Stan Getz
American tenor saxophonist whose collaborations with João Gilberto and Jobim on Getz/Gilberto and Jazz Samba brought bossa nova to American audiences and made it an international sensation in the early 1960s. Jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd heard the style on a State Department-sponsored tour of South America and brought recordings back. Together with Getz, Byrd recorded the 1962 album Jazz Samba, reworking bossa nova for US jazz fans. The music industry was wowed—Billboard Magazine asked "Is The Bossa Nova The Next Big Sound?" The album sold over one million copies, creating the bossa nova craze in America. Later claimed to have 'discovered' Astrud Gilberto's talent during the Getz/Gilberto sessions, though Astrud and her son Marcelo disputed this version, alleging Getz and producer Creed Taylor contrived the story to deprive her of royalties.