Stan Getz News

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are Stan Getz , Jim McNeely , Marc Johnson , and Victor Lewis , as the Stan Getz Quartet , performing Desafinado and Girl from Ipanema .

Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs.

Last month, I inaugurated a featured called "Dynamic Duos." The concept is simple enough: Inveterate jazz fans know YouTube can be a fantastic resource for seeing/hearing your favorite artists.

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late 1950s became a winning formula for jazz in the spring of 1962.

For only the second time , Brazilian singer Gal Costa and guitarist Romero Lubambo shared the stage for an evening that celebrated the music from their native land, nodding specially to the unforgettable 1958-1963 era that spawned bossa nova, arguably the country's best-known contribution to the music of the world.

The six-member group Chaise Lounge serves up its "martini bar jazz" in a Charleston Jazz Series show Saturday at the Centennial Room of the South Charleston Ramada Inn.

Chuck Israels' sideman duties make for impressive reading. Most jazz bass players would give their eye teeth to have chalked up anchor roles with the likes of pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Stan Getz and diva Billie Holiday.

A novice bassist at 17, a professional bassist at 18, sideman to legendary trumpeter Chet Baker at 20, sideman to legendary pianist Bill Evans at 23, dead in a car wreck at 25: Scott LaFaro became and remains one of the greatest and saddest stories in the history of jazz.

His gift for timeless barbs and aphoristic invective has served him well, providing Allison with a trunk full of classic songs as sharp and relevant today as when he first wrote them.

Pacifica Performances presents Celia Malheiros, Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m., at Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

Bebel Gilberto, 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach.

You may know that David Leonhardt has 38 years of professional experience with many of the top names in jazz from Benny Carter to Stan Getz.

Early morning light on the Blue Ridge Parkway Viaduct as it crosses Grandfather Mountain in Avery County.

Real job: Associate professor, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany Passion outside work: Brainard loves music and leads a local jazz quintet called Jazzmin that plays at local bars and restaurants as well as weddings and other events.

A plethora of jazz and blues acts will flutter down on the Garden State in November, making winter's approach easier to bear.

"Cinderella," one of the world's most enduring and beloved fairy tales - which plays through Dec.

SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey This is the 92nd anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie's birth.

More on Soupy and the giants of jazz. Soupy Sales remembers a few of the jazz greats who appeared on 'Soupy's On.' Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist: 'Ella was wonderful.

With his new quintet, Joe Lovano takes a multicultural approach American saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano is touring with his new quintet, Us Five, and their upcoming show in Prague is the highlight of this season's Agharta Jazz Festival.

"Introducing The New 5" is a fresh post-bop debut with a classic quintet vibe. This compilation is the perfect fusion of classic and contemporary jazz.