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Stan Getz

September 2022

  • Creed Taylor in the studio of the Institute of Audio Research, Greenwich Village, New York, 2005.

    Creed Taylor obituary

    Grammy-winning record producer who took jazz in adventurous new directions

August 2022

  • Creed Taylor (right) recording Stan Getz and his band on stage at Cafe Au Go Go for the live album Getz Au Go Go in New York, 19 August 1964.

    Jazz impresario Creed Taylor was one of the last of a dying breed of ‘record men’

    Garth Cartwright
    Armed with just a passion for jazz, Taylor became a producer and the owner of the world’s most successful jazz label, working with everyone from John Coltrane to Nina Simone

October 2021

  • Stan Getz And Astrud Gilberto c1965

    Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto: Live at Berlin Jazz Festival 1966 review – more than impressive

    The American saxophonist’s quartet were on top form here, and proved a perfect backing band for the star Brazilian singer

September 2020

  • Tim Garland

    Tim Garland: Refocus review – a classic 60s fusion revisited

    The saxophonist takes Stan Getz’s unique collaboration with Eddie Sauter in a bold new direction

December 2018

  • Norman Gimbel in 2011. ‘His words were beautiful, sensitive. He never used an extra word in expressing his feelings or describing the human condition,’ said his writing partner Charles Fox.

    Norman Gimbel obituary

    American lyricist who enjoyed success with Killing Me Softly With His Song and the English version of The Girl from Ipanema

April 2018

  • The Concrete Dreams tour ends with a live performance at Southbank’s Purcell Room.

    Concrete Dreams: new show celebrates Southbank's history of performance

    Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre’s legacy through 50 years of archive material

November 2016

  • Mose Allison

    Mose Allison obituary

    Influential pianist, singer and composer who mixed jazz, country and the blues to produce acerbic songs with incisive lyrics

September 2016

  • louis Hjulmand,Oscar Pettiford & Jan Johansson,Louis Hjulmand session for Debut Records Copenhagen

    Oscar Pettiford & Jan Johansson: In Denmark 1959-60 review – Copenhagen’s jazz heyday

    (Stunt)

April 2016

  • Stan Getz outside Ronnie Scott’s.

    Stan Getz: Moments in Time review – wonderfully exciting

    Getz and pianist Joanne Brackeen create sparks in this live session

February 2016

  • Gilberto’s infinitely subtle guitar and Getz’s saxophone reunite in newly released Getz/Gilberto ‘76

    João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto '76 review – live, minimalist and spellbinding

    A gorgeous collection of recordings made during Gilberto and Getz’s sessions at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner jazz club in 1976

October 2014

  • Saxophones Harlem Bill Clinton

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: best saxophone songs

    Jazz to ska, pop to classical, blow your horn in songs featuring an instrument known for its curvaceous, and vocal sex appeal, says Peter Kimpton

June 2014

  • Horace Silver playing the piano in the 1950s.

    Horace Silver obituary

    Mercurial pianist, composer and founder of a succession of quintets whose music appealed to audiences beyond jazz

January 2014

  • Saul Zaentz in 1997

    Saul Zaentz obituary

    Oscar-winning film producer behind One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient

December 2013

  • Herb Geller in 2011

    Herb Geller obituary

    Creative American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger who made his home in Hamburg, Germany

October 2013

  • Ella Fitzgerald performs

    Verve Records and the man who made jazz the sound of America

    Norman Granz, the founder of Verve Records, did much to end racial segregation in US concert halls – as well as masterminding the later career of Ella Fitzgerald. By Stuart Nicholson

April 2013

  • Phil Ramone in 1977

    Phil Ramone obituary

    American music producer who worked with many pop greats including Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra

August 2012

  • Stan Getz: Swiss Radio Days – review

    This live set from in Zurich in 1960 catches Getz swinging hard as well as stroking the ballads, writes John Fordham

January 2012

  • Stan Getz: At Nalen – review

    This live recording of Stan Getz, lost for 50 years, captures him at his fluent, inventive best, writes Dave Gelly

December 2011

  • Stan Getz: Live at Nalen – review

    A lost recording from 1959 of Getz at his swing-era swaggering best, accompanied by pianist Jan Johansson, is a real gem, writes John Fordham

August 2010

  • 50 great moments in jazz
    50 great moments in jazz: Stan Getz's Jazz Samba

    No 34: Rock'n'roll effectively kept jazz out of the charts in the 60s, but the samba craze briefly rekindled hopes of a renaissance

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