TV Guide: Stan Getz

Video: FINE & DANDY

Video Detective — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Fine & Dandy movie trailer - starring Stan Getz.

Video: Mickey One -- (Movie Clip) Opening

TCM — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sax solo by Stan Getz drives the opening sequence to director Arthur Penn's New Wave inspired Mickey One, featuring Warren Beatty with 1965 "Playmate of the Year" Donna Michelle.

Video: Chick Corea and Gary Burton Duet

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In retrospect, it's surprising that it took Chick Corea and vibraphone innovator Gary Burton so long to find their musical chemistry. Both came of age musically in early 60s Boston. Several years later, Chick replaced Burton in Stan Getz's band, and as the 60s proceeded, he worked occasionally with the vibraphonist's own quartet. But not until the 1973 duo album Crystal Silence was their rapport apparent. Burton once wrote, We discovered an immediate connection, like two people who speak the same obscure language. One expresses a musical thought; the other finishes it. As in the McFerrin tracks, this is jazz improvising refined to its very essence. Like a Beethoven string quartet in which the perspective of an entire orchestra is refracted into an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello, Corea and Burton provide a complete overview of jazz improvisation via subtle combinations of inference and implication. Melodies are circled, then revisited, rhythms shift across each other, and the

Video: Get Yourself A College Girl - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

"The Animals, The Dave Clark Five and Stan Getz are among the performers in the teen musical Get Yourself A College Girl (1964)."

Video: FINE & DANDY

Singing Fool — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Album: COOL SUMMER STAN GETZ AND ALTO MADNESS; Label: MVD Music Video

Video: Chick Corea and Gary Burton Duet

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Kenny Rankin: The Jazz Channel Presents

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Famed saxophonist Stan Getz once referred to Kenny Rankin as "the horn with a heart." Rankin's elegant tenor voice and gift for jazz, pop and Latin phrasing have made him a favorite of singers like Mel Torme, Al Jarreau, Tony Bennett and Carmen McRae. In this special concert recorded for the Jazz Channel in Washington, D.C., Rankin enthralls the discriminating audience with a performance of classic favorites.

Video: Chick Corea: Three Quartets Band

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Chick's lyrical side blossomed during his two years with Stan Getz, whose tenor saxophone sound conjured yearning and romance. It sounds like Chick drew on his Getz experience and on the soul-aflame tonal personality of John Coltrane in writing the opening passage of Quartet No. 2, Part 1 for an ensemble he calls his dream group. Convened for a recording in 1981, the idea was to mimic a classical string quartet in terms of the structure of the compositions, but to use jazz instrumentation. These songs were never played again until this performance. Saxophonist Michael Brecker creates a flow and dramatic arc that is reminiscent of Coltrane at his finest. Bassist Eddie Gomez was working with the innovative pianist Bill Evans when Chick met him in 1965. On his solo, he sounds like an opera singer. Listen to how deftly he breaks up the time during Chick's statement while Steve Gadd one of the great drum innovators of our time holds everything together with rock-solid time and resourceful f

Video: Kenny Rankin: The Jazz Channel Presents

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Chick Corea: Three Quartets Band

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500