Stan Getz "Small World" Transcription

This is Stan Getz getting featured with Huey Lewis and the News. Real cool solo - for those of you that are curious, it is in concert E, putting the tenor saxophone in the glorious key of F#.

Fun story, from Bret Pimentel.. this is the story of how this recording came to be, as told by Huey Lewis...


"Well, my dad was a jazzer and Zoot Sims died. And when Zoot Sims died, they had a benefit in San Francisco at Kimball’s or somewhere. …

So I take him and sit down … and then I get a tap on my shoulder. I turn around, and it’s Getz. It’s really amazing … he’s wearing his horn and taps me on the shoulder, and my dad turns around and Phil Elwood turns around. And my old man goes, “Holy s***!”

Getz says, “Why don’t you let me play on some of your s***? I can play that s*** too.” And I said, “Oh, why, yes sir, I’m sure you can.” And then he took a card and he wrote on it: “Stan Getz. Have sax, will travel.”

He played beautifully, and on the way home, my old man says, “If you don’t take him up on that offer, I will never, ever forgive you!”

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