CHET
BAKER BIOGRAPHY CELEBRATES PAPERBACK RELEASE AT JOE'S PUB
To
celebrate the paperback release of DEEP IN A DREAM: THE LONG NIGHT
OF CHET BAKER (Knopf Publishing), James Gavin's recent book about
the legendary, tragic cool-jazz trumpeter and singer, by Welcome Rain,
the author will host an evening of Baker's trademark songs interwoven
with readings from the biography on Sunday, June 13th7:00 pm at JOE'S
PUB (425 Lafayette Street, NYC - Tele-Charge: 1-212-239-6200 - Box
Office: 212-539-8778 - http://www.joespub.com/
). Veterans of jazz, cabaret, and film will meet in hip music and
spoken-word setting including Mark Murphy, Julie Wilson, Spider Saloff,
Lincoln Briney, Holt Mccallany and James Gavin; and Introducing Trumpeter
Tatum Greenblatt. Admission is $25 with a 2-beverage minimum; ages
18 and over.
This unforgettable
event has been presented to great acclaim in San Francisco (at the
landmark Castro Theatre), Chicago (a sellout night at the Green Mill,
the world's oldest jazz club), and in several other cities. The concert
evokes the spirit of Beat Generation music and spoken-word events.
The world-class
performers in Deep In a Dream are drawn from the genres of jazz, cabaret,
and film. Mark Murphy, a six-time Grammy nominee and four-time Down
Beat poll winner as best male jazz singer, has amassed a catalogue
of forty albums stretching back to the days when his fellow hipster,
Chet Baker, was in his heyday. Julie Wilson, the beloved first lady
of cabaret (who turns 80 this year), has been hailed in the New York
Times for her "ageless glamour" and "thunderous dramatic intensity"
(Stephen Holden).
Sharing the
stage with Murphy and Wilson are Spider Saloff, Chicago's resident
jazz-singing sweetheart, an NPR favorite called "...one of the finest
jazz vocalists working in this or any other city" (Howard Reich, the
Chicago Tribune) and Manhattan's coolest jazz voice, Lincoln Briney,
a cult favorite at the Living Room at Manhattan's Gershwin Hotel.
Briney appeared alongside Tom Jones and Ben E. King in a 2001 gala
salute to Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller (available on DVD as A Tribute
to Leiber & Stoller).
Also appearing
is film and TV actor Holt McCallany, whose impressive credits include
Fight Club (with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt), Against the Ropes (with
Meg Ryan), and the popular CBS crime drama CSI Miami. At Joe's Pub,
McCallany will share a New York stage for the first time with his
mother, Julie Wilson.
The show
will feature an exciting discovery: 21-year-old trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt,
one of the jazz world's most promising and handsome wunderkinds. Greenblatt,
who just graduated from Manhattan's prestigious New School, has jammed
with Joe Lovano at Birdland and was chosen as an Outstanding Soloist
in Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Essentially Ellington" High School Jazz
Band Competition. Greenblatt will carry Baker's famous trumpet lines
throughout the program.
The concert's
pianist Michael Kanan, steady accompanist to Jane Monheit and previously
with the immortal Jimmy Scott, has recorded two albums with his trio;
Convergence and The Gentleman Is a Dope. Bassist Michael Max Fleming
toured extensively with Baker in the '60s, and plays on the trumpeter's
classic album Baby Breeze (1964). Fleming worked for years with Rahsaan
Roland Kirk, and can be heard on the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Do
the Right Thing. The musical arrangements for Deep In a Dream are
by renowned jazz pianist Dennis Luxion, who worked closely with Baker
in the '80s. Luxion's arrangements strongly evoke the original Baker
settings.
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