Tragic jazz great whose intimate playing style established his as a great talent until his drug related death in 1988. ALS signed “Chet,” one lightly-lined page, 6 x 9, May 6, 1968. Letter to the Vice President of World Pacific Records, Harry Kevis, Jr. In part, “We’ve been thinking more and more about the possibilities of moving to Denver; if only I could get a job in some club, something steady like ‘house band,’ the money wouldn’t be important as long as it was steady, maybe you could give me some kind of a flunky job in the daytime…The engagement you mentioned in your last letter sounds OK. I would come alone, we’d have to use Phil, and the organ man, you, myself and a bass man if possible.” Are there any bass players around? I wasn’t ill the last time I saw you at Dante’s I had smoked some dynamite pot and was loaded, that was all.” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Baker’s hand, with his signature appearing on the reverse of the envelope. Also accompanied by two carbon copies of letters sent to Baker by Kevis. In clean, fine condition. R&R COA.
