| chet baker quartet no problem: Deep in a Dream James Gavin, 2011-07-01 This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of cool jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Chet Baker, His Life and Music Jeroen de Valk, 2024-04-09 Finally: the ultimate revised, updated, and expanded edition! Chet Baker was a star at 23 years old, winning the polls of America's leading magazines. But much of his later life was overshadowed by his drug use and problems with the law. 'Chet Baker: His Life and Music' was Baker's first biography, published a year after Baker's passing in 1988. It was available in five languages. Now Jeroen de Valk's thoroughly updated and expanded edition is finally here. De Valk spoke to Baker himself, his friends and colleagues, the police inspector who investigated his death, and many others. He read virtually every relevant word ever published about Chet and listened to every recording, issued or unissued. The result of all this is a book which clears up quite a few misunderstandings. Chet was not the 'washed-up' musician we saw in the 'documentary' Let's Get Lost. His death was not thát mysterious. According to De Valk, Chet was an incredible improviser, someone who could invent endless streams of melody. He delivered these melodies with a highly individual, mellow sound. He turned his heart inside out, almost to the point of embarrassing his listeners. Jazz Times: A solidly researched biography... a believable portrait of Baker... a number of enlightening interviews.... Library Journal: De Valk's sympathetic yet gritty rendering of Baker's life blends well with his account of Baker's recording career. Cadence: A classic of modern jazz biography. De Valk's writing is so straightforward as to be stark, yet this is just what makes it so rich. Jazzwise: ... it's going to be definitive. Jeroen de Valk (1958) is a Dutch musician and journalist. He also authored an acclaimed biography about tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. |
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| chet baker quartet no problem: Jazz Walter Bruyninckx, 1985 |
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| chet baker quartet no problem: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin, 2011-05-27 This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: As Though I Had Wings Chet Baker, 1997 The late jazz legend offers his memories of the jazz scene of the 1950s and his decline from drug use in the early 1960s |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Please Kill Me Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, 2006 Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. Please Kill Me reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: A Cappella-Clarke, Johnny Colin Larkin, 1995 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Chet Baker Jeroen de Valk, 2000 The text is enhanced by many photographs of Chet, his friends, and colleagues. There is a select, as well as a complete, discography.--BOOK JACKET. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: What is this Thing Called Jazz? Batt Johnson, 2000-12 There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history. The answer to the question “what is jazz?” is as complex and diverse as those involved in it. This book takes the question to noted musicians, scholars, and composers, creating a documentary style of oral history that makes you feel as if you are actually in the room as they put the sounds they know as music into words. The ideas from these authentic, personal voices of authority provide a unique perspective that will enlighten the novice and stimulate the professional. Ron Carter, Bassist-“Because they are improvising does not necessarily mean that it is jazz” Buddy Rich,Drums-“Trane to Bird, Diz to Miles, all in the family of jazz, just different children.” Ray Charles, Singer/Pianist-Jazz is the freedom to do what you want within the confines of the chord structure.” Milt Jackson, Vibraphonist-The era of bebop represents jazz to me.” Chet Baker, Trumpet-Paris “Jazz is a hard swinging rhythm section with everybody playing with the same time feeling.” |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music: AACM to Fargo, Donna Colin Larkin, 1992 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson, 2000-01-01 Following the same format as the acclaimed first volume, this selection of the best 250 modern jazz records and CDs places each in its musical context and reviews it in depth. Additionally, full details of personnel, recording dates, and locations are given. Indexes of album titles, track titles, and musicians are included. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Jazz Records, 1942-80: A-Ba Erik Raben, Ole J. Nielsen, 1980 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music Colin Larkin, 2002 All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Forward Motion Hal Galper, 2011-01-12 The same notes can sound square or swinging, depending on how the music is phrased. This revolutionary book shows how many people misunderstand jazz phrasing and shows how to replace stiff phrasing with fluid lines that have the right jazz feeling. In this book, master pianist Hal Galper also shows how get that feeling of forward motion and also how to use melody guide tones correctly, how to line up the strong beat in a bar with the strongest chord notes, and much more! |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Hi Fi/stereo Review , 1986 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Pressed for All Time Michael Jarrett, 2016-08-30 In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. Discover the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums in this collection of oral histories gathered by music scholar and writer Michael Jarrett. Drawing together interviews with over fifty producers, musicians, engineers, and label executives, Jarrett shines a light on the world of making jazz records by letting his subjects tell their own stories and share their experiences in creating the American jazz canon. Packed with fascinating stories and fresh perspectives on over 200 albums and artists, including legends such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, as well as contemporary artists such as Diana Krall and Norah Jones, Pressed for All Time tells the unknown stories of the men and women who helped to shape the quintessential American sound. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The John Coltrane Reference Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler, 2013-04-26 The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the facts about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last, 1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250 album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka, The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane enthusiasts. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Saxophone Colossus Aidan Levy, 2022-12-06 **Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Guinness Who's who of Jazz Colin Larkin, 1992 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Bielefelder Katalog Jazz , 1984 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Steve Sullivan, 2017-05-17 Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Motown Encyclopedia Graham Betts, 2014-06-02 Motown means different things to different people. The mere mention of perhaps the most iconic record label in history is often enough to invoke memories and mental images of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Supremes and numerous others. With each group recalled, there is an accompanying piece of music of the mind, from Baby Love, My Girl, Signed Sealed Delivered, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, ABC and Tears Of A Clown and countless more. Quite often, you can ask people what kind of music they like and they will simply answer ‘Motown’, and both they, and you, know exactly what is meant. Or rather, what is implied. The Motown they are invariably thinking of is the label that dominated the charts in the mid 1960s with a succession of radio friendly, dance orientated hits, most of which were written and produced by the trio of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. This period is referred to, naturally enough, as the Golden Era, when Motown was not only the dominant force in its home city of Detroit but carried The Sound of Young America all around the world. The kind of music that had them Dancing In the Street from Los Angeles to London, Miami to Munich and San Francisco to Sydney. It was the kind of music that attracted scores of imitators; some good, some not so good. The kind of music that appealed to the public and presidents alike, and still does. It was that Motown that this book was intended to be about. However, when you start digging deeper into the Motown story, you realise that throughout its life (which, for the purposes of this book, is its formation in 1959 through to its sale in 1988) it was constantly trying other musical genres, looking to grab hits out of jazz, country, pop, rock, middle of the road and whatever else might be happening at the time. Of course it wasn’t particularly successful at some of the other genres, although those who claim Motown never did much in the rock market conveniently overlook the healthy sales figures achieved by Rare Earth, the group, and focus instead on the total sales achieved on Rare Earth, the label. This book, therefore, contains biographies of all 684 artists who had releases on Motown and their various imprints, as well as biographies of 16 musicians, 23 producers, 19 writers and 13 executives. There are also details of the 50 or so labels that Motown owned, licensed to or licensed from. All nine films and the 17 soundtracks are also featured. Every Motown single and album and EP that made the Top Ten of the pop charts in either the US or UK also have their own entries, with 222 singles, 84 albums and five EPs being featured. Finally, there are 36 other entries, covering such topics as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Motortown Revues, Grammy Awards and the most played Motown songs on radio. The 1,178 entries cover every aspect of Motown and more – of the link between Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies and Wonder Woman, of the artists from Abbey Tavern Singers to Zulema, and the hits from ABC to You Really Got A Hold On Me. The Motown Encyclopedia is the story of Motown Records; Yesterday, Today, Forever. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Fifties Jazz Talk Gordon Jack, 2004 More than 25 muscians who first came to prominence during the 1950s are the subject of this collection of interviews. The author's purpose has been to help preserve the oral history of a great American artform, and this book reveals that jazz musicians who can 'tell a story' with their horn when improvising can be just as articulate in conversation. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Trumpet Technique Frank Gabriel Campos, 2004-12-16 In the last forty years, many elite performers in the arts have gleaned valuable lessons and techniques from research and advances in sport science, psychomotor research, learning theory, and psychology. Numerous peak performance books have made these tools and insights available to athletes. Now, professor and performer Frank Gabriel Campos has translated this concept for trumpet players and other brass and wind instrumentalists, creating an accessible and comprehensive guide to performance skill. Trumpet Technique combines the newest research on skill acquisition and peak performance with the time-honored and proven techniques of master teachers and performers. All aspects of brass technique are discussed in detail, including the breath, embouchure, oral cavity, tongue, jaw, and proper body use, as well as information on performance psychology, practice techniques, musicians' occupational injuries, and much more. Comprehensive and detailed, Trumpet Technique is an invaluable resource for performers, teachers, and students at all levels seeking to move to the highest level of skill with their instrument. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Gramophone , 1993 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette Richard Cook, Brian Morton, 1994 Featuring comprehensive information on musical and biographical details, authoritative critical ratings, special sections for Anthologies and Various Artists collections, and more, this guide answers the questions that jazz fans want to know. Over 3,500 new listings new to this edition. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz Colin Larkin, 2004 From boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond, the sounds and rhythms of Jazz is mercurial- always creative, seldom static, frequently cultish and often contentious. The latest edition of The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz is the essential companion to making an acquaintance with Jazz. It will inform you and it will not talk down to you. There are over 3,500 entries detailing every artist who has had an impact on the development of jazz since it headed out from New Orleans and spread to New York, London, Paris, Montreux, Munich and way beyond. Here are all the legends whose genius is evoked in a single name - Ella, Duke, Satchimo, Bird, Miles, Trane, the Hawk, Monk and Diz - together with all the younger talent - Brad mehidau, jacky terrasson, Nicholas Payton and the youngest phenomenon of them all, Norah Jones. They line up with modern-day giants of the genre such as John Schofield, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano and Keith Jarrett. All entries have a detailed album chronology, together with a five-star rating system.The text is non-pompous, non-judgemental yet friendly and constructive. All the text has been taken from the gigantic database of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992. the EPM and its spin-off series swiftly and firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of all contemporary-music reference books. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Windplayer , 1988 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: French Music and Jazz in Conversation Deborah Mawer, 2014-12-04 French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900–65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a general, if contested, interest in the cultural interplay of classical music and jazz, few writers have probed the specific French music-jazz relationship in depth. In this book, Deborah Mawer sets such musical interplay within its historical-cultural and critical-analytical contexts, offering a detailed yet accessible account of both French and American perspectives. Blending intertextuality with more precise borrowing techniques, Mawer presents case studies on the musical interactions of a wide range of composers and performers, including Debussy, Satie, Milhaud, Ravel, Jack Hylton, George Russell, Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Natureza morta José Fontenele, 2019-08-21 Na vida, e sobretudo na ficção, as coisas nem sempre são o que aparentam ser. É preciso atenção duplicada para ler na escrita íntima dos casais os signos que ensejam as verdades provisórias ou as falácias definitivas. Pois o leitor de Natureza morta, o primeiro romance de José Fontenele, deve abrir os olhos dos olhos diante dessa história protagonizada por Damião, recepcionista de um hotel, e sua esposa, Laura, alçada de súbito à condição de pintora promissora. A narrativa é cristalizada em três partes que, como fractais, consubstanciam primeiro a versão do marido, depois a da mulher e, por último, temos uma alternância dos narradores. A ótica de Damião captura a todos que o cercam como animais se movendo na esfera das relações humanas – inevitável não pensarmos no motivo de sua perspectiva fabular –, enquanto o testemunho de Laura se constrói, confessional, em sessões de psicoterapia, após ter dois filhos natimortos e uma tentativa de suicídio. Deslizam pela trama, na interação com o par, os colegas de trabalho de Damião, os pais de Laura e representantes do mundo artístico – a curadora Tereza, a dupla de músicos Iggy e Madonna, o escritor Hipólito – entre outros que, descobriremos, pela ironia que perpassa os diálogos e pelo assumido tom novelístico da obra, talvez não sejam como nos pareceu no início. José Fontenele segura o enredo com a prosa do drama, os sequentes pontos de virada e o inesperado desfecho, que clareia os pontos até então enevoados da história – mas isso só se você, leitor, estiver realmente atento. João Anzanello Carrascoza |
| chet baker quartet no problem: IAJRC Journal International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, 1991 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Gramophone , 1994 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Cadence Bob Rusch, 1999 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: A Band of Angels-Burnel, Jean Jacques Colin Larkin, 1998 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide John Swenson, 1999 The most comprehensive guide to jazz and blues recordings in print, including reviews of more than ten thousand albums. An essential book for any music fan's library. |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Metronome , 1958 |
| chet baker quartet no problem: Schwann Spectrum , 1996 |
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