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Tenor sax player Stan Getz, who with Washington guitarist Charlie Byrd struck the downbeat for the bossa nova movement in the Unites states, will make one of his rare appearances here in ‘The Ella Fitzgerald Show’ which opens tonight at Carter Barron Amphitheatre, with Byrd costarred.
"Bossa Nova Boy"
Washington Post, July 22, 1963
“The ‘First Lady of Song’ gets terrific backing by the Tommy Flanagan Quartet plus one of the top jazz trumpet players, Roy Eldridge, who goes into a rocking jam session with Ella on ‘Stomping at the Savoy.’”
“The Charlie Byrd trio gets the show off to a very smooth start, with Charlie varying the pace by doing an Albeniz Spanish dance arranged for guitar.”
Then comes one of the top sax men of intimate jazz, Stan Getz, with his quartet, one of the best in the business. Just before intermission the Byrd Trio joins the quartet in a number from the hit Getz-Byrd album. It’s a show no jazz fan should miss.”
"It was a monumental motion picture in many respects. I knew that something special was happening in that country. I never realized that it would become the phenomenon it did. I just knew that they were doing something spectacular." – Felix Grant
"Opens at Carter Barron -Ella Is Still the No. 1 Jazz Singer"
Washington Post, July 23, 1963