The guy made too many albums entirely -- cash for drugs -- and probably has as many titles in print as Sun Ra. There are about five really great albums in there (the duet record with Paul Bley is shocking good), but mostly it's a guy on heroin trying to get out of the studio early. BROKEN WING, if you can find it (it was on Inner City), is about my favorite post Russ Freeman record of his. BTW -- when LET'S GET LOST was being filmed, Chet was in a room with jack heldon for the first time in over two decades. He asked Frank Strazzeri "What happened to Chetty's face?" "Those are laugh lines, Jack." "Shit -- nothing's THAT funny." And for West Coast trumpet -- or inprovising in general -- Jack is about as great as it gets. skip h on 12/17/03 1:18 AM, Joseph Zitt at jzitt@metatronpress.com wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:49, skip heller wrote:
The American tendancy is so largely to dismiss certain things until the "right" film director references them (anyone else remember the great Chet Baker scare of 1989?) and promotes that thing just so.
Eek, yeah. We've been rediscovering some Chet Baker at work lately. Most of us who had heard of him had only been exposed to his unfortunate singing. When we put on some of his instrumental stuff, we found it hard to believe that that exciting trumpet and ensemble work came from the same guy. I wish we had a strictly instrumental album of his in playstock, maybe the imaginary "Chet Baker *doesn't* Sing Music for Sleepwalking Lovers!".
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