Stan Getz

Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz possessed a full, luxuriant tone and a highly melodic improvisational sense. Though he produced consistently rewarding music for the duration of his near 50-year career, he achieved the greatest success in the early '60s when he led the American part of the bossa nova explosion. Indeed, this brilliant fusion of jazz and Brazilian rhythms yielded the tune, "The Girl From Ipanema," which became one of the biggest selling jazz records in history.

• Abbey Lincoln
• Al Haig
• Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Bill Evans (Piano)
• Charlie Byrd
• Chet Baker
• Chick Corea
• Gary Burton
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet
• Jimmy Raney/Doug Raney
• Johnny Smith Quintet
• Kenny Barron
• Luiz Bonfa
• Paul Desmond
• Victor Lewis

• Al Cohn
• Ben Webster
• Benny Carter/The American Jazz Orchestra
• Charlie Parker
• Coleman Hawkins/Hawkins
• Joao Gilberto
• Lester Young
• Woody Herman
• Zoot Sims

• Chick Corea
• Chuck Loeb
• Eddie Harris
• Ellery Eskelin
• Gary Burton
• The Harry Allen Quartet
• Joe Henderson (Saxophone)
• Leo Gandelman
• Scott Hamilton
• Tania Maria

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