What is "chet"

Chet is a first month of the Nanakshahi calendar, which govern the activities within Sikhism. This month coincides with March and April in the Gregorian and Julian calendars and is 31 days long. Also during this month, the second son of Guru Gobind Singh, Sahibzada Jujhar Singh was born on 9 April 1691.

Chet is a masculine given name, often a nickname for Chester, which means fortress or camp. It is an uncommon name of English origin, and originated as a surname to identify people from the city of Chester, England. Chet was ranked 1027th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

People named Chet include:

• Chet Allen (actor, 1939-1984) (1939–1984), child opera and choir performer
• Chet Allen (actor, 1928-2011) (1929–2011), American actor
• Chester Chet Atkins (1924–2001), American country guitarist and record producer
• Chesney Chet Baker (1929–1988), American jazz musician and vocalist
• Chet Brooks (born 1966), American former National Football League player
• Chester Chet Bulger (1917–2009), American National Football League player
• Thomas Chester Chet Edwards (born 1951), American politician
• Chester [Chet Edelmann] (born 1930), pediatric nephrologist, Most Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Fulvio Chester Chet Forte (1935–1996), American sports television director and basketball player
• Chester Chet Gardner (1898–1939), American race car driver
• Chester Chet Gladchuk (1917–1967), National Football League and Canadian Football League player
• Donald Chester Chet Grant (1892–1985), American basketball and football player, football and All-American Girls Professional Baseball League coach and sports editor
• Chet Hanulak (born 1933), American former National Football League player
• Chester E. Holifield (1903–1995), American politician
• Chester Chet Huntley (1911–1974), American television newscaster
• Chester Chet Jastremski (1941–2014), American swimmer
• Chester Chet Jaworski (1916–2003), American college basketball player
• Chester Chet Lemon (born 1955), American retired Major League Baseball player
• Chet Miksza (1930–1975), Canadian Football League player
• Chet Moeller (born 1953), American college football player
• Chester Chet Mutryn (1921–1995), All-America Football Conference and the National Football League player
• Chester Chet Nichols, Sr. (1897–1982), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Chester Chet Nichols, Jr. (1931–1995), Major League Baseball pitcher, son of the above
• Chester Chet Ostrowski (1930–2001), American National Football League player
• Chet Raymo (born 1936), American writer, educator and naturalist
• Chester Chet Walker (born 1940), American National Basketball Association player
• Chester Chet A. Wynne (1898–1967), American football player and college head coach
• Chet Pun (born 1984) Nepalese guitarist based in Melbourne, Australia.

Chet is a studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1967.

Chet, sometimes subtitled The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker, is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (1929-1988). Chet features performances by Baker with flautist Herbie Mann, saxophonist Pepper Adams, pianist Bill Evans, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Paul Chambers, and either Connie Kay or Philly Joe Jones on drums. It was recorded in December 1958 and January 1959 and released on the Riverside label.

Though Baker was by the late 1950s known as much for his singing as his trumpet playing, this album is entirely instrumental. It contains 9 ballads (additional bonus track on CD version) played in the styles of Hard Bop to Cool Jazz. The album is entirely devoted to explorations of the ballad mood, it includes considerable variety.

The Chambers-Evans-Jones rhythm section was known at the time for their work with trumpeter Miles Davis.

Chet (baptized as Zachary) was a murza of Golden Horde and is a legendary progenitor of number of Russian families among which are Godunov, Saburov, Zernov, Veliaminov, others. He also was a founder of the Ipatievsky Monastery.

According to a legend Chet received estates near Kostroma in 1330 during the reign of Ivan I of Moscow and was baptized as Zachary. He also had a vision of Virgin Mary with prestanding Philip the Apostle and hieromartyr Hypatius of Gangra, which resulted in his healing from sickness. In a gratitude for healing at that place was established Hypatian Monastery.

According to the Russian historian Stepan Veselovsky (1876-1952), the legend appeared only at the end of the 16th century and has serious chronological issues. The historian claims that Zachary clan is a native Kostroma clan. In his opinion Zachary lived in the second half of the 13th century and had a son Aleksandr (d. 1304). The first representative of the family who served the Moscow was a grandchild of Zachary, Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Zerno. Hypatian Monastery was founded at the end of the 13th century and originally was a hereditary monastery located in the Zachary's estates.

As an alternative version of Russian origin was also presented by another Russian historian Maksim Yemelyanov-Lukyanchikov. He believes that Zachary Chet was an ancient boyar clan that served Daniel of Galicia and appeared in Kostroma at the end of the 13th century. Presumably he was the one who brought the Hypatian Codex which later was found in the Hypatian Monastery.

Zachary and Aleksandr were both buried in the Hypatian Monastery.