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Chet Baker: Chet Baker and Strings

Read "Chet Baker and Strings" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


With Strings. I have been listening to a several recordings of Jazz artists performing with a string section, including: Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy 814 642), Charlie Parker with Strings (Verve 314 523), Art Pepper's Winter Moon (OJC 677), Wynton Marsalis' Midnight Blues: Standard Time Volume 5 (Columbia 68921), and most recently, Chet Baker and Strings (Columbia Legacy 65562). I am enamored with all of these discs. Some of them have stood the test of time, some have not. They ...

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Bob Gordon + Jack Montrose

Bob Gordon + Jack Montrose

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Bob Gordon was a fabulous West Coast baritone saxophonist whose brilliant jazz career was cut short at age 24 in a car accident. On August 28, 1955, Gordon and trumpeter Earl McCrea were driving to San Diego to play in a Pete Rugolo concert. Gordon's car was proceeding north on St. Andrew Place in Los Angeles when he was broadsided on the left side at Browning Blvd. by Emmett York, 22. Gordon was killed but McCrea, who complained of neck ...

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Recording

Jack Montrose and Pete Jolly

Jack Montrose and Pete Jolly

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Between 1985 and 1990, tenor saxophonist Jack Montrose recorded three sterling albums in Hollywood with pianist and friend Pete Jolly. What the three albums had in common was the music of David Holt. They also featured the same quartet: Jack Montrose (ts), Pete Jolly (p), Chuck Berghofer (b) and Nick Martinis (d). All three albums—Better Late Than Never (1985), Spread a Little Joy (1987) and Let's Do It (1990) appeared on obscure labels and two of the three don't seem ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Strand Records
2000

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Chet Baker and Strings

Columbia Records
1998

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The Horn's Full

Strand Records
1958

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Blues And Vanilla

Strand Records
1957

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