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Stan Getz - The ABCs Decade:
Adaptation, Bossa Nova,
Collaborations and Crossover
Success
What do Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman and Frank Sinatra and Count Basie have in common? Each of the men in these pairings, at some point in their respective careers, joined the other on record in a marvelous musical dialogue. The idea of two major artists leaving the comfort of their own working groups and situations to go out into uncharted waters, in order to grow and have a meaningful musical experience, is inspiring and at the core of what jazz is all about. Stan Getz, during a (roughly) ten year period from 1953 to 1963, had more than ten such encounters, with a huge variety of musicians, arrangers and composers...and he used this knowledge in his collaborations of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Blues, ballads, bop, Brazilian flavors, big band sounds and bold orchestral works were all embraced by one of the greatest saxophone players to walk the planet during the mid-to-late twentieth century... Click here to read more
Jeff Coffin
In-Depth Interview
JI: Jeff, why don’t you talk a little bit about the clinics you do and working with students all over the country and the world? How does that impact your own playing?
JC: One of the ways that it has affected my playing is that it sort of focused me in on certain things. Normally what I’ll do is I’ll go and I’ll play for between fifteen and thirty minutes, just solo and I’ll try to throw a whole lot of stuff at them. Different articulations, multi-phonics, different slap tonguing, growling, flutter tongue, altissimo stuff, double horn, taking the horn apart and playing it, using the keys as kind of percussion sounds. And then I’ll also throw different styles in at them. And at the end of that, rather than standing up there and going, “Well this is what I think and this is what I do,” I say to them “Well what did you hear?”...
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STAN GETZ
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Sam Rivers
In-Depth Interview
JI: You will celebrate your 85th birthday this September and you are busier than ever. Can you talk about your current large project?
SR: I am spending a lot of time in the studio, trying to record all the music that I have written. There are many compositions that have never been finished so I am also working hard to complete them and get them recorded. I have enough compositions to do a CD a month for the next four years. I doubt if I will finish it but I have to try. My grandfather wrote down the spiritual music he heard from my great-grandmother, who was a slave. He actually wrote and published the first slavery plantation hymn book and I will also be recording those songs. I have a lot on my plate but I really enjoy it... Click here to read more
Wayne Shorter
In-Depth Interview
JI: JI: You’ve won a number of Grammys yourself, the last one coming for 2006’s Beyond the Sound Barrier. Do you feel that you’ve gotten your just due for all that you have accomplished in your career to date?
WS: You know, that kind of thing sometimes becomes larger then the mission. If I sat around thinking about [what I should get credit for], that’s almost like the blame game. I’d like to say this to the musicians who may read this. They need to think about why they are playing music in the first place. If they are thinking that they are just out to have fun, have a good time or make some money, then they can go ahead and pursue that, but to me, that’s temporary. I’m going after the constant. I’m going after the ultimate law of existence, the path of enlightenment... Click here to read more
Photo Credits: Photos of Stan Getz courtesy of Verve; Sam Rivers & Wayne Shorter by Ken Weiss; Jeff Coffin courtesy of Yamaha.
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