Stan Getz

'Herbie Hancock is the quintessential border crosser," wrote Down Beat magazine, unofficial arbiter of all things jazz. And that was before he became just the second jazz artist in Grammy history - the other was Stan Getz in 1965 - to snag the album of...

"The Legendary Joao Gilberto" (Blue Note Records). The birth of bossa nova, documented on 38 tracks, including the 1958 classics: "Chega de Saudade" and "Bim Bom." "Pure Bossa Nova" (Verve). In a smartly packaged series of CDs, Verve offers...

RZA Digi Snacks Koch These days, it seems every rapper has at least one alter ego, a character he can use to explore different sides of his personality. It's a songwriting device that has its limitations, as few artists go beyond the simple comic-book...

It's as fresh as a summer breeze rolling in gently off the waves, as young as the sun-worshipers crowding the white-hot beaches of Rio. Yet bossa nova—the serenely seductive music that Brazil gave the world—this summer turns 50, an absurd...

When Jelly Roll Morton, who played a pivotal role in inventing how to play jazz piano, spoke of using a "Latin tinge," he was referring to a certain rhythmic pattern called the habanera, that crept into his style. Eighty or so years later, we can speak of...

Critic's Picks Bob Dylan (Nov. 13 at Nassau Coliseum, Nov. 16 at Continental Airlines Arena). Dylan's Never Ending Tour gets an injection of new material this fall as more of Dylan's impressive new "Modern Times" (Columbia) album comes into his set of...

From The Times: April 14, 1965 The award season spun its way along Tuesday night with the seventh annual running of the Grammy — a long-playing affair with winners in no less than 47 categories. Like the Oscar proceedings, the ceremonies of the National...

Turning my back on the discord of the material world, I have made my way not east but south to a land where redemption is only a samba away. And just hours after touching down, salvation is already at hand. Onstage at Claro Hall, on the outskirts of Rio...

June 1 David Lee Roth. Diamond Dave and his diabolically diminishing hairline. Westbury Music Fair. 7 p.m. $40. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. Fusing soft and hard. 11 p.m. Bowery Ballroom. $12. Zootopia. Featuring TLC, Ja Rule, Simple Plan, Ashanti,...

Joe Henderson, a tenor saxophonist known for his inventive improvisation and lyrical contemporary jazz style who was late to achieve the widespread fame he had long deserved, has died at age 64. Henderson, who earned three Grammys in the early 1990s when...

Listening to Billie Holiday, one of the most expressive, vulnerable and visceral vocalists of the 20th century, is much like falling in love. You just can't help yourself. Despite a self-destructive heroin addiction that led to her early death at age...

For our most romantic national holiday, Valentine's Day is so often reduced to easy gestures, whether they be roses, candlelight dinners, candy hearts or even the donning of black in mourning. Lost amidst the Hallmark cards is the sense that it's the...