Here's Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, "My Funny Valentine".
Mulligan was just enough older than Baker, & more successful, to tune him up and get his mind right. The Baker/Mulligan takes are pretty much all impressive.
It's a quartet, w/Carson Smith one-stringing bass, and Bunker pitchin' in little snare-brushes. But we speak of the two.
It's a quartet, w/Carson Smith one-stringing bass, and Bunker pitchin' in little snare-brushes. But we speak of the two.
Chet was on a rail to death, and it was astonishing that he lasted as long as he did. He might have made of west coast cool a movement, but he really just made of it a symbol, and the east coast -- Miles, the incomparable Miles -- trampled that idea.
Jazz, tho, well, we got shouts out to all the sisters and brothers, including the ones the load crushed.
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