Stan Getz

<p> Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz tenor saxophonist for his bossa nova hits Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema. However Getz born in 1927 began to play professionally at age 15 and his rich musical career lasted until shortly before his death on June 6 1991. He played in a wide variety of musical settings such as big band orchestral quartet and duo. The incredible beauty of his sound sparked the late jazz great John Coltrane to say We would all play like Stan Getz if we could. When Getz died jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie said He was sheer genius. And there's one thing about this man he was the most melodic player on the jazz scene.</p><p> This bibliography the first of its kind contains a total of 2576 bibliographic citations with 2292 of them annotated. It includes references to periodical literature articles from news wire services books dissertations films videos television programs radio broadcasts and Web sites. The citations are primarily from English-language sources. Materials in English and French as well as a handful of items from other languages are annotated. This work includes a preface that contains the scope of the work a user's guide and a list of more than 340 periodicals cited. The main body of the work is divided into the following sections: album reviews performance reviews discographies and discographical information transcriptions biographical and critical works filmography and appendix. Album reviews are provided for 240 albums along with the discographical details for each of these albums. The appendix contains unannotated citations to materials in Danish Dutch German Italian Norwegian Spanish and Swedish.</p>