Getz, Stan - Classic Collaborations & More - Verve Recordings 1953-57

Stan Getz is widely regarded as one of the all-time great jazz tenor saxophonists, coming to the fore in the bebop era of the late 1940s and early ’50s, and becoming a pioneer of the west coast ‘cool school’ of jazz musicians, helping to popularise Latin forms like the bossa nova within the idiom.

During the mid-1950s, while recording for Norman Granz’s Norgran and Verve labels, and with the long-playing vinyl LP era now under way, he recorded many sessions and projects in collaboration with other like-minded musicians and bandleaders, which resulted in a string of notable albums.