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After cutting his teeth with Kenton, Dorsey and Goodman and while still playing with Woody Herman, Getz emerged as one of the top sax stylists in jazz with these 1946–52 recordings. This exhaustive look at his early years includes And the Angels Swing; Pinhead; Frosty; Stan’s Mood; On the Alamo; Yesterdays; Imagination; Night and Day; Flamingo; Rubberneck; Where or When, and more featuring the likes of Zoot Sims, Horace Silver and Max Roach!