Chet Baker News

A novice bassist at 17, a professional bassist at 18, sideman to legendary trumpeter Chet Baker at 20, sideman to legendary pianist Bill Evans at 23, dead in a car wreck at 25: Scott LaFaro became and remains one of the greatest and saddest stories in the history of jazz.

Pianist John Horler has played with American greats like Chet Baker, Zoot Simms, Al Cohn and Bob Brookmeyer, and was a founder member of the wonderful Acoustic Triangle, writes Chris Beggs .

As iconic as any jazz musician, Chet Baker 's gentle, understated playing and crooning ran counterpoint to his tumultuous life.

When I met Jaspers' Jeremy Rasik and Kiley Bobbitt at the Engine Room for our interview one afternoon, we sat down with some of the best beers the bar has to offer and, with a "cheers," they drank and talked enthusiastically about music, theirs or otherwise, namedropping everyone from Curtis Mayfield and Chet Baker to Dirty Projectors and Kaki ...

More on Soupy and the giants of jazz. Soupy Sales remembers a few of the jazz greats who appeared on 'Soupy's On.' Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist: 'Ella was wonderful.

A gifted trumpeter, Chris Botti possesses an engaging lyricism and an attractive sound thata TMs as effective when subtle and muted as it is when open and lush.

John Proulx Grammy Award Winning Singer, Pianist & Composer, "After Hours". FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will introduce a new feature for their Fall 2009 season: 'After Hours." JOHN PROULX, the Grammy Award winning singer, pianist and composer, will kick off this exciting news series with a special after hours performance Sunday, October 18 at ...

Bradley Young to Make NY Debut in NY - Metropoitan Room in "I Remember Chet" SOURCE: Lampkin Publicity Service Lampkin Music Group presents jazz pianist Bradley Young in his New York debut 'I Remember Chet". Bradley Young's 'I Remember Chet" is a journey of music and stories Bradley shares with you the audience.

There are few musicians who can reach back into their repertoire 60 years to find the right tune.

Mike Yates, the proprietor of Mike's Barn, has been making his space available to local musicians on Sunday nights every summer and fall for 14 years.

The Old Lion Tap on Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, will be posting a sumptuous evening of jazz on Sunday, October 18th, when an exciting new septet comes to the county.

Internationally celebrated jazz pianist Lenore Raphael will join a pair of Tucson musicians for a performance Saturday at Steinway Gallery.

Earl Klugh and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra presented "A Taste of Smooth Jazz" last night in the Southern Theatre, and it was an outstanding musical feast.

It was a late morning in a junior high school located in Long Beach, New York when a lonely, rarely used baritone saxophone chose an adolescent student named Roger Rosenberg as its sole and rightful owner.

JAZZ pianist and band leader Wally Fields is celebrating his return to his birthplace by creating a jazz combo to play a weekly spot in a city art deco ballroom.

If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change.

Interview: Howard Rumsey In 1949, when Howard Rumsey began contracting musicians for the Lighthouse, a seaside jazz club in Hermosa Beach, CA, he had more talent to choose from than could squeeze onto his small stage.

Jeff Baker began his career in front of a crowd of ten thousand, as one of the youngest vocalists to ever win the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival ?Vocal Solo Competition?. Only 16 years old at the time, his first truly ?big? performance was backed by the Lionel Hampton Trio! In 1997, Baker accepted a scholarship from Willamette University to sing with ...

The reservation approaching this late-in-his-career and previously unreleased 1986 set happily proved to be unwarranted.

"Solitude" "Singing the Blues" Medley: "Tipitina/Ascension Day" August 26, 2009 - While host Marian McPartland is out, singer-songwriter Elvis Costello sits down with music legend Allen Toussaint in this installment of Piano Jazz .