Stan Getz
Astrud Gilberto had never sung professionally when she voiced the English lyrics of 'The Girl from Ipanema' with her husband, João, and Stan Getz, and the song became one of the most recorded in pop history.
Getz's soft, airy tenor saxophone, nicknamed 'The Sound', had caught ears early on Woody Herman's 'Early Autumn'. Jazz Samba, with guitarist Charlie Byrd, launched the American bossa nova craze, and Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy for Album of the Year, a rare jazz winner.
He kept playing tender, searching ballads to the end, with People Time, live duets with pianist Kenny Barron, among his final recordings before his death in 1991.
If you like Stan Getz you should check out: Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Horace Silver
