I met Chet many years ago (probably late 1980s or early 1990s). We were doing pop music and he of course country. We got to talking about making a living playing music and the subject of jazz came up. He said that he always wanted to be a jazz player, but he knew what side of his bread was buttered.

I tried to make a living playing jazz in the early 1980s and found that unless you are among the lucky few, you need a day job to play jazz because it won't butter your bread.

Chet was a great musician, and a very nice person to sit down and talk with the musician playing in a restaurant he was eating at. No "big star" attitude, just musician to musician.

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