Topic: Chet Baker

. The weekend's must-see concerts.

FRIDAY. . Alternative Guitar Summit at Rockwood Music Hall This vivacious pendant to the ongoing New York Guitar Festival opens with performances...

. Wednesday's must-see concerts.

King Krule at Mercury Lounge King Krule weirds up the woozy romance of bygone crooners like Chet Baker with blurred avant-rap beats and layers (and...

Herbie Hancock is a jazz superstar

Herbie Hancock, admirably well-preserved at 70, is much like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. His latest festival shows are based on The Imagine Project, a shameless crossover album featuring songs by John Lennon, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Last night's ...

Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 ? January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger . Historically Speaking (1951) The Original Quartet With Chet Baker - (1952-3) 2-CD collection of the recordings of the pianoless quartet with Chico Hamilton for ...

Chet Baker: Beautifully Tragic

Was born in Yale, Oklahoma on December 23, 1929. His first formal training in music occurred at Glendale Junior High School, but Baker would play mostly by ear for the rest of his life.In 1946, at the age of 16, Chet ...

French study takes aim at male crotch fashion

Napoleon kept his privates well hidden, but had he lived in an earlier century he might have donned a brightly-coloured codpiece, says a new book examining the evolution of male crotch fashion from the Renaissance to today's zipped-up age."Codpiece: A ...

Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There

We've all got storage issues to confront. Hoarders, in its third season on A&E, features subjects "whose inability to let go of their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of personal disaster. In the closing weeks of August, a pitched battle between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. to purchase 3Par, a company specializing in cloud computing technology, mesmerized Wall Street investors and the IT community. (HP won, by the way, paying $2.3 billion for 3Par-three times the stock's price before deal was completed; ten times the company's revenue over the last four quarters. Or, as Etta James, Judy Garland, and Chet Baker (click here for his rendition) put it ...

Lets Get Lost

Aspects of the topic Let s Get Lost are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Chet Baker (American musician and vocalist)) .

Do It Yourself

All your favorite wedding marches including "Here Comes The Bride," "Wedding March," Let your guests sip their drinks with greats crooners like Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Or heat up the room with the likes of Charlie Parker ...

Chet Baker

May 13, 1988, Amsterdam, Netherlands), American jazz trumpeter and vocalist noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and singing. He attracted considerable attention in 1952 as a member of Gerry Mulligan's renowned pianoless quartet, with songs such as ...