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...STAN GATES Bloomington...
...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...
...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, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman's famed "Four Brothers" sax section...
...best-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...
...Hours and 11 Minutes. Filmed in England in 70-mm. Todd-AO and DeLuxe Color by spendthrift 20th Century-Fox (Cleopatra, The Sound of Music), this disarming comedy spectacular has the charm, spirit and easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among...