Bev Getz's Comments

Bev, great pic!

Thank you B. They are playing so beautifully.
Incredible. Love them.
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Bev, its been a while hope all is well.
I wanted to know if you were aware Joel Frahm will be doing a tribute to Stan on Oct. 16th in Hartford's Asylum Hill. The tribute will be celebrating Stans "FOCUS"
Please let me know if you would be interested in attending, that would add so much to the purformance.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.
Thanks

Dear Bev,

How are you? Fine, I hope !

I would ask you this :" is there any "Stan Getz foundation" ? I mean something like a "museum" in the memory of your father?
A place where every fan could go to find many things about his life, many pictures, many videos, records, paintings...ect.
May be this place is existing ...Could you please tell me where it is...may be one day, I will go in New-York ...I would like to discover such a place where his former friends could leave a thing, a word about him...a place where we could a his sensitive spirit!
May be ...if this place does not exists, it is an idea ???Why not !!??
My best regards, whising you all the best !
Gérard

Ti Tei.
A quick visit on your page to give you this:
Stor klem!!
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Love
Søs
xoxo

Bev - what you are doing is a beautiful thing and you are doing at a creative level that reflects your dads music. Glenn:)

You sure resemble you dad. jack

I am glad I am getting through and just wrote a informative message to you Bev about meeting Stan and fact of being a successful portrait painter for over 40 years Kentucky and Palm Beach now - stan and met in Cincy with my wife in 1962 and he sat with us on breaks went down to the Living Room later to jam with D. Feliz - I backed up on piano old friend Sonny Still at the same club number of times - sonny drank a gallon of gin - I quit over 20 years ago and playing better tenor than ever before at 73 now feel 40 never ill take care of myself like stan was doing later also - just cut my Jazz Tenor CD of favorites including Lush Life dedicated to stan - Boots Rahndolph was long time friend did the same for him - he dies this winter - loved zoot and we met in NY in 19661 at Half Note - I sat in played tennor with he and al cohn. A lot of stories a long career with music and arts. Do you want me to send the CD - it is wonderful and you will be proud to have it as so many notes are coming through that your dad did for so many years as i listened to him closely from 1949 until the end. Love, jackie boy

Bev: I am at library computer and will bring along a picture of me and painting soon - I guess I could send music through this venue? jack rembrandt

Dear Bev,

Will you be agree if I design a "Stan Getz's motorbike" ?
I write this for one of your father's picture :
I find this picture very nice, because one of my hobby is DESIGN ! I designed (as an amator one some motorbikes)...you can see on "your tube" the last I draw ..here is the link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVmpginy-XM
In this black & white picture, there's no fault in design terms. (for me)
I mean that Stan Getz is wearing a costume which is in accord with the nice car behind him, he looks like a " Blue brothers" ...two words he was knowing well "Blues" and "brothers" for "Four brothers", so no doubt, a very good picture...except that he's smoking ...I hate tobacco, that's bad and dangerous, why smoking? I prefer fresh air !
Gerard

hi Bev ! The "Hollywood Phase" of my career. I saw that clip of Stan on the tonight show which i never saw before and i don't feel so bad :) Thanks for the compliment on the brass/reed double which sometimes can be double trouble. You're the best ! Glenn:)

p.s Bev by the way your websites are so well done and thank you and Hilde ! As i mentioned i am archiving my last 45 years in music and it is great to have a channel to post some unusual or out of print items like this one. Just posted "Cottontail" which was my very first record date when i moved to Manhatten as a young man. I walk into the session and there before me is an all star band no rehearsal and we just hit it. That was the NY experience and Jazz Scene back then and i cherish those momemts. Glenn :)

Dear Bev,

Yes, I designed the motorbike you saw on this "you tube video" !
It was made with many parts of others B.M.W models of motorbikes, it is a "mixture of many B.M.W models" with a special look !
I can draw a special one to commemorate Stan !
And I could paint his portrait on ...why not!?

Bev: Contacting you is so exciting for me. To target on people around the world like myself that are somewhat isolated to communicate with people like you Dad. I am in the process of moving from the Palm Beach Area after a solid ten years (fathering a 16 year old son, George) playing with all the good musicians in this South Florida area big band, etc. - back to portrait painting full time but spending several hours a day on tenor playing. I will move Sept. 23 - then pick up my recording up there - but do have some 13 numbers down well and will send them out before leaving it I get your address. My first, Dolphin In The Wild (I have a good tenor solo) CD - has these top people and Tony Bennett, Vic Damone (good friend at PB) and close friend Richard Hayman are wild about it and all original music I did - string et al - arrangements - great friend players with me. I'm bragging! So what! hard frigging work! Using library - will check in with you as i take breaks to come into FAU here - Jeb Bush has been supportive to me and and passed the CD on to The White House - Laura loves it and listens often - Boots loved it and called me so - It is exciting to have a future at 73 and thank god be in good health as i am a cancer survivor three times now even my left eye and lower lip recently but it is healed and checked out Friday and playing hard again - like Stan - I get my lip back fast - as the frigging horn was born in my mouth at birth seem like. Keep cool! Hearde Bud Shank on marian McPartland Saturday nigh NPR from April 06. Jack

Dear Bev,

I've just put a new picture of your father on the site !

Gérard

Dear Bev,

If you still want to create a "STAN GETZ Foundation" (may be, it is only an idea) the purpose of this foundation could be to supply musical instruments to the discriminated young children ( I mean very poor ones), I think that this purpose would have been able to please your father !
For taking the money which is necessary to have the instruments, we (all the members of the foundation) could make special events in the memory of Stan, we could also sell some items, paintings...ect. I think, this should be made in a good spirit to help young people having opportunity to have access to music ! MUSIC avoid VIOLENCE ! What do you think of this idea?
I know, it is not so easy, it is also a "long way" but why not ??
I am looking to organize next year with the mayor of my town (I know him very well) and with the Principality of Monaco a big Jazz party in Memory of Stan ! I know some good musicians and this event could be possible in our city theatre !!!
Have a nice day !
Sincerely!
Gérard

Stan Getz Captain Marvel 1972 @320

Pianist Chick Corea had worked with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz in 1966-67. When Corea bumped into Getz in Spain around 1971, Corea proposed working with him again. So it's not surprising that when Getz returned to the U.S. in 1972 after several years in Europe, he picked Corea to play in his group for his first U.S. engagement. The group also included several of Corea's band mates—then-young bass prodigy Stanley Clarke and Brazillian percussionist Airto, plus the powerful percussion innovator, Tony Williams. After a three week live engagement in New York City, the group went into the studio on March 3rd, 1972 to record Captain Marvel.

The album featured five compositions by Chick Corea plus Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life." Several of Corea's tunes show a Spanish influence. Chick played Fender Rhodes using his distinctive percussive electric keyboard style—building up sounds via fast single line runs and repetition. Getz's playing is strong and inspired here. As he did here, Getz often worked younger musicians during the 1960s and 1970s and seemed to draw inspiration from their energy and often used their compositions as well.

This new, remastered edition includes two unissued alternates and one unissued tune ("Crystal Silence"), plus new liner notes by Chick Corea (plus the original notes) and is well worth hearing.

[Sidenote: Captain Marvel was recorded in between sessions for the first albums by Corea's group Return to Forever. RTF recorded their eponymous CD for ECM on February 2 & 3, 1972. One of the tunes on that album "Crystal Silence," is included here as a bonus track. Two of Corea's tunes that are on Captain Marvel—"500 Miles High" and the title track were later recorded for RTF's second album, Light as a Feather, which was recorded in October, 1972 for Polydor.]

Recorded at A&R Studios, New York, New York on March 3, 1972. Includes liner notes by Chick Corea, Albert Goldman. In the early 1970s, jazz tenor sax icon Stan Getz was clearly not standing still. While some other players of his generation were content to do (and re-do) what they'd done in the past, Getz got together with some of the best cutting-edge talent, all of whom (Corea, Williams, Moreira) had been in the bands of fellow legend Miles Davis. Also featured is Stanley Clarke, here only 20 years old and about to become one of the jazz fusion movement's biggest stars. Except for the lovely Billy Strayhorn ballad "Lush Life," all the compositions are by Corea, and would later on be heard in his own Return to Forever band. There's an infectious, joyous, Latin-tinged lilt to the tunes, which inspires Getz to some of the best playing of his career. His tone retains the "cool" by which he's been characterized--but he blows hot, too. Getz's playing on "500 Miles High" is focused ferocity. This album, unavailable for years, is one of Getz's (and Corea's) best.

Track listing:

1. La Fiesta (Corea) - 8:26
2. Five Hundred Miles High (Corea) - 8:12
3. Captain Marvel (Corea) - 5:09
4. Time's Lie (Corea/Potter) - 9:48
5. Lush Life (Strayhorn) - 4:16
6. Day Waves (Corea) - 9:43
7. Crystal Silence [*] (Corea/Porter) - 7:47
8. Captain Marvel [*] (Corea) - 5:18
9. Five Hundred Miles High [*] (Corea) - 9:29 // (* = bonus tracks)

Personnel:

Stan Getz (tenor sax)
Chick Corea (electric piano, Fender Rhodes)
Stanley Clarke (bass)
Tony Williams (drums)
Airto Moreira (percussion)

The size of the MP3 is well over E-mail size but soon I'll Have all of my Stan on Raipshare for download about 6GB of stuff and if I add with Chet Baker it will about 23GB of very cool music.Stay tune for all of that.
Rick

Thank you most kindly for that welcome. What a fab site, there's absolutely masses of stuff on here that I haven't seen before, can't wait to explore further.

Hi Beverly, I do agree it's sweet, but most of all you can imagine why I truly love the cover picture on the 'Stan Plays' album. I believe your brother must have been around that age. I never found out about the truth on this picture: one journalist stated he asked Stan where the toilets where, while another one told he wanted to give his dad a kiss... anyway, it's a magic shot!