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chet William Claxton, William Klein, Chet Baker, Cool Jazz, My Funny Valentine, French Photographers, Jazz Musicians, Jazz Blues, All That Jazz

Videos by American Songwriter The West Coast jazz trumpeter Chet Baker took an obscure show tune about a boy named Val from the 1930s musical comedy Babes In Arms and turned it into an enduring and haunting jazz classic. “My Funny Valentine” was written by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and […]

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Jr Ewing, Peggy Moffitt, William Claxton, Francis Wolff, Jazz Photography, Charlie Parker, Jazz Artists, Cool Jazz, Moving To California

“The Counce quintet is one of the great neglected jazz bands of the 1950s. The reasons for this neglect are difficult to pinpoint.” Ted Gioia, West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz In California [New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p.318]. Boy, it’s great to have friends, especially when one of my closest friends, Bob Gordon, is also the author of the brilliant Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s [London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1986]. Among it’s many attributes, the book…

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