Stanley Getz, professionally known as Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophonist, noted for his warm, lyrical tone. Born into a migrant low-income family, he started playing harmonica at the age of six. Later, he learned to play bass and then a bassoon and finally saxophone, which he received as a birthday present at thirteen. At sixteen, he left school to start his career in music with various well-known bands, coming into prominence with Woody Herman’s Second Herd, meanwhile featuring in various albums. At twenty-two, he embarked on his solo career, performing and recording mostly in New York before taking his first trip abroad at twenty-four. By then he had got involved in substance abuse and subsequent brushes with law, which often hampered his career. But each time, he returned with a bang; he recorded over 150 albums in his lifetime, which include such great works like Stan Getz At Storyville Vol. 1 & 2, Focus, Jazz Samba, and Getz / Gilberto. He was aptly nicknamed The Sound for his brilliant renditions.