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I don't like Chet Baker singing more than one song. I tend to like authenticity over precision and from just the neck up, but his flat tones are just too off for me after a while. I think listening to a lot of music has changed my appreciation some, my taste profile away from authenticity, to more precision and complexity. 

I hate how drugs killed the life out of so many musicians. He took it up in 1957. He's singing these songs before he's the addict I'm wary of. Maybe I don't like the fame and money that came his way that made him think he could be a drug addict. I certainly don't like him being voted over Clifford Brown and Miles Davis in 1954, that's just pure racism. I mean he's not bad, he's allowed to be in the top 3, maybe top 10 at the time. 

I watched Let's Get Lost (1988), interviews shortly before he died, some footage when he was younger, lots of talking heads. He seemed quite haunted, a husk of a human. That's what addiction does to people. I'm not so deft I can hear it in the music, but I bet some people can. 


Bob Dylan in New Yorker on Willie Nelson:



Don't forget Smalls YouTube channel. Last night I watched Jordan Williams Quartet (YouTube):

Jordan Williams / Piano

Wallace Roney Jr / Trumpet

Nat Reeves / Bass

Jeff " Tain" Watts / Drums

I love it that there is no artist's room so they just stand around and talk. 

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