Jazzman Getz's Soar Spots

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 5, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

STAN GETZ A Life in Jazz By Donald L. Maggin Morrow. 417 pp. $25

The story of Stan Getz comes close to jazz cliche. Born into a family of limited means, he displayed phenomenal musical gifts that he developed with little formal training. He hit the road early and quickly fell into jazz habits: late hours, loose women, alcohol and drugs. He played beautiful music but led an ugly life: two marriages punctuated by fits and fights, a botched robbery intended to feed his heroin habit, an immaturity that persisted right up to his death in 1991, at age 64, of cancer.

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