MOG will not let me upload any mp3s this morning, so I'll have to try to get my points across today with YouTube. I wanted to talk about jazz standards and Chet Baker; let's see how far I get. When I first started really getting into jazz in my early 20s, I discovered that I knew a great many jazz songs already; the standards that are a staple of jazz repertoires and the basis for many improvis...
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Having been through the most daunting and destructive problems and inactive in music, Chet Baker got himself together personally and musically in 1973 and went to New York for a comeback. The comeback had its ups and downs, but there were periods when the trumpeter's work equaled or surpassed the playing of his poll-winning years in the 1950s. Once Upon a Summertime is from one of those periods...
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Picked up the dvd 'Chet Baker - Live At Ronnie Scott's' at my local library that I'd reserved and after a week finally got around to watching it. It was one of those dvds that I thought would be nice to check out if I had nothing better to watch. And knowing that Chet Baker is a legendary jazz trumpeter I figured it would be cool to check this out. Well, my week is over, the dvd needs to go bac...
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Early days Baker was born and raised in a musical household in Yale, Oklahoma; his father was a professional guitar player. Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large for him. Baker received some musical education at Glendale Junior High School, ...
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Word has just come in that William Claxton died on Saturday in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. He was one day short of his eighty-first birthday. With his pictures of Chet Baker in the early 1950s, Claxton established himself as a brilliant photographer of jazz musicians and went on to a career as one of the most admired camera artists in the world. He did incomparable work not only i...
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Yes, I love chet baker, I love this song.
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Yes, I love chet baker, I love this song.
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