Jazz guitar player Jackie King mentions playing with Chet in the 70's in this interview, and that a couple of concerts were recorded. Anyone know if these...
What do you think is the best tribute to Chet Baker album? I have not heard that many, but this CD with Phil Urso and Carl Saunders is a great one: ...
Carl Sanders is good, but I Remember You - Phillip Catherine (guitar) with Tom Harrell and Hein Van De Geyn (bass) Criss Cross 1048 is Best IMHO, Excellent...
Harrell has more feeling for Chet's trumpet style. Even more is present, IMO, on a record feat. both Enrico Rava and Paolo Fresu, called Shades of Chet. My...
J de Valk
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Apr 4, 2006 12:49 pm
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I suppose Mr King worked with Chet, but sure not for a year. I tried to contact him about his possible recordings, but got no answer. It's understandable he...
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Apr 4, 2006 12:51 pm
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For me one of the best tribute albums for Chet is Fay Claassens' 'Sings Two Poetraits of Chet Baker'. It is a two disc release wherein the first disc she...
Larry B Whitford
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Apr 5, 2006 12:37 pm
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That was a great period, and it's a pity that the two US concerts from Chet and Markowitz - The Rising Sun and esp. At The Keystone - don't present Chet at his...
J de Valk
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Apr 5, 2006 3:34 pm
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.. both at the same time. RLR Records is going to issue as The Lost Holland Concert the surviving parts of Scheveningen, Mainz and Zurich, 1955. It's great...
J de Valk
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Apr 6, 2006 11:13 am
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I don't have a single great tribute album for CB but I saw Bobby Shew do a live tribute to him in L.A. several years ago. He sounded more like Chet than anyone...
As a young trumpet player years ago I discovered Chet and at the same time discovered that I could play, after a fashion, his style. By contrast I could not...
You're right - like Miles, Chet didn't need a whole lot of noise to tell his story. But there are quite some transcribed Chet-solos - especially his later ones...
J de Valk
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Apr 8, 2006 12:05 pm
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Finally had a chance to sit down and go through some of my tribute albums and have come to the feeling that one of the ones I like the best was by the Tom...
Larry B Whitford
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Apr 8, 2006 1:18 pm
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Hi, AllAboutJazz lists these new Chet reissue CD's for April and May 06: Chet Baker - Milano Sessions (Promo Sound) Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine: I Take...
Jer, You are correct. It's a good thing I didn't hear the fast improvisational work Chet did on certain recording dates, instead of the ballads that I happened...
Hi Terry, Do you have Chet Baker In Tokyo? That has him at his greatest. As far as Chet's death is concerned, I don't want to boast but I actually went to the...
J de Valk
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Apr 8, 2006 10:04 pm
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Sorry - I forgot Mike Zwerin, who did meet police inspector Bloos, in 1988. Jeroen ... From: J de Valk To: ChetBAKER@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 09,...
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Apr 8, 2006 10:29 pm
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Jer, I just now ordered your book online and can't wait to read it. Thanx for a great job on the website, also. Terry J de Valk <jeroen.de.valk@...>...
which is the Bible of technique for horn players, and which contains hundreds of pages of trumpet exercises. Starting with slow whole note C Major scales, the...
Chet should have practised more and should have done some regular warming up excersises before concerts. But I think a solo like the one in My Funny Valentine...
J de Valk
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Apr 9, 2006 9:30 am
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J, I find it interesting to compare horn players to guitar players. Trumpeters, the ones I know, are often university trained with a wide range of chops. Then...
J de Valk <jeroen.de.valk@...> wrote: Chet should have practised more and should have done some regular warming up excersises before concerts. But then...
You mean musicals are easier than classical things? I know a classical singer who was the Phantom (of the opera) and went back to classical music, as doing a...
J de Valk
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Apr 10, 2006 11:15 am
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Dan, I couldn't have put it better when you said: "But then he wouldn't have been Chet". In the 1950's when he was playing the L.A. Clubs, it seemed like they...
You were there, back in the 50s? And got any memories? I wasn't even born most that decade, being from '58. Jeroen ... From: "Phil Kingsbury"...
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Apr 10, 2006 7:28 pm
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Hi, I'm not the best in japanese, but this record looks like an interesting one: http://www.kangnmusic.com/chet.php Anyone knows when this material was...
If you scroll downwards, there is a list of tunes and personnel. This double cd has music from the problematic Ronnie Scott gig, an unspectacular session with...
J de Valk
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Apr 11, 2006 8:11 am
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Oh - and the session marked with three stars is unknown to me, but perhaps that's because the info is not correct. The musicians given for four tunes are: Chet...
J de Valk
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Apr 11, 2006 8:15 am
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OK, thanks. That sounds like quite a hotchpotch of sessions. Guess there are more sensibly organized compilations to get first. I'll enjoy the Shout Factory...
Ed Byrne writes about Chet in a new book: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=13807 (See the post at the bottom at the page). A subjective, but...
