Stan Getz

Stan Getz was no ordinary saxophonist: he was *the sound*. His tenor did not sound like anyone else’s because he did not seek to imitate, but to breathe. He took each note as if he were drawing it in the air, with phrasing that recalled that of Lester Young, yet with a warm weight that gave it his own identity. It was not speed or virtuosity that set him apart, but the ability to make the saxophone sound like a human voice, almost like a whisper that expands. By the time he was 20, he had already drawn attention in the big bands of the era, but it was in the 1950s when he found his path without needing to follow anyone.

Jazz Bossa nova bebop cool jazz 1920s

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