JAZZ MUSICIAN HOLDS BE-BOP SEANCE FOR CHET BAKER

JAZZ MUSICIAN HOLDS BE-BOP SEANCE FOR CHET BAKER

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – For years, jazz musician Leif Arntzen has been told he plays just like the late trumpet great Chet Baker. Now, he plans to confront the comparisons by holding a be-bop seance next month with a psychic who will attempt to contact the drug-addled musician’s ghost. If contact is made, Arntzen will ask Chet’s ghost to sit in for a set and see if there is a similarity in their playing styles. Arntzen has never had any psychic experiences but says he feels a strange kinship to Baker that he hopes will be explained at the seance. Although Arntzen wants Baker’s ghost to show up, he only wants to see the specter if he’s sober – and if the spook tries to borrow money for drugs, he won’t give him a dime.

Fri 12-28-01