{"id":8580,"date":"2017-08-14T22:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T05:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2017-08-15T00:43:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T07:43:02","slug":"monday-recommendation-chet-baker-biography-revised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/08\/monday-recommendation-chet-baker-biography-revised\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Chet Baker Biography Revised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeroen de Valk<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2w5DONh\"><em>Chet Baker, His Life And Music<\/em><\/a> (Aspekt)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chet-Bio-Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/>de Valk has revised his 2000 biography of the trumpeter. The new version includes a comprehensive index that is helpful to readers. It has a selection of new photographs of Baker on the bandstand, with family, and in times of trouble growing out of the heroin addiction that more than once made him a subject of sensational news coverage. de Valk emphasizes that the musician did not consider drugs a problem; to him they were simply a part of the way he chose to live his life. de Valk is not a Baker apologist. He is unsparing in evaluating disastrous comeback albums like <em>Albert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s House<\/em> and a series of Tijuana Brass knockoffs. He places Baker in the jazz spectrum as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6an isolated phenomenon, a one-of-a-kind. He was not a big innovator &#8211; he just invented his own playing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s achievement enough, one would think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroen de Valk: Chet Baker, His Life And Music (Aspekt) de Valk has revised his 2000 biography of the trumpeter. The new version includes a comprehensive index that is helpful to readers. It has a selection of new photographs of Baker on the bandstand, with family, and in times of trouble growing out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}