Stan Getz
Tenor Sax Solo on
Nobody Else But Me

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Stan Getz opens with a single chorus on tenor sax, the first of two solos, followed by Jimmy Rowles on piano. Taken at a medium swing tempo of 129 BPM over the 36-bar ABAC in E♭, the improvisation unfolds with comfortable, easygoing swing. This 1952 recording of Nobody Else But Me from Stan Getz Plays features Jerome Kern's final composition, written for the 1946 revival of Show Boat. Recorded for the album Stan Getz Plays in 1952, the performance captures Stan Getz at 24 to 25 years old. Getz's solo at this moderate tempo allows him to develop ideas at a conversational pace, building phrases with the unhurried logic of a master storyteller.

Stan Getz was 24 to 25 years old at the time.