50 great moments in jazz: Stan Getz's Jazz Samba

Rock'n'roll effectively kept jazz out of the charts in the 60s, but the samba craze briefly rekindled hopes of a renaissanceBy 1962, jazz was beginning to be perceived as hard work if you weren't a dedicated fan. Ornette Coleman had already hurtled out of the west coast with a new way of playing that rejected traditional song structures, and encouraged an ensemble-improv style that could be hard to follow for anyone used to hearing solos taken in orderly turns. John Coltrane was going the other ...

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