Stan Getz discusses playing bass as a young man.

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Stan Getz on selecting bandmembers.

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Stan Getz discusses his love of New York.

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Q: “How do you go about selecting anybody new that comes into the band? If somebody’s going to leave for some reason or you’ve gotta let them go for some reason, where do you get the new players? How do you have time to hear other people?”

A: “Well, way back, I used to go listen a lot and I started out that way. But I would say the past ten or fifteen years, they come to me. When somebody is going to leave my band, everybody knows it and they all scurry for a chance because they know that I give them plenty of room in my band. Nobody is stifled in my band, and I think it should be that way because jazz is s developing thing and jazz musicians develop and where else do they develop but on the job.”