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Deep In A Dream – The Long Night of Chet Baker
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During September 2008, in Berkeley, San Francisco and Chicago, biographer James Gavin and award winning vocalist, Spider Saloff premiered this thrilling concert with some favorite local mucisians to celebrate in spoken word and music Deep In a Dream, James Gavin's biography of jazz giant Chet Baker. The show can work with local celebrity of faculty musicians.
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's book STORMY WEATHER was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2010. Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle says of the Chet Baker book: "Immediately engaging … finely crafted … savagely honest … impeccably researched. Elegantly written." The book has already been optioned by Columbia Pictures, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Josh Hartnett have expressed interest in portraying Chet Baker in the movie version.
Read more about vocalist: SPIDER SALOFF
Read more about author/narrator: JAMES GAVIN |
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 new book (his second) 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. His most recent book, since DEEP IN A DREAM in STORMY WEATHER: The Life of Lena Horne also has a show with narrative by Gavin that tours with vocalist Mary Wilson. DEEP IN A DREAM is being re-released in paperback in November 2011 in conjunction with a new tour of this thrilling concert.
