Gilberto went on to popularize the genre globally with the album "Getz/Gilberto" with American saxophone player
Stan Getz, selling millions of copies and winning several Grammy awards.
His 1964 album Getz/Gilberto with US saxophonist
Stan Getz sold millions of copies and popularised bossa nova.
"It's basically a story about
Stan Getz' mother," May said.
In an extensive touring and recording career that began at the age of ten, Carrington has worked with luminary artists, such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau,
Stan Getz, David Sanborn, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, John Scofield, and countless others.
Then, I used to listen to the like of
Stan Getz and Kirk Whalum, Phil Driscoll, Hugh Masekela.
By 1964, by Astrud Gilberto's version with sax from
Stan Getz became a number one smash in the US and found a place in the hearts of millions.
Available in a CD format, these include "Glenn Zottola Plays Classic Arrangements: Original Transcriptions Inspired by Frank Sinatra" (CJ 14, $16.95); "The Bossa Nova Story: Glenn Zottola Salutes
Stan Getz" (CJ 11, $16.95); "Clifford Brown Remembered: His Famed Neal Hefti String Album Revisited--Interpreted by Glenn Zottola" (CJ 6, $16.95); "Getting Sentimental" (CJ 14, $16.95); "Too Marvelous For Words" (CJ 16, $16.95); "Charlie Parker With Strings Revisited by Glenn Zottola" (CJ 32, $16.95); "Got Rhythm" (CJ 33, $16.95); "Classic Standards With Strings: Inspired by Ben Webster" (CJ 37, $16.95); "Miles Davis Remembered" (CJ 39, $16.95); "Come Fly With Me" (CJ 40, $16.95); "Triple Play" (CJ 41, $16.95).
A native of Chelsea, Mass., Smith first fell in love with music as a youngster listening to the jazz of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and
Stan Getz. After a stint in the military and years at Yale, Smith got into radio as a disc jockey, working small East Coast cities before returning home.
Artists like Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Ray Charles,
Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis and BB King, among many others, have participated.
BORN ROBERT Scott, polar explorer, 1868 BJORN Borg, tennis champion, 1956, above JASON Isaacs, English actor, 1963 DIED ANNE Bancroft, US actress, 2005
STAN Getz, US jazz musician, 1991 ROBERT Kennedy, US politician, 1968, above
Aliquo cites as his early influences the work of John Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine and Dexter Gordon, melded more recently with the jazz of Lester Young,
Stan Getz and Joe Henderson.