17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
1:55 a.m.
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!".