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A salute to Stan Getz: The tenor of his time
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"...You can either improvise a piece of music to death or you can
whittle it down, hone it, refine it, call it what you want, to where
it says just the right amount of something that makes it into a
classic."
From Stan Getz's liner notes to "Poetry" (1984),
his album of duets with pianist Albert Dailey
There's nothing especially profound about Stan Getz's statement of
purpose - nothing more profound, that is, than any piece of crucial,
hard-earned wisdom. Though inexperienced ...
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