Stan Getz

Stan Getz

American jazz saxophonist
Tenor saxophonist with a luxuriant tone who helped the spread of cool jazz in the '50s and furthered the bossa nova explosion of the '60s.
BornFebruary 2, 1927
HometownPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
SpouseMonica Silfverskiold (m 1956 - 1987) , Beverly Byrne (m 1946 - 1956)
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Tony Coe, jazz saxophonist and clarinettist of ‘extreme instrumental skill’ – obituary

  • Tony Coe, the clarinettist and saxophonist, who has died aged 88, played with many of the jazz greats, including Humphrey Lyttelton, John Dankworth, Stan Tracey, Derek Bailey, Mike Gibbs, Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, and in 1995 became the first non-American to win the Jazzpar Award, otherwise known as the Jazz Nobel, for his “extreme instrumental skill”.

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