STAN GETZ

STAN GETZ

Stan Getz in his youth was an admirer of Lester Young, the great saxophonist Whose singing melodic lines much to emancipate the jazz soloist from the procession of chords that underpinned the tune. Coming of age during the evolution of the dense, difficult new music known as bebop, he forged a quieter but no less intense style of his own that commanded the admiration of legions of jazz fans for decades. In the 1960s Getz helped introduce a new Brazilian-inflected variety of jazz that put him in the top reaches of the sales charts, where he remained one of top musicians in the genre until his death in 1991.