Jazz Trumpeter Chet Baker: He dragged his American dream thru the mud

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

Комментарии • 217

  • @philgranito4043
    @philgranito4043 4 дня назад +9

    Charlie Parker held an open audition to find a trumpet player for his band. After Chet Baker played two tunes with Mr. Parker...Mr. Parker thanked everyone for coming ...and said that the audition was over. That says it all.

  • @barflytom3273
    @barflytom3273 9 месяцев назад +60

    I listened to him in Toronto at Bourbon Street jazz club one night, there were six or seven people in the club. different times.

  • @FrederickYoung-r6c
    @FrederickYoung-r6c 28 дней назад +18

    Most importantly is to just listen to his playing. Chet was one of the most soulful players ever.

  • @miedgarful
    @miedgarful 10 месяцев назад +40

    I spoke to Chet when he played in Vancouver between sets in the early eighties. I liked his music.

  • @barflytom3273
    @barflytom3273 9 месяцев назад +55

    The documentary 'Let's Get Lost" is a must watch.

    • @nititornp7279
      @nititornp7279 5 месяцев назад +1

      i just came from finish that doc. sad but beautiful.

    • @edwinrivera5695
      @edwinrivera5695 14 дней назад +1

      Absolutely! Thanks for the recommendation!

    • @wighatsuperreggie
      @wighatsuperreggie 13 дней назад +2

      I hated that movie. Hardly showed any trumpet playing. Does talk about his music, or any appreciation of his actual musicality. That movie was trying to make him out to be a fashion model, and focuses on his voice. The whole thing looks like a Bruce Weber commercial, like some kind of Starbucks box set. Oh yeah, it was actually directed by Bruce Weber! Just totally tries to create this romanticized character. It doesn't do anything to get to the actual person.
      Musicians all know what an incredible musician he was, particularly as a trumpet player. He was so natural and melodic. Nothing that ever came out of him was anything but pure music.

    • @georgefarrington895
      @georgefarrington895 10 дней назад

      Drugs distroy people.

  • @bruinsremco
    @bruinsremco 10 месяцев назад +110

    Instead of James Gavin's book, I'd strongly recommend reading Jeroen de Valk's book about Baker, which gives a far better balanced view of Baker's character. For starters, De Valk is genuinely interested in Baker's music and person, instead of only being morbidly fascinated by his drugs habit. Furthermore, Gavin can't be accused of even having the slightest interest in Baker's music.

    • @jeffreywegener8841
      @jeffreywegener8841 10 месяцев назад +6

      Thanks . Man was a huge talent & did it tough . Drug problems can destroy people creative people are particularly vulnerable. But the morbid negativity of many narratives contribute to the stigma & consequently less chance of recovery.

    • @michaelgarza8271
      @michaelgarza8271 10 месяцев назад +5

      That's rather unfortunate considering that he's one of the greatest artists of the 20th century...

    • @michaelwilson2340
      @michaelwilson2340 10 месяцев назад +8

      Well his drug use did overshadow his career. He blew it. Sort of like the Johnny Thunders of jazz.

    • @Rondo2ooo
      @Rondo2ooo 10 месяцев назад +8

      ​@michaelwilson2340 So, what is more important for you? Listen to what he accomplished and played so far, or personal tragedy. The latter is for the yellow press only.

    • @bruinsremco
      @bruinsremco 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Rondo2ooo Amen!

  • @MassiveChetBakerFan
    @MassiveChetBakerFan 9 месяцев назад +18

    You skipped over 1980-1988, which in my view was the highlight of his career, when he produced his most sublime work. Check out his many recordings in this period of Sad Walk, Estate, Leaving, Night Bird, Round Midnight, Arborway, etc. They are incredible.

    • @dgib1694
      @dgib1694 Месяц назад +1

      I fully agree

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 10 дней назад +4

    Excellent documentary on someone I'd never heard of but now appreciate, a sad familiar tale. I must listen to his music 🎵 sometime 👍

    • @Spike-w5o
      @Spike-w5o 7 дней назад +1

      Good idea...his music is melancholy and melodic at the same time as was his singing 🎶 😮😊😊

  • @markburnham7512
    @markburnham7512 10 месяцев назад +46

    I have known a few true musicians in my life, and my experience has been that they need to be musicians and can't be anything else. They answer a different call and cannot conform to anything resembling the "square life", frequently at their own peril and the heartbreak of those who love them. All we can do is appreciate what their gift has left for us. Baker was such.

    • @mayazzow2129
      @mayazzow2129 9 месяцев назад +8

      No truer or accurate words have been said regarding musicians.

    • @Alpha-Andromeda
      @Alpha-Andromeda 3 месяца назад +2

      I guess classical musicians are not true musicians then… when are you planning on breaking this news to them … ?!

    • @sclerismockrey8506
      @sclerismockrey8506 10 дней назад +1

      @@Alpha-Andromeda what a weird leap. where the hell did you get this idea from that comment?

    • @BassGuy
      @BassGuy 5 дней назад

      Exactly

  • @Therecouldbehope
    @Therecouldbehope 3 месяца назад +16

    Chet saved many lives as he was losing his own. He is the equivalent of a Jazz Saint

  • @alexkalish8288
    @alexkalish8288 10 месяцев назад +15

    He was a heroin addict for the last 20 years of his life. No one had more soul. One of my favorites ever - This is a wonderful video of his career.

  • @waynshor7073
    @waynshor7073 10 месяцев назад +8

    Fantastic job again!Thank you.Amazing how chet improved his playing through the years.His playing got more and more simple and deep.He matured (musically) very well.I recomend specially his quartet with Duke Jordan on the steeplechase label where his solos are close to perfect!

  • @davidpersad7000
    @davidpersad7000 5 месяцев назад +5

    Splendid elocution Mr Alexander.
    Thank you. Peace.

  • @AndyTomaselli
    @AndyTomaselli 10 месяцев назад +25

    grateful that Elvis Costello wrote Almost Blue for him which is one of my favorites. There is so much pain and anguish and beauty in his instrument and vocals in that one

  • @daccrowell4776
    @daccrowell4776 10 месяцев назад +15

    Daaamn... that's some quality bio right there! You hit the important parts, kept things from going in the ditch when you started into Chet's heroin troubles...great sourcing on the visuals, background music, and importantly... it's obvious you're doing it for the music and not the clout. Best new bio/history I've run across on YT in the past couple of weeks!
    Ya did Chet proud, too. Props.

    • @onetrackjazz
      @onetrackjazz  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you, my friend

    • @spiceboi3795
      @spiceboi3795 2 месяца назад +2

      Not to be a hater but majority of this is ripped word for word from the Wikipedia article on Chet. Either this creator is the one that made the article or its just ripped off and put in a text-to-voice generator. I read through it while listening and it is literally the same

  • @Jazzmaster58
    @Jazzmaster58 10 месяцев назад +91

    Hi, I am a Jazz musician and I was a heroin junkie and the comments on the video are very illustrative of the discrimination, bordering racism, that junkies are the victims of because people don't understand that junkies, are mental patients on self medication, which is a consequence of the lack of interest on dealing with mental disorder in general. Poverty plays a big part in this charade.

    • @cirocasarin
      @cirocasarin 10 месяцев назад +13

      I'm sorry, mate. There's an excess of criticism and a lack of comprehension on social media. From a fellow jazz musician to another, all of my respect.

    • @adamburgins441
      @adamburgins441 10 месяцев назад +3

      Junkies give and take

    • @jimrich4192
      @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад +3

      Junkies are victims of early childhood or some kind of emotional TRAUMA & can be HELPED ...if they want it...most don't....
      so be it...
      go where Chet & Bird went!!!! 😢

    • @pena.3302
      @pena.3302 10 месяцев назад

      Thank you.

    • @rollyherrera623
      @rollyherrera623 10 месяцев назад +3

      I hope you understand "Was," actually means "I am." Stay sober brother, and don't forget how bad it was, and how easily it could be worse today...

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 14 дней назад +3

    I started listening to Baker in mid 90s due to E Costello. I later fell headlong into addiction just like CB. I grew past my alcoholism and CB music. Mose Allison music had me reopen my old taste archives...CB was a talented tortured soul.

  • @msmith53
    @msmith53 6 месяцев назад +8

    Chet was one of the great and inspirational leaders of West Coast Jazz style. Pepper, Mulligan, Getz, et al. were innovators in the ‘50’s. Cool Talent and skilled player who contributed much to the game.
    Many cannot understand the frustration of playing at such levels and having to play “background” music to drunks who talk over your best stuff as a way to make a living.
    Don’t judge from afar if you can’t understand!!

    • @privatedetective6516
      @privatedetective6516 2 месяца назад

      A guy told me he heard Shorty Rogers perform many times at the Lighthouse, and Shorty DEMANDED silence from the crowd.

  • @ronaldboykin9755
    @ronaldboykin9755 10 месяцев назад +11

    I met Chet Baker back in the mid 70s at Carlos Santana’s rehearsal house in San Francisco. It was obviously there to cop some drugs and it was clear to me he was strung out! He had a beautiful voice and a smooth tough to the trumpet!

  • @timages
    @timages 9 месяцев назад +10

    I've only know him from those final tragic years, this bio clip was very informative regarding what a fine musician he was, ( you don't get picked by the great Charlie Parker if you don't have game). It turns out that 1955 was a pivotal year for Chet, had he kept a foot in Hollywood who knows how his life might have turned out. He had the 50s heartthrob looks and that soft vocal style. He could have starred in a series of films, Elvis with a trumpet. It was both shocking and surprising to hear about his relationship with women, ...from the music he made I wasn't expecting that. Sad all around.

    • @OlafVantVeer-f3d
      @OlafVantVeer-f3d 6 месяцев назад +4

      Haha, as if a Hollywood career is the high point of everything. He strived for musical and artistic integrity; much more important.

    • @socorrocastorena3862
      @socorrocastorena3862 2 месяца назад +1

      Didn't he have a child with his girlfriend? Whatever happened to his child? He was an amazing talent and gifted musician. He makes me cry with his singing and playing. I loved Ethen Hawke's portrayal of him in the movie , "Born To Be Blue". It's a must see film. Tortured Sould. RIP Chet Baker ❤❤❤

    • @wighatsuperreggie
      @wighatsuperreggie 13 дней назад

      But that's exactly it. Why the hell would he want to be in a bunch of cheesy movies? More fame? Fortune? So he could be like Elvis? Elvis should have staying with Sun Records and stayed away from Hollywood. Chet stuck with the music.

  • @andrewhockenberry6476
    @andrewhockenberry6476 10 месяцев назад +15

    left us with so much...

    • @jimrich4192
      @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад

      ...left us with a dire warning =
      GET HELP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! 😂

  • @Dave_Hepler
    @Dave_Hepler 10 месяцев назад +14

    He made soft singing important- naturally letting his easy horn sound happen. Charlie Parker selected him out of scores of West Coast cats to play w him. Lived much longer than Clifford but maybe not that much longer living life rights- that warm ballad sound!!!!!

  • @barrypaton9726
    @barrypaton9726 10 месяцев назад +10

    My Funny Valentine. I loved his music.

  • @mxmllrguitar
    @mxmllrguitar 10 месяцев назад +11

    Keep uploading these great videos! I would also love longer versions in the future. Could you do a video about the life of Grant Green?

  • @mikorara
    @mikorara 8 дней назад +2

    Chet was soft n smooth as silk on trumpet , very expressive and soulful at the same time.

  • @djhoneylove5710
    @djhoneylove5710 10 месяцев назад +4

    This was a good video. Thanks Alexander.

  • @jimmyguitar2933
    @jimmyguitar2933 10 месяцев назад +6

    I saw Chet Baker at a small jazz club in San Francisco towards the end of his life ('84-ish). He looked like hell, had no teeth, but could still play and (more or less) sing.

  • @violapinkgin
    @violapinkgin 14 дней назад +1

    Thanks for this video. I didnt know how he lost his teeth and the struggle after it having to learn the trumpet again to play
    THANKYOU! 🖤🦋🎼❤️‍🩹🦻🎷🎺🎹🎼

    • @johnnyguitarra3448
      @johnnyguitarra3448 14 дней назад +1

      Yeah, I didn’t know about his teeth either. Reminds me of the time Miles got roughed up by the police outside one of his own gigs. And then of course Jaco was beaten to death. It’s a fucking violent world.

  • @nazbowie9620
    @nazbowie9620 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great job man! New subscriber. Looking forward to dipping into the past vids.

    • @onetrackjazz
      @onetrackjazz  10 месяцев назад

      thank you my friend, enjoy!

  • @richsackett3423
    @richsackett3423 10 месяцев назад +9

    When I had a recording studio about 15 years ago, one of the pictures on the wall was a framed cutout of You Can't Go Home Again. That picture was a caution that you can be the most talented and successful mf ever yet destroy every last bit of it with drugs until you area literal shadow of your former self.

    • @adamburgins441
      @adamburgins441 10 месяцев назад +1

      Sad

    • @jimrich4192
      @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад

      It's not DRUGS that destroy you, it's UNHEALED TRAUMA that destroyed many greats who were unable or unwilling to find some HELP.
      😮

  • @rafaelrieck6655
    @rafaelrieck6655 10 месяцев назад +2

    Eine Story toll erzählt. Great musician and great storyteller!

  • @Packyboy
    @Packyboy 10 месяцев назад +3

    Nice work. Thank you.

  • @mongoharry
    @mongoharry 6 месяцев назад +7

    Like Sting said, we're "Fragile".

  • @dgib1694
    @dgib1694 Месяц назад +1

    I am a fan of Baker's work however I often regret the poor sound quality of many of his recordings. Maybe its just me, but it sounds like the recording conditions were very poor. Thank gods his live in Tokyo recording was great! I listen to it all the time

  • @ISuperTed
    @ISuperTed 7 месяцев назад +3

    It’s strange, but his playing in the last few years, despite all the abuse of his body by the drugs, were IMHO his very best. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve played his Live at Ronnie Scotts recording along with the fantastic big band concerts close to his death.
    I know many say he copied and was influenced hugely by Miles (who is my all time favourite), but I don’t think that at all. Chet had his own unique way of playing and there still isn’t anyone who could interpret and get such feeling out of standards.

  • @edwinrivera5695
    @edwinrivera5695 14 дней назад

    Well done. Thank you!

  • @drummermikeclark
    @drummermikeclark 9 дней назад +2

    I played a lot with Chet. He wasn't a great trumpet player. I have played with Woody Shaw, Wallace Roney, Nat Adderley, all of the greats. He sang beautifully. He was falling off the stages, down stairs, falling a lot due to smack and barbiturates. He was an asshole, a drag to be around. He told me he felt guilty about being white and getting over! It haunted him.

  • @brendanmcnally9145
    @brendanmcnally9145 28 дней назад

    Again, very nicely done!

  • @jasperchance3382
    @jasperchance3382 17 дней назад +1

    ''It could happen to you'' is one hell of a masterpiece.

  • @DerpRulesAll
    @DerpRulesAll 10 месяцев назад +9

    The worst thing you can do as a 'customer' is to beat people out of their money.

  • @anthonybryant5668
    @anthonybryant5668 17 дней назад +1

    I love his music

  • @redstar7292
    @redstar7292 9 месяцев назад +2

    There is no true beauty without decay. Jung had a theory that highly creative people can have a this destructive shadow. Some how he's more memorable for what he was with his chasmic flaws & faults, than simply being the clean cut, angelic trumpeter.

  • @beerybill
    @beerybill 10 месяцев назад +3

    I was in Paris late 1963 and learned Baker was playing at a spot I recall as the Fishing Cat. Sorry, but I don't speak French and that may not be exactly the correct name. There were three musicians. Baker playing flugelhorn, trombone, and drummer. After the first tune (Baker sounded great) the drummer split and the following tune was a duo with Baker playing drummer via brushes on a chair during the trombone solo. Soon after the trombone player split followed by Baker and then yours truly.

  • @kimgill2021
    @kimgill2021 10 месяцев назад +2

    good work keep it up !

  • @ninakim7282
    @ninakim7282 8 месяцев назад +2

    GREAT!

  • @DavidAndersoniiVI
    @DavidAndersoniiVI 8 месяцев назад +1

    Chet had the coolest licks of em all!

  • @chrisbronson5341
    @chrisbronson5341 7 дней назад

    A real human being . Genuine and honest .

  • @rogersabbath44
    @rogersabbath44 4 месяца назад +1

    Can you please 🙏 do a video on Gerry Mulligan

    • @onetrackjazz
      @onetrackjazz  4 месяца назад +2

      coming soon my friend, thanks for the suggestion!

  • @adrianronquillo507
    @adrianronquillo507 10 месяцев назад +12

    This cat could've been a huge star but he didn't want to play the showbiz game...

    • @jameshudkins2210
      @jameshudkins2210 10 месяцев назад +6

      He was too wasted and flaky.

    • @zivkovicable
      @zivkovicable 10 месяцев назад +6

      He played the game more than some. Posed and styled photo shoots. Recording easy listening pop tunes...He just kept forgetting to turn up because he was an addict. . .

    • @adrianronquillo507
      @adrianronquillo507 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@zivkovicable they offered him movie contracts recording contracts...he wasn't that into it ...hence he didn't play the showbiz game

    • @jamescampoccio1152
      @jamescampoccio1152 10 месяцев назад +1

      He chose the artist's road, not the entertainers. The drug habit didn't make the road any better, or any worse.

  • @christopherbarker181
    @christopherbarker181 10 месяцев назад +10

    A crying shame! Sure he accomplished a lot but can you imagine a Chet Baker clean! Clifford Brown as well as many new jazz artists have proven that you don't have to rely on drugs to be great! I can only imagine.😥

    • @zivkovicable
      @zivkovicable 10 месяцев назад +4

      Heroin never made anyone play better.

    • @jimrich4192
      @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад +1

      For me, "clean" means: EMOTIONALLY HEALED or perhaps TRAUMA FREE.
      That often requires HELP!
      AA helped me! 😮

    • @christopherbarker181
      @christopherbarker181 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@jimrich4192 I don’t dismiss the demons he had I just wonder why. He was in the Army and played with the Army band and appeared to have a good upbringing. I am a trumpet player myself and admire the talent he had. It’s the same question I ask about Joni Mitchell….she had a voice from God and couldn’t put down those blasted cigarettes. Bix Beiderbecke was the same way…dead at 28 from alcohol. Look what Art Blakey used to do; he supported his players habits then spent their money on his habit; I’m surprised anyone wanted to work with him. Thanks for the comment!

    • @zivkovicable
      @zivkovicable 10 месяцев назад

      @@jimrich4192 Yes it's almost impossible without some kind of support. AA helped me quit. One to one psychotherapy helped with the past trauma i had buried. I can now cope, but I would not describe myself fully emotionally healed, and that's perhaps too high an expectation. But at least now the good days considerably outweigh the bad. & that thought pulls me through crisis. .

  • @Sonperson
    @Sonperson 7 месяцев назад +2

    thank u

  • @wraithstrongopark
    @wraithstrongopark 10 месяцев назад +5

    "every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man!"

  • @CVinyl
    @CVinyl 20 дней назад +2

    Chet is buried close to my house in Inglewood ca cemetery 🌴 🎺 🕯

  • @nickpower3185
    @nickpower3185 4 дня назад +2

    Unfortunately Chet thought he played better on Heroin which was completely not true.

  • @walterhayley7252
    @walterhayley7252 10 месяцев назад +6

    Lots of rumors and theories have Baker being thrown from his window by unpaid drug dealers. Either way, a very sad ending...

  • @johnledford694
    @johnledford694 6 месяцев назад +4

    Pretty as James Dean, one of the very hottest jammers on the axe, a seductive and soothing voice,
    but long before those days he started messing with dope, with women.
    Whom he seemed to always mistreated women and was eternally unfaithful. Died at 58 on the street in Amsterdam fallen out of a window and crushed on the sidewalk. High or just careless? Pissed away all that talent and good looks, end the end looked like an old emaciated junkie. Where didja go, Chet? And why?

  • @jimrich4192
    @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад +2

    Brakers message for me:
    "Do not live an entire life & then die with UNHEALED TRAUMA...FIND HELP...
    IT'S AVAILABLE! "

  • @nielskjr5432
    @nielskjr5432 10 месяцев назад +2

    A few months before his death he was recording with the German Radio Bigband.
    They couldn't understand why Chet Baker didn't turn up for the sessions.
    Well, it turned out the doorman wouldn't let him in. He looked really bad, like a homeless person.

  • @brentemerson4593
    @brentemerson4593 Месяц назад

    What’s the background track?

    • @onetrackjazz
      @onetrackjazz  Месяц назад

      ruclips.net/video/yYdgXiZTm0k/видео.html 3rd song,

  • @Jezebellum-l2u
    @Jezebellum-l2u Месяц назад

    Very sad. I hope that these days we are more understanding of the causes of drug addiction and those who suffer from addiction. He had a beautiful life musically, but he could not have been a happy person. God bless.

  • @cornucopiaofcool2144
    @cornucopiaofcool2144 2 дня назад

    Chet sure had the "touch" . Notes flow from his fingers like water

  • @webstercat
    @webstercat 10 месяцев назад +7

    Heroine addiction never ends well.. I find him brilliant and disgusting at same time. His music brings despair when hear it so I avoid it.

    • @sublimeister9630
      @sublimeister9630 10 месяцев назад

      Look at the Rolling Stones… Mick Jagger looks far worse than him. 😂

    • @IndianOutlaw1870
      @IndianOutlaw1870 10 месяцев назад +1

      Baker looked worse at 58 than even Jagger did.

    • @volpeverde6441
      @volpeverde6441 10 месяцев назад

      probably owed money....
      he was PUSHED....

  • @FPoP1911
    @FPoP1911 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ok I clicked on this and as a jazz and chet fan that got me here, that voice and narration got me subbed in like... the first 10 seconds.

  • @johnanthonycafe2993
    @johnanthonycafe2993 10 дней назад +1

    As a gifted musician he had 2 lifetimes if he lived to his 50’s.

  • @sunscapeband
    @sunscapeband 5 месяцев назад

    Does anyone know if this is ai scripted ?

  • @The-Real-Ando
    @The-Real-Ando 19 часов назад

    Is flying high and then crashing and burning worse than never having flown? We are all here talking about it, so it is a good story, a hard story but a real story. ☮️❤️

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 10 месяцев назад +2

    All Chet had to do was emulate his friend Dizzy Gillispie, who was a good money manager, took pride in being dependable, and was a hell of a trumpet player too. Dizzy could play high, but he'd be in tune up there, take note some of you whistling tea kettles. Chet could have done very, very well for himself.

    • @jimrich4192
      @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад

      All Chet had to do was GO FOR HELP!
      ....like some other DAMAGED ppl did! 😮

  • @jimrich4192
    @jimrich4192 10 месяцев назад +12

    Show me his childhood & relationship with his parents & I can & will say exactly what happened to/for him & WHY. His good/Bad relations with women show me that something was VERY WRONG between him & his mom & perhaps his dad as well. He looks to me like a seriously WOUNDED CHILD & that usually begins at home with TRAUMATIC PARENTING.
    Shame he never got the kind of help that is available these days for survivors of CHILHOOD POST TRAUMATIC STRESS
    IMO, his entire life was all about a TRAUMATIZED CHILDHOOD with TRAUMATIZED PARENTS!! 😢😢😢😢

    • @JulieCarey-y1n
      @JulieCarey-y1n 3 месяца назад +1

      Absolutely

    • @humanbeing5300
      @humanbeing5300 2 дня назад +1

      Not always. Some people simply self medicate for general anxiety and socializing and get addicted. Trauma isn’t always at the root although it,often is.

    • @halo2d
      @halo2d День назад

      Artists don’t really live on the same plane of reality as the rest of us. For many the addiction helps them channel the pain or trauma into something beautiful. For some it’s filling a hole in their soul. Many it’s both.

  • @BrianMusak01
    @BrianMusak01 23 дня назад +2

    All artists should have education about ' the true gods of sound and stone'....drugs, alcohol,bad living work AGAINST your craft

  • @benlandro6776
    @benlandro6776 9 месяцев назад +7

    who are we to judge?

  • @bobbibaker4685
    @bobbibaker4685 10 месяцев назад +3

    Elliott Smith's voice has been compared Baker's.

  • @temporoboto
    @temporoboto 10 месяцев назад +1

    💙

  • @humanbeing5300
    @humanbeing5300 2 дня назад

    Heroin helps you get lost inside the music and stay purely in the moment unfortunately it also destroys every aspect of your physical life which eventually affects the music. It’s a deal with the devil and the devil ALWAYS WINS.

  • @seattlebeard
    @seattlebeard 10 месяцев назад +1

    I remember the disgraceful hipsters who appeared in the film Let's Get Lost showed him several photos of nude models and asked him if he'd had sex with them. He was embarrassed, but too polite and strung out to tell them to go to hell. It was disgusting exploitation. I got the impression he was only doing the film so he could score more drugs. At least on one can cheapen his music.

  • @arricammarques1955
    @arricammarques1955 10 дней назад

    Chet was an inspired trumpeter who pioneered west coast jazz. A label he loathed by the music press. Chet was in a league than Miles Davis.

  • @greghemlock6679
    @greghemlock6679 6 дней назад

    Good

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455 3 дня назад

    pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor chet! I love dhim and beautiful music.

  • @krusher74
    @krusher74 10 месяцев назад +3

    Kidz. say no to drugs!

  • @richarddaniel9710
    @richarddaniel9710 2 дня назад

    Sad great Trumpeter

  • @eximusic
    @eximusic 10 месяцев назад +8

    C'mon - Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck long before Chet.

  • @steveconn
    @steveconn 10 месяцев назад +1

    Such a sad narcissistic guy (Deep In A Dream such a depressing book) but beautiful talent ❤

  • @michaelwilson2340
    @michaelwilson2340 10 месяцев назад +1

    Deep In A Dream is one of my favorite music biographies. A cautionary tale about the junkie lifestyle. I love his 50's and early 60's albums but the guy was a terrible human being. Especially the story of Baker abandoning his dog while on tour.

  • @ladymsthing6056
    @ladymsthing6056 2 дня назад

    Very, very sad.

  • @ganglestank
    @ganglestank 10 месяцев назад +6

    His death was never deemed an accident. The cause was speculated to be either a fall, a suicide attempt or a murder attempt. I should know, i’m related to him

    • @volpeverde6441
      @volpeverde6441 10 месяцев назад

      CHET was never gonna make the system BIG MONEY....he just kept ticking over to pay for his jones....in the end he was PUSHED....owed
      dealers/record company, etc....probably....

    • @ganglestank
      @ganglestank 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@volpeverde6441 no it was miles davis who hired that group of people who knocked his teeth out, according to chet. That narrative is bullshit, it wasn’t dealers or record companies. He was the first person to ever learn how to play with dentures. That beating was supposed to cripple him as a musician and he didn’t let it, so they took the one think he surely couldn’t play without: his life

    • @barflytom3273
      @barflytom3273 9 месяцев назад +1

      ganglestant. he wasn't cleaning the windows that's for sure.

    • @ganglestank
      @ganglestank 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@barflytom3273 he would play his trumpet while sitting in the window, which he was known for. He had his trumpet clutched in his arms when he was found dead

    • @barflytom3273
      @barflytom3273 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@ganglestankalright. thank you for the information. appreciate it.

  • @rvbsoundfactory
    @rvbsoundfactory 10 месяцев назад +1

    Oh boy.

  • @askmisscrowecheyennecrowe306
    @askmisscrowecheyennecrowe306 4 дня назад +1

    Tragedy.

  • @clouddog2393
    @clouddog2393 6 месяцев назад +1

    A God given talent wasted by drug and drink abuse . The same old story once again . A great trumpet player and a good singer it's sad he could,nt fight or control he's addictions .

  • @mayazzow2129
    @mayazzow2129 9 месяцев назад +1

    Tragic, albeit common story of a fantastic talent that dives into the deep of heroin.

  • @Mike49if
    @Mike49if 10 месяцев назад +1

    Played trumpet on and off my whole life. Love Chet's playing, truly an amazing sound and style. Don't like the singing, agree with Russ Freeman that it was a money-making gimmick. Even with the drugs he is one of the greatest. Chet, Miles and Clifford.

  • @jj.d
    @jj.d 2 месяца назад

    Why is there some smooth nonsense playing in the background? This doesn't capture Chet's life at all. I appreciate the effort.

  • @georgemilanez8033
    @georgemilanez8033 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent, from a closet clarinetist.

  • @JamesW225
    @JamesW225 10 месяцев назад +1

    A great among giants

  • @rollyherrera623
    @rollyherrera623 10 месяцев назад +1

    A sad cliche'....When it's good; stay there....

  • @ultrasignificantfootnote3378
    @ultrasignificantfootnote3378 10 месяцев назад +4

    I think he decided to release himself out of the window , similar to the photographs.

  •  26 дней назад +1

    The most brilliant people often live on the edge, most people color between the lines, but of course they lack eternal fame

  • @tomcoryell
    @tomcoryell 10 месяцев назад +3

    What? His dad had to get a job? What a travesty! Baker sure screwed Art Pepper over….

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 10 месяцев назад +1

      Art Pepper:. Greatest ever 😎!

  • @TomRivieremusic
    @TomRivieremusic 10 месяцев назад

    Ruined his life over drugs.What a waste.

  • @JulieCarey-y1n
    @JulieCarey-y1n 3 месяца назад

    …he sounded and played better with age…come fair weather 🌹🐝🌈

  • @richarddaniel9710
    @richarddaniel9710 2 дня назад

    Drugs ruined Baker, what a waste still good though😅

  • @Gennettor-nc8kx
    @Gennettor-nc8kx 14 дней назад +1

    He was a junkie. That's what was wrong with him.