Stan Getz

[romafan]

Sounds like Conne needs it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...528255552.html

 

[CunningSmeagol]

Originally Posted by romafan

Sounds like Conne needs it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...528255552.html

WSJ links posted without excerpts are against the rules. Post reported.

 

[chas]

He has the roundest sound. It is like he blows bubbles, paying just as much attention to the back end of the note as to the front.

 

[romafan]

Originally Posted by CunningSmeagol

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[CunningSmeagol]

Originally Posted by romafan

Just joking with you Roma. Have you seen the Youtube link of Getz playing Blood Count (written by Billy Strayhorn on his deathbed)? I think it was referenced by the WSJ.

Youtube is down for me right now or I would link it.

 

[CunningSmeagol]

Here it is. Watch me not break teh rules

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...035029918.html

What artists do when they know they are about to die... ...No less awesome were the performances of Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" that the great jazz saxophonist Stan Getz gave when he was dying of cancer, one of which was filmed and can be viewed on YouTube. "Blood Count" is itself a miniature deathbed masterpiece, a dark minor-key ballad written at the very end of Strayhorn's own life, and Getz played it with a keening desperation that speaks with terrible eloquence of that which was to come.