Peace . Love and Thank you to Chet Baker . An amazing Talent that stumbled along the way . Now CB is with the ages of timeless music . He is forever one of the greats ~
He spoke Italian because he went to prison in Italy. He lost his skills for a while because his teeth were knocked out from being an addict in the wrong circles
M.J. Leger Maybe so but heroin still fits the teeth and causes them to fall out. You’re not going to lose all your teeth by being punched out on the street. No way. You might lose one or two and even that would be really hard if your teeth roots are healthy. If he lost all or most of his teeth, it’s because he was a junkie. You’ll never find a junkie with a full set of teeth and many are completely toothless.
@@syourke3 There are several medical reasons for that, Steven. People who use drugs also have bad, negligent health habits, they don't eat right, among others. The condition of teeth has a lot to do with prenatal care, when baby tooth enamel is being formed, as well as the right nutrition when adult teeth are being formed, both primary and adult teeth. Sugar rots teeth and junkies eat a lot of sugary products because their taste is dulled by drugs. There are other reasons too detailed to get into here but diet negligence is a primary cause of tooth decay.
It is really not that hard, after all he spend so much time in Italy, you have to learn the language. The Romance languages are very easy to learn for English speaking people. Except for German. But what is really hard is for the non-English speaking, to learn English...one of the most difficult languages.
No one really knows how Chet fell to his death; there are two suppositions. But suffice it to say that heroin and cocaine was found in his body at autopsy. So sad to lose such a superb talent. Chet was smart, but drugs are insidious and although he was clean for 7 years, he relapsed and it led to his end. But he left us with his special sound, unique in its soulfulness, so he will never be forgotten. Chet had a special talent and the great musicians wanted to work with him, which is why we have some of these great recordings with him and other great musical artists.
No, he was on methadone. That's not being "clean" by any means; it's just substituting another addictive drug for heroin. The only way to beat heroin is to stop using drugs altogether. Chet is a good example of how addicts can relapse after a 'methadone maintenance' program.
@@silva777 It's what he was prescribed legally. Opioid addiction is a bitch. It will take anyone - anyone is susceptible to its wrath. Very few people recover from it. Methadone was likely his only option. It's terrible, but still leagues better than banging heroin.
@@sapientia_et_virtus Still, perscribed or not, being clean has nothing to do with legality. Not his only option either. He had all the options that were always available... Could have done more heroin, other drugs, or stopped and did nothing. Addicts always have a choice, despite how difficult it becomes to make them.
There was no need to put the gear outside the window. In Amsterdam the police was very nice. When the arrested you, they took the gear, threw in the dirt and let you go. In my country, you got many years in prison for this. In the 70th, 80th we were there every weekend to buy our necessity for the week.
Often, musicians who "have an ear" for music also have the same brain trait that makes learning languages easier for them. It's part of the auditory development in the brain and it is more acute in some people than others!
M.J. Leger this. His italian grammar is not top notch but his sound is great for a foreigner. He already has italian „feeling“ how he pronounces. Molti non ci arrivano mai :)
M.J...What an interesting observation. I've always marveled at American ex patriot, Josephine Baker, how she became so totally French. For example, her rendition in French of Cole Porter's "I've got you under my skin" is poetic in its interpretation. Unfortunately, Grace Kelly didn't do as well. M.J., I will say this, too, anticipating you don't know of her work for generational reasons, but movie star Claudette Colbert was actually French. But she spoke English so well, many didn't know she was French.
I'm one of those lazy ear-players and I grew up in a corner of the US with a lot of different language and a local patois that has a tons of borrowed words and a singsong tone that's actually taken from Cantonese! Plus as kids we loved to imitate funny things we've heard on TV or in real life or just made up. That was our idea of fun.
@@AndreasDelleske I get that impression; that he's got the sound and "swing" of it mastered pretty well but he's fumbling for words, but he's doing really well.
This is a very important document about Chet Baker. Of course it will be more enjoyable for Italian speaking people, but it is anyway a beautiful rare interview. I appreciate the way the interviewer let Chet find the words without interrupting him or suggesting him. Chet is so sweet, so genuine and so humble.Thanks for posting.
What happened with Chet is a crying shame. He was a great looking young guy who could swing like mad on trumpet and had a beautiful singing voice. Then he chose to mess with heroin and it slowly destroyed him. He ended up falling out a window in Amsterdam at the end. Tragic stuff.
You are so right! He was a terrific talent, a smart and sensitive soul who was one of those who got tempted with drugs, and liked the high, but it was his undoing, like so many who fall to addictive drugs. So sad, his unique, sensual sound, both voice and horn, were apart from the crowd, and I wish he could have lived forever. But we have his recordings to remember him by, and to hopefully, be a lesson to those who are tempted by drugs to NOT do it! It's a bad ending!
He just loved to chase that dragon. Its soo sad that his 2nd drug of choice besides the trumpet was something lethal like heroin :( it breaks my heart. Bwcause i agree with your post 100%. You can tell even in his voice. He means no harm. He just wanted to jam.....and get high...which not gunna lie. I do too. Minus the H.
@@randomazn420 Heroin isn't necessarily lethal if one uses it responsibly. Rather it's the lifestyle one leads when one is a heroin addict that is unhealthy, and criminalization and the War on Drugs does a lot exacerbate those problems. (The war on drugs, not the band... they're awesome!)
I believe it was in 1958 that Chet and Philly Joe Jones lived with me on East 20th Street (close to where Theodore Roosevelt was born but rent controlled at $19.05/ month). Chet's father came to visit him. Chet's dad and I drove uptown to pick up Chet at his connection's place and "Dad" told me about his (Dad's) days playing banjo with Charlie Teagarden's band. (Charlie was Jack's brother.) Also, he related a discussion with Chet throughout which he gave all the arguments for sticking with "pot" and leaving heroin alone. This was before Chet had tried heroin. I have many additional stories from those days but I am growing old.
Hi, I am an 18-year-old kid who feels a great joy everytime he reads/hears such stories! If you have time and would like to share some of your stories, e-mail me! ybenchekroun@outlook.com Thank you so much !! Yassine.
Despite my age, I am swamped with many projects in various states of completion. I will try to get around to describing many well-remembered events involving interesting people. I hope I am careful to appear no more important (and heroic) than I actually was. (You know how these types of stories tend to get exaggerated.)
Tom Wayburn good memories. I am a journalist from Rio, Brasil. I'd like to talk with you. Please send an e-mail to me: bernardo.costa12@gmail.com These reports have to be published. bye. thank you
I thought dope would be some kind of magical elixir to make me a better musician - hell. many of my favorite musicians either had been junkies or at least had dabbled with it. But 35 years later I just wish I never took that first shot, because it still won't leave me alone, no matter what amount of clean time I can put together, I know it'll get me again. I feel for Chet, but at least he has a legacy of great music. Don't be concerned with "What Might Have Been", for that didn't happen. I just enjoy his music and the man - as he was. I think he did OK with the hand he was dealt. He was honest about what he was, and how many of us can say that we are honest with who we really are?
Truth is re heroin and I say this after being on the stuff since 1997 is that it’s just not a very creative drug. Kurt Cobain did nothing on Smack as all the songs off Nevermind and Inutero were all written before the dope. Chet Baker, Keith Richards and scores of other musicians were duped, we all were into this romantic notion that drugs are cool or help with life on the road, truth is anything but.
Oh yes one last point, being on Smack tends to consume ones life to the point where, you’re either out scoring or as you pointed out nodding off or brooding on your next fix. This is why junkies often neglect their best friends and hand around with like minded people, not because they no longer like their real friends, more the guilt and shame imo.
@TacoTacoTacoTaco it held many many many musicians and "regular Joes" alike. Deteriorating all in it's path. An acid of the thread of one's life. No escape. Even Charlie Parker sold his sax for dope. My point is everyone on dope was fuckin up. You got the music that was beautiful. Yea. But it seems you're neglecting the images of true anguish these people suffered, due to the drug.
@TacoTacoTacoTaco How much better would they have been without the smack. Even pot keeps you from being your best and makes it impossible to memorize anything
Quanta consapevolezza, il candore assoluto nel descrivere le proprie debolezze, l umiltà d sforzarsi a parlare italiano, che gigantesca umanità traspare da questa intervista, t voglio bene chet, per tto quello che sei stato, per l ispirazione prima come essere umano, e poi come artista ovviamente.. Sei la più grande tromba bianca della storia e lo sarai sempre... Love unlimited
We are very sad for the lost of this great musicians, Hector go down two times but he lived, chet only one time, Hector was death on live, God gave him opportunities to get up but he never supported this: biological parents dead. It's very sad.
Grandissimo trombettista, l'espressione del dolore, puro dolore esistenziale che l'ha fatto diventare un grande uomo, di una sensibilità unica. E ci manca, tanto.
È vero..... però poi appena troviamo qualche ragazzo tossico dipende, lo scansiamo come se fosse un appestato. ( E magari quello è un pittore, oppure un musicista straordinario ) Chet Baker era e sarà sempre tra i più grandi. Ancora non ho capito se l'eroina ti brucia il cervello . Non credo . Bisogna essere onesti. Charly Parker, Billy Holiday, Jeff Beck, E una miriade di altri artisti . Che siano poeti, scrittori, pittori....le biografie straboccano di artisti geniali quanto folli , che prendevano droghe, molto più di oggi . Una lista infinita. Però dire che blocca la creatività è una grande stronzata . Altrimenti non sarebbero esistiti musicisti come Jenis Joplin, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain , e poi scrittori e filosofi , esempio: Nietzsche che assumeva grandi quantità di laudano e oppio , Maupassant , Balzac , Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire , Bulgakov, Carlo Michelstaedter, Emilio Praga, Flaubert, Dimitri Coranonic , William Blake, La Fontaine , Sand ,. Di tutti i periodi, di tutte le correnti artistiche , indipendentemente dal genere , senza contare quelli dediti all'alcool. ( Hemingway, Verlaine, Bukowski, Poe , Dostoevskij , Cechov, Antonin Arthur , Goia, Van Gogh , Salvador Dalì , Percy, Dino Campana, e poi ancora : Fabrizio De André , Carmelo Bene, Fitzgerald, .....Anche Freud,non diceva no davanti alla cocaina .... ripeto una lista infinita . Eppure loro hanno creato, e creato opere straordinarie, immortali, non erano proprio rincoglioniti. Anzi : tutt'altro E ne abusavano molto molto più di oggi. Questo è certo. Basta leggere i loro epistolari , non ne facevano certo mistero . Non voglio dire che la droga non fa male , assolutamente no. . È una merda che ti rovina la vita,a te e ai tuoi cari. Però non si può nemmeno dire che chi assume eroina ( o cocaina) non siano in grado di fare nemmeno un ragionamento , oppure dire che hanno il cervello bruciato . . Non mi sembra proprio che Chet Baker avesse il cervello bruciato.. oppure Rimbaud.
You HAVE TO love the story of his father coming home with a trombone when he's 13 years of age, tossing it to him, and saying "okay, play this!" Like, REALLY?!
@Fred P No, nel video si sforza di parlare in italiano standard al meglio delle sue capacità. E' un po' sgrammaticato e un po' buffo, ma è bellissimo ascoltarlo!
Fascinating interview. Fluent Italian. Brilliant but not when it came to Drugs!!!! Shame. I was a trumpet player in High School in the late 50's. I was learning his solos. Strange life. But he sure could play!
He's wearing an "Amsterdam" t-shirt, and the first question was "What was the reason for your FALL?" His answer: Drugs. Amsterdam, fall, drugs. There you go...
As a jazz fan (sadly not a musician) I can relate to these guys. They practice a form of music that seeks a perfect connection between minds, to create astonishing and expressive group improvisations. They are almost exclusively intellectuals, albeit sometimes in an esoteric way, who think about things differently to most people. As a young man who's a fan of jazz now, in contemporary western society, I feel an oppressive weight almost every day when I hear bigoted ideas and backwards social attitudes. Imagine being these geniuses back when society was even less free and less tolerant. They just found the most controversial thing they could do together and obviously found some level of connection in it. I've never used heroin but I have had an addiction to low level opiate painkillers and it's like being one of a select few who've been let in on this great secret. The taboo and illegality of drugs compounds this effect. Just think, these emotionally expressive, intellectually driven and socially ahead of their time people are already disillusioned by the failings of their society. They feel trapped in a world where the average Joe just wouldn't understand their deepest personality. Then they find out the few people they share this bond with all do drugs and that the drugs are fun (to an extent/initially) so of course they all did it. It's like when I hear people talking about the Jeremy Kyle Show (British TV), rather than focusing on how the arrogant and hypocritical presenter pretends lie detector tests are real; essentially flipping a coin to decide whether he'll ruin a vulnerable person's life, they focus on benefits and drugs. It's the Victorian concept of the undeserving poor playing out in a society so saturated with nonsensical capitalist propaganda that people think the poor deserve what they have and the rich deserve theirs. One episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show is enough to make me want to put some Chet Baker on and shoot up just to dull the pain of being trapped in a society that can't see the wool being pulled over its eyes. Fuck.
You know how to express yourself quite adequately, along with telling the truth about drug use, "hknuddy," Your insight is no less than remarkable. I was a musician all my life from age 3, first classical then for most of my life, standards until I retired. I was surrounded with drug users, but chose not to do them myself. Perhaps partly because my father was a physician and I went to medical school so I KNEW the dangers of drugs, but preferred music to medicine. Music is very potent, and I certainly understand why artists used drugs -- I saw it all the time. But I knew it was deadly, addictive, and even today, when I need opiates for pain, I only use what is necessary, and not often. I'd rather have some physical pain than mental pain from addiction. I LOVE Chet's music, but I can hear and sometimes see the pain, yet his doleful music on his ballads, both vocal and horn, is almost addictive!!
What a load of utter bullshit. You feel an oppressive weight when people don't have the same attitudes and opinions you espouse? Capitalist propaganda? What do you call the socialist drivel you are regurgitating? You are not an esoteric intellectual simply because you have a rough time in life (newsflash:its a dark, cruel world) and cope with the pleasures of substances. You cannot speak for musicians and you certainly cannot know the reasons individuals fall into addiction. One you said correctly though...you ARE young.
Chet Baker é uma obsessão entre os amantes do cool jazz e sempre o será pelo talento único, pelo legado e reinvenção de um gênero. Tocou e cantou até o fim, apesar de toda decadência física produzida pela heroína e amalgamada na face naquela foto espantosa de seus últimos anos. Quantos como ele? Raros. Chet, um gigante. Um mito. RIP
Per circostanze al di la' del mio controllo, qualcuno ha sovrapposto al video questa traduzione in Inglese cattivo.Owing to circumstances beyond my control somebody has been adding this incorrect translation to the video itself
Priceless interview/intervista! A testimony of what happened to him and told by himself: "la tromba la piu famosa del mondo". I liked to hear him speak and to speak italian this good :-)
Good Opportunity to see that the unusual lives of great artists in and out of the limelight show the requirements of living up to the expectations of self and other.
Very enlightening in more than a way... Inspite of the sad sides to it, it is a wonderful document. I loved it. Thank you very much. Ignoravo che Chet era stato vivendo a Roma... Moltissime grazie!
Chet Baker...Chet Baker...Chet Baker...(I’m trying to put my finger on the name of this one album of his I used to swear to never lose as a teenager & it makes my heart bleed to know that if I do recall the name I won’t find it in my vinyl collection.😭 One piece of advice to all you kids out there, if you’re serious about vinyl collecting... don’t ever move houses, stay in one place forever)
Wow, Chet worked in a gas station for a time? This was after ‘Esquire best-dressed man’ and early fame? Wow he fell a long way down-I really like his later career stuff on Steeplechase. Glad he had a second chance.
at 3.05 i find to be the most insightful and observant question ....wow....so great an interview and such talent, heroin is such a part of many gifted peoples life...and always shall be...peace chet
You can also watch this artistic documentary on him, it's informative and beautiful to watch. Full of music too. www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Lost-Chet-Baker/dp/B00J8UQIH2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472921939&sr=8-1&keywords=lets+get+lost
I WISH I HAD THIS RELATIONSHIP TO MUSIC OR DANCING I WENT RUNNING THIS MORNING WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD AND ACT STABLE BUT EVEN SO A LOT OF THE TIME EXERCISING I HAVE THE FEELING IM TOTALY WASTING MY TIME AND PAINTING IS SUCH A LONELY THING TO DO ZES OF COURSE YOU RIFF OFF OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THERE IS A CERTAIN CALL AND RESPONSE BUT IT DOESNT COME CLOSE TO WHAT I FELT ON NEW ZEARS EVE WHEN MZ GIRLFRIENDS COUSINS GIRLFRIEND SHOWED ME THE BASIC STEP FOR BACHATA AND I DANCED THE REST OF THE EVENING PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME ENGAGE WITH THE WORLD ON THAT LEVEL
Is it an unpopular opinion to think he was as talented vocally as he was a trumpet player? Maybe not as technically sound, but his tone had an incredibly broad tonal range.
He quit methadone after 7 years. Congrats to everyone who made it. Unfortunatly i'll be on it until i die. I'm an addict since 42 years. I'm old now and my body is shutting down. I would die during withdrawal.
Poor Chet looked like a fallen angel there... He had recovered to become a functional musician again, but the man was still broken, obviously. It's heartbreaking.
He was not a "broken" man. He persevered despite his many difficulties. The fact that he remained in great demand until his death shows how strong his spirit was.
@@HelloooThere because 1. The drugs is perscribed and handed out free locally so you will not have to break the law for money. 2. You can lower the dose so eventually can do without it. He is talking about it in the video
This is so heartbreaking. The fact that for him music was all his life and still couldn't play what made him the happiest... I can't think of all the pain he had in his shoulders. What makes this so sad is that he still died from drug use, and probably died very unhappy.
As an Italian it's so cool to hear such a music legend speak my mother tongue
Jonathan Meddis anche per me!! davvero affascinante
Grandissimo Chet
Pepperoni, canoli, parmagiana
@@FURUclipsCensors clown
@Jonathan...It's said that the late basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, spoke Italian.
Peace . Love and Thank you to Chet Baker . An amazing Talent that stumbled along the way . Now CB is with the ages of timeless music . He is forever one of the greats ~
Until now I thought Chet was ONE of the coolest people but this video tops everything.
Great to see two clips of him playing Night Bird.
Great artist
Yikes he was only in his late 40's and he looked like he was pushing 70.
@daniel laurence what? lol
@daniel laurence the fuck
Don't do drugs, kids. If you do, Jesus can save you, He saved me!
@daniel laurence u sound like ur the one on drugs lol
@@shrek3747 I can't agree more.
Wow RAI1? Before it was Berlusconi TV?….an Interview with a World Known Jazz Musican That was Heroin and Cocain addicted. I am Really impressed!
Nice Girl!
I had no idea he could speak Italian
justa person Chet was fluent in Swedish and Spanish as well.
Tysons Accosta Swedish too !! I know he played with our Lars Gullin several times,but talking ,what a surprise.
+justa person His Italian wasn't very good in this interview.
+Cameron Steer For an American it is extremely good.
+Cameron Steer oh jeez......at lest he can communicate in another language. we can tell,it's a bit limited,but c'mon...!
He spoke Italian because he went to prison in Italy. He lost his skills for a while because his teeth were knocked out from being an addict in the wrong circles
Heroin use rots the teeth out. All junkies lose their teeth. It’s a horrible addiction.
Chet was attacked while walking home from work by strange hoods; he was mistaken for someone else.
M.J. Leger Maybe so but heroin still fits the teeth and causes them to fall out. You’re not going to lose all your teeth by being punched out on the street. No way. You might lose one or two and even that would be really hard if your teeth roots are healthy. If he lost all or most of his teeth, it’s because he was a junkie. You’ll never find a junkie with a full set of teeth and many are completely toothless.
@@syourke3 There are several medical reasons for that, Steven. People who use drugs also have bad, negligent health habits, they don't eat right, among others. The condition of teeth has a lot to do with prenatal care, when baby tooth enamel is being formed, as well as the right nutrition when adult teeth are being formed, both primary and adult teeth. Sugar rots teeth and junkies eat a lot of sugary products because their taste is dulled by drugs. There are other reasons too detailed to get into here but diet negligence is a primary cause of tooth decay.
Yes the drug itself doesn’t rot the teeth, being sick and not brushing the teeth after will rot the teeth in no time.
Mad respect on that Italian. How many Americans actually became this fluent in another language? Not many
His Italian is great. He has a bit of an accent on some words but it's great in general
Mike Patton speaks italian too
It is really not that hard, after all he spend so much time in Italy, you have to learn the language. The Romance languages are very easy to learn for English speaking people. Except for German. But what is really hard is for the non-English speaking, to learn English...one of the most difficult languages.
spend almost a year and a half in an italian prison and you’ll learn pretty quick.
@@jschuler53 English is pretty easy for everybody.
No one really knows how Chet fell to his death; there are two suppositions. But suffice it to say that heroin and cocaine was found in his body at autopsy. So sad to lose such a superb talent. Chet was smart, but drugs are insidious and although he was clean for 7 years, he relapsed and it led to his end. But he left us with his special sound, unique in its soulfulness, so he will never be forgotten. Chet had a special talent and the great musicians wanted to work with him, which is why we have some of these great recordings with him and other great musical artists.
No, he was on methadone. That's not being "clean" by any means; it's just substituting another addictive drug for heroin. The only way to beat heroin is to stop using drugs altogether. Chet is a good example of how addicts can relapse after a 'methadone maintenance' program.
@@silva777 It's what he was prescribed legally. Opioid addiction is a bitch. It will take anyone - anyone is susceptible to its wrath. Very few people recover from it. Methadone was likely his only option. It's terrible, but still leagues better than banging heroin.
@@sapientia_et_virtus Still, perscribed or not, being clean has nothing to do with legality. Not his only option either. He had all the options that were always available... Could have done more heroin, other drugs, or stopped and did nothing. Addicts always have a choice, despite how difficult it becomes to make them.
There was no need to put the gear outside the window.
In Amsterdam the police was very nice. When the arrested you, they took the gear, threw in the dirt and let you go.
In my country, you got many years in prison for this.
In the 70th, 80th we were there every weekend to buy our necessity for the week.
i dont think those 2 substances you mentioned can have somebody jump off the window...
i heard a rumor that it was pcp
Often, musicians who "have an ear" for music also have the same brain trait that makes learning languages easier for them. It's part of the auditory development in the brain and it is more acute in some people than others!
M.J. Leger this. His italian grammar is not top notch but his sound is great for a foreigner. He already has italian „feeling“ how he pronounces. Molti non ci arrivano mai :)
M.J...What an interesting observation. I've always marveled at American ex patriot, Josephine Baker, how she became so totally French. For example, her rendition in French of Cole Porter's "I've got you under my skin" is poetic in its interpretation. Unfortunately, Grace Kelly didn't do as well. M.J., I will say this, too, anticipating you don't know of her work for generational reasons, but movie star Claudette Colbert was actually French. But she spoke English so well, many didn't know she was French.
What a smart observation
I'm one of those lazy ear-players and I grew up in a corner of the US with a lot of different language and a local patois that has a tons of borrowed words and a singsong tone that's actually taken from Cantonese! Plus as kids we loved to imitate funny things we've heard on TV or in real life or just made up. That was our idea of fun.
@@AndreasDelleske I get that impression; that he's got the sound and "swing" of it mastered pretty well but he's fumbling for words, but he's doing really well.
Chet's take on Autum Leaves with Steve Gadd on drums and Paul Desmond on sax is my favorite version!!!
You mean the version on the album 'She Was Too Good to Me' on CTI from the 70's? I love that album. Beautiful playing from exceptional players.
Mine is duet "Far away" with Astrud Gilberto
Interesting how it tells the story of the judge in Torrance California- that as a black man-& trumpet player he understood Chet’s pains....
This is a very important document about Chet Baker. Of course it will be more enjoyable for Italian speaking people, but it is anyway a beautiful rare interview. I appreciate the way the interviewer let Chet find the words without interrupting him or suggesting him. Chet is so sweet, so genuine and so humble.Thanks for posting.
¡Exactly what I thought!: VERY GOOD INTERVIEWER
I don't speak Italian, but still enjoyed it very much, as sad as it is.
What happened with Chet is a crying shame. He was a great looking young guy who could swing like mad on trumpet and had a beautiful singing voice. Then he chose to mess with heroin and it slowly destroyed him.
He ended up falling out a window in Amsterdam at the end. Tragic stuff.
You are so right! He was a terrific talent, a smart and sensitive soul who was one of those who got tempted with drugs, and liked the high, but it was his undoing, like so many who fall to addictive drugs. So sad, his unique, sensual sound, both voice and horn, were apart from the crowd, and I wish he could have lived forever. But we have his recordings to remember him by, and to hopefully, be a lesson to those who are tempted by drugs to NOT do it! It's a bad ending!
very peaceful and sensitive guy..extraordinary musician I love him..
He just loved to chase that dragon. Its soo sad that his 2nd drug of choice besides the trumpet was something lethal like heroin :( it breaks my heart. Bwcause i agree with your post 100%. You can tell even in his voice. He means no harm. He just wanted to jam.....and get high...which not gunna lie. I do too. Minus the H.
@@randomazn420 Heroin isn't necessarily lethal if one uses it responsibly. Rather it's the lifestyle one leads when one is a heroin addict that is unhealthy, and criminalization and the War on Drugs does a lot exacerbate those problems. (The war on drugs, not the band... they're awesome!)
@@ericjohnson9790 "use heroin responsibly" lol
What’s peaceful about feening for drugs? You don’t know what you’re looking at when you say, “peaceful”....
I dont think he was sensible with women or his friends. Only with music.
I met him in a concert many years ago. He was extraordinary!!! Fantastic. I do remember that concert for all my life!!!!!
you are a very lucky woman/man
Man, I think?
I believe it was in 1958 that Chet and Philly Joe Jones lived with me on East 20th Street (close to where Theodore Roosevelt was born but rent controlled at $19.05/ month). Chet's father came to visit him. Chet's dad and I drove uptown to pick up Chet at his connection's place and "Dad" told me about his (Dad's) days playing banjo with Charlie Teagarden's band. (Charlie was Jack's brother.) Also, he related a discussion with Chet throughout which he gave all the arguments for sticking with "pot" and leaving heroin alone. This was before Chet had tried heroin. I have many additional stories from those days but I am growing old.
Hi, I am an 18-year-old kid who feels a great joy everytime he reads/hears such stories! If you have time and would like to share some of your stories, e-mail me!
ybenchekroun@outlook.com
Thank you so much !!
Yassine.
Please do share. We'd love to hear more.
Despite my age, I am swamped with many projects in various states of completion. I will try to get around to describing many well-remembered events involving interesting people. I hope I am careful to appear no more important (and heroic) than I actually was. (You know how these types of stories tend to get exaggerated.)
It's history. It would be great if you could share it before it's lost forever.
Tom Wayburn good memories. I am a journalist from Rio, Brasil. I'd like to talk with you. Please send an e-mail to me: bernardo.costa12@gmail.com These reports have to be published. bye. thank you
This guy would’ve been a movie star; his looks are incredible. And he didn’t age much in 30 years after all that hard living. What a sweet soul
joking? he looked 80 by the time he was 40
He was an asshole of a human being listen to his family
I thought dope would be some kind of magical elixir to make me a better musician - hell. many of my favorite musicians either had been junkies or at least had dabbled with it. But 35 years later I just wish I never took that first shot, because it still won't leave me alone, no matter what amount of clean time I can put together, I know it'll get me again. I feel for Chet, but at least he has a legacy of great music. Don't be concerned with "What Might Have Been", for that didn't happen. I just enjoy his music and the man - as he was. I think he did OK with the hand he was dealt. He was honest about what he was, and how many of us can say that we are honest with who we really are?
Same here mate. Hope you are okay now. Cheers from an Italian bloke.
Truth is re heroin and I say this after being on the stuff since 1997 is that it’s just not a very creative drug. Kurt Cobain did nothing on Smack as all the songs off Nevermind and Inutero were all written before the dope.
Chet Baker, Keith Richards and scores of other musicians were duped, we all were into this romantic notion that drugs are cool or help with life on the road, truth is anything but.
Oh yes one last point, being on Smack tends to consume ones life to the point where, you’re either out scoring or as you pointed out nodding off or brooding on your next fix. This is why junkies often neglect their best friends and hand around with like minded people, not because they no longer like their real friends, more the guilt and shame imo.
@TacoTacoTacoTaco it held many many many musicians and "regular Joes" alike. Deteriorating all in it's path. An acid of the thread of one's life. No escape. Even Charlie Parker sold his sax for dope. My point is everyone on dope was fuckin up. You got the music that was beautiful. Yea. But it seems you're neglecting the images of true anguish these people suffered, due to the drug.
@TacoTacoTacoTaco How much better would they have been without the smack. Even pot keeps you from being your best and makes it impossible to memorize anything
Ethan Hawks does a great job playing Chet Baker in the movie of Chet’s life. Born to be Blue.
Quanta consapevolezza, il candore assoluto nel descrivere le proprie debolezze, l umiltà d sforzarsi a parlare italiano, che gigantesca umanità traspare da questa intervista, t voglio bene chet, per tto quello che sei stato, per l ispirazione prima come essere umano, e poi come artista ovviamente.. Sei la più grande tromba bianca della storia e lo sarai sempre... Love unlimited
he speaks italian really good. his first language is english of course. he's an american
I knew he spoke Italian but who knew he played the trumpet?!!!.....Chet never needed drugs to be great
he tranforms into junkie version of Pasolini when speaking italian
I was thinkin the exact same thing.
now those two doing dope together and some art later would be something
Eternal high.
@@LonelyPlanetBoy92 so true
the song playing about 2 mins in is called "nightbird" written by an italian named Enrico Pieranunzi
remind me of hector lavoe toward the end. real shame because their talent was great.
True!
Lord Vader ¿
We are very sad for the lost of this great musicians, Hector go down two times but he lived, chet only one time, Hector was death on live, God gave him opportunities to get up but he never supported this: biological parents dead. It's very sad.
Touching, super sensitive musician!
cold turkey ....in jail!! many times!!!!! what a self imposed hell.
you ain't kidding.
Comin down off some antidepressant or pain pills is not so easy either..
You could get dope in jail back then and still can now. I'm sure that Chet had some friends on the inside
so sweat in your room wiggle and cough. six days off madness and you might throw me off... -James brown king heroin
Michael Craig Antidepressants withdrawal is more hard than heroin or coke...
I love his authenticity and humility
a loss of a legend who played fine jazz and inspite of his personal set backs he lived to play jazz with the best
look up live in Tokyo 1987, less than a year before he died
Grandissimo trombettista, l'espressione del dolore, puro dolore esistenziale che l'ha fatto diventare un grande uomo, di una sensibilità unica. E ci manca, tanto.
È vero..... però poi appena troviamo qualche ragazzo tossico dipende, lo scansiamo come se fosse un appestato. ( E magari quello è un pittore, oppure un musicista straordinario ) Chet Baker era e sarà sempre tra i più grandi. Ancora non ho capito se l'eroina ti brucia il cervello . Non credo . Bisogna essere onesti. Charly Parker, Billy Holiday, Jeff Beck, E una miriade di altri artisti . Che siano poeti, scrittori, pittori....le biografie straboccano di artisti geniali quanto folli , che prendevano droghe, molto più di oggi . Una lista infinita. Però dire che blocca la creatività è una grande stronzata . Altrimenti non sarebbero esistiti musicisti come Jenis Joplin, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain , e poi scrittori e filosofi , esempio: Nietzsche che assumeva grandi quantità di laudano e oppio , Maupassant , Balzac , Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire , Bulgakov, Carlo Michelstaedter, Emilio Praga, Flaubert, Dimitri Coranonic , William Blake, La Fontaine , Sand ,. Di tutti i periodi, di tutte le correnti artistiche , indipendentemente dal genere , senza contare quelli dediti all'alcool. ( Hemingway, Verlaine, Bukowski, Poe , Dostoevskij , Cechov, Antonin Arthur , Goia, Van Gogh , Salvador Dalì , Percy, Dino Campana, e poi ancora : Fabrizio De André , Carmelo Bene, Fitzgerald, .....Anche Freud,non diceva no davanti alla cocaina .... ripeto una lista infinita . Eppure loro hanno creato, e creato opere straordinarie, immortali, non erano proprio rincoglioniti. Anzi : tutt'altro E ne abusavano molto molto più di oggi. Questo è certo. Basta leggere i loro epistolari , non ne facevano certo mistero . Non voglio dire che la droga non fa male , assolutamente no. . È una merda che ti rovina la vita,a te e ai tuoi cari. Però non si può nemmeno dire che chi assume eroina ( o cocaina) non siano in grado di fare nemmeno un ragionamento , oppure dire che hanno il cervello bruciato . . Non mi sembra proprio che Chet Baker avesse il cervello bruciato.. oppure Rimbaud.
You HAVE TO love the story of his father coming home with a trombone when he's 13 years of age, tossing it to him, and saying "okay, play this!" Like, REALLY?!
hmmm he happens to be wearing a T-shirt with the name of the city he'll end up dying in.
l'italiano di chet è pressochè perfetto, contrariamente al mio :P
@Fred P No, nel video si sforza di parlare in italiano standard al meglio delle sue capacità. E' un po' sgrammaticato e un po' buffo, ma è bellissimo ascoltarlo!
Fascinating interview. Fluent Italian. Brilliant but not when it came to Drugs!!!! Shame.
I was a trumpet player in High School in the late 50's. I was learning his solos.
Strange life. But he sure could play!
He's wearing an "Amsterdam" t-shirt, and the first question was "What was the reason for your FALL?" His answer: Drugs. Amsterdam, fall, drugs. There you go...
Weird
Mark Lovo Okay the Tshirt is a bit weird, but common what a rubbish now a days Amsterdam got almost NO Heroin addicts anymore Greetings from Rotterdam
On his T-shirt is says Amsterdam, where he tragically died in 1989...
Good spotting!
And the first question they asked him here: "What was the reason for your FALL?"
Answer: Drugs.
WOW that's crazy...."not what I would call" karmic foreshadowing but its something... oOOoo Poor Chet. :'(
At 8:00 it should be "Jack Teagarden".
Well, Chet said it correctly, but the closed captioning was wrong.
He had friendly eyes!
sweet voice. fluent in Italian, sad...
As a jazz fan (sadly not a musician) I can relate to these guys.
They practice a form of music that seeks a perfect connection between minds, to create astonishing and expressive group improvisations.
They are almost exclusively intellectuals, albeit sometimes in an esoteric way, who think about things differently to most people.
As a young man who's a fan of jazz now, in contemporary western society, I feel an oppressive weight almost every day when I hear bigoted ideas and backwards social attitudes.
Imagine being these geniuses back when society was even less free and less tolerant. They just found the most controversial thing they could do together and obviously found some level of connection in it.
I've never used heroin but I have had an addiction to low level opiate painkillers and it's like being one of a select few who've been let in on this great secret. The taboo and illegality of drugs compounds this effect.
Just think, these emotionally expressive, intellectually driven and socially ahead of their time people are already disillusioned by the failings of their society. They feel trapped in a world where the average Joe just wouldn't understand their deepest personality. Then they find out the few people they share this bond with all do drugs and that the drugs are fun (to an extent/initially) so of course they all did it.
It's like when I hear people talking about the Jeremy Kyle Show (British TV), rather than focusing on how the arrogant and hypocritical presenter pretends lie detector tests are real; essentially flipping a coin to decide whether he'll ruin a vulnerable person's life, they focus on benefits and drugs. It's the Victorian concept of the undeserving poor playing out in a society so saturated with nonsensical capitalist propaganda that people think the poor deserve what they have and the rich deserve theirs.
One episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show is enough to make me want to put some Chet Baker on and shoot up just to dull the pain of being trapped in a society that can't see the wool being pulled over its eyes. Fuck.
+hknuddv beautifully said.
I agree. Really well-written and expressed. I feel for you!
You know how to express yourself quite adequately, along with telling the truth about drug use, "hknuddy," Your insight is no less than remarkable. I was a musician all my life from age 3, first classical then for most of my life, standards until I retired. I was surrounded with drug users, but chose not to do them myself. Perhaps partly because my father was a physician and I went to medical school so I KNEW the dangers of drugs, but preferred music to medicine. Music is very potent, and I certainly understand why artists used drugs -- I saw it all the time. But I knew it was deadly, addictive, and even today, when I need opiates for pain, I only use what is necessary, and not often. I'd rather have some physical pain than mental pain from addiction. I LOVE Chet's music, but I can hear and sometimes see the pain, yet his doleful music on his ballads, both vocal and horn, is almost addictive!!
hknuddv heavy man!
What a load of utter bullshit. You feel an oppressive weight when people don't have the same attitudes and opinions you espouse? Capitalist propaganda? What do you call the socialist drivel you are regurgitating? You are not an esoteric intellectual simply because you have a rough time in life (newsflash:its a dark, cruel world) and cope with the pleasures of substances. You cannot speak for musicians and you certainly cannot know the reasons individuals fall into addiction. One you said correctly though...you ARE young.
Chet Baker é uma obsessão entre os amantes do cool jazz e sempre o será pelo talento único, pelo legado e reinvenção de um gênero. Tocou e cantou até o fim, apesar de toda decadência física produzida pela heroína e amalgamada na face naquela foto espantosa de seus últimos anos. Quantos como ele? Raros. Chet, um gigante. Um mito. RIP
Heroin. Just like Cobain.
Per circostanze al di la' del mio controllo, qualcuno ha sovrapposto al video questa traduzione in Inglese cattivo.Owing to circumstances beyond my control somebody has been adding this incorrect translation to the video itself
One of the few jazz musicians I can listen to without getting bored....
Priceless interview/intervista! A testimony of what happened to him and told by himself: "la tromba la piu famosa del mondo". I liked to hear him speak and to speak italian this good :-)
Ottimo italiano fluente, persona geniale... e da ex tossico che son stato ha tutta la mia comprensione. Grazie Chet
Speaks several languages. Try that folks.
It's called learning.
Takes effort.
Beatiful thanks. Anyway the trombone loved by his father is called Jack Teagarden, not Keagan. The translation of the subtitle is wrong
I am totally blown away by this interview. I know his music, but so little of his life. I miss him even more than before.
Ironically this is the first time ibe heard chet talk instead of sing and its in a language i dont understand wise words none the less tho
More sympathetic, human portrayal here than the Chet that comes through in the full length doc on his life.
I think he said Jack Teagarden, not Jack Keegan. Lost in translation.
Good Opportunity to see that the unusual lives of great artists in and out of the limelight show the requirements of living up to the expectations of self and other.
Very enlightening in more than a way... Inspite of the sad sides to it, it is a wonderful document. I loved it.
Thank you very much.
Ignoravo che Chet era stato vivendo a Roma...
Moltissime grazie!
a bit pasolini
Chet Baker...Chet Baker...Chet Baker...(I’m trying to put my finger on the name of this one album of his I used to swear to never lose as a teenager & it makes my heart bleed to know that if I do recall the name I won’t find it in my vinyl collection.😭 One piece of advice to all you kids out there, if you’re serious about vinyl collecting... don’t ever move houses, stay in one place forever)
Wow, Chet worked in a gas station for a time? This was after ‘Esquire best-dressed man’ and early fame? Wow he fell a long way down-I really like his later career stuff on Steeplechase. Glad he had a second chance.
Sad fact: the autopsy of his body revealed he has drugs on his blood
at 3.05 i find to be the most insightful and observant question ....wow....so great an interview and such talent, heroin is such a part of many gifted peoples life...and always shall be...peace chet
Very sad ..so much talent and he gave it away for drugs
un cra el chet . recontra humilde. y una leyenda viviente del jazz. este video es una joya. graciasss :) desde Uruguay una fan
Such a shame that Chet like so many other jazz greats turned to drugs
He's using an Amsterdam t-shirt... He later died in an hotel from that town.
The English translation sucks! And I say that as an Italian! At least I can listen to Chet speaking my language!
A sweet man.
www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Dream-Long-Night-Baker/dp/0099590514 read this, you wont think so. great musician. major arsehole.
fucking book sucks. don't read it. read all of the other books about Chet instead, they are MUCH better.
You can also watch this artistic documentary on him, it's informative and beautiful to watch. Full of music too.
www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Lost-Chet-Baker/dp/B00J8UQIH2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472921939&sr=8-1&keywords=lets+get+lost
Not sure his kids thought so. Sad to see what drugs can do. Imagine how prolific he would have been without the H and Speedballs.
Might want to check with his so called friends and musicians familiar with him before you draw that conclusion.
Incredible
Wow i didn't expect to watch this interview in italian, i am italian and i am truly surprised!
who's the woman with him?
Yo no entiendo por qué uno no se puedo drogar tranquilo.
Diego Funes
Porque mejor no drogarse totalmente, hay otras formas. Correr y lograr controlar mi respiración fue la mía.
In Netherlands you can but that doesn't prevent from uhn dying!
Yo no entiendo porque aceptar el vicio
I WISH I HAD THIS RELATIONSHIP TO MUSIC OR DANCING I WENT RUNNING THIS MORNING WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD AND ACT STABLE BUT EVEN SO A LOT OF THE TIME EXERCISING I HAVE THE FEELING IM TOTALY WASTING MY TIME AND PAINTING IS SUCH A LONELY THING TO DO ZES OF COURSE YOU RIFF OFF OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THERE IS A CERTAIN CALL AND RESPONSE BUT IT DOESNT COME CLOSE TO WHAT I FELT ON NEW ZEARS EVE WHEN MZ GIRLFRIENDS COUSINS GIRLFRIEND SHOWED ME THE BASIC STEP FOR BACHATA AND I DANCED THE REST OF THE EVENING PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME ENGAGE WITH THE WORLD ON THAT LEVEL
His story breaks my heart. Such a talent.
I have never listened to a bad and not sincere interview from the great musicians that have make history with their music playing!
One of the finest artists of the genre, too bad he ruined himself with drugs.
what song is he playing about 2 minutes into the video?? the melody is capturing...
My funny valentine 🎶♥️
Is it an unpopular opinion to think he was as talented vocally as he was a trumpet player? Maybe not as technically sound, but his tone had an incredibly broad tonal range.
Yeah he had a great tone
I just found out about CBaker. Very talented.
who's sax player?
Steve Grossman says my ear.
Stan Getz ?
He quit methadone after 7 years. Congrats to everyone who made it.
Unfortunatly i'll be on it until i die.
I'm an addict since 42 years. I'm old now and my body is shutting down.
I would die during withdrawal.
Exelent jazz player.He played with Piero Umiliani.But he never kicked.He was one hard core adict and never had it enough.
Poor Chet looked like a fallen angel there...
He had recovered to become a functional musician again, but the man was still broken, obviously.
It's heartbreaking.
Awaiting death...
He was not a "broken" man. He persevered despite his many difficulties. The fact that he remained in great demand until his death shows how strong his spirit was.
What a great interview , hunble Chet doesn't try and evade what happened at all...and in Italian. He WAS a legend that struggled like Sinead O'Connor.
he looks clean here...
was he back on the stuff during the later 1980s?
he was on methadone, a legal opiate that is used to ween people off, but is addicting and destructive in its own rite.
@@JunkBondTrader that's rough man....why take one drug for another?
@@JunkBondTrader also I thought he said he stopped after 7 years
@@HelloooThere because 1. The drugs is perscribed and handed out free locally so you will not have to break the law for money.
2. You can lower the dose so eventually can do without it.
He is talking about it in the video
@@Reb3nga yeah but it didn’t work
He was not the greatest White jazz trumpet player He was THE GREATEST jazz trumpeter period
Drugs suck. They ruin so many lives. Great time at first then everything caves in. Heart breaking for alcoholism and drug addicts.
This is so heartbreaking. The fact that for him music was all his life and still couldn't play what made him the happiest... I can't think of all the pain he had in his shoulders. What makes this so sad is that he still died from drug use, and probably died very unhappy.
Emozionante , bellissimo ! Grande Chet Baker !
The silent dorothy prenatally clap because rise increasingly balance throughout a electric dessert. romantic, weak plier
His later playing was awful. The drug abuse took it’s toll. Very obvious
Fell out of a fucking hotel window and died on the pavement. There's no mercy in this world sometimes.
a scalare, Chet,a scalare.
Pretty cool man
Song name at 2:07?
Thx you
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Lui È la tromba bianca più grande del jazz...non solo bianca e non solo degli anni 50
What tune are they playing at 2:05?
l'italiano l'ha imparato in galera in italia.
16 mesi.....ci sono degli omicidi e ladri in italia che stanno in galera meno