My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

2002. In 1972 Getz recorded in the fusion idiom with Chick Corea Tony Williams and Stanley Clarke and in this period experimented with an Echoplex on his saxophone. Their "The Girl from Ipanema" won a Grammy Award.

Getz went on to perform in bebop cool jazz and third stream but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova as in the worldwide hit single "The Girl from Ipanema" (1964). Stanley Getz (February 2 1927 – June 6 1991) was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm lyrical tone his prime influence being the wispy mellow timbre of his idol Lester Young.