This is FRESH AIR. Saxophonist Stan Getz came up at the very end of the swing era, a star soloist with Woody Herman's orchestra in the late 1940s. From the start, Getz was known for his ...

Historians and critics have pored over the recordings of these jazz greats like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Stan Getz so exhaustively, it might feel like they've left no stone unturned.

Even given Stanford University’s reputation for fostering innovative thinking, Stan Getz was an unlikely choice to be the school’s first jazz artist in residence in 1986. A prodigy who hit the ...