Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz ...

John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...

This handsomely packaged, five-record boxed set collects (in remastered versions) all of the bossa nova recordings Stan Getz made for Verve, beginning with his 1962 collaboration with guitarist ...

Stan Getz (tenor sax) with various groups. Recorded 1962-63. Nowadays, when singers from Bray to Boston learn enough Portuguese to have a go at Corcovado or Insensatez, it's hard to remember when ...

Trumpeter and saxophonist Glenn Zottola has been a serious part of the music business for more than four decades, recording thirty albums as a sideman and leader as well as adding Broadway and TV show ...

It’s as fresh as a summer breeze rolling in gently off the waves, as young as the sun-worshipers crowding the white-hot beaches of Rio. Yet bossa nova — the serenely seductive music that Brazil gave ...

The Getz/Gilberto album - the best-known of the albums collected on this new 5-CD set - won Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental and Best Engineered Album in the 1965 Grammy awards, while the ...