20 In 5 -- Vol. III -- "Let's Get Lost" Is Playing For The Eighth Time Today

By Dave MacPherson

Some lessons require time
to be appreciated fully.

On the gallery’s stereo system, the unearthly voice sings and you can’t tell if it’s a man or a woman, just that it is beautiful. Making you shiver, like someone’s standing on your grave, singing passage to the next world, the next cul-de-sac, the next chorus.

The girl dragged here by her father examines her fidgeting shoes. Twines her fingers about her scarf. Spins around the gallery floor, hoping to be asked to leave; wouldn’t that be sweet. She stops, huffs out exasperated air, cocks her head at something heard. She says, “Dad, who’s that? The person singing this song?”

The father smiles, happy to be knowledgeable, needed, for once. “That’s Chet Baker. He had a great voice, didn’t he?”

She says, “Yeah. Sounds like a girl. Did all guys sing like that back then?”

“No. Just him.” He scans down the row of photographs mounted on the gallery wall. All black and white photos of dead jazzmen. He beckons his daughter to his side. “That’s him. That’s Chet Baker.”

She studies the stooped figure framed before her. “Wow. He’s pretty.”

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