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Chet Baker Quartet Featuring Russ Freeman
by Mark Barnett
Getting Started If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. CD Capsule Iconic West Coast jazz by the legendary trumpeter at the cusp of his career. Baker made a slew of recordings in his lifetime, but this is among the crème de la crème. Background Trumpeter Chet Baker rose to prominence in the mid-1950's and continued to ...
Continue ReadingMatthew Ruddick: Funny Valentine
by Maurizio Zerbo
Funny Valentine Matthew Ruddick Arcana Jazz 978-88-6231-346-9 2014 Sapientemente tradotta da Vincenzo Martorella, questa nuova biografia di Chet Baker muove dall'intento di riconsiderare in chiave meno pruriginosa la figura umana ed artistica del trombettista, scomparso tragicamente ad Amsterdam nel 1988. Avvalendosi di un rilevante corpus di prima (interviste) e seconda (libri ed articoli) mano, Matthew Ruddick si allontana dall'immagine di eroe maledetto, ingiustamente tracciata da James Gavin nel suo “La lunga notte ...
Continue ReadingChet Baker: The Missing Years by Artt Frank
by C. Michael Bailey
Chet Baker: The Missing Years Artt Frank 234 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-9887687-4-1 BooksEndependent 2014 Baker attracts positive and negative criticism like a celebrity black hole--the artist as hero and antihero. When considering Baker, you consider no one else. From “On The Banks of the Jabbok with Chet Baker," All About Jazz, 2012. Since his death in 1988, trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker has been the subject of three biographies that ...
Continue ReadingChet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe
by C. Michael Bailey
Chet BakerChet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner & LoeweOJC1959/2013 The newest round of re-releases/remasters from the Concord Music Group celebrate the 60th anniversary of Riverside Records. Singer and trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe joins Mulligan Meets Monk (OJC/Riverside, 1957/2013) in the label's birthday celebration. Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe can easily be considered a sequel and one half of a creative ...
Continue ReadingOn the Banks of the Jabbok With Chet Baker
by C. Michael Bailey
When Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed by NPR shortly after publication of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (Riverhead, 2005), he was quite candid about his relationship with his own Judaism and Yahweh: Bloom: ... I may, as I say, lack trust in the covenant, but though I keep asking Yahweh to go away, I say so many times in this book, he won't go away. He haunts me. NPR: You really want Yahweh to ...
Continue ReadingFunny Valentine - The Story of Chet Baker
by Chris May
Funny Valentine: The Story of Chet BakerMatthew Ruddick828 pages, softbackISBN: 978-1-907732-71-3Melrose Books2012Grippingly written and meticulously researched, Matthew Ruddick's 828-page opus is the definitive biography of trumpeter and singer Chet Baker. More than that, it is a vivid account of the junkie subculture that ran through mid-to-late 20th century jazz, as seen through the incident-packed life of one of its most spectacular participants. The book combines some of the ...
Continue ReadingRebecca Sullivan & Mike Allemana: This Way, This Time
by C. Michael Bailey
The great composers of the jazz standard repertoire had lesser-known contemporaries whose work although of quality, inevitably did not garner the same attention. This body of somewhat unknown jazz compositions offers the up-and-coming jazz artist a wealth of material to choose from when trying to assemble that most important debut recording. Chicago-native vocalist Rebecca Sullivan does just that and selects from this less celebrated pool of music for her debut This Way, This Time. Accompanied by guitarist ...
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