RockDocs Schedule Jun 18, 2008
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Bossa nova meets the Beatles Jun 6, 2008
"During my formative years I listened to Dinah Washington and a lot, a lot, a lot of Chet Baker," Djavan says. By the time he moved from Alagoas's capital, Macei , to Rio in 1973, he was a fully formed composer with a folder full of more than 60 songs. (Boston Globe)
Just smooth enough Jun 2, 2008
Piano player Rob Schneiderman was born in Boston, but his career took off in San Diego and New York, where he played with everyone from Sonny Stitt to Chet Baker. His latest album, "Glass Enclosure," is smooth jazz that doesn't make you think you're on an elevator. (Boston Globe)
Appeal of '50s cool is simply fine today May 24, 2008
Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck were the quintessence of musical cool. Graphic artists and animators caught on, giving line, color and form a deft and droll new vernacular. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Q&A: Scarlett Johansson May 23, 2008
All the artists I love, like Chet Baker or Bob Dylan or Tom Waits, all sort of built these characters, these journeys that you follow as a listener. It's similar to the way you build a character for a film. (Wall Street Journal)
Wine and Song line-up released May 6, 2008
"Swing Away with Chardonnay" at Chateau Sonoma, 153 W. Napa St., the Dave Rocha Quintet will hold forth with classic, trumpet-led small group jazz, in the tradition of Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Freddie Hubbard. Benziger Family Winery and Nicholson Ranch will pour. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Jazz Cooks at Castle Street Cafe, as Chef Michael Ballon Issues CD of Favorite Jazz Performers Apr 12, 2008
Many of these musicians have performed with jazz legends such as Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins, and it is a pleasure to showcase their extraordinary musical talent in Great Barrington. Many others are not well-known outside Berkshire County, and the home-grown talent that we are pleased to showcase every weekend will be a revelation to listeners. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
From Golden State to golden culture Mar 23, 2008
And the jazz players who came of age on Los Angeles's Central Avenue - Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, later on Ornette Coleman - made music far removed from the unemphatic, even pallid sounds of such stalwarts of West Coast jazz as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck. The point is how culturally varied and rich California was in the '50s - and how good the state was at what we'd now call 2. (Boston Globe)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
Perhaps the richest manifestation of the cool was the West Coast jazz played by Gerry Mulligan (who worked with Davis on "Birth of the Cool"), Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Chet Baker and others. A section of the exhibition is devoted to the noirish photographs of these and other musicians by William Claxton, whose work adorned the covers of many record albums. (International Herald Tribune)
''Birth of the Cool'' showcases artists with designs on the future Feb 29, 2008
The elegant sounds of Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and more roll through "Birth of the Cool" as effortlessly as Pacific surf. Sinuous harmonies lightly play off paintings and photographs. (Boston Globe)
'Band's Visit' is a heartfelt cultural exchange Feb 22, 2008
The only other member of the band we really get to know is Khaled (Saleh Bakri), a rangy young dreamboat with a pickup routine about Chet Baker that works wonders on women ... And maybe all it takes to connect is a Chet Baker solo or a song by the great Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum. (Boston Globe)
His debut film, snubbed by Oscar, has people talking Feb 20, 2008
Khaled flirts by asking women if they like Chet Baker. Still, communication between people and yes, cultures, remains an underlying theme. (Boston Globe)
The Band's Visit Feb 16, 2008
The veteran Simon (Khalifa Natour) is frustrated at not getting a promotion to conductor; the young hunk Khaled (Saleh Bakri) is sick of the regimentation and keen to ditch the classics for Chet Baker; and Tewfiq is worried that, back home, the orchestra's future is in jeopardy - traditional music is no longer valued, and the musicians are about to be downsized, the victims of a cut budget and a call to efficiency. Sound familiar. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Plenty of options for Super Sunday Feb 1, 2008
Bruce Weber's 1989 documentary about Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter and vocalist, is as troubling to contemplate (Baker was not a saint) as it is beautiful to listen to and look at. Weber's day job is as a photographer. (Boston Globe)
Comment: Bruce Reynolds, former train robber Jan 29, 2008
If the job had been suggested to me, I would have quoted Chet Baker who said "Well, if I could play like Wynton [Marsalis], I wouldn't play like Wynton." Which means that, even if I had been offered the chance to carry out the biggest robbery in those circumstances, I still would have turned it down. There seemed to be too many risks. (Guardian Unlimited)
A good evening to honor Langella Jan 20, 2008
A restored print of the Chet Baker documentary "Let's Get Lost" plays the Brattle for two weeks, starting Friday. Looking ahead: The husband and wife team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be at the MFA Feb. 8 for a screening of "The Gates," a new documentary about their public art installation that lit up New York's Central Park in February 2005. (Boston Globe)
Lost and found Jan 20, 2008
In trumpeter Chet Baker, Weber has a subject with movie-star looks for his camera to feast upon. Baker once had movie-star looks, anyway. (Boston Globe)
Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success Jan 20, 2008
-- The Chet Baker Quartet, "Jazz at Ann Arbor" ($35) - a cool and handsome trumpeter, he was marketed as a white alternative to Miles Davis, yet like so many other jazz artists, he couldn't resist the lure of heroin, which brought him down. -- Miles Davis, "Miles Ahead," a 1957 release with the original album cover that Miles demanded Columbia change. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Classic cool Dec 10, 2007
It was West Coast musicians like Chet Baker and Art Pepper who embraced his mellow approach to composition and improvisation with greater zeal than those in the New York scene. The exhibition tries, at least in portions, to make you feel as if you've traveled back to the era. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Orange County art exhibit captures the spirit of the '50s Nov 9, 2007
There's Chet Baker & Crew, as the 1956 album cover puts it ... Orange County Museum of Art William Claxton was one of the main chroniclers of the 1950s jazz scene in Southern California and he took the image and did the album cover design for "Chet Baker " which was released in 1956. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Jazz Beat: Jazz on the World Wide Web Oct 24, 2007
If you re a fan of Chet Baker, search for Chet Baker 1986. This is an incredible live video of Chet performing If I Should Lose You at Ronnie Scott s jazz club in London. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Tom McRae Interview: Cost of Music Sep 27, 2007
But the 30-35 year old guys and older, who re not really making it; they re just going to think forget it, I ll stay here in New York, or London, and play all the gigs I can get", and they ll stop looking at music as a way of making money. Suite: Do you think there s still money to be made in music? Tom: Well music s free now, and also general. I walked into a record store the other day, and saw all these lumps of plastic separated into genres, and I didn t get it. I look at music as music, not... (Suite101.com)
Bebel gets personal Sep 17, 2007
Discussing the music she listens to, she mentions Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker before adding: Ive been listening to Sean Lennon. I love Sean Lennon. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Jazz in the City Sep 14, 2007
His first professional performances were with the legendary Lighthouse All-Stars and the bands of Shelly Manne, Teddy Edwards, Chet Baker, Bud Shank and Shorty Rogers. During this time, Mr. Wofford also began to record, and his very first session was with Mel Torme on "Coming Home Baby," a relative hit for "The Velvet Fog" in 1962. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
TV Preview: Eastwood's passion for music shows in Bennett film Sep 12, 2007
In the late 1940s, Eastwood started checking out more West Coast jazz, players such as Lucky Thompson, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton and Chet Baker, to name a few. "I would go down to Balboa to hear Kenton's Orchestra, who would play there every weekend," he recalled. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
* Events & Entertainment Aug 24, 2007
The rarely-seen selection of award-winning films takes viewers into the minds of the world's greatest musicians from contemporary composer Gyorgy Ligeti, elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, New York composer and saxophone players John Zorn to post-punk band Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis and Mali's Ali Farka Toure, known as "the bluesman of the desert" in the West. Other selected works take viewers on lyrical voyages to the Gamelan musicians in Indonesia, the Aboriginal tribe... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Country singer Jack Ingram is no flash in the pan Jul 26, 2007
"I didn't have to learn Bob Wills' music. It was on the radio. That stuff seeps its way into your music - whether it's Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett or Chet Baker. I'm just a huge fan of music.". Ingram said his love of music is what led him to record "Lips of an Angel" even though he knew it might cause a bit of trouble. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Essential Edinburgh Jul 19, 2007
Colin Steele Stramash Scottish trumpeter Steele's Celtic folk background is as influential to his work as Miles Davis and Chet Baker. Stramash, his bop-meets-reels band, bring those ingredients together, with fiddles, viola, cello, pipes and jazz horns. (Guardian Unlimited)
Keren-Ann keeps love's pain at a song's length Jun 12, 2007
The singer says she wrote it to one of her favorite performers - the star-crossed jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, who died in 1988. But perhaps Keren Ann's most remarkable track is the ambitious Liberty, a delicate, six-minute balancing act that manages to sustain a gossamer mood and lyrics about chasing a promise of love, sometimes almost self-destructively. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
'Let's Get Lost' Jun 12, 2007
June 11, 2007, 11:59 AM EDT Ever since Chet Baker fell to his death at age 57 in 1988 from the window of an Amsterdam hotel, it has seemed as though every Hollywood hotshot from Jim Carrey. to Leonardo DiCaprio. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Keren Ann goes with the flow Jun 5, 2007
Echoes of other lovers of the wistful ache such as Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Astrud Gilberto, Hope Sandoval , and Chris Isaak could be heard throughout the performance, which was attentively received by the half-capacity house. Hart, whose own strangely beatific opening set of progressive-tinged new - agey pop was a bit over- earnest, was a great asset , sprinkling a variety of sounds, from music- box tinkles to atmospheric white noise to stately organ over the proceedings. (Boston Globe)
The Heldenfiles - Local Name of Note Jun 2, 2007
Besides daddy's tunes, she said, ``I also love Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Sade, Tori Amos, The Cardigans. I could go on and on. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
She's a wanderer Jun 1, 2007
"My school was Chet Baker and Billie Holiday," says Keren Ann. "They provoke more emotion than any screamer I know.". (Boston Globe)
This film may make you sick May 4, 2007
What he hopes will be his next film veers in yet another direction: a day in the early life of doomed jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. "These are my beliefs and feelings," he says of Fast Food Nation, "but, at the end of my day, I'm thinking about my next movie.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Call us a cabaret, please-- fun meter is running Apr 30, 2007
On a typical Michelle iPod shuffle you would hear: Prince, Mel Torm, Joni Mitchell, Take 6, The Real Group, Dinah Washington, Mark Murphy, Janet Jackson, Michael Brecker, Chet Baker and/or Cadence. What will your audiences find out about you that they might not know. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
ArtWalk weekend Apr 13, 2007
His collection "All That Jazz" includes paintings of Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie. B.J. Swing, bachelor of fine arts candidate in photography, will display his work at the Fourth Street Wine Shop and Jefferson-Blout-Harvey Building. (The Daily Reflector)
Rolling toward rock, Lerche shows his sharp side Apr 10, 2007
Thomas Dybdahl, another young Norwegian singer-songwriter, began the evening singing dusky ballads in a warm, silken singing voice that evoked Chet Baker and Tim Buckley. Joan Anderman can be reached at. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Promo of Russ Freeman Project Featuring Las Vegas Jazz Connection Wins Judges' Choice Award Apr 4, 2007
A jazz pianist and composer, Russ Freeman is frequently remembered for his work with Chet Baker. He died in 2002. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Smithsonian Celebrates Sixth Annual Jazz Appreciation Month This April Mar 31, 2007
Claxton recently donated 22 prints of such well-known artists as Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Frank Sinatra to the museum in a ceremony on March 28 that kicked off JAM 2007. Also donated at the kickoff ceremony were business records and personal ephemera belonging to Gillespie given to the museum by Charlie Fishman, Gillespie's manager from 1985 to 1993. (PR Newswire)
Guitarist Terrence Brewer's melodies inhabit your head. That's his magic. Mar 21, 2007
It was applied in the '50s and '60s to California players like Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck and his sweet-sounding alto player Paul Desmond -- artists who may have been a bit more mellow than their frenetic counterparts in New York like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. MP3s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Picks of the week Mar 9, 2007
Tonight: Lyrical, post-bop pianist/composer Armen Donelian, who's played with Sonny Rollins and Chet Baker among others, appears with his longtime trio at the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham. The eclectic, pan-Latin Jazz Marauders perform at the Acton Jazz Cafe. (Boston Globe)
This week's reviews Feb 13, 2007
Garfunkels breathy, dreamy tenor is well suited to the jazz-tinged early pop standards on this collection, inspired by other classic smoothies such as Chet Baker and Johnny Mathis. Richard Perrys production may be more tasteful than exhilarating, but the singing, however subdued, has character and feeling. (USA Today -- Life)
Botti plays cool jazz with style Feb 3, 2007
He's a non-singing Chet Baker for our modern times, a dapper Ryan Seacrest doppelganger with a surplus of charm to match: On Wednesday at the Opera House, he spotted a youngster in the third row and learned that the 12-year-old played clarinet, drums, guitar, and piano. "Can I interest you in the trumpet?" Botti asked him, every bit earnest in a cool-dad kind of way. (Boston Globe)
Brunch Goddess: Feb 3, 2007
Instead of worshipping at the altars of American country, soul, and blues singers, Jones would do well to look to cosmopolitans like Astrud Gilberto, Chet Baker, and Sade, who find the pathos in froideur. She has shown her willingness to stretch when she gets out of her snug musical circles, dueting with Andre 3000 on Outkast's "," and even singing the word "motherfucker" several times on Peeping Tom's "." Surely co-starring with Jude Law in a Wong Kar-Wai movie ought to do something to stir a... (Slate)
Justin Timberlake Up For Laughs, Josh Hartnett Tries Music: Sundance File Jan 26, 2007
"Chet Baker is important to me because his story is amazing," Hartnett said, referring to the drug-addled trumpeter who he'll soon play in a biopic entitled "Deep in a Dream." "I wasn't a huge Chet Baker fan; I'm a big jazz fan, but I was always more into Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and those kinds of guys. Guys like Chet Baker I never paid attention to, but then when I read his story and found out what a messed-up guy he was, I thought, 'This is an amazing character.' " Baker's... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Michael Brecker, 57; was leading tenor saxophonist Jan 15, 2007
He adapted easily among jazz musicians of wildly different styles -- among them Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Pat Metheny, and George Benson. Mr. Brecker also backed performers as varied as Frank Sinatra, Yoko Ono, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, and Joni Mitchell. (Boston Globe)
Ode to Missoula's earthy women Jan 12, 2007
fall in love too easily, Chet Baker once sang. Chet Baker, true story, died by falling out a window, for all I know gazing down on an earthy woman. (Missoulian, MT)
