Word: getz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today's "big band jazz." I must single out sax-player Jaki Byard, who wrote many of the fine...
...Getz-Kingsley). Sophia Loren, the bosomy beauty starred in this Italian picture, is now running chest and chest at the European box office with Gina Lollobrigida. In Too Bad She's Bad, Actress Loren gives visible evidence that her reputation is not inflated. She also displays a pleasant little talent for comedy-in case anybody cares...
...social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool (or hot), too intellectual (or just...
...Artistry of Stan Getz (Clef LP). The famed West Coast jazzman and Co. warbling some strangely appealing dissonant counterpoint. Getz's felt-toned tenor sax blends humorously with a valve trombone...
...West Coasters include such names as Drummer Shelly Manne, 33, Trumpeter-Arranger Shorty Rogers, 29, Saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz, both 26, Pianist Dave Brubeck, 32. At the top of the list stands a skinny (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) 24-year-old ex-Army trumpeter named Chet Baker. He was voted the country's best jazz trumpeter in year-end popularity polls by both Down Beat and Metronome...