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...GETZ AU GO GO (Verve). Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz and Mrs. Gilberto again (One Note Samba, Corcovado...
...Stan Getz is 38 now, and his audience has grown more appreciative, largely because he never quite learned how to play louder. In a period when the best of his contemporaries are feverishly trying to break the sound barriers of jazz, Tenorman Getz continues to play it cool. He now commands a top fee of $5,000 a performance, and his schedule for the past month was typical. After playing to a collective audience of 100,000 in six sellout concerts in Japan, he touched down at a Skokie, III, shopping center, where 15,000 persons had waited an hour...
Dance &; Flow. A reserved, almost introverted personality onstage ("I have something of an inferiority complex"), Getz begins playing the moment he sidles up to the microphone. Once into the music, he relaxes, sketching with the sure, spare strokes of a Japanese brush painter. In an up-tempo number such as Like Someone in Love, his figurations fairly dance around the melody; in Here's That Rainy Day, they flow with the melting warmth of an after-dinner brandy...
...Getz's success is a return from a long walk on the wild side; from the age of 18 to 27 he was a confirmed dope addict. Son of Russian Jewish immigrants (original name: Gayetzsky), he left school at 15 to tour with Jack Teagarden's band, got as far as St. Louis before the truant officers caught up with him. It was wartime, and musicians were scarce, so Teagarden agreed to become his legal guardian and "teach me all my lessons." After the band broke up a year later, Getz went on to play with Stan Kenton...
...selling jazz albums of all time. Winner of nearly every jazz popularity poll in the past two years, he recently moved into a 23-room, century-old mansion in Irvington, N.Y., with his wife and five children, this year expects to make a cool $250,000. Looking back, Stan Getz says: "It's been a struggle. You either get bitter from those things or you become compassionate. I went one way." It seems it was the best...