Stan Getz
Day 77
#9 – Stanley ‘Stan’ Getz (1927–1991). American jazz saxophone player. Recordings include: Desafinado (1962) and The Girl from Ipanema from the album Getz/Gilberto (1963).
Getz is probably most famous for his Getz/Gilberto album, a bossa nova-flavoured album that was a world-wide hit. I chose colours that reflect this style of Brazilian music, developed in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known as ‘The Sound’ for his warm tone and I experimented with this for some time. I noticed whilst working with this that his name split pleasingly into two groups of four letters which worked well vertically. Repeating and overlapping the letters helped introduce rich colours.
2.5 hours
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to excerpts from ‘The Bossa Nova Years’