Earshot Jazz Festival presents: A Tribute to Chet Baker

Chet-BakerBen Black, Lincoln Briney, Valerie Joyce: “Channeling Chet”

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
THE TRIPLE DOOR

216 Union Street, Seattle
9:30PM , 21+
$15 general, $13 members/seniors, $7 students
(Tickets available online or by calling: 206-838-4333)

Bill Anschell
– Piano
Evan Flory-Barnes – Bass
Jose Martinez – Drums
Thomas Marriott – Trumpet
and a special guest

Inspired by a tribute to Baker that Lincoln Briney and others presented in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and other cities, vocalists Briney, Ben Black, and Valerie Joyce evoke the memory and spirit of the Chesney Henry “Chet” Baker (1929-1988). They celebrate Baker, one of the finest trumpeter’s and vocalists in jazz history, with songs and anecdotes from his short, scintillating life.

Baker lived hard, to say the least, and he sang the whole range of his experience. Black, Briney, and Joyce have chosen a handful of songs each to cover the range of his expression. So, we can expect some somber songs, some haunting song, some sentimental songs, some Latin numbers, some crooners.

Some of the selections are the obvious ones – numbers he performed often, such as “The Touch of Your Lips,” “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” “Almost Blue,” and “The Thrill is Gone?” (although here it’ll be rendered as an upbeat bossa). We’ll hear a distinctive take on “I Should Care,” too – as a somber, piano-voice duet.

Many of the renditions, in fact, will be fresh interpretations by the three vocalists. This performance is an homage to Baker, and is far from a slavish repetition of his own performances. It’s hard to imagine that, were he still alive, he’d want any kind of tribute but once with a hearty dose of musical and emotional adventure.



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