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David Wheat played guitar with many big bands in the 1950's and performed with the Playboy Jazz All Stars in 1959. He recorded with "Chet Baker Trio" on "Embraceable You", "My Funny Valentine" and "There's a Lull in My Life" in 1957. Baker's soft moody vocals (no trumpet) accompanied by only David on nylon string acoustical guitar with bassist Ross Savakus. With lyricist Bill Loughborough, David wrote the jazz classic, "Better Than Anything", going on to write the up beat jungle sounds of "Coo Coo U", made popular by Manhattan Transfer. Buckhweat, the nick name he went by, is most known as the stand-up bass accompanist with the original Kingston Trio, where he brought a sence of jazz to the popular folk groups sound in their early recordings, touring for years and worked on several albums

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David Buck Wheat Early Living Legend of Jazz in San Francisco

April 17, 2009

David Wheat played guitar with many of the big bands in the 1950's and performed with the Playboy Jazz All Stars in 1959. He recorded with Chet Baker Trio on “Embraceable You", “My Funny Valentine" and “There's a Lull in My Life" in 1957. Baker's soft moody vocals (no trumpet) were accompanied by only David on ...

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