Coming soon is the much-anticipated second volume of Artt Frank’s chronicle of his musical association with jazz icon, Chet Baker is an insightful retelling of the resurgence of Chet’s career that began in the early 1970’s. It is also a memoir of Artt’s steady pursuit of his own career, becoming a Jazz Hall of Fame bop drummer. Chet Baker: Always Looking for the Light vividly details their sporadic yet intense collaborations and committed brotherly bond.
In praise of Volume I – The Missing Years – “Noted bebop drummer and Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame inductee [Artt] Frank is able to recreate incidents of his relationship with [Chet] Baker…This detailed recreation provides an insight into a side of Baker that most people never knew (except by way of what came out of his horn): a sensitive, private person whose loves were his music and his family (wife Carol and their three children plus his two sons from a previous marriage). And this book is just as much an insight into the author’s heart as well.” – The New York City Jazz Record