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Stan Getz

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We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.


— Stan Getz


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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.


— Stan Getz


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You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.


— Stan Getz


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2002. In 1972 Getz recorded in the fusion idiom with Chick Corea Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke and in this period experimented with an Echoplex on his saxophone. Their "The Girl from Ipanema" won a Grammy Award.

Getz went on to perform in bebop cool jazz and third stream but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova as in the worldwide hit single "The Girl from Ipanema" (1964). Stanley Getz (February 2 1927 – June 6 1991) was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm lyrical tone his prime influence being the wispy mellow timbre of his idol Lester Young.

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