{"id":2172,"date":"2010-08-30T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-08-30T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:44:30","slug":"as_far_as_i_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2010\/08\/as_far_as_i_know\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Baker: Words And Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I know, this is the first time I&#8217;ve been quoted in Magyar. It&#8217;s a blurb on the back of the Hungarian edition of Jeroen de Valk&#8217;s <i>Chet Baker: His Life and Music<\/i>. That invaluable book is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChet-Baker-His-Life-Music%2Fdp%2F189316313X&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">available in English<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Magyar%20DR%20quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magyar DR quote.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Magyar DR quote-thumb-400x300-17090.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Gant%20and%20Chet%20Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gant and Chet Book.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Gant and Chet Book-thumb-400x400-17092.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a>Thanks to photographer Paolo Gant (behind the book) for sending the pictures. Gant captured stunning images of Baker not long before the trumpeter&#8217;s death in 1988.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk\/yourgallery\/artist_profile\/\/55618.html\"target=\"_blank\">see a few of them<\/a>, prominently copyright-protected, at his gallery&#8217;s website.<br \/>\nAll of that is a perfectly good excuse to hear and see Baker in Stockholm on his 1983 tour with Stan Getz, Jim McNeely, George Mraz and Victor Lewis. Getz all but owned &#8220;Dear Old Stockholm;&#8221; he&#8217;s the one who recorded the traditional Swedish song in 1951 and made it a jazz standard. This night, though, he presented the melody and gave Chet the solo. And what a solo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0p72L4bMdPA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0p72L4bMdPA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I know, this is the first time I&#8217;ve been quoted in Magyar. It&#8217;s a blurb on the back of the Hungarian edition of Jeroen de Valk&#8217;s Chet Baker: His Life and Music. That invaluable book is also available in English. Thanks to photographer Paolo Gant (behind the book) for sending the pictures. 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