tenor saxophone
Stan Getz
1927 – † 1991
Partner from Pepl’s time in the ORF Big Band (ORF: Austria’s public broadcaster) in the 1970s: according to Pepl’s own short biography of 1979, printed in the programme booklets of the festivals in Saalfelden, Austria, and Debrecen, Hungary, he played in concerts and workshops with Stan Getz; the Czech jazz encyclopaedia “Encyklopedie jazzu” (Prague, 1987) lists Getz among Pepl’s partners in concert or on television, and Nikolaus Kohler (2006) describes the collaboration as taking place “as part of the big band”. Date, programme and recording have not yet been established.
American tenor saxophonist, for decades one of the most influential saxophonists in jazz: a style-setter in cool jazz, popular worldwide through bossa nova (the Brazilian blend of samba and jazz) and winner of eleven Grammy Awards.