Thanks for the review Steve. I particularly responded to your insight about Getz not involving his ego in his playing.

One of my favorite saxophone performances is this particular renditiono by Getz and George Mraz of 'Yesterdays'.sounds fresh every time I listen. The playing is incredibly rich and nuanced, like Getz is inventing his way through it. For me, it exemplifies your description of Getz's playing where 'every solo is a moment of creative freedom'. Well said.I have Greg Fishman's 'Stan Getz' Artist Transcriptions. Also from Hal Leonard. The Omnibook will be on its way soon.

Thanks for the review Steve. I particularly responded to your insight about Getz not involving his ego in his playing.

One of my favorite saxophone performances is this particular renditiono by Getz and George Mraz of 'Yesterdays'.sounds fresh every time I listen. The playing is incredibly rich and nuanced, like Getz is inventing his way through it. For me, it exemplifies your description of Getz's playing where 'every solo is a moment of creative freedom'. Well said.I have Greg Fishman's 'Stan Getz' Artist Transcriptions. Also from Hal Leonard. The Omnibook will be on its way soon.I used to have that CD but lost it. Thanks for the review Steve.

I particularly responded to your insight about Getz not involving his ego in his playing. One of my favorite saxophone performances is this particular renditiono by Getz and George Mraz of 'Yesterdays'.sounds fresh every time I listen. The playing is incredibly rich and nuanced, like Getz is inventing his way through it.

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For me, it exemplifies your description of Getz's playing where 'every solo is a moment of creative freedom'. Well said.I have Greg Fishman's 'Stan Getz' Artist Transcriptions. Also from Hal Leonard. The Omnibook will be on its way soon.Yeah, that was another one of my favorite solos in the book. What a great article! Not only do we get a lot of good, detailed info about the Getz book, but it’s fun to read because it conveys that feeling of excitement and inspiration we all feel when we discover a great player we didn’t really know before.I can relate to a lot of this. It took me a while to “get” Getz.

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I grew up on rock, and when I first started listening to jazz, what moved me was Coltrane, Mingus, Ornette, and the more aggressive, edgy stuff of the ‘60s. I heard stuff like “Ipanema” and I thought it was elevator music. That was my own ignorance, of course.

Eventually I heard things like the live material with Getz and Jimmy Raney at Storyville and I was completely blown away. Speaking of which, I’m kind of surprised the omnibook doesn’t include “Parker 51,” which is Getz flying over “Cherokee” changes. Ah well maybe I’ll have to try to transcribe it myself!Steve asks about Getz’s personality. I read his biography years ago, and I don't remember all that much, but I know he was an incredible prodigy: he recorded his first session as a leader while still in his teens, and of course by that time he had already become a star due to his work with Woody Herman. Unfortunately, he wasn’t very nice, by most accounts. He was a drug addict from early on, and perhaps partly for that reason he was known for violent mood swings that prompted Zoot Sims to remark, “Stan Getz is a nice bunch of guys.” He had a lot of legal problems (including an infamous arrest for trying to rob a pharmacy that made tabloid headlines), marriage problems, etc.

But what music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8396wpFZ7c. What a great article! Not only do we get a lot of good, detailed info about the Getz book, but it’s fun to read because it conveys that feeling of excitement and inspiration we all feel when we discover a great player we didn’t really know before.I can relate to a lot of this.

It took me a while to “get” Getz. I grew up on rock, and when I first started listening to jazz, what moved me was Coltrane, Mingus, Ornette, and the more aggressive, edgy stuff of the ‘60s. I heard stuff like “Ipanema” and I thought it was elevator music. That was my own ignorance, of course.

Eventually I heard things like the live material with Getz and Jimmy Raney at Storyville and I was completely blown away. Speaking of which, I’m kind of surprised the omnibook doesn’t include “Parker 51,” which is Getz flying over “Cherokee” changes.

Ah well maybe I’ll have to try to transcribe it myself!Steve asks about Getz’s personality. I read his biography years ago, and I don't remember all that much, but I know he was an incredible prodigy: he recorded his first session as a leader while still in his teens, and of course by that time he had already become a star due to his work with Woody Herman. Unfortunately, he wasn’t very nice, by most accounts. He was a drug addict from early on, and perhaps partly for that reason he was known for violent mood swings that prompted Zoot Sims to remark, “Stan Getz is a nice bunch of guys.” He had a lot of legal problems (including an infamous arrest for trying to rob a pharmacy that made tabloid headlines), marriage problems, etc. But what music out page 103.Cow that's awesome! I never heard that one before.

Thanks, Steve. I read that Stan Getz's said he was horrible at music theory and could barely get around on a piano keyboard. That really surprised me because his solos nail the changes for the most part and even use some him tensions.

He must have had killer ears to do that without much knowledge that is for sure.Theory is just a way of rationalizing why things sound good.:twisted:Consider, also, all the fantastic players with whom he worked. I bet he was constantly gobbling up and synthesizing ideas into his playing. My Stan Getz Omnibook arrived today.

Looks terrific. So many great songs. Checking the transcription of 'Yesterdays' against the Greg Fishman version, with which I'm familiar, I could find only two minor notation differences. Otherwise both entries matched note for note. That's a good thing because both versions are faithful to the Getz rendition posted above.

That argues for the quality of the rest of the book's contents. All for under $15 on Amazon?Lucky us.I'm thinking the discrepancies were the two I found on that transcription that I wrote about in my blog?