stanford University’s reputation for fostering innovative thinking, Stan Getz was an unlikely choice to be the school’s first jazz artist in residence in 1986. A prodigy who hit the road at ...

There's nothing dated about a new 2-disc album that revisits Getz's 1961 nightclub recording at New York's Village Gate. Listening to it now, it's hard to overstate what a terrific tenor he was. This ...

John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...

"One should always listen closely when people are saying goodbye," Katherine Hepburn tells us in "Stage Door." Likewise, Stan Getz, the great tenor saxophonist, found a way to make sure that people ...

About 25 years ago, following Stan Getz’s appointment as Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University’s jazz program, I asked an acquaintance of his how the great tenor saxophonist was adjusting to the ...

There was one more throw of the dice left for old-fashioned jazz lyricism before the Beatles et al changed the musical landscape, and ensured that jazz would never return to its pre-eminent place in ...

In 1989, two years before his death from cancer, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz entered the studio with producer Herb Alpert and an all-star rhythm section, booked for multiple sessions over four days.

Alyn Shipton is joined by biographer Dave Gelly to select the finest recordings by the great saxophonist Stan Getz, including some with the 1940s Woody Herman Orchestra. Show more To choose the finest ...

In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People ...