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REVIEW: “Let’s Get Lost” starring Chet Baker
09.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

There goes the girl, I dreamed all through school about.
There goes the girl, I’ll now be a fool about.
Bring down the curtain, I’m certain at present
My future just passed.
Don’t even know if she has been spoken for.
If she is tied, the ties must be broken for.
Life can’t be that way, to wake me then [...]
Music
REVIEW: Embraceable You - Chet Baker
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Chet Baker is often overlooked in the grand scheme of things where Jazz is concerned. A highly gifted trumpet player, Baker was considered at one time to be the superior of Miles Davis or Dizzie Gillespie. As the liner notes inform us, Chet Baker was voted the best trumpeter by readers of Down Beat and [...]