2005. July 29th. Trib­ute to Chet Helms. Great Amer­i­can Music Hall, San Fran­cis­co, Cal­i­for­nia. I spoke with Chet while he was very ill in his hos­pi­tal bed not long before he passed away. Although he was very con­cerned about his health, as he had been for quite some time, he was at that point opti­mistic […]