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Browse piano sheets by Luiz Eca / Stan Getz on Zen Virtual Piano. Luiz Eça (full name Luís Mainzl da Cunha Eça, 3 April 1936 – 24 May 1992) was a Rio de Janeiro samba and bossa nova pianist, whom Wikipedia lists as a member of the Tamba Trio with Hélcio Milito and Bebeto Castilho. AllMusic says he began to learn classical piano at age five, and that in his teens he was already taken by jazz and a regular at Cantina do César, where Johnny Alf was breaking new ground. In 1953 Eça was playing at the Plaza nightclub, and winning a Brazilian government scholarship to study classical music, he moved to Vienna in 1958. A classical student who also frequented a jazz haunt and played in a nightclub suggests a musician drawn to more than one kind of room. In 1962 Eça formed the Tamba Trio, which opened on 19 March 1962 at Bottle’s nightclub in the Beco das Garrafas, and AllMusic says the trio rejected the mere backing role of the rhythm players of the time and inspired countless new trios. A trio that rejected the mere backing role and inspired new trios can be read as a group that wanted its rhythm players to be heard in their own right. Stan Getz was born on 2 February 1927 in Philadelphia and died on 6 June 1991 in Malibu; Britannica calls him an American jazz tenor saxophonist and perhaps the best-known musician of jazz’s cool school, noted for a mellow, lush tone. Getz began studying the saxophone at thirteen and made his professional debut at fifteen. He worked with Charlie Byrd on Jazz Samba (1962), which included the hit Desafinado, and became further associated with bossa nova through his work with Gary McFarland, Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida. A saxophonist noted for a mellow, lush tone who worked with bossa nova players can be read as a musician for whom the style suited his sound, with the mellow tone carrying over into a new repertoire. Jazz History Online says The Dolphin was recorded live in 1981 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco by the engineer Phil Edwards, with Getz’s band of Lou Levy on piano, Monty Budwig on bass and Victor Lewis on drums, and that the acoustic quartet was Getz’s favourite setting. Jazz History Online calls the opening tune, The Dolphin, a gorgeous medium-up bossa by Luiz Eça, more complex in form and harmony than some of the Jobim tunes Getz usually played. Getz described the quartet as a compact, classical-jazz quartet right for him, and Britannica says he returned to traditional acoustic jazz instrumentation in 1981. Getz recording a bossa by Eça is one musician’s composition taken up by another, a small measure of the tune’s reach.
Browse piano sheets by Luiz Eca / Stan Getz on Zen Virtual Piano.
Luiz Eça (full name Luís Mainzl da Cunha Eça, 3 April 1936 – 24 May 1992) was a Rio de Janeiro samba and bossa nova pianist, whom Wikipedia lists as a member of the Tamba Trio with Hélcio Milito and Bebeto Castilho. AllMusic says he began to learn classical piano at age five, and that in his teens he was already taken by jazz and a regular at Cantina do César, where Johnny Alf was breaking new ground. In 1953 Eça was playing at the Plaza nightclub, and winning a Brazilian government scholarship to study classical music, he moved to Vienna in 1958. A classical student who also frequented a jazz haunt and played in a nightclub suggests a musician drawn to more than one kind of room.
In 1962 Eça formed the Tamba Trio, which opened on 19 March 1962 at Bottle’s nightclub in the Beco das Garrafas, and AllMusic says the trio rejected the mere backing role of the rhythm players of the time and inspired countless new trios. A trio that rejected the mere backing role and inspired new trios can be read as a group that wanted its rhythm players to be heard in their own right.
Stan Getz was born on 2 February 1927 in Philadelphia and died on 6 June 1991 in Malibu; Britannica calls him an American jazz tenor saxophonist and perhaps the best-known musician of jazz’s cool school, noted for a mellow, lush tone. Getz began studying the saxophone at thirteen and made his professional debut at fifteen. He worked with Charlie Byrd on Jazz Samba (1962), which included the hit Desafinado, and became further associated with bossa nova through his work with Gary McFarland, Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida. A saxophonist noted for a mellow, lush tone who worked with bossa nova players can be read as a musician for whom the style suited his sound, with the mellow tone carrying over into a new repertoire.
Jazz History Online says The Dolphin was recorded live in 1981 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco by the engineer Phil Edwards, with Getz’s band of Lou Levy on piano, Monty Budwig on bass and Victor Lewis on drums, and that the acoustic quartet was Getz’s favourite setting. Jazz History Online calls the opening tune, The Dolphin, a gorgeous medium-up bossa by Luiz Eça, more complex in form and harmony than some of the Jobim tunes Getz usually played. Getz described the quartet as a compact, classical-jazz quartet right for him, and Britannica says he returned to traditional acoustic jazz instrumentation in 1981. Getz recording a bossa by Eça is one musician’s composition taken up by another, a small measure of the tune’s reach.
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Luiz Eça (1936–1992) was a samba and bossa nova pianist from Rio de Janeiro who formed the Tamba Trio in 1962.
Stan Getz (1927–1991) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, noted for a mellow, lush tone and perhaps the best-known musician of the cool school.
It is an album that includes a performance recorded live in 1981 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, whose opening tune The Dolphin is a medium-up bossa by Luiz Eça.
Getz’s band included Lou Levy on piano, Monty Budwig on bass and Victor Lewis on drums.