If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. Saxophonist Stan Getz shines in this disc, recorded early in his career with top-flight musicians who created ...

This compilation enters a marketplace littered with Getz compilations—and it's superior to the lot. It triumphs over the ton of Verve Getz disks by virtue of not having "The Girl From Ipanema," which ...

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, ...

NPT's Liane Hansen speaks with trumpeter/producer and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert. He remembers tenor sax player Stan Getz, whose recording Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions is only now ...

The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...