Chet Baker - Almost blue
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2009
- Amazing Jazz song Almost Blue by Chet Baker / Composed by Costello
Lyrics : Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There's a girl here and she's almost you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying
Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be
Almost blue
It's almost touching it will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true...always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple
ALMOST Me/You/Blue 
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The universal language isn't love or music; it's loneliness.
No one needs to be lonely.
....poetic. Amen.
Underrated comment
I'm lonely...I know...music is the language of emotion. I know that, for sure. I've gotten my share of standing ovations. But I left everything 15 years ago to come to this place and care for my dear mother, who just died last October. We never thought she'd live this long! ha ha...but I took care of her till the end. She got her wish; she got to die in her sleep, in her own bed, in her house. God Bless my mom, Agnes...which means "Lamb Of God"...now she's gone. Every morning I wake up thinking I have something share with her...then look for her...and finally realize...she's gone. Sometimes I think I hear her calling my name. I know...this will all eventually pass...but I bet I can play the blues better than any 19-25 year old! ha ha...
@@MrCrossbones2008 Glad she lived a lot.
The same shadows that surrounded her will one day surround me.
Rest in peace Agnes.
Trumpet: I am sad...
Piano: thats ok, it will fade...
Wow its like if the instruments really do say this
And the bass?
The bass died from leukemia that’s why they’re sad
@@jovit195 rip bass 💀
Funny how a comment months ago said the same thing, but with more words.
“There’s a girl here and she’s almost you”
“All those things you promised with your eyes, I see in hers too”
Sadness isn’t looking at grey skies it seems, but remembering they were once blue.
❤
Damn bro that's deep
I d say : he .. but deep still remains
@@jorgecolin1717 I was high as fuck when I listened to this video, I don’t know what I was thinking busting out some quote type shit like I’m Mark Twain or something 😂
@@TheJackster-tl8oi In that case, whatever you were on - I want some.
its January 6th 2024, its currently 3:01 am in Baghdad Iraq, I am listening to this with my laptop with a video call on my phone enjoying this music with the girl I love, the weather is cold and my feet are freezing yet I am enjoying this masterpiece and my girls is asking why it takes so long for me to write this comment, enjoy the life people, enjoy love, enjoy the sadness and feel accepted, the meaning is all around you you just have to see through it.
First of all, I hope you're safe. I'm in deepest French countryside cooking a curry, listening to this waiting for my girl to arrive. This music goes with our sodden landscape right now. Bleak and wet. It carries me away.
❤❤❤
Nice picture painted
My sister lived in Baghdad with her husband Faris and their 5 kids. They managed to get out before it all went bad, lost their home and everything, why am I rambling on when I just wanted to say Chet Baker touches your soul
Dear rami
It's March 8th , it's currently 7:33 pm , im in tripoli libya , I can see the sunset through the window while laying on the couch alone in the house .
Having thoughts of despair and loneliness not because I'm alone but because I have so much going on in my life that I can't share with anyone ...
I know deep down that I need help yet I keep pretending to be strong.
I am strong and I am capable but sometimes admiting that we need help is all we need.
Kindest regards ❤ I hope this letter finds u well and loved
Dude doesn't start singing till 5 minutes in. He establishes the mood and tone. Then he tells you what all the previous 5 minutes was about. It's so good. Like watching a silent film and then talking about the plot, but with song.
That is why he is a genius .
you re genius logan bro!
Puckoooooooooooooooooooooo!
Chet, baby!.
well put.
We should send Chet discography in space just to let the whole universe know that we are capable of something beautiful after all
Yes Indeed
Beautiful by the interpretation of human ears. Aliens might just find it to be white noise for all we know.
best youtube comment, ever
definitely best comment ever
in space, no one can hear you play jazz
Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere.
+1 :'(
My husband of 54 years died 3 days ago. He was a trumpet player. I'm enjoying the vibe
rest in peace🤍
Sorry for your loss. My dad was a trumpet player too. Very dedicated and a very interesting man xx
I hope you're doing well. I imagine how much it must hurt
Sorry for your loss.
🙏🏼
This song is crazy, but damn, that drummer has got to be vibeing on a different level. It almost sounds like rain. Amazing.
drum brushes ..?
@@serotonic596 must be, maybe one could find a live performance and have a peek.
That's what I was thinking.
Yr right On!
Well said sir.
The "almost blue" feeling is the worst one a person can go through. Not depressed not sad just deeply unsatisfied and drowned. I love this song
Well said 👏
Blue are the words I say
And what I think
Blue are the feelings...
THAT LIVE INSIDE ME
“Deeply unsatisfied and drowned” that sounds like depression bro
@@Emanuel-bm9vn could be
I don’t know, I’d rather feel unsatisfied than how I feel regularly. But every feeling is considered. I just… can’t explain.
I'm not depressed, i'm not missing someone I'm just enjoying this masterpiece
im all 3
yea. I hate it when people have nothing music related to say and say the most random sh*t in music videos, like their spouse, their parent, their pet died and the song reminds them of it.. If you have nothing to say about the instruments, the arrangement, the mix or the performance, better don't comment and just enjoy?
@@joy1essmusic is supposed to evoke memories and emotions, so it’s definitely related. also no casual listener knows anything about arrangement or mixing
@@prodVenti I doubt a lot of those comments are even real.. they all seem really generic and copy n paste
CHET BAKER! AND THIS SONG AMONGST SONG AFTER SONG TIME AFTER TIME@ I LOVE HIM❤❤❤
Chet Baker can break your heart, make you fall in love, contemplate everything, and make you smile like a child.
Chet Baker always lived against the grain. While the world was still ecstatic about fast and rhythmic bebop jazz, he defined an emotional and melancholy style that didn’t seem to correspond to the spirit of the time: “cool jazz”.
He was one of the most unique singers in jazz and just as good a trumpet player. 6:16 [Ivy Style; Vialma Jazz]
@@GjaP_242❤❤❤
That is such a beautiful way to put what I’m feeling, thank you Elvis Costello for showing me Chet XXX
Blue, or almost blue, he played beautiful, sang beautiful, and he was beautiful💧💙💗💔💞
I don't know why, but it sounds as if the instruments are talking to each other.
The trumpet is sad, the piano comforts it, etc.
Corue This is actually very common in Jazz and is known as call and response. The instruments speak to each other, taking turns, in a conversational tone. Some songs catch the intonation of the human voice in a more obvious manner than others. This is one such song.
Man, i saw one comment about what you said about it. And i either think the same.
@@alyssabowen9297 can you suggest me a book about jazz that is popular? (because i can't understand english very well especially if its written in a therotical type maybe one that you will suggest has been translated to my language.)
Pygmalion read geoff dyer’s ‘but beautiful’. it has a chapter on chet.
That's the magic of music my friend
My life is falling apart, my only brother has died 4 months ago, my parents are getting divorce because my father is making very bad actions, I must take care of my two nephews, and the things in my work aren't so well.
I've been listening Chet all day long, cause, this is the only thing that's making me feel a little better.
Have faith in yourself, random person
I hope it gets better for you, much love
Hope things will get better. You're strong 💖✨
I hope everything goes the right way very soon
Just stay strong, more beautiful days are waiting for you 🖤
This too shall pass Bren.
RIP Chet Baker (December 23, 1929 - May 13, 1988), aged 58
You will be remembered as a legend.
Same age. Respect. First time but not the last!
Died to heroine of all things. Not even his wikipedia page says what happened to him. RIP chet.
@@bulletsunderpressure What are you talking about? He died because he fell off his hotel balcony in Amsterdam; this has been public knowledge for decades.
👍
@@thebellcurve3437 From his heroine use! Years before pulled out his gold fillings for money. Heroine stole so much talent in music from us. It gave us nothing!
It is currently 6:08pm here in the UK and I am sat with my cat Smudge on my lap who will unfortunately be put to sleep in an hour due to poor health, this will forever be our song.
I love you Smudge, there will be no other like you. Thanks for being my best friend and the best cat anyone could have ever asked for.
RIP smodge
I’m so sorry friend 😢
I feel with you
😢💔
RIP Smidgeon
When you start to feel sad, dont fight it. Embrace it. Feel as sad as you possibly can. Dive as deep as you can into the darkness and realize youre still alive. Realize how normal it feels and youre not alone, no matter if you feel so alone. Embrace the darkness. Outlive the depression
This comment. All the feelings.
I never agreed so much.
@eva Spinaci acknowledge it. Live it. Cry. Dig deep. With my own depression, I ignore it until I can't. I think it would help if I regularly intervened and acknowledged and expressed it. And attended to it. Being physically active is the best counter-measure. I say this from experience (I fail at practicing tho), and from my uni classes.
Ok Sasuke
I needed to read that. Thank u
Scary how much we share under this endless blue sky, isn't it?
like hell
Ah yes, quite.
Sheldon i must agree with you sir. It truly is painfully pleasant
Mine is grey
Kérian Fiter through those grey clouds there is a mighty blue sky and a bright, golden sun. Don’t worry. Their time will come to appear
I've been listening to nothing but Chet Baker since 2023 began. I'm not sure if it's making me feel better, or worse...but I love it
However it makes you feel, you will always be listening to music made with passion and full of emotion
I guess I understand what you mean... It is just touching too much to hear this music. All the best, my dear!!! Keep your head up high and try to be thankful for every good moment in your life.
It can only do you good.
Fella was the Radiohead of his times
@Wonderhussy blessings to see you here
Chet plays his soul. His trumpet is expressing the soul of his heart. The despair in his heart. The loneliness in his heart. The love he has to give in his heart. Chet's trumpet is his soul and his ambition. His trumpet is his way of expressing his life to the world, his way of letting the world know who he is!
❤
👍
Chet Baker has a memorial plaque in Amsterdam that says
"Trumpet player and singer
Chet Baker
died here on May 13th, 1988
He will live on in his music
for anyone willing
to listen and feel"
any idea where? I'd love to go check it out!
@@MultiMiaStar Hotel Prins Hendrik, Prins Hendrikkade 52-58, Amsterdam, www.hotel-prinshendrik.nl/en/
Died because he was locked out of his room, tried to cross from the balcony of the adjacent room to the balcony of his room, and fell in the process.
@@whatthecello42 He fell because he was doped up on coke and heroin.
@@whatthecello42 ass hole
How cruel is life when a sound as delcate as the finest glass comes from a man just as fragile.
Thank you, Chet Baker
Why are you talking to him he is dead live home da Fock alone
@@violettegauvrit5835 lol shut up
You're pretentious gibberish shows what a pathetic loser you are.
@@dekecumberland6349 so sorry man i was going trough a dark place in my mind it was actualy a joke don't come at me like that please
We are all fragile when we fall two stories to the sidewalk below.
Someone listening in 2024 ?
yes❗
Yes sir
Yes😊
Absolutely!❤
Io
There was something magical about this guy. He had such a uniquely beautiful voice. I just watched the "Let's Get Lost" documentary about him again. It is a sad story, how he went from ethereally handsome to that tired look of a longtime drug user, but his voice and skill on his trumpet never left him. Probably my favorite jazz musician.
We should all be so happy that drugs exist and are freely available: they shortened Chet's life considerably and for that small mercy we should be eternally grateful
@@Manumanu-ul1qd Even creepier because you're eloquent and obviously took some time to post that.
This is not depressing.
This is the sound of life
The sound of every winter and spring that we shared together
The sound of laughter
Fading away
Achieving their purpose
In tears
Sadness
Thank You Chet
You re immortal
Thankyou for posting this I’m gonna get this tattooed
Yessssss
Estoy de acuerdo. No es deprimente. Es simplemente bella y melancólica
These words moved me ...thank you
💎
not a bad thing to listen to on Valentine's day
Not at all...
Komm süsser tod spotfy's playlist
Why would it be bad
you forgot the other essential, a bottle of jack or tequila
My favourite
En 1967, en la ciudad de Rosario, en Argentina había
conferencias de jazz. En el
oscuro proyectaban diapositivas y tocaban discos. La audiencia en total
silencio presenciaba anonadados la magia de este
género fascinante y hoy, después de 53 años en EEUU
lo que más me conmueve es
darme cuenta que esa magia
perdura a través del tiempo.
Gracias Chet. Gracias Rosario❤️
Es la primera vez que escucho a Chet y despues de haber dejado Baires en el 1970 me trae recuerdos pasados, entiendo esos momentos de escuchar los tangos, de leer Cortazar y otros. No es mufa, es mas profundo.
Jorge Cafrune, uno de mis cantantes favoritos...
Differentes las canciones pero me dan calma, no es el estilo, es el interprete que hace porque a mi NO me gusta JAZZ 🤪.
Chet Baker, con el si se puede 👍
Las veladas de jazz eran en una biblioteca pública llamada “Estímulo al Estudio”
los discos LP los trataban como joyas y cuando la púa
bajaba y tocaba era como un
trance. Cada nota, cada acorde me hacían pensar en
Nueva York, o Chicago, algo
así. Calles mojadas, el frío y
los rascacielos y taxis y gente pasando. Algo que
hoy veo a diario y sigo escuchando con audífonos
y el jazz me acompaña todo
el tiempo.
This song speaks to me in a language I didn't know I understood so perfectly clear. I am left speechless and agitated afterwards. Rare for a piece to touch me so deeply. Beautiful... Now If I could only not feel whatever it is I'm feeling right now
No matter how much I try, I can't escape the feels. I always seem to be captured by a cloak melancholy. Not quite depressed, not unhappy, but missing something or someone I need.
The spirit of this song, Chet Baker , such a sad soul. I keep coming back to let this song speak for the way I feel. ALMOST BLUE
Someone will fill your soul and make you complete one day...
it's my go to song mostly when i drink a lot and i dont know why....my heart is torn apart and i can't put it back together...so i drink and play this
Same.
@@stiofanmac3376 lol fucking lame, get a therapist
You should get close to God. Gain spirituality.
A number of years ago I spent a year in New York. One weekend, I don't remember the hotel I was staying in, but I had found a really good jazz station. I had just fixed myself a drink when this song came on. I stood there, drink in hand, looking out on the city as a soft rain was falling. Of course it would have been better if a semi-nude woman had been beckoning to come back to bed. But it was real life not a movie. The mood was just right with the drink and Chet Baker on the radio. I've never forgot that moment. And everytime I hear this song, I'm back in that hotel room. Sometimes life just gives you that perfect moment you can keep in mind forever. Thanks for posting this awesome song... Greetings from Iran
...real life not a movie....
God bless you for these words
Wow. Nice to read you again after all this time, Mr Kerouack. Hey, it's not you? It's your soul, though.
what a delightfully charming way to describe the moment. One must be careful as life imitates art, imitates life, imitates art...it's all a movie. Are you Persian or just visiting? I would guess Persian, as I have never met a Persian man that did not have polite judgments, weren't wildly romantic, and all delighted in making one feel like a delicate flower. Pleased to greet another aficianato
aficionado LOL Greetings from the East Coast, USA
@@pameladewinter8724
Madame, many thanks for your kind words. I'm Persian from Teheran with many american friends, since i was working for Merrill Lynch...
This is literally medicine for any anxious feelings ❤
I concur.
same here
A couple of years after losing my Wife and best friend, I saw a woman walk past me as I was sitting at a coffee shop. She bore a striking resemblance. My heart almost leapt out of my chest. Then the pain. The storyline of this song came to mind……
...man....
This is where sadness meets with sophistication
And then you showed up...
I couldn't have said it more eloquently. Thank you. 🌹
Just sadness....
@@deedeekreep9139 😢
@@Manumanu-ul1qd lmao
No one quite captured melancholy the way Chet did. He was a genius.
One of the most famous jazz musicians of all time, Chet Baker was an iconic cool jazz trumpeter and singer. In truth, Baker’s voice was unusual. Mellow, sonorous, and defined by a somnolent languidness, it also had a mysterious androgynous quality. Chet Baker rose to fame in the late 1950s as part of the West Coast Jazz movement; a more calm, cool and restrained take on jazz music. 5:35 [Famuse Talent; Jazzfuel; Journal Philistine Toronto]
@Edoardo Bonel Bill Evans was an exceptional pianist. One of the absolute best.
@@TrinidadJamesWoods YESSS
The song was written by Elvis Costello who worked with Chet on 'Shipbuilding'.
Amen to that
I think the depression or the loneliness is a opportunity to be absolutely free, its a opportunity that not many people get.. Be courageous and thankful everything will make sense in a while, just trust the process and you will see what an amazing artist god is =) I really found my self in the dark and now Im in love with the darkness. Its sad that so many people are so afraid of the darkness... I hope y'all have a nice day and don't forget to smile to at least yourself, be proud of yourself you came a long way
I am 23 now and I'm going to buy a trumpet and a piano just so that I can play this masterpiece! Unbelievable nothing comes close when you compare classic music like this piece by chet baker for instance to music we have today!
There's a few more instruments involved...
surely bro....sure
Stay with it, practice, and always remember why you're striving for musical perfection. Music is perhaps the most sublime and pure form of communication. This Chet Baker track is a prime example.
Why try to copy this music trying to play it yourself? You'll likely never come close to how Chet composed, played and sang it. Just listen, try and understand it, savour it. With age comes wisdom.
Before that, love someone deeply. Then let time and conditions broke her spirit and left you while still loving you. Feel melanchony in your heart. Let all meanings and politics despair from your mind. Feel loneliness. After all, you will have presence of emotion. You dont even need to play any instrument. But you will want to express your loss. And you will have this art naturally.
My father was a jazz musician he played the saxophone. He was never in my life just came and gone. Visited like every other weekend. Then he just stopped and I never saw him again. He's passed away in my twenty's didn't really feel hurt by him being gone though. I do how ever have a love for jazz soul blues and anything with a saxophone. I guess I am drawn to this type of music but inside it makes me feel closer to my father. Who I have come to miss and dearly love over the years despite him not being alive. A son will always need his father even in death. Love you dad.
God bless you chris
Your Dad loves you back. You know.
You are beautiful
Feel him note for note from Turkey
You are a good man brother, God and your Mother have made good to you between now and forever. But the unseen and pain is the real teacher…
This version is amazing! Recorded live in Tokyo in June 1987, less than one year before Chet's death.
Chet was in great shape that night in Tokyo.
There is a double CD of the concert... for anyone willing to listen and feel...
Other musicians are:
Bass - Hein Van de Geyn
Drums -John Engels
Piano - Harold Danko
The video is also available here on RUclips. Enjoy!
Thank you very much.
Thank you, so beautiful song.
tanks
Thank you.
Thank you, buddy
"You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose"
- Chet Baker
The song was actually written by Elvis Costello, I believe. Not Chet Baker...am I wrong?
👍
I know that feeling
This is probably the saddest song I've ever heard. And one of the most beautifuls too.
Scrolling through this comments section while listening to this masterpiece makes me wanna give each and everyone of you a warm hug, a blanket and a cupcake. Beautiful, sensitive, poetic souls here. I love you all. Greetings from Switzerland
EDIT (May 2022):
Wow. I come back here 3 years later and the world is now in a pandemic, which makes this thread even more special and beautiful to me. Thank you so much🥰. I also love reading where everyone is writing from 😍🌎 ! We might never have the chance to meet each other but I'm grateful for this connexion we share, right here. Please remember that you are worthy and you are loved. Always.
See you in 3 years my friends.
Natinat 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Thank you🙏
OooRah~
Natinat Thank you! I agree with you. Chet Baker is tops! Come to New Orleans.
Natinat Greetings from Morocco!
Chet Baker - Vocals, Trumpet
Harold Danko - Piano
Hein Van Der Geyn - Bass
John Engels - Drums
iltulipano ,I Really Appreciate This Most Important Information.I Have Been Searching For All The Musicians Who Played On This Track.Particularly And Specifically The Piano Player.Harold Danko Is Truly A Virtuoso!!
@83scalpel Thank You everyone for the synopsis. CMJ Canada
Thank you for this. I don't know much about chet baker. Never knew he sang his songs too.
Nice that Hein Van Der Geyn is dutch. Gives me hopes
@83scalpel Chet Baker's and BB King's Thrill is gone have not a thing to do with one another. I mean they are not the same composition. Two totally different pieces of music. Not a version or rendition or anything like that. Nothing in common. allmusic: "From Chet Baker's first vocal recording session in 1953 (Chet Baker Sings [1953]) comes this cool West Coast jazz treatment of an old Tin Pan Alley song, not to be confused with the B.B. King blues hit from 1970. "wiki: Chet Baker's cover of 'the thrill is gone' by BB King??? i have no idea what you are talking about.
This is one of the greatest performances of this song I've ever heard. Chet can deliver a phrase like no one else.
In the hush of midnight's shadowed tune,
Chet's trumpet weeps beneath the moon.
Notes like teardrops softly fall,
Echoes of a melancholy call.
In smoky rooms where shadows dance,
Chet's horn weaves a forlorn romance.
A solitary sigh, a lonesome cry,
As melodies of heartache amplify.
His trumpet whispers tales untold,
Of love that's young, and love grown old.
Through muted brass, a mournful plea,
A requiem for lost ecstasy.
A lonely street, a dim-lit bar,
Chet's music drifts like a fading star.
In every chord, a soul laid bare,
A sonnet of sorrow suspended in air.
Each breath he takes, a heavy sigh,
A wistful echo, a muted goodbye.
Through amber notes, the pain unfolds,
A symphony of sorrows, stories untold.
The night embraces the mournful sound,
As Chet's trumpet weeps, unbound.
A ballad etched in shadows deep,
In the music of Chet, the sadness seeps.
That's beautiful :)
I am glad there is someone out there who understands . . .
Lovely words
It's Monday morning. This is playing in a cafe built in the 30's. Its 7:15am, raining gently outside, still dark. No customers yet but each table has a candle just waiting for each new person to arrive. My coworker and I are ready to open in 15 minutes. We both take a breath and a sip from the day's first cup of coffee. We look out at the dark, rainy streets as people, one by one, pass under the street lights on their way to where they need to be. Those 15 minutes between now and opening are pure peace.
thank you :")
@@evam7431 What for? :D
CaptainSpork7 i just really liked this comment :)
Manuel Do Pazo .....and?
@@manueldopazo6014 I didn't mean my shift was in the 30s (:
In that case, this song makes me feel like I am looking into the eyes of that perfect mate that only appears once in your life, and then vanishes only to remain like a surreal painting in the profound chambers of your soul echoing through time like a bittersweet memory that both delights and destroys any semblance of complete happiness in this existence...what? Never mind, it's very nice music.
Too true.
+Flu Pachi i agree
+Flu Pachi Verbose
have quoted you when posting this song on Facebook!!! haven't heard such inspiring words for ages
+Flu Pachi wish I could quote like you man.....you should consider writing
the algorithm is on fire today
The man could play! Chet Baker's playing can enable a person to go through so many different emotions in a single piece of music. Peace!
Well said, his music makes you go through these bittersweet feelings that only real music can.
@@DirkjeA: Great to hear from a fan of this magnificent artist. ❤
We should all be so happy that drugs exist and are freely available: they shortened Chet's life considerably and for that small mercy we should be eternally grateful
@@Manumanu-ul1qd: Chet Baker's shortened life due to drugs is a tragedy. But that does not change the fact that he was extremely talented. Personally, I feel that the world would be better without drugs. I have seen too many people's lives shortened due to them. PEACE!
The song for the mornings who had no nights.
Got me thinking ab lots and lots of stuffs. Here's to your nights, sir
Couldn't of said it Better myself...
@@TH-dl9qi And To The Nights, That Had No Mornings...To You As Well, Kind Sir....
Perfectly worded, and appreciated
Actually, it is the songs of the nights that has no mornings...
He died today thirty one years ago, such a shame, but an inevitable fate nonetheless. What a great artist you were, Chet.
Otakanime Well, we ALL have a “shelf life”.. an “expiration date”. One day you and I will travel that way too BUT, for me......though I will go through the “shadow of death”, I will fear no evil because of JESUS CHRIST.
you were... and are
Is this jazz?!
Remember, his pain came from never-ending efforts to beautify his music.
@@ramzimahdaoui3519 yes
This song immediately triggers my nostalgia trip to 2016 and everything that I've been through. Rest in peace, Chet Baker.
We should all be so happy that drugs exist and are freely available: they shortened Chet's life considerably and for that small mercy we should be eternally grateful
This song just makes you feel like the world is always almost blue. It makes me see the beauty of the dolefulness in this world.
So sad how so many talented, beautiful people are the authors of their own destruction.
This song is his expression of "own destruction". Just because of his personality, he and others are able to touch our Souls... if chet were just simple music student, you really think he can do music like this?? Just People with broken wings, broken lifes and broken hearts can put that much passion into art
@@BK-lq1qz That's a ridiculously simplified way of looking at things. Don't defend mistakes. I love his music and empathize with him, but there's a firm line I have marked. Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, Pandit Jasraj, Charles Mingus, will you deny the monumental beauty of their music?
@@joadariu9005 I get what you mean but I think he is referring to this song particularly...and I would agree with that, the way it sounds buddy...it's like there are tears dripping out this trumpet...You can feel the sadness, the regrets, the pain and all the shit that cross a man's heart.
"It is in your nature...to destroy yourselves..."
Forget 'destruction'. From his pain came his most heartfelt music.
I am a recent Jazz convert at the age of 65. I just cant get enough of this stuff.
It reaches deep into my soul. I have found so many artists that I like but Chet has got to be the best or bloody close to it.
Chris Botti “Emmanuel”is my favorite song in the entire world. You should give it a listen.
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bill evans. those two are givin me evrything
i recommend you hearing time after time by chet too
so beautiful
winter is back... I'm sitting by the balcony rainy and a little windy after midnight
there is nothing better i can do but listen to this masterpiece.
This makes me so happy and so sad at the same time
exactly the same!
I might add peace?......
maybe just thinking ...time is running... I don't know why but it reminds me something about the Time with a ''T''
I hear you buddy
i call it calmness....peace..
Tonic for a weary soul. So interesting how art can turn hardship and sadness into something this lovely and expressive. It allows one to not wallow in their sad feelings, but rather to hear them reflected back as a universal part of the human condition, and to transcend them for a short time. It really is like a medicine for the aching soul.
Tuan Jim beautiful words
Beautifully put sir
Your lines are so beautiful sir#
This is such a beautiful comment!
Poetically put, Tuan Jim...medicine for the aching soul, indeed.
Chet can lay out a mood like only very few could.
This song always helps get the voices out of my head. Thanks Chet.
Chet in my head, heaven RIP beautiful man.
This has to be one of my favourite comment sections on RUclips.
If pretentious drool from pathetic losers is your preferred content, then that makes perfect sense.
@@dekecumberland6349 your last name is Cumberland
@@dekecumberland6349 As opposed to "WHO'S WATCHING IN 2021? OMG WHO CAME HERE FROM TIKTOK 😩😩"
Yeah I think I prefer this comment section
that`s because the comments come from people who are feeling the hurt and pain expressed by the music....
@Solitude Zero Too funny. If you have to ask hahahaha.
This is ten miles past blue
Agree.
Kolob Canyon very true , that's how I feel when I listen to this song, far beyond blue
eh...
Almost true
Totally true
It’s like he’s painting with the music. It’s incredible. The closest thing we’ll get to music on canvas
If I hadn’t listened to shipbuilding I wouldn’t have known who Chet Baker was, thank you Elvis Costello
This is pure soul, pure feeling
Chet Baker is like the Rain of music. I can't really describe it, but his sound gives off the same feeling that rain does.
Very well said, exactly my sentiment.
I had to be the thumbs down. Chet was a junkie that played trumpet. He's lucky we even care.
ASMR?
Yeag dude!
Melancholy
It baffles me why isn't this on Spotify...
Search : ionn blignault - almost blue
Regalit0 you sir are a godsend. I found this song a few minutes ago and was worried I wouldn’t be able to have it on Spotify.
@@regalit0304 my man
@@mattgonzalez1053 had the same issue a few days ago , im glad to help you guys
@@regalit0304 aaaa thank you so much!
Chet never realized what a blessing his beautiful jazz ❤️ music 🎶 is to jazz and music fans...
Simply beautiful
Bartender.. I didn’t order a double shot of heart break.
Rt
just leave the bottle would ya
ya did...or ya wouldn't be here my friend.
But ye DID, Blanche!
Oh, sir... It was from that lady
Funny how Chet comes in to your life and stays there
Yes, he's in my life for good now. Just the music I was listening for.
When I found him, I kept him close to me and this is how it is!
Yeah, kinda cool, a good companion
@@josephmarina2883 How true. I had never really thought about it that way, but he has been an integral part of my life for nearly as long as I can remember. Thanks for stating such a not-always-obvious truth.
@@rogerstevenson7074 you're welcome, thnx for those vibes
As a trumpet play who loves satchel, I can’t even get the raw emotion Chet puts through his horn. Just epic.
La sto ascoltando com gli auricolari, nel letto di notte... Mi sto perdendo tra queste note un po' tristi. Bellissima❤
Stessa cosa anche io nel letto con le auricolari
"There's a girl here, and she's almost you." Great line.
Fuck man that timing i read it while chet sings it.
It's like the trompet is a voice that is trying to cry and tell me it's problems, and the piano is recomforting me with it's sweet melody, saying that everything can be beautiful and alright...
That’s the most poetic thing I’ve ever heard
Aren't you sober?
paradoxicalman 19 I swear I'm not trippin'
Eduardo Vianna that was deep, man
Eduardo Vianna got it
There is no other musician that can touch me like Chet. It’s far more than a listening experience, it’s an emotional and spiritual one.
What can you say, when loneliness hits you, it really hits you. What a haunting piece of music. Listening to this soothes my soul, thank you Mr. Baker.
This mastery of melancholic music is absolutely incredible. I can feel the sorrow. I can see the sadness. It's amazing to live in this time where we have unparalleled access to a time no longer with us. All those who say you were born in the wrong generation. Think again. These times are unrivaled with regard to access to music, and information. Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks for your view. Thats a nice point to look down from.
@@extol2247- yes, I'm torn between the idea of being in the audience when this music was being performed live and having unlimited access to it! 😲
Absolutely breathtaking. As a 22 year old man, masterpieces like this make me feel like i've loved for a thousand lifetimes, and been heartbroken equally as much. To be able to feel such emotion and connection from sheer sound, comes once every so often, and every musician that took part in this performance should be completely proud that they made that happen for so many people, including myself.
CoMa I
That's pretty good for 22.
Now is the perfect time to die for you young man. ..George thorogood said "Just 22 and I don't mind dying " ...I had on piece of paper in my wallet, written, to play that song at my funeral "who do you love"....despite my wrecklessness it never happened for me at 22...shame.....
@@TheCoatneyadkins the fuck you talm bout
As a who cares just listen to the music
rembering when I was in London, seven years ago, and I used to listen this song almost every afternoon when the sun went down, and everything around me was so calm, so beautiful, so blue.. and I still remember the peaceful of that moments, I was young, so crazy, so happy and so sad about life, I would to come back there even also for a few minutes. Thanks Chet for this feelings, I will never forget in my life.
My grandma is 88 years old and found out she has cancer for the 3rd time today. She raised me since 5 when my parents split and left me with her. She has always been my one shining example of good and love, and I can’t fathom the fact that I’m going to lose her in the coming months.
So here I am. I don’t know what else to do but smoke
陪一根烟
Thats beautiful Justin. The fact that you were blessed to live your whole life with her, and the end of hers with you. It's normal to he upset but this is the course of life. Better she leaves first than her watching you leave her.
if this aint a masterpiece then what is.
"is" unnecessary
you are absolutely right. my thought process changed while writing it. thank you. will remove it
"unnecessary" unnecesarry
+Paul Dirac what do you mean?
fuck you
@tim jones
There is NOTHING like listening to this tune on a rainy night in Los Angeles while driving down Hollywood Boulevard. It really adds to the atmosphere; makes you feel like you're the last person on earth left alone with your deepest, darkest thoughts and feelings.
I should try sometime...
Missing L.A. so much!
thewaywardpoet it never fuckin rains in Hollywood
I like that feeling .
thewaywardpoet l
...almost.
Sometimes life sounds like this.
Rainy nights, streetcar tracks filled with water reflecting greens and reds and neon lights. All sound of traffic dissipates into a mist, a mist that leaves you soaked to the core and yet there is no hurry to dry off..
The most beautiful works of art, come with the greatest amounts of pain.
True❤
If one wishes to engage Art at it's core Truth - The ability to heal - it is mandatory to know the mechanics of Pain and have a desire above all other's to see others set free of it's dark & icy grip.
Art is of The Light and only Light can cut The Darkness and make it bleed.
It's true I tripped in art class and made a work of art
Sygg, River Guide pure poetry man . What a beautiful thought you expressed in words .
To feel pain is a way to make art too...
Beautiful... Makes me want to smoke a cigarette while looking out of some half open venetian blinds on to a rainy street and internally explain my story of lust greed and betrayal.
thinking the exact same thing
PulseCode Music amazing! I'm gonna use this!
shit u listen to raury and jazz and doom. we have the same tastes. can u check my soundcloud? criticisms appreciated, im a producer, rapper, artist, ect. Soundcloud.com/pnnnto
I can only think of your description in a Noir film scene of the forties or fifties
Yeah I can't find that comment. I'd greatly appreciate it if you repost it here +Johnny Trash
With eyes closed, I can completely get lost in this. Soooooo deep, sooooo beautiful, soooooo peaceful. Incredible, incredible out of this world sounds and talent.
We should all be so happy that drugs exist and are freely available: they shortened Chet's life considerably and for that small mercy we should be eternally grateful
ohh man, this is really how sadness speaks, straight to the depths of the soul
This is what loneliness and despair sounds like when there is little hope left, but the memory still burns in the distance with a faint glimmer, yet we still grasp, we still cling to what was but sadly will never be.
👍🇨🇦
Get a life, you pathetic loser.
@@dekecumberland6349 it seems you need a life, if the best thing you can do is respond to all of the 1000 comments to call them “losers”. What a low life.
Facts.💯
this, miles davis' blue in green, and Coltrane's the blue train.. and madlib shades of blue.. all masterpieces.
Ayye bro you got it!
absolutely.
dude i see you legit everywhere
that's why his name is slick nick
BILL EVANS WROTE BLUE IN GREEN.
Какая музыка!!!Течет как глубокая полноводная река .Медленно, тихо .Дарит покой, мысли спокойные.❤❤❤❤❤
dəyşət bir kompozisiondur elə deyilmi ?
@@migo.bakhshievхорошо что она вам дарит мысли спокойные, а не тяжёлые
Sometimes I come here just to hear his voice; that longing sense of nostalgia of loving someone once upon a time.
Back here again… could I have been there when he was alive; just like so many of us… maybe we could have loved him more? How many people today could we give our love to yet we forget get busy just walk on by….
I wouldn't wish this feeling to anyone
Well I'm feeling it now
@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. I am there with you brother , people always say it gets better but I think you just get stronger
I just want to meet and have a deep conversation with everybody at this comment section while listening to Chet Baker
And you never will, because people who listen to this stupid drool are pathetic losers
@@dekecumberland6349 what an absolute cretin you are.
I'm really trying to figure things out right now... as I try to get deep into reasons, reasons cut my soul and lives a feeling of uncertainty. Life is hard to understand that much I know until now, not that I didn't know before but it feels different now as I grow older. Songs like this sets the mood for a night of thinking and lets you try to understand maybe a little more.
@@robinlopez2660 you make me puke
Over some tea and maybe a game of chess?
beautiful, beautiful melancholy
So beautiful..
i fell for you
and you almost fell for me, too.
*almost*
Hast recht
Felt that
Almost................
and then you told me that you loved her.
felt that x2
My father died today....this was one his faves
Nthe Deepblue sorry to hear that
Do you feel better?
Hope you're doing alright
Sorry for your loss. May the music make your pain weaker.
Nthe Deepblue so sorry for your loss
God he was so hurt. And you can hear it through his trumpet and sorrowful voice. My fave singer of all time. A voice where you can literally feel and resonate with his sadness.
Yes :( So much pain...
Definitely ahead of his time, I would love to talk to him , actually set down and listen to him play, what a genius on the trumpet and with kinda singing too