Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie. Backstage, New York, 1976

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Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie backstage in New York, 1976.

Stan Getz (by name Stanley Getz) was an American jazz saxophonist, he played primarily the tenor saxophone. Getz's major interest was in musical instruments and he played a number of them before his father bought him his first saxophone, a $35.00 alto saxophone, when he was 13. Even though his father also got him a clarinet, Getz instantly fell in love with the saxophone and began practicing eight hours a day.

b. February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia.
d. June 6, 1991 in Malibu, California.

Dizzy Gillespie (by name John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and singer. He pioneered Afro-Cuban and won several Grammy Awards. Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis´s emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy´s style was successfully recreated.

b. October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina.
d. January 6, 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey.

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