Is there anyone smoother?

YouTube - Stan Getz - On Green Dolphin Street (1989) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5vs6bWxIUk)

YouTube - Stan Getz Performs Wave - Copenhagen 1970s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WctZJcPwnOQ&feature=related)

one more

YouTube - Stan Getz at the 1984 Newport Jazz Fest. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6KDlP6hZ1w&feature=related)

This is the Getz I was taking in this week. Getz sombas!!!!!

YouTube - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto - Corcovado (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMX6E68qJAg)

and this absolute classic

YouTube - Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz: THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA - 1964 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA&feature=related)

no video this one, but my fav version with Joao and Astrud and Stan

YouTube - Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VPmtyLqSY&feature=related)

Getz got really famous with the cool sound and the bossa stuff, but you should hear him when he was young, shootin H and playing amazing bebop. In my top list of all time jazz albums is Stan Getz live at Storyville from 1951. Jimmy Raney on guitar. here is a clip, listen to these guys burn. Perfect playing.
The liner note show a picture of the gig - the entire audience was black, watching every note, in a small club and on stage where these clean cut white guys. It was a funny shot. Jimmy Raney burns on this. IMHO - this is how jazz was meant to be played!


Listen to getz line at :51 - :56 - perfect

YouTube - Move (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2dEVU6W9w)

very nice

With Valentines Day right around the corner....

Stan with the great J. J. Johnson

YouTube - Stan Getz & J. J. Johnson Sextet - My Funny Valentine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqIzEI-ClNY)