It's been 10 months since music fans had to be turned away from downtown Napa's premier music spot, DG's, for an opportunity to hear the music of jazz master Stan Getz.

Last January, the SRO crowd was treated to an evening of classic jazz tunes by the Napa Jazz Quartet, four of the North Bay's top improvisers.

And they're back.

The NJQ will present "As Good As It Getz," a command performance at DG's in the Napa Mill complex on Saturday, with two shows highlighting some of Getz' most popular works.

The late tenor saxophone player is best known for his interpretations of the Brazilian genre known as Bossa Nova that emerged in the early 1960s. Well before that, Getz was known as one of Woody Herman's famous Four Brothers and a sideman with some of the top players in be-bop and West Coast jazz.

Replicating the Getz sound with his own unique style, is Napa's Kent Cohea, a recent transplant from the SF peninsula who quickly hooked up with a trio of preeminent Napa musicians.

Cohea not only makes Getz come alive but employs his vocal prowess to emulate Antonio Carlos Jobim a la "So Danco Samba" as well as some swinging standards like "Pennies From Heaven" and "Green Dolphin Street."

Cohea has played with such modern-day luminaries as David Sanborn, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin, B.J. Thomas and Maria Muldaur, another recent DG's sellout.

Joining him will be pianist Dan Davidson, a Minneapolis transplant who became a popular three-decade fixture on the Bay Area pop and jazz scene.

In the early 1970s, Davidson hooked up with another former Minnesotan, Jay Goetting, who is also a staff writer with the Napa Valley Register, performing extensively up and down the SF Bay's top venues. Coincidentally, Davidson and Goetting first became acquainted when Dan played with a Latin-jazz group on the University of Minnesota campus.

They were reunited when Goetting played the Fillmore West with the Buddy Rich Band in 1970, and the bond was reforged.

Rounding out the NJQ is drummer Kevin Dillon, a Napa native considered by all he touches musically as, "one of the tastiest players around."

The Napa Jazz quartet promises a night of sounds not often heard outside the Bay Area's top venues.

This is downtown stuff right in our own backyard.

For reservations contact DG's at 253-8474 or info@dgsjazz.com. DG's is located at 530 Main St., Napa in the historic Hatt building.