"Most of my records I don't remember making." Man, what an incredible admission. To have such an exalted position, to create such great art, and not even know you did.
some would say it is the lack of knowing that creates great art. It is surrender to the mystery that continues to produce those things that represent to us the power of the unknown. But it does get tied into habits of addiction when artists become addicted to not knowing.
@@NoahHornberger I'm not one of those people that would ever say it's a lack of knowing that creates great art. and that goes for any genre of music or 🎨 art...
I’m at this stage currently. It sucks not knowing what you did the night before. Suddenly waking up in bed, wondering how you got there, and only remembering the last thing you were doing before your memory cut out…
My dad was a jazz musician and Stan Getz was his hero. My dad had a photo of me as a baby that was actually signed by Stan Getz, wishing me a happy life. He had it in his wallet until the day he died. My mom gave it to me and I still have it to this day.
been a fan of getz for a while, never heard him speak or tell his stories until now. i’m absolutely blown away by his unconventional type of articulation and the magnitude behind the words he speaks. thank you for posting this
I can relate to a lot of what Getz is saying. I’ve struggled with addiction for 11 years, and I am now on this long journey of being a recovered addict. Addiction is a disease, and it has certainly changed me as a person because I grew up in a broken home, and that vice offered me an escape from all the traumatic shit that my emotionally unstable parents put me through. Those were dark days. A lot of jazz musicians from Getz’s generation weren’t willing to admit to being addicts, and I think it’s inspiring to hear one of my heroes own up to his mistakes. RIP Stan Getz 🙏🏾🎷
I saw Stan once. He said, 'and now I'd like to present our guitarist (Rene Thomas)" "One of the best guitarists in the world" Pause. "He's got to be that good to play with me"!! Stan's solos get to parts of my brain nothing else reaches as does Chet.
Love it! Beautiful animation, great interview! Keep 'em coming! I was friends with Stan Getz in the last two years of his life. So good to hear his voice again. Stan's the reason I started playing tenor saxophone. Thanks for this!
this. is incredible. 21 years old, really feeling that life is challenging at the moment, and so I sort of related myself to what he was saying..... and BUDDY, it helped. thank you. the animation really helped stretch out the explanation as well.
I can relate to Stan Getz being in a cloud of alcohol....functional and carrying on life, doing things on autopilot and making major accomplishments all under the influence of alcohol and when it is all said and done, you look back and don't remember a minute of it.....on to the next drink...and do it all over again, until the alcohol takes it's toll on one of your important major organs and then that is when you realize you can't keep doing this unless you want to take that long dirt nap.
I'm still in my early 20s, but I'm right there in my life too, and struggling with this very thing. Hell I'm drunk and stoned *right* now. Thanks for writing this its valuable to me. Its never too early to start to live better and see the beauty in life without being clouded by dependency, especially if you have things and people you really love and want to be around as long and as much as possible.
@ it’s a hard battle to do on your own by yourself, you will need a support group or someone who does not drink and can keep you from falling back, it takes time and patience and hard love. I wish you the best.
Wasn't he a professor at Berkley? Maybe after he got clean. Regardless, if i ever get back to playing, he would be my inspiration and target. His sound was always the kind of sound I looked for in an Alto sax as its such a difficult instrument to get right. Never knew he was also a strong drug user, he always came across as the straight guy. Was unaware there was that dark of a side to him. Might make his albums sound different to me now but I'll come to terms with it.
this is really about the anxieties of his age, and attempting to escape through drugs but the anxieties of society remain. there's definitely dependency there and you might change your behavior to fix your reaction but the problem remains.
Stan Getz was working professionally when he was a teenager.He was with grown men who were addicts and or alcholics.Poor kid didn't have a chance.Shame on his parents for letting him be in that environment.
When Getz says they were 'stoned' I don't think he actually meant 'high on cannabis' - which is what the accompanying cartoon depicted. 'Stoned' applied to junk as well, plus it's Heroin, not Mary Jane, that usually makes one lose interest in Sex. Miles Davis talked openly about that, that when you're 'stoned on Junk', you lose interest in getting laid.
tiluriso that’s true.. especially in that era, where Marijuana was more on par with the whole free love & hippie movement that started to rise- or was this earlier in the years?
@@MidTierVillain Cannabis had been around for decades and many of the earlier, 1930s Swing Era Jazzers smoked it - Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Mezz Mezzrow, for example as well as late 1940s BeBoppers like Dizzy Gillespie, but by the early 1950s, heroin had become the drug of choice of many young - such 'Cool Jazz' saxophonists like Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz even got busted for it in the 50s. Marijuana had a resurgence in the '60s during the hippie movement, but it was a whole new generation.
So glad I heard this (and watched it, too). I had to stop listening to an Audible version of his biography because it was SO depressing. The guy was a "monster" player... and just a regular monster human being, horrible to everyone around him. It pains me to write that, considering how much I love his playing. Anyway, good to know that he kicked those habits in the 80's. Maybe I'll go back and listen to the rest of the bio, now that I know he redeemed himself at the end.
One of the greatest )for me he is the greatest) saxophonist. This interview shall be presented to anyone being alcoholic or on drugs. In the end It got him... ''I'm sure we could have played better if we weren't'' RIP Stan Getz, you were simply the best.
I know the focus of this video is not to glorify drugs, but there is a danger that especially young people think that the drugs made him great. He was great in spite of the drugs. Drugs won't make a nobody a Stan Getz. Who knows how much better he could have been.
It's so interesting that there was this perception of gay people as being "unmanly." It's hurtful and shocking to hear such an honest interview with a talented icon, but I'm so grateful to be able to listen to it uncensored. I know it's bleeped out, but I know what he said. It's wrong, it's ignorant, but that was the perception of the culture at the time, and we need to hear it.
this is very sad but like they say, if Billie Holiday had been a spinster schoolteacher, she wouldn't have sounded that way and given us all such joy. Same with Stan, Im sure
Great story about Serge Chaloff. He was the supply and annoyed Woody. (Herman)One night in a crowded bar Serge was stoned, speech slurred etc. Woody urinated against his leg then walked off. Stan has to be my favorite player, no question but he was a very strange character. Zoot said he was a very nice group of people! Trouble was you never knew what one you would get.
Shows the pure will this man had to make art while addled. After heroin he went to booze and what was not mentioned in this fave interview/animation was that he was a cocaine user as well.
it's an older era, people thought differently than you. If you can't accept that then many of the lessons of history will be lost in your taking offense to things that are done and gone.
Does anyone know what album the version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" is from (at the end of this clip)? I thought it was from the album that he did with Bill Evans, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones but that tune is not on the track listing. I'm unable to find this Getz version of this tune anywhere. Anyone know?
I think Stan would want to help young musicians by his experiences. He's the king of the saxophone, let's face it. and when the king tells you not to do something, it makes us kids want to do what he says. if anything, his words here are a blessing.
King of the saxophone? Smh. He is a great but no where near the King! He was essentially a Lester Young disciple and no where near as good as Young imo! The KIngs of the saxophone all time in chronological order are Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins & John Coltrane. Notable mentions are Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Dexter Gordon, Eric Dolphy, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Mike Brecker and many others I could mention!
If it weren't for my so called "wasted years" I wouldn't know half of the things I know now. Nothing is ever wasted, stop rushing other people's lives for selfish reasons.
Getz, while being a terrible human being, was a great musician who had a lot of great stories we can still learn from despite his horribly outdated beliefs. This isnt to say we should ignore Getz's sexism or homophobia, because at the very least it makes this interview much more interesting.
I know that the word "fag" is totally unacceptable in 2018, but please don't censor historical documents like this by bleeping out words you find offensive. Censorship is censorship no matter how you look at it.
Serge Chaloff was often high when in the Herman band. Woody was so sick of his antics that when Serge came up to him in a crowded bar, Woody deliberately urinated down Serge’s trousers.
"You can do anything with practice" - Stan Getz. Words to live by.
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"Most of my records I don't remember making." Man, what an incredible admission. To have such an exalted position, to create such great art, and not even know you did.
some would say it is the lack of knowing that creates great art. It is surrender to the mystery that continues to produce those things that represent to us the power of the unknown. But it does get tied into habits of addiction when artists become addicted to not knowing.
@@NoahHornberger I'm not one of those people that would ever say it's a lack of knowing that creates great art. and that goes for any genre of music or 🎨 art...
@@NoahHornbergersomeone would say saying some would say is pretentious
I’m at this stage currently. It sucks not knowing what you did the night before. Suddenly waking up in bed, wondering how you got there, and only remembering the last thing you were doing before your memory cut out…
My dad was a jazz musician and Stan Getz was his hero. My dad had a photo of me as a baby that was actually signed by Stan Getz, wishing me a happy life. He had it in his wallet until the day he died. My mom gave it to me and I still have it to this day.
That’s awesome!
That’s cooler than skateboarding off of Mount Everest while smoking a pack of marbs and at the same time making out with Micheal b Jordan
I guess if a 9-foot tall bear takes a swipe at saxophonist, it's best to be a high saxophonist.
been a fan of getz for a while, never heard him speak or tell his stories until now. i’m absolutely blown away by his unconventional type of articulation and the magnitude behind the words he speaks. thank you for posting this
I can relate to a lot of what Getz is saying. I’ve struggled with addiction for 11 years, and I am now on this long journey of being a recovered addict. Addiction is a disease, and it has certainly changed me as a person because I grew up in a broken home, and that vice offered me an escape from all the traumatic shit that my emotionally unstable parents put me through. Those were dark days.
A lot of jazz musicians from Getz’s generation weren’t willing to admit to being addicts, and I think it’s inspiring to hear one of my heroes own up to his mistakes.
RIP Stan Getz 🙏🏾🎷
I saw Stan once. He said, 'and now I'd like to present our guitarist (Rene Thomas)" "One of the best guitarists in the world" Pause. "He's got to be that good to play with me"!! Stan's solos get to parts of my brain nothing else reaches as does Chet.
When a friend of mine played bass with Getz, he only allowed my friend to play ones and fives. My friend was a pro, but Getz just couldn't trust him.
Chet Atkins?
@@edgregory1 Baker
this series is truly incredible. its got that Humans of New York vibe with rad celebrities
This is the most impressive things i have watched in some years, i mean the whole project not just this interview.
Great job you guys!!!
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Love it! Beautiful animation, great interview! Keep 'em coming! I was friends with Stan Getz in the last two years of his life. So good to hear his voice again. Stan's the reason I started playing tenor saxophone. Thanks for this!
It's cool stumbling across this great comment from you Mr. Fishman! Your videos and content always give me a lot of insight and a lot to work with!
I'm about to start tenor sax cos of Stan. Somehow I dont think that even staying on coffee I'll be scratch on him..
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto is some of my favorite mood music
Sounds hilarious when I read this!
God I miss these vids please make more
The amazing Stan Getz. I'm really into this series of artist interviews.
this. is incredible. 21 years old, really feeling that life is challenging at the moment, and so I sort of related myself to what he was saying..... and BUDDY, it helped. thank you. the animation really helped stretch out the explanation as well.
What a beautiful tone he gets on that tenor. Trane once said that if all tenor players could sound like that, they would.
He played on very hard reeds. He said he was always on the edge of disaster. Sometimes you can hear just the beginning of a squeak on the attack.
I can relate to Stan Getz being in a cloud of alcohol....functional and carrying on life, doing things on autopilot and making major accomplishments all under the influence of alcohol and when it is all said and done, you look back and don't remember a minute of it.....on to the next drink...and do it all over again, until the alcohol takes it's toll on one of your important major organs and then that is when you realize you can't keep doing this unless you want to take that long dirt nap.
I'm still in my early 20s, but I'm right there in my life too, and struggling with this very thing. Hell I'm drunk and stoned *right* now. Thanks for writing this its valuable to me. Its never too early to start to live better and see the beauty in life without being clouded by dependency, especially if you have things and people you really love and want to be around as long and as much as possible.
@ it’s a hard battle to do on your own by yourself, you will need a support group or someone who does not drink and can keep you from falling back, it takes time and patience and hard love. I wish you the best.
Wasn't he a professor at Berkley? Maybe after he got clean.
Regardless, if i ever get back to playing, he would be my inspiration and target. His sound was always the kind of sound I looked for in an Alto sax as its such a difficult instrument to get right. Never knew he was also a strong drug user, he always came across as the straight guy. Was unaware there was that dark of a side to him. Might make his albums sound different to me now but I'll come to terms with it.
Read Art Pepper's "Straight Life." An absolute classic on the jazz drug scene of the 40s and 50s.
There were times I had to put the book down it was so harrowing to read.Its funny how talent will out.
The book is compelling, disturbing and astonishing all at the same time.
Thank you.
A supremely difficult and brilliant read. Complete passages are burned into my mind but I’ve only read it once.
@@andymassingham Great descriptive of the book. I actually have vast passages highlighted. Take care.
Something about jazz that draws me towards it.
SO glad he recovered later. I love the man. I adore his work. ♥ He is one of the very best. Gosh!
Not once did he say those years were ¨wasted¨.
Because years are never truly wasted because they made you who you are , if you think that's a simple excuse that's usually the best excuse
He did say that he wasn't his true self and he didn't remember making any of his albums? He was truly wasted, stoned.
Well, they didn't go to waste, but he was wasted most of those years
@@theyedmeister6981 this was what I was going to say - they were trying to be clever
Wasted as in not sober
Stan getz is the greatest of all time.. great video
2:02 oof, I mean I get it was a different time and mentality back then, but that still stung a little
Gary Burton played in Stan's band for three years in the 60s and tells some amazing stories in his autobiography.
This channel is pure awesomeness, thank you so much
I like how this artist, made this simple shapes with them heavy jazz coats. so simple and good and effective
At the end he's playing with BILL EVANS &ELVIN
Love that record
And Ron Carter too
Beautiful
this is really about the anxieties of his age, and attempting to escape through drugs but the anxieties of society remain. there's definitely dependency there and you might change your behavior to fix your reaction but the problem remains.
I love this series. Thanks for producing them!!
This is one of those channels which you know that you gonna follow for long time and they will deliver good stuff.
Stan Getz was working professionally when he was a teenager.He was with grown men who were addicts and or alcholics.Poor kid didn't have a chance.Shame on his parents for letting him be in that environment.
This is so beautiful! Thank you very much for doing these videos.
He definitely getz it!
Just fantastic animation and interpretation ~ perfectly captures the style, feel and moment.
When Getz says they were 'stoned' I don't think he actually meant 'high on cannabis' - which is what the accompanying cartoon depicted. 'Stoned' applied to junk as well, plus it's Heroin, not Mary Jane, that usually makes one lose interest in Sex. Miles Davis talked openly about that, that when you're 'stoned on Junk', you lose interest in getting laid.
tiluriso that’s true.. especially in that era, where Marijuana was more on par with the whole free love & hippie movement that started to rise- or was this earlier in the years?
@@MidTierVillain Cannabis had been around for decades and many of the earlier, 1930s Swing Era Jazzers smoked it - Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Mezz Mezzrow, for example as well as late 1940s BeBoppers like Dizzy Gillespie, but by the early 1950s, heroin had become the drug of choice of many young - such 'Cool Jazz' saxophonists like Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz even got busted for it in the 50s. Marijuana had a resurgence in the '60s during the hippie movement, but it was a whole new generation.
tiluriso thanks, man, for the reply.. do you by chance have any good documentaries that you know about Jazz in that light?
He was talking about being high on heroin. Being stoned meant that in his era!
@@jibsmokestack1 Yep.
Jazz music is a man's game
So glad I heard this (and watched it, too). I had to stop listening to an Audible version of his biography because it was SO depressing. The guy was a "monster" player... and just a regular monster human being, horrible to everyone around him. It pains me to write that, considering how much I love his playing. Anyway, good to know that he kicked those habits in the 80's. Maybe I'll go back and listen to the rest of the bio, now that I know he redeemed himself at the end.
@@Fredo_Viola At least he wasn't boring like you.
Bring this channel back please!
Amazing! Thank you for these, thank you!
I love these vids. Wish you would make more.
Another great interview. Loved it! Keep em coming.
Too bad the subs are not on time:(
Yeah jeeze
Melodic informed linear subtle smart as hell always playing challenging material what a great musician.
Thanks for posting this. It was great to hear!
Such a brilliant talent....so underrated....
Wonderful animation. Terrific, thank you!
This was great 👍🏼 to watch. I love ❤️ jazz music 🎵 🎼 🎶
Jazz is and always will be a Man's game.
It’s a rare soul who can survive celebrity. Getz died of liver cancer 5 years later.
Another great Blank on Blank. Keep them coming.
thank you so much for making these videos. they are so inspiring.
best channel on youtube, these videos are so important.
Great interview!
That was some sax section in the band -Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Serge Chaloff and Stan -wow!
He had a way longer than 10 year heroin habit, more like 40 years lol
I like how zoot is a trumpet player in this video when he was actually a tenor saxophonist
Ezra Harris aren’t his main hits recorded on tenor?
Layne Reiners around 1:20, the video points to Zoot and he’s got a trumpet, when really Zoot Sims played Tenor Sax
LEGEND!!! Speaking the truth
So many people pretending to care and virtue signalling in the comments about Stan Getz just talking like a normal guy saying badddd words lol
3.02 "I Was So Fucked Up All My Life" I Can Relate. ❤
He is my top favorite after all. Great muzik The Steamer '.
I saw Stan give a series of clinics at Stanford University in 1986. I seem to recall he died shortly thereafter.
I'm shaking my shoulders like that bear now. Nice upload.
One of the greatest )for me he is the greatest) saxophonist. This interview shall be presented to anyone being alcoholic or on drugs. In the end It got him... ''I'm sure we could have played better if we weren't'' RIP Stan Getz, you were simply the best.
I know the focus of this video is not to glorify drugs, but there is a danger that especially young people think that the drugs made him great. He was great in spite of the drugs. Drugs won't make a nobody a Stan Getz. Who knows how much better he could have been.
StrayCat this is the truth, man. It’s all about the moment.
wonderful animation and amazing story
The voice has its own story
It's so interesting that there was this perception of gay people as being "unmanly." It's hurtful and shocking to hear such an honest interview with a talented icon, but I'm so grateful to be able to listen to it uncensored. I know it's bleeped out, but I know what he said. It's wrong, it's ignorant, but that was the perception of the culture at the time, and we need to hear it.
Different times. This man came from a time when people used the word faggot casually instead of even saying gay.
Actually, they were mostly right to feel that way lol
this is very sad but like they say, if Billie Holiday had been a spinster schoolteacher, she wouldn't have sounded that way and given us all such joy. Same with Stan, Im sure
What a talented man
awesome thanks stan getz
Not sure anyone will actually see this or know but what’s the song at 2:25 ?
did you find it?
@@adamkhan1480 Lush life by getz
Great story about Serge Chaloff. He was the supply and annoyed Woody. (Herman)One night in a crowded bar Serge was stoned, speech slurred etc. Woody urinated against his leg then walked off. Stan has to be my favorite player, no question but he was a very strange character. Zoot said he was a very nice group of people! Trouble was you never knew what one you would get.
this teaches a lot!! thanx!!
Near the end of this, I believe it is Warne Marsh who is depicted.
Wow he's talking about being a lush while playing Ellington/Strayhorn's brilliant "Lush Life" with Chick Corea on Rhodes.
Please fix the subtitles.
Shows the pure will this man had to make art while addled. After heroin he went to booze and what was not mentioned in this fave interview/animation was that he was a cocaine user as well.
He was already on booze at around 15 years old man he drank for most of his life lol
Just love your channel
I like how they used Coltrane in the background. Whoops.
Lol where
Its bc stan is busy talking to u
Thank you
Crazy he probably don’t remember the albums I liked
He remembers the album he doesn't have many memories in regards to the recording process or the backstory
This is a great series.
The casual homophobia here is regrettable, but, that's an interview from the 80's I guess
Getz made great music, but he was a jerk to be honest.
@@choboutube Lots of jazz musicians were
Well, it's casual, as you say. And people have different opinions, so don't worry about it.
it makes the story better imo, you can better understand the social point of view of the time.
it's an older era, people thought differently than you. If you can't accept that then many of the lessons of history will be lost in your taking offense to things that are done and gone.
Jazz legends.
Does anyone know what album the version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" is from (at the end of this clip)? I thought it was from the album that he did with Bill Evans, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones but that tune is not on the track listing. I'm unable to find this Getz version of this tune anywhere. Anyone know?
Great video
Thank you
I think Stan would want to help young musicians by his experiences. He's the king of the saxophone, let's face it. and when the king tells you not to do something, it makes us kids want to do what he says. if anything, his words here are a blessing.
amen I wish I would ve listened to this year's ago
King of the saxophone? Smh. He is a great but no where near the King! He was essentially a Lester Young disciple and no where near as good as Young imo! The KIngs of the saxophone all time in chronological order are Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins & John Coltrane. Notable mentions are Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Dexter Gordon, Eric Dolphy, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Mike Brecker and many others I could mention!
Coltrane is king of sax.
4:10
What this tune again, tought Montgomery also played it.
Jamiro Smajic
Night and Day
If it weren't for my so called "wasted years" I wouldn't know half of the things I know now. Nothing is ever wasted, stop rushing other people's lives for selfish reasons.
rushing lives? what??? I'm pretty sure the title means "wasted" as in not sober?
The Sound!
Shit like this is why I Love RUclips
thank you
It was said that Art Blakey turned just about everybody jazz artist on drugs, Lee Morgan’s wife said this.
Getz, while being a terrible human being, was a great musician who had a lot of great stories we can still learn from despite his horribly outdated beliefs. This isnt to say we should ignore Getz's sexism or homophobia, because at the very least it makes this interview much more interesting.
his beliefs are his beliefs,not outdated
Lol cry more
Stan's son sings in a church choir in westchester, ny.
I know that the word "fag" is totally unacceptable in 2018, but please don't censor historical documents like this by bleeping out words you find offensive. Censorship is censorship no matter how you look at it.
Danny B I agree, we need the unfiltered conversations so we can feel the era while they’re speaking...
Omg that word hurts and offends me so much, I'm gonna kill myself for hearing someone utter that bad word
Great -informative - thanks!
Great stuff.....
WOW AWESOME.
Serge Chaloff was often high when in the Herman band. Woody was so sick of his antics that when Serge came up to him in a crowded bar, Woody deliberately urinated down Serge’s trousers.
I mean...that’s Bari players for ya 😂
Btw being ‘Stoned’ in Getz’s time meant being high off heroin. Not weed!