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Bruce Guthrie
Since: 2019 | Position: Contributor | Location: Tulsa | Page Views: 12,348 
About Me
Bruce Guthrie is a musician and citizen of the jazz music universe.
Bruce Guthrie has an over 30-year music business and performance experience. While attending college he won the regional championship of the National Collegiate Talent Search. Bruce is a member of the Jazz Educators Network who has sung jazz professionally in the “west coast cool” tradition pioneered by Oklahoma- born international jazz icon Chet Baker for many years, as well as working with Chet’s late wife, Carol, and Chet's son, Paul, serving as business representative of all of the heirs of the Chet Baker estate for 14 years arranging deals from film to new music offerings and the collection of global royalties, and the sale of Chet's catalog; and he was the co-founder of the Chet Baker Foundation 501 ( c ) 3, based in Tulsa whose honorary board included Sharon Stone, Jeff Goldblum, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, the late Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, Astrud Gilberto …and many others. In 2005 Bruce founded the annual Chet Baker Tribute concert that has been staged at numerous places in Oklahoma, The OK Mozart Festival, The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, The National Press Club in Washington, DC, and other venues; and was recently asked to help develop the Chet Baker (and other Oklahoma-born jazz artists) exhibit for the OKPOP museum in Tulsa (scheduled to open in 2028) as “Guest Jazz Curator” He was also the founder and organizer of the Chet Baker Jazz Festival held in Yale, Oklahoma (Baker’s home town) that spanned 5 years. In recent years Bruce was named as Executive Producer on Chet Baker pending film projects. He has also worked with the estate of iconic jazz pianist Bill Evans on specified business projects. One of eight children Bruce received degrees from The University of Tulsa and Tulsa Community College. He was once the teaching tennis professional at The Candlewood Club in Tulsa. He studied journalism, international business communications and he speaks German as a second language, as well as moderate Spanish; and taught German for 5 years beginning the German language program at Will Rogers HS in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bruce’s mother, Helen, served on the White House West Wing staff of President Ronald Reagan.
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