Chet Baker
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The Chet Baker Quintet: Smokin' (Prestige 7449)
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 4 June 1966
Baker Rides High On Flugelhorn ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 17 September 1970
Cool Times On Broadway ...
Chet Baker: The Man Who Came Back From The Dead
Report and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
The Return of Chet Baker ...
Chet Baker: You Can't Go Home Again (Horizon)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, April 1978
IN 1953 CHET Baker was jazz's fair haired boy, young white West Coast lyrical soft trumpet player and, with Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet, as famous ...
Chet Baker: The Price Of A Golden Horn
Interview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 14 April 1979
If they gave rebates on overpaid dues, Chet Baker could buy Monte Carlo. BRIAN CASE found the Cool Generation's tragic hero still fighting off the ...
Chet Baker: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 27 November 1985
Languid invention ...
Chet Baker: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 13 August 1986
LOOKING A good deal more fragile than on his last visit to Frith Street, when for an entire week he played what sounded like the ...
Chet Baker Sings and Plays From the Film ‘Let's Get Lost’
Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, November 1989
I AM NO JAZZ CRITIC, and there are several Rock & Roll Disc writers far more qualified to write about Chet Baker than I. But ...
Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (15) (Bruce Weber)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, February 1990
CHET BAKER'S James Deanish looks, rebel-type lifestyle and romantic jazz style made him a cult figure in the '50s, when he became one of photographer ...
Retrospective by Paul Nelson, Musician, October 1990
It takes a tough hopper to be cool ...
Chet Baker: Talent, addiction and all that jazz
Retrospective by James Maycock, The Independent, May 1998
James Maycock looks at the life of trumpet great Chet Baker, who died 10 years ago this week ...
Playing by Heart: John Barry in All His Glory
Review by James Hunter, New York Observer, 17 January 2000
A SUPERNATURAL-LOOKING CD entitled Playing by Heart is billed to John Barry, Chris Botti and, weirdly enough, Chet Baker. On the black-and-white CD cover, in ...
Terry Riley: The Gift (Organ of Corti)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
TO DATE, Organ of Corti's important release programme of rare and previously released material from master minimalist Terry Riley has been a somewhat frustrating exercise ...
James Gavin: Deep in a Dream – The Long Night of Chet Baker
Book Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 27 June 2002
IT'S EASY TO rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plot line: Who and how to hustle ...
Book Excerpt by Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited...', 2004
IT'S EASY TO rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plotline: Who and how to hustle in ...
Jan Erik Vold & Chet Baker: Telemark Blue (Hot Club)
Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, March 2011
SO MANY paradoxes with Chet: a man who became a visual icon, but couldn't care less about his appearance; a man whose music was all ...
The Heartbreaking Beauty Of Chet Baker
Retrospective by Lenny Kaye, Wondering Sound, 13 November 2012
IT'S AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, and as I always do at this time of year, I pull Chet Baker from the shelf. ...
Chet Baker, Trumpeter, 1929-1988
Book Excerpt by Brian Case, On the Snap (Caught by the River, 2015), 2015
I CAN REMEMBER that Chet was major despondent. A black cloud marking time. Why was I interviewing him? No particular reason. The Jazz Centre Society ...
see also Gerry Mulligan
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