Deep In a Dream – the Life and Music of Chet Baker Set for One Night Only, 8/21

The event, Deep In a Dream - the Life and Music of Chet Baker features readings by NAACP Image Award Nominated author James Gavin of passages from the biography (just out in paperback), interwoven with live music well associated with the talented yet troubled Baker, who died a mysterious death on a street in Amsterdam in 1988. Jazz singer Spider Saloff and Bay Area trumpeter Erik Jekabson re-create Baker's trumpet and vocal solos.

Deep In A Dream has played at The Castro Theater in San Francisco and at Chicago's famed Green Mill in 2009.

James Gavin, a contributing writer to the New York Times since 1992, has been published in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, TV Guide, JazzTimes, Town & Country, and other periodicals. His second book (DEEP IN A DREAM) went into its second printing in its first five weeks. It has been covered in the London Times, the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. James Gavin has been interviewed on NPR a dozen times, including by Terry Gross, and will do his fifth interview for the BBC this month. The European printing of "Deep In a Dream" will appear in October. James Gavin has been featured on television from Coast to Coast, as well as over one hundred newspaper reviews in support of Deep In a Dream. He has written liner notes for over 300 albums, including Ella Fitzgerald: The Legendary Decca Recordings, which won Gavin a Grammy nomination in 1996. Gavin recently wrote STORMY WEATHER: The Life and Music of Lena Horne which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2010.

Spider Saloff has played renowned jazz and night club venues such as New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Iridium, Birdland, The Russian Tea Room, The Algonquin, San Francisco's Plush Room and Chicago's Green Mill. A five-time winner of the MAC Award, including one for Best Female Jazz Vocalist, she also received a special citation for her musical contributions from the presenter of the Grammy Awards.

Ticket Link: http://chetbakerathejhc.eventbrite.com/

 

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