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...Although Brubeck may be one of the best-known jazz pianists among a pseudo-sophisticated, flannel-clad collegiate set, he is far from the best of the modernists. Compared with the sublime simplicity of a Chet Baker or an Oscar Peterson, Brubeck's pretentious key-switching and borrowing of classical themes is a bit affected...
...Jazz Age of the '20s, social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool...
...found itself in an area bursting into musical blossom. About that time, Progressive Bandleader Stan Kenton passed through Los Angeles, and some of his crew, e.g., Trumpeter Shorty Rogers, Arranger Pete Rugolo, Drummer Shelly Manne, French Hornist John Graas, settled there and became famous. A hollow-eyed trumpeter named Chet Baker and an underweight baritone saxophonist named Gerry Mulligan made themselves fast killings among the cats. By 1952, the West Coast was the U.S.'s newest, biggest stomping ground for jazz. Brubeck felt right at home, shuttled between such clubs as San Francisco's Blackhawk and Los Angeles...
After the storm left a large section of his district without electricity, Wickes stocked up on candles and drove his loudspeaker-equipped car through the darkness, announcing: "Folks, if you'll step out in front, you'll get some candles from Chet Wickes, your candidate for the legislature. You'll notice that in all the candles are wicks. Just remember-wicks are always dependable." Then Wickes, members of his family and half a dozen dependable recruits moved up and down the streets passing out candles. Before he was through, Wickes had given away 10,000, and voters...
...Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz LP). Young (24) Baker, of California's cool school, is popping out like the measles. One record, Chet Baker Ensemble, features furious, close work by a small group; they play mostly original exercises with such titles as Ergo, Bockhanal and Pro Defunctus. Another disk, Chet Baker Sings, has eight old standards, e.g., But Not for Me, The Thrill Is Gone, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Look for the Silver Lining, crooned by Baker in a light, untrained voice that nevertheless has a moving quality. His soft, appealing trumpet is heard...