Chet Baker Live @ Ronnie Scott's

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  • @annstockdale3062
    @annstockdale3062 2 роки тому +687

    I was wondering around Paris very late one night in the '60s (yes, what was I thinking) and heard this haunting music coming from a club and followed on in. There was Chet on stage and only a scattering people still left in the club. I was blown away...and still am. After the set we talked for awhile. Such a sweetheart...and a fun way to have found his soulful music.

    • @jerzeykowboy9425
      @jerzeykowboy9425 2 роки тому +25

      Very cool! Moments like that stay with you forever.

    • @leonardoiglesias2394
      @leonardoiglesias2394 2 роки тому +16

      I talked for a couple of minutes in Paris 2005 with Jerry Bergonzi. He sounded like a philosophy professor in Cambridge….and played like a tiger the whole gig.

    • @1e0s
      @1e0s 2 роки тому +5

      Wonderful story💞

    • @tls4022
      @tls4022 2 роки тому +13

      What a beautiful memory you have. You are very blessed and lucky to have met him ✨

    • @FuckYouWhosNext
      @FuckYouWhosNext 2 роки тому +7

      i was just wondering if you were wandering around too??

  • @pseke7613
    @pseke7613 3 роки тому +41

    For some reason the most tormented souls give us the best music

    • @Manumanu-ul1qd
      @Manumanu-ul1qd 3 роки тому

      No, they're just crap, trying to look 'interesting' with their drug use etc. But the good thing is that it shortened Chet's life considerably and we should be grateful for that small mercy.

    • @pseke7613
      @pseke7613 3 роки тому

      @@Manumanu-ul1qd what the fuck are you saying ? WeirdChamp

    • @brothermac9719
      @brothermac9719 3 роки тому +1

      At time's it does seem so

    • @andrewsundell2502
      @andrewsundell2502 4 місяці тому

      What a nasty piece of s*it you are, a**hole. Should be compulsory only able to comment using a real name and not such a stupid made up monocle such as yours!@@Manumanu-ul1qd

    • @user-kb1hw2yq2f
      @user-kb1hw2yq2f 10 днів тому +1

      Music and comedy.

  • @DominiqueREY24
    @DominiqueREY24 3 роки тому +89

    Chet Baker is accompanied by Michel Grailler on piano and Riccardo del Fra on bass.

  • @greenbird_tv
    @greenbird_tv 2 роки тому +137

    0:45 - Ellen David
    5:57 - Just Friends
    11:49 - Shifting Down
    17:32 - Send In The Clowns (Vocals - Van Morrison)
    23:10 - If I Should Lose You
    29:00 - My Ideal
    35:50 - Love For Sale
    45:55 - The Very Thought Of You (Vocals - Elvis Costello)
    48:49 - You Don't Know What Love Is (Vocals - Elvis Costello)
    53:52 I'm A Fool To Want You

    • @pageluvva
      @pageluvva Рік тому +14

      Thank you so much for doing this.

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 11 місяців тому +4

      🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶

    • @bralingii1635
      @bralingii1635 10 місяців тому +2

      I KNEW that first song was a Charlie Haden piece!
      Lovely.

    • @michaelchapman4955
      @michaelchapman4955 8 місяців тому +2

      'Sinatra co-wrote the lyrics to "I'm a Fool to Want You" & Frank recorded it twice- initially at Columbia and later at Capitol &' Nelson Riddle is quoted-, "Ava taught Sinatra how to sing a torch song"......

    • @rodmact6548
      @rodmact6548 20 днів тому +1

      Thanks m8.

  • @cedergrenpeter
    @cedergrenpeter Рік тому +104

    I'm a therapist and whenever I hear Chet play, or see the expression on his face, I wish I could have known him; given him the space to open up and express his pain. I know that that same pain is what created his amazing music, and at the same time my heart opens for him.

    • @olaandersson3599
      @olaandersson3599 Рік тому

      You are stupid. Help yourself.

    • @musicfatcat
      @musicfatcat Рік тому +5

      @@olaandersson3599 lol😂funny bro

    • @percyvalle921
      @percyvalle921 Рік тому +3

      Had he been happy in life I guess he wouldn't have been that genius.

    • @luke125
      @luke125 Рік тому +8

      Believe me you didn’t want to know Chet. You’re in love with the mystique. The reality wasn’t very nice. Not at all.

    • @richsan4923
      @richsan4923 Рік тому

      ​@@luke125was he a nonce?

  • @Miguel_Noether
    @Miguel_Noether 10 місяців тому +30

    I have finally accumulated enough Chet Baker's videos in my history for UA-cam to recommend me this master piece 😌

    • @mandolinwind
      @mandolinwind 6 місяців тому +2

      Wow! Is that how it works?!! They sent to me too- yah! I'm loving this- was Van there the same evening?!! Great great great! So sad too, in " Let's get lost " he appeared so f..up.😮😢😢

  • @gerardguitarist
    @gerardguitarist 2 роки тому +164

    This is superior Jazz. No overplaying. In the pocket. Searching and melancholy and yearning. Behind the beat just a bit. Chet is (was?) a master and sorely missed.

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 11 місяців тому

      ​@@rochjanssens214
      🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶

    • @roninmichaelson1604
      @roninmichaelson1604 11 місяців тому +5

      Was, he fell out a window in Amsterdam :(

    • @russellesimonetta9071
      @russellesimonetta9071 7 місяців тому +1

      Not behind the beat. Cool jazz,, uhh think atmospheric flow .no feeling of down beats. Its like water flowing in a stream.

  • @hanew
    @hanew 9 років тому +641

    I saw Chet four times in Paris, France in the 80's, around the years this video was shot. Well, 3 times and a half actually, as he canceled one of the concerts at the New Morning after arriving 1 hr late and trying two or three times to sing "I remember you", but he was too high, or not enough, I don't know, so he just grabbed his overcoat and crossed the room to get out of the place, and next thing you know, we just heard an announcement "Mr Baker is refunding all the tickets or you can come back tomorrow".
    Course, the next day concert was just great. The sidemen were the same as @Ronnie Scott's, no drums either, and the atmosphere exactly the same.
    Also, one or two years later, I had the luck to see Chet on stage with Archie Shepp on ts and Horace Parlan on the piano. An album was recorded from these concerts. I still have mixed feelings about this concert, though, as their styles were radically different and Chet Baker seemed so old and so weak and it didn't seem like they had a great complicity. Great memories all the same.
    A great album to listen to, recorded in these days at the end of his career is "Chet Baker sings again".

    • @letemroll7871
      @letemroll7871 6 років тому +19

      Nice read!

    • @edwardgabriel6924
      @edwardgabriel6924 5 років тому +11

      Aw man to be able to go back in time to see this legend play 🎺

    • @cindyivett2370
      @cindyivett2370 4 роки тому +2

      @@edwardgabriel6924 .....YES!! I have thought the same thing many times.

    • @leonardoiglesias2394
      @leonardoiglesias2394 4 роки тому +15

      I’ve heard Baker in 1986 in Basel with Philip Catherine live without having heard anything about him until that evening...and I thought, well, the guy can play and sing. And never stop listening to him regularly until this day.
      Best record for me: It could happen to you with Kenny Drew.

    • @crapitoutjim
      @crapitoutjim 4 роки тому +3

      I saw him play the Schlachthof in Munich in 86 or 87, absolutely incredible.

  • @joycevaneekhout4992
    @joycevaneekhout4992 2 роки тому +97

    I can listen to Chet all day.
    Very soothing for my well being

    • @michaelchapman4955
      @michaelchapman4955 8 місяців тому

      Chetty caresses the melody with His horn & His voice...... along with His sweet scatting desert...

  • @letemroll7871
    @letemroll7871 6 років тому +366

    Experts don´t seem to rate this session very high. I don´t understand why. Chet sound so fragile and haunting that it breaks my heart. Essential in my humble opinion.

    • @konradherrmann3213
      @konradherrmann3213 4 роки тому +31

      experts 😂😂

    • @ScreaminJames
      @ScreaminJames 3 роки тому +21

      Chet is brilliant but Elvis Costello is unnecessary and Van Morrison is just an embarrassment here.

    • @letemroll7871
      @letemroll7871 3 роки тому +1

      @@ScreaminJames I agree! Always skip those.

    • @goddamn8958
      @goddamn8958 3 роки тому +12

      That‘s the thing about „experts“ ... they don‘t feel shit ... they just judge even though nobody asked them to

    • @andresugueruaga6920
      @andresugueruaga6920 3 роки тому +5

      @@ScreaminJames It's a show targeted to the rock people...that's why Van Morrison and Costello are, in my humble opinion

  • @jamesfrance9715
    @jamesfrance9715 3 роки тому +56

    I was there and spoke to Chet during one of the breaks when he very kindly signed my Ronnie Scott's menu. Charming and modest and brilliant.

    • @masonklein
      @masonklein 3 роки тому +1

      Do you still have the menu?

    • @jamesfrance9715
      @jamesfrance9715 3 роки тому +14

      @@masonklein Sadly not (it's a long story) but I have the memories. I was very close to the stage and poor Chet did not look well but my lasting memory of speaking to him was how much of a gentleman he was. He's just completed a set and I saw him on his own at the bar and took the opportunity to talk to him. A lot of so called stars would have palmed me off but Chet was really engaging and charming.

    • @ldred2604
      @ldred2604 3 роки тому +2

      @@jamesfrance9715 beautiful 🤩

    • @angelinasouren
      @angelinasouren 2 роки тому +3

      @@jamesfrance9715 When was this? (Oh, 1986, I later saw in another comment.) I used to work at the hotel at which he often stayed in the early 80s until he could no longer afford it (at least, that's how I read it) and then he moved to a different hotel, which is the one, so I understand, where he later passed away. Quiet, calm, unassuming and sad, so sad, so lost. No reason to name the hotels, but his sadness, the way he seemed so lost still gets to me. I don't think I'd run into live recordings before. I've only listened for a few minutes, will listen to the rest tomorrow or later. The sadness would get to me too much right now.

    • @jamesfrance9715
      @jamesfrance9715 2 роки тому +5

      Hello, yes it was in 1986. By the way, I know the hotel you refer to where Chet died in Amsterdam. He was apparently sitting on a windowsill and fell to his death. When the police arrived, they estimated his age as being much younger. It seems that the facial 'creases' he had developed over the years had smoothed away and he'd regained some of his looks from earlier years. I like to think that he was at peace and the demons that had followed him over the years had gone away.......

  • @user-xz4wp4vp1y
    @user-xz4wp4vp1y 18 днів тому +2

    Chet is my favorite jazz artist. I wore my shirt of his today. Thanks for the upload

  • @jakelabete7412
    @jakelabete7412 2 роки тому +67

    His tone is so pure. He humanizes the trumpet. I didn't know he sang. Lovely.

    • @karloarsch1579
      @karloarsch1579 2 роки тому +15

      If you did not know he was singing, I suggest two records: Chet Baker sings, and Chet Baker sings again. Both great, but the second one is so touchy.

    • @drbest87
      @drbest87 Рік тому +6

      @@karloarsch1579 Don't forget: Time goes by - by far his best album

    • @littlelamb6804
      @littlelamb6804 6 місяців тому +1

      Oh yes, he had a great talent for singing, too. Just an awesome voice.

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 9 років тому +166

    Great Chet Baker. He never stopped playing the best he could. He's one of my idols. I think he's a premier jazz man, a hall of famer...

    • @bigswingface5847
      @bigswingface5847 4 роки тому +9

      Great statement. Chet never stopped played the best he could. And most of the time, it was exceptional.

    • @miker9101
      @miker9101 3 роки тому +6

      After the peak of his career, he had had his teeth knocked out during an assault. He had to learn how to play again with dentures.

  • @theinkbrain
    @theinkbrain 3 роки тому +6

    You can only watch and listen to Chet so long before the stitches that hold your broken together bust open and break it all over again and again and again.

  • @DanielGomes-gk2nz
    @DanielGomes-gk2nz 9 років тому +355

    How can anyone just "dislike" Chet?

    • @erictesteguide4027
      @erictesteguide4027 6 років тому +20

      assholes are everywhere.

    • @thelmaschoen8980
      @thelmaschoen8980 5 років тому +18

      Hear, hear! I totally "dislike" what he did to himself with hard drugs.

    • @Blackgrass1
      @Blackgrass1 5 років тому +8

      Chet the music? Ich guess you just have to be a little ignorant. Chet the life? Well ...

    • @mrboyban
      @mrboyban 4 роки тому +8

      @@thelmaschoen8980 We can only judge a legend such as Chet Baker if we can't see ourselves in the mirror. Long Life Chet Baker!

    • @alexeyb8237
      @alexeyb8237 3 роки тому +11

      @@thelmaschoen8980 you know too less to judge, friend.

  • @PuffyMac1970
    @PuffyMac1970 2 роки тому +11

    Riccardo on bass is blowing my mind, what a talent!

  • @pauloughton6816
    @pauloughton6816 4 роки тому +44

    Such an incredible Talent but cursed with demons. There will never be another that can handle the horn as effortlessly as he does, to delivers such a fabulous performance. LIfe is sometimes cruel and there are too many "If Only's". His rich legacy will continiue to discovered by passing generations - Not a bad little collection to be inspired by. RIP Chet - Love You Man!

    • @RanBlakePiano
      @RanBlakePiano 4 роки тому +1

      Paul Oughton s. Agree

    • @michaelchapman4955
      @michaelchapman4955 3 роки тому +6

      Chet had a deep soul... intermixed with decades of inner turmoil of which I can relate to 24/7 365 & 'Art Pepper, Bill Evans & So many others were fighting demons incl. 'Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker & Billie & Sarah, etc...

  • @josephrussell3946
    @josephrussell3946 2 роки тому +11

    how those three musicians could play so good escapes me. That is real music with capital letters. I have had the honour of seeing Chet 4 times, 3 in Barcelona and one at Ronnie Scott´s back in ´86. I like jazz, but chet is different, he is the one that has something nobody else has, one piece of advice, listen to Chet on lps, they sound great, I have more than 20 lps by him, the cds do not count, but the lps are so expensive, thank god there are still some people like us that love good music. Let´s have a drink to ourselves. Long live to good music, greetings from down south Barcelona.

    • @rotarygomasters452
      @rotarygomasters452 2 роки тому

      True words, mate. Chet had that inch above the others.

  • @HamalonHamilton
    @HamalonHamilton 7 років тому +144

    Hi I'm from Poland. I just discovered Chet a few months ago. He wasn't so popular in my country when I was young. In my opinion he is just amazing, pure artist. Love!!

    • @Feon83
      @Feon83 5 років тому +6

      Born to be blue is the name of the movie about Chets life.Check it out.Great film.You will like him even more.

    • @konradherrmann3213
      @konradherrmann3213 4 роки тому +2

      hi to poland. double dvd. "get lost". or lets get lost? on amazon, great stuff. 👍🏝🏝🥂🇫🇷

    • @gardikagigih5704
      @gardikagigih5704 4 роки тому +2

      yes he is

    • @robertczebotar7025
      @robertczebotar7025 3 роки тому +4

      Zapewniam Pana, że Chet Baker, był niezwykle popularny w Polsce końca lat 80-ych i początku 90-ych...Oczywiście, nie był to poziom popularności Milesa, ale jego plyty sprzedawały się znakomicie. Pozdrawiam Pana

    • @robertczebotar7025
      @robertczebotar7025 3 роки тому +1

      @@konradherrmann3213 🍀Let's get lost 🍀

  • @dreamingwhales
    @dreamingwhales 4 роки тому +29

    I'm 40 yrs old guy living in Korea and all my life I have always been listening to music, literally all kinds of music...jazz, classical, opera, afro-cuban, indian, you name it. But the first song of this DVD, Ellen David, is my absolute favorite. This is.... music that is expressed in the purest way I think. I owned the DVD but it is so nice to have this precious film on youtube so that I can listen to it whenever I want and I can recommend this beautiful piece to my friends easily. Thank you.

  • @thecapetownpropertygroup5862
    @thecapetownpropertygroup5862 12 днів тому +1

    Great late night driving music, atmospheric and tugs at the heart and lost memories

    • @bobbyg601
      @bobbyg601 6 днів тому

      No wonder night driving is dangerous in SA

  • @emeraldcrouch3606
    @emeraldcrouch3606 2 роки тому +60

    What ever happened to Chet, however despondent he may have been, he still had something incredibly beautiful inside. Thanks Chet , the tears are flowing.

    • @GjaP_242
      @GjaP_242 2 роки тому +2

      Chet Baker | The Life & Music of a Jazz Icon
      by Sam Braysher - Apr 1, 2022
      One of the most famous jazz musicians of all time, Chet Baker was an iconic cool jazz trumpeter and singer.
      Source: Jazzfuel

    • @jacquelinedesanctis7082
      @jacquelinedesanctis7082 Рік тому +1

      I agree every time I hear him I feel closer to God and the tears flow He was a very beautiful man and soul.

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 11 місяців тому

      🙏❤️🌍🎵🎶

  • @denis4510
    @denis4510 8 років тому +222

    Even in his latter years he was great - he makes me so sad. He just has that special sound and his vocals are brilliant. I listen to this and cry. I too have played some of the notes scotty has played.

    • @BEARGUITARJAZZ
      @BEARGUITARJAZZ 8 років тому +12

      Just listening My Funny Valentiine, the last great concert LP, crying my eyes out,

    • @castingaround
      @castingaround 3 роки тому +4

      it brings me to tears too

    • @TimBurtonTim
      @TimBurtonTim 2 роки тому

      He looks like he was getting in to meth!

    • @dianamariamische5300
      @dianamariamische5300 2 роки тому +2

      Yes, I have seen Chet in Berlin , 4 weeks later, he died

  • @hankbannister
    @hankbannister 8 років тому +92

    Chet's birthday today. Impossible to imagine him with 86 years. Live fast, die young, become eternal.

  • @fastguitars4380
    @fastguitars4380 9 років тому +121

    Looking at Chet's face, we discover that for him, the torture never stopped....wonderful, sublime, and lovely, is "jazz'".

    • @amethgomez5367
      @amethgomez5367 4 роки тому +7

      Sometimes you can see the young chet, its amazing becuase his style y and sound never died

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 3 роки тому +5

      @@amethgomez5367 and, it never shall. This Ronnie Scott gig is freaking amazing. And, Van the man Morrison and Elvis Costello. Wow! 😎👍

    • @shlarry3184
      @shlarry3184 3 роки тому +7

      The man lived a hard life. There are legends of fans coming to listen to him blow at the field of the Italian prison where he was sentenced for drug use charges towards the end of his life. To see him performing and looking this good with an entire band is a blessing.

    • @patriciodasilva7902
      @patriciodasilva7902 3 роки тому +2

      That's years of smack, for ya.

  • @lailakhankhan90
    @lailakhankhan90 3 роки тому +15

    Breaks the heart listening to the legendary Chet Baker........

  • @marisaraskin
    @marisaraskin 8 років тому +276

    We need to bring jazz clubs back to Los Angeles!

    • @1946julie
      @1946julie 8 років тому +3

      touche

    • @user-np2zu8uq5z
      @user-np2zu8uq5z 8 років тому +1

      皆さま こんばんは 💕やっぱり健康第一ですね!
      季節の変化、台風の影響なども受けるこの頃です
      体も心も 心地よくなるように どうぞ お大事に
      お過ごし下さいませ
      呼吸を意識したり、水 を飲んだり、水やお湯を
      上手に使って 体を リフレッシュさせたり、体温
      を調整したりするのも有用ですよね
      最近では テレビで 腸の調子を良くすることが
      よく話題になっています!
      脳と腸 は特に大事ですものね 😊
      善玉菌や 悪玉菌、やせ菌 デブ菌 などという
      言葉も飛び交っていますね〜
      お医者さんたちが食品で有用な物を色々 紹介し、
      芸能人も使って 実験する番組も多いようです
      それぞれが合うものを としめくくっているようで
      すが、本当に上手に選んでいきたいですよね(^_^)
      番組には 必ずスポンサーさんがいます
      又 特定の食品を流行らせたい ということもあるかも
      しれない!ということも少し 頭の片隅に 置いて
      参考にしたらいいかしらって思います
      何故なら テレビでの放送の次の日にその食品が
      急に減っていることが よくあるようですから😉
      ビタミンミネラル など 必要な栄養もしっかり
      とって、ゆっくりお風呂に入って、
      早めに寝たり、たくさん寝たり、
      ストレスを 上手く手放したり・・・
      ベストな体調にもって行きたいですよね!
      ごく普通のことですが、この時期、体調不良を
      感じる方が多いようですから、1つでも意識して
      やってみると 体が秋モードに上手く 行くようですよ
      どうぞ お元気にすてきな 楽しい秋のお時間を
      お過ごし下さいませ
      いつもありがとうございます(^_^)

    • @BEARGUITARJAZZ
      @BEARGUITARJAZZ 8 років тому

      That ain't right,

    • @MrRockinrollin1
      @MrRockinrollin1 8 років тому +2

      amen to that....

    • @wlm0942
      @wlm0942 8 років тому +7

      not only there, even the big cities in Germany got nothing like that

  • @igorgois728
    @igorgois728 6 років тому +701

    Just imagine a biography movie about Chet's life with Jim Carrey in his role.

    • @sunnyinsalalah
      @sunnyinsalalah 5 років тому +85

      jim carrey? That self-absorbed fool? What an insult to chet.

    • @Feon83
      @Feon83 5 років тому +57

      Maybe you allready know,but there is a movie about Chet Bakers life.Just not with Jim Carrey.Ha ha.He would had been great thow as Chet.But Ithan Hawk played the role very good.Born to be blue is the name of the movie.

    • @sunnyinsalalah
      @sunnyinsalalah 5 років тому +41

      @@Feon83 Chet is rolling in his grave at that pile of crap Ethan Hawk movie.

    • @DrMichaelRath
      @DrMichaelRath 5 років тому +6

      Check this new movie "My Foolish Heart" @modeste nomad , you will be amazed by Steve Wall who plays Chet, incredible job (an Oscar imho)... Also great trumpet playing by Ruud Breuls

    • @DrMichaelRath
      @DrMichaelRath 5 років тому +10

      Check "My foolish Heart"@@sunnyinsalalah it is a new movie about Chet's last day..., Ethan Hawke is crap I fully agree

  • @stevekatz4372
    @stevekatz4372 4 роки тому +26

    When you look at his face, you can see a tormented soul! Great musician and a Tragic End! RIP

    • @frederickhill7181
      @frederickhill7181 3 роки тому

      You wouldn't be the Steve Katz ex Blood, Sweet & Tears?

    • @frederickhill7181
      @frederickhill7181 3 роки тому

      sorry Blood, Sweat and Tears

    • @jeanettesteed3326
      @jeanettesteed3326 2 роки тому

      Absolutely agree, one hundred percent. Wish I could have met him. What a guy.

  • @craigkeller
    @craigkeller Рік тому +31

    Pure understated elegance.

  • @steve3439
    @steve3439 5 років тому +13

    Entropy made audible. Like the beauty in a carved mountain worn away by the rivers and winds Chet is the space between the bars and the silence between the notes. He is timeless and part of the Universal Consciousness.

    • @lorrainecleaver6792
      @lorrainecleaver6792 5 років тому +2

      What an apt description,

    • @philpiper
      @philpiper 2 роки тому

      What a wonderfully poetic comment, and spot on. Thank you.

  • @michaeldumas4907
    @michaeldumas4907 9 років тому +32

    man he could blow so softly and sweetly...unreal

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 2 роки тому +12

    I could not pass this up.
    RIP ❤️ Chet Baker.
    Thank you for this artistry of Chet Baker.This is done with heartful memories. Furthermore, whoever filmed this had a great eye. The visuals are beautiful.
    The love for Chet lives on with his talent. There was only one Chet Baker.
    With the deepest appreciation and admiration for this.
    🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶

  • @MrJazzohjazz
    @MrJazzohjazz 3 роки тому +4

    I heard Chet in the early 80's in Manhattan at Fat Tuesdays ... He played and sang beautifully. Between sets Chet sat down with my date and me and was very cordial, the conversation friendly and warm. Michel Legrand came in with his group and then Hal Galper dropped by ... Bud Shank showed up .... everyone jammed and the last set was memorable. It was a Wednesday night .... not as frequented as the weekend so management allowed us to stay for the three shows and served fried chicken. Armed Forces Radio recorded the second set. I felt fortunate to be there.

    • @Manumanu-ul1qd
      @Manumanu-ul1qd 3 роки тому

      Yes, indeed. Jazz is the music of demented old farts.

    • @MrJazzohjazz
      @MrJazzohjazz 3 роки тому

      @@Manumanu-ul1qd low life comment not worth a reply

  • @luketube8351
    @luketube8351 7 років тому +57

    So much raw sound. So human. Makes me feel good to be alive.

  • @guilhermemenezesdeoliveira9773
    @guilhermemenezesdeoliveira9773 3 роки тому +59

    i'm brazilian, currently living in argentina... I fell in love with jazz three years ago when I was 25. Chet´s version of Love For Sale is my favorite tune of his. For those who, just like me, do not have an extensive jazz culture nor knowledge of jazz history, I strongly recommend the documentary JAZZ by KEN Burns. Splendid
    PS.: Strasbourg St Denis - Roy Hargrove... just listen to it

    • @mmmcosta
      @mmmcosta 3 роки тому +4

      The best documentary on Jazz!

    • @trevor_mounts_music
      @trevor_mounts_music 2 роки тому +4

      That documentary completely ignores the late 60's into the 70's, especially the fusion scene! Don't overlook Tony William's Lifetime, Return To Forever, and Azymuth (great band from Brazil). Really interesting stuff for your listening enjoyment!

    • @guilhermemenezesdeoliveira9773
      @guilhermemenezesdeoliveira9773 2 роки тому

      @@trevor_mounts_music hey there, thanks a lot man!

    • @jazzmo5893
      @jazzmo5893 Рік тому +1

      irmão, sou brasileiro também. 45 anos. ouço chet há uns 25. ouve tudo dele, brother. os primeiros discos dele, com ele cantando inclusive, são a bíblia da parada toda. old devil moon, por exemplo, é demais. hahaha. abs

    • @diegoalfonso356
      @diegoalfonso356 Рік тому +1

      argentinian here! we see the stars at same time everynight, cheers

  • @barrypbeckett
    @barrypbeckett 6 років тому +16

    Chet Baker ploughs a uniquely individual furrow in the field of jazz. His trumpet playing is beautifully delicate and takes standard ballads into hitherto unexplored emotional territories. Here Chet is accompanied by Michel Grailler on piano and Riccardo del Fra on bass. Two of Chet's admirers also guest here: Van Morrison performs "Send in the Clowns," and Elvis Costello sings a medley including "The Very Thought of You," "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "I'm a Fool to Want You."

  • @obladi2011
    @obladi2011 9 років тому +48

    what I like most about Chet is his total commitment to the lyrical sound; vocal or trumpet.
    There lies his real and only personaity.

    • @michaelchapman6466
      @michaelchapman6466 9 років тому +3

      +albert kok Albert, I could not agree with you More!!

  • @richardvandenberg6379
    @richardvandenberg6379 2 роки тому +5

    Although Kind of blue is still my favorite album, Chet Baker is my favorite artist. One big regret is that I never got to see him preform, even while I lived next to Amsterdam. I was too young to understand his music then. I discovered him too late.

    • @angelinasouren
      @angelinasouren 2 роки тому

      Sort of same here, I suppose. I used to work at the hotel in Amsterdam at which he often stayed before he moved on to the one at which he passed away. I was in my early 20s. I knew who he was, and I did sometimes listen to jazz (there was this 11-to-12pm show on Dutch radio, I think, or maybe it was after midnight; I don't remember what it was called), but it takes a while, I guess, before you really start listening to jazz, with more understanding.
      But back then, Richard, we also didn't have UA-cam. These days, we can discover all sorts of wonderful talents that might have passed us by back then and we wouldn't even have known. I think I was always a bit more partial to Miles Davis and I suspect that it's related to the lack of sadness in his playing (also the purity of his notes). But I've only listened for a few minutes now and I'll listen to the rest later. I don't think I'd run into live video of Chet Baker before.
      I did go to lots and lots of concerts, mostly classical, and dance performances, mostly modern, in those days, and even unusual concerts at the Stedelijk etc, but somehow, I never made it to the Bimhuis.
      Weird, yeah. I think I know what you mean.
      Potdorie, Richard, ik keek hier nog even naar en ontdek vervolgens dat radio-presentatrice Meta de Vries een jazz zangeres was; ik betwijfel dat ik dat toen wist.

    • @angelinasouren
      @angelinasouren 2 роки тому

      Ah, I really like his singing!

    • @FabioFerriCiccio
      @FabioFerriCiccio 2 роки тому

      It's never too late to know Chet. Dear Richard van den Berg. Now I am 61, and luckily my father make me know him when I was a child. You know that Chet was also actor in many Italian Movies... but unfortunately, Italy, was also the Country where he was violently beaten, because in the early '60 heroin was not so usual. In my Country prisons our dear Chet was jailed, in Lucca Tuscany for less than 1 year. Chet was so handsome that was easy to be engaged in many black and white italian Films. That's why, a young 6 year's (old/young) child started admire a so sweet talented human person, and artist, as CHET BAKER was. Is. Still. Forever. And ever. Grazie Chet, di essere esistito. F@B.

  • @edwardgenet164
    @edwardgenet164 3 роки тому +15

    I was playing my trumpet on the street in 88 when a man told me Mr. Chet Baker had...fallen like Autumn leaves ... just reminded me of him

  • @onelastniceguy
    @onelastniceguy 3 роки тому +26

    There will not be another jazz assembly of such collective greatness in this world again as there was in this moment in time .. One of the many gifts the maestro Chet Baker left to this world.

  • @achielf
    @achielf 9 років тому +71

    Chet Baker: Live At Ronnie Scott's (1986)
    Musicians:
    Chet Baker: trumpet, vocals
    Elvis Costello: vocals
    Van Morrison: vocals
    Tracklist:
    1. Ellen David
    2. Just Friends
    3. Shifting Down
    4. Send In the Clowns (With Van Morrison)
    5. If I Should Lose You
    6. My Ideal
    7. Love For Sale
    8. The Very Thought Of You (With Elvis Costello)
    9. You Don't Know What Love Is (With Elvis Costello)
    10. I'm A Fool To Want You (With Elvis Costello)

  • @kevinbollinger2083
    @kevinbollinger2083 2 роки тому +6

    This reminds me of an old friend, Bert Dahlender, who played drums with Chet occassionally. A fantastic drummer and person who is gone now.

  • @kennyjeanful
    @kennyjeanful 3 роки тому +23

    Such an amazing talent, One of the best trumpet players ever to inhabit this planet, such an emotional feel and beautiful tone, my favourite that's fo sho. So sad the dragon took him down.

  • @JoeCashFlow1BC
    @JoeCashFlow1BC 2 роки тому +6

    I can just tell you I play this over and over. Its a classic to me.

  • @davidmichael3189
    @davidmichael3189 2 роки тому +11

    This is utter bliss. Chet you are missed.

  • @Crookthatsme
    @Crookthatsme 3 роки тому +4

    Not a note to not believe. Everything felt. Real music. Forever will Chet be a favourite.

  • @libratebra3258
    @libratebra3258 9 років тому +84

    true representative of jazz melancholy,Chet is truly one of the greatest

  • @baniauxlinley8025
    @baniauxlinley8025 6 років тому +12

    The best jazz concert i've seen so far......MUCH LUV & RESPECT Mr BAKER ....wish u was still around but anyway will hold on to ur music until i stop to breathe R.I.P Brother

  • @josepheaton8137
    @josepheaton8137 10 місяців тому +1

    The first time ever I saw his face. He was pointed out to as Mr. McCoy Tyner was performing in Berkeley CA. The early 70’s. I met Nr. Chet Baker in Capitola CA in the mid 80’s. A true gentleman willing to chat with a stranger. He had been playing a lot in Europe. The beautiful energy of his life goes on forever. Archbishop Patriarch Joseph Eaton Th.D., D.D. Church of the East,

  • @chicobond89
    @chicobond89 3 роки тому +9

    i can't even count the amount of times i've seen and played this clip on youtube in a very special moment in my life: my period of time when i was doing my masters five years ago. i used to listen into chet when i was doing my assignments and advances for the thesis. the only worry was to have was the approval of my teachers. just getting hooked up on studying and writing. this was a beacon of hope, inspiration and well being. i hope someday to visit amsterdam and pay my last respects to the last places he saw when he was alive, including the hotel he fell 33 years ago. such a tragic death. beautiful memories this music transports me into.

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 9 років тому +12

    He used to be soooooooo handsome!!!! I can still the remnants in his face and his playing

    • @thelmaschoen8980
      @thelmaschoen8980 5 років тому +7

      Yep. I remember what he looked like when I "discovered" him in the mid-fifties (I was in high school). I never saw him in person; but I had many recordings. Later, much later (I was probably early 40s)... I got to see Art Pepper at Pasquale's, a small jazz bar in Malibu, CA. He looked awful... so sad to see him that physically deteriorated... but he played sweet. He was totally there in his music. He was so far gone that he could only do one set. I was hoping to return when he played there again... but, he died shortly after the gig in Malibu. Rest in Peace, Sweet Man.

  • @baguaboy11
    @baguaboy11 3 роки тому +10

    One of the all time classic jazz gigs ! So sad to think of the great club empty and locked down... damn this bloody virus !

  • @pedjamigrant7189
    @pedjamigrant7189 4 роки тому +5

    I love how video starts with a man sitting, having a long face , where you couldn't exactly describe what he feels.
    Then we hear the countdown from the left as this man turns his head toward the man signalling. Pale and radiant blue color, signifying studio light, reveals that a man is probably sitting on a podium , or a cultural scene. He grabs the root of his trumpet and quickly starts playing. His emotion from before, we couldn't figure out , yet now, playing oh his instrument, he gives us all the full spectrum of his emotion but for the cost of hiding the words behind music, which is all in all, a perfect trade, and so is this beautiful craftsman of sound.

  • @TheBobsie0
    @TheBobsie0 8 років тому +4

    jesus looks like van has the words written down on a piece of paper yet he can still deliver perfectly what a legend and chet absolutely genius

    • @scottschwartz6973
      @scottschwartz6973 7 років тому +1

      robert knight yes

    • @tracymanning5024
      @tracymanning5024 6 років тому +3

      in James Gavins definitive book on Chet, 'Deep in a Dream', Chet was disgusted by Van's drunken performance and wanted him off the stage.

  • @sordoff
    @sordoff 3 роки тому +9

    I think i've listened to this gig on CD a trillion times. It is marvellous in its entirety. I bought the CD a very long time ago because i was both intrigued by Van Morrisons appearance and curious to listen to their merging ... Both artists never let me down and I think that - whenever my time has come - this version of 'Send in the clowns' will guide me on my way out.

  • @nickg1601
    @nickg1601 8 років тому +19

    Quoting HIMSELF on 'Just Friends'. His ear was phenomenal and a tonal memory unmatched

  • @auroraborealis9911
    @auroraborealis9911 Рік тому +1

    no one is ever gonna forget chet, jazz is back on the rise , everyone gon take you home brother . jazz talent and culture is springing up like zits on a youth , lol xxxx

  • @Nanoci62
    @Nanoci62 3 роки тому +21

    The anecdote about Charlie Parker’s audition is absolutely STUNNING ❤️❤️❤️

    • @thomassicard3733
      @thomassicard3733 2 роки тому +2

      Stuff like that happens very often. It's called a "waiting in the wings" audition.

    • @royhorologic1732
      @royhorologic1732 Рік тому

      He used to tell that story at the slightest hint! And who wouldn't?

  • @andreapetretti920
    @andreapetretti920 4 роки тому +28

    All Chet has done is a masterpiece and hearing it is one thing, but seeing him live shows his great human depth and his love for music to the end of his life ... The first song with Elvis Costello I cried like a child, absolute masterpiece.

  • @profileprofile7028
    @profileprofile7028 2 роки тому +14

    I don't think I have been more captivated by a performance in a very long time. Bravo. Cheers. What an amazing gem. Wow.

  • @dennispope8299
    @dennispope8299 4 роки тому +8

    I just discovered this! How? Is this heaven? Absolutely beautiful! Thank you!

    • @shlarry3184
      @shlarry3184 3 роки тому

      wut welcome to music guitar guy

  • @lalochina7786
    @lalochina7786 7 років тому +17

    Raw soulful music since I was in 6th grade. Checked out his cd at the library and told my mom I missed placed it. The best thing that ever happen to me.

  • @CrueLoaf
    @CrueLoaf Рік тому +2

    Costello and Chet work so so well together. Beautiful.

  • @EverydayStrangers
    @EverydayStrangers 3 роки тому +5

    Who's here in 2021 still Loving this?
    #EverydayStrangers

  • @cultureman6593
    @cultureman6593 Рік тому +1

    Life , man , jazz
    How can any other music can
    deliver this feeling we all feel

  • @robertitorivasmontes4633
    @robertitorivasmontes4633 11 місяців тому +6

    Muchos lo criticaban por su forma de tocar, en especial miles davis.pero para mi los dos más grandes de la historia del jazz.

  • @espacomais123
    @espacomais123 2 роки тому +2

    I know about the human condition. But I don't feel sadness, I feel joy. Because I feel and see that Chet Baker's music is magical, Divine !!!

  • @MadlenDuval
    @MadlenDuval Рік тому +4

    Awww thank you so much for this video in such a good quality. Chet is The Gift for those who appreciate elegant and exquisite jazz.

  • @chuckwagon7354
    @chuckwagon7354 2 роки тому +1

    Same as I cannot speak Arabic, I cannot understand this form of Jazz. But I love to listen to it. I remember when I was very young listening to BBC Radio 2 on a small transistor radio late at night. Listening to this transports me back to then.

  • @matteomosolo
    @matteomosolo 3 роки тому +5

    This is the first jazz video I recorded from tv on 2004-2005... I remember every note! Love for Sale: my favourite!

  • @michaelwhalen7991
    @michaelwhalen7991 2 роки тому +2

    Chet you are still the best ! Miss you RIP brother.

  • @captpogossian
    @captpogossian 9 років тому +11

    Anyone who isn't already aware of it should watch Bruce Weber's documentary about Baker "Let's Get Lost". It's a masterpiece and available in its entirety on YT. I'd also recommend the ghosted biography "Straight Life" about Baker's junko-buddy and sometime musical partner Art Pepper. These guys produced some terrific music but were a pair of manipulative, cunning, wheedling smack-heads - and, like most of their ilk, a pain in the ass to all who had to deal with them. Baker's particular talent for ingratiating himself with women, even when a toothless, prematurely aged junkie, is almost miraculous. As someone said about him, more or less: "He sounds so sincere when he's singing that you'd think his heart was broken. But he'd sound exactly the same singing the New York telephone directory."

    • @Grithron2
      @Grithron2 8 років тому +1

      Re: that character study, you could say a lot of the same things about Bird, (Or Mark E Smith for that matter!)

    • @letemroll7871
      @letemroll7871 6 років тому +2

      Well, he had many sides. Those who played with him mostly loved him. He was mellow and cool, and never played the diva. And he lived his tortured life against all odds, playing this heavenly music. I guess he deserves some repect, not only as a musician, but as a human being too.

    • @alexmaragakis2174
      @alexmaragakis2174 5 років тому

      Thank you for the recommendations.

    • @sunnyinsalalah
      @sunnyinsalalah 5 років тому +1

      I hated LGL. Made chet look like a shallow egotist. Made the whole jazz mileau look uncool.

    • @ralex3697
      @ralex3697 3 роки тому +1

      sunnyinsalalah
      I found the movie very depressing and contrived

  • @allenstone7518
    @allenstone7518 2 роки тому +1

    After years of recordings and online clips, I'm still listening.. A great musician and a sorry life.

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose Рік тому +4

    Great show, very moving - I've watched this several times on dvd. Also, such a funny story by Chet at 22:05 about how he landed the gig with Bird - imagine a dim room full of all the best trumpet players in California and a voice on the intercom: "has Mr Baker arrived yet?" (most of the others probably just wondering "Baker who?") - and after Chet has played one track, the audition is declared to be over. HA! ;D

  • @92ninersboy
    @92ninersboy 9 років тому +25

    Chet's solo on "If I Should Lose You", 23:30 min. WOW - it's so beautifully sculpted - the epitome of a melodic bebop solo. Chet glides through the chords, like the master that he is.

    • @schwarzblatt
      @schwarzblatt 8 років тому +2

      +92ninersboy Thank you for the heads up. Amazingly graceful movement through the harmonic changes.

    • @BEARGUITARJAZZ
      @BEARGUITARJAZZ 8 років тому +1

      Absolutely correct, so damn good

    • @jamieevans1890
      @jamieevans1890 6 років тому +1

      Can I add my total agreement to the above comments...I keep returning to Chet's solo in pure wonderment. Was going to add something nasty about Morrison and Costello's contributions but I won't...

  • @erobinidcf
    @erobinidcf 2 роки тому +1

    What an artist ,what a Legacy I stayed in the hotel room where he died downtown Amsterdam ,near the train station. Eerily ,You can still feel him playing .. what a music legend ! DJEJ

    • @beijinggods1
      @beijinggods1 4 місяці тому

      I believe you..........❤

  • @dolfkellens5701
    @dolfkellens5701 2 роки тому +3

    my heart cries for this man

  • @davidsaborit5091
    @davidsaborit5091 2 роки тому +2

    Astonishing!!!. I never had heard this. What brilliant voices on trumpet while Van Morrison sings!!!. Thanks for sharing!!!.

  • @alainjames9556
    @alainjames9556 4 роки тому +6

    A beautiful performance by Chet Baker. Beautiful sound. Beautiful trumpet line.

  • @santiagosuarezgarcia3305
    @santiagosuarezgarcia3305 6 днів тому

    Uno de los más grandes trompetistas de todo el Siglo 20,,,,,,, Chet eres el más grande ,,, dencanse en Paz .....

  • @marcelalovi6719
    @marcelalovi6719 3 роки тому +6

    Chet is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @shawnbell6392
    @shawnbell6392 Рік тому

    When I have had a bad day I will often listen to Chet and just let the day evaporate. I have a Japanese friend in Tokyo who has said the same.

  • @petterk1945
    @petterk1945 8 років тому +7

    The greatest musician that ever lived on this earth - regardless of era or style.
    We haven't even started to realize what we ought tp be thankful for..

    • @ralex3697
      @ralex3697 3 роки тому

      petterk1945
      Not the greatest but certainly great

    • @petterk1945
      @petterk1945 3 роки тому +1

      Robin Alexander one note from him - from heart to heart -
      is priceless 😍

    • @johndoe-gp8zj
      @johndoe-gp8zj 3 роки тому +1

      @@ralex3697 Who is the greatest?

    • @elkavlahovska8177
      @elkavlahovska8177 3 роки тому

      I just love You Chet!

  • @andresugueruaga6920
    @andresugueruaga6920 3 роки тому +2

    This Is the first CB's gem I've ever seen, 30 years ago! He looks so humble and serene

  • @vascharis
    @vascharis 3 роки тому +11

    Piano and bass are equally amazing! In love with their groove, like 35.00-45.00

  • @Pasqualejr11
    @Pasqualejr11 Рік тому

    I’m 22 and I envy these people so much. I’d give all my money to see Chet live.

  • @BG-pd6os
    @BG-pd6os 4 роки тому +3

    Picked this gem up on VHS for 1 dollar,will pick up the DVD now!

  • @1492chris
    @1492chris 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks to Van and Chet I finally understand 'Send In The Clowns' beautiful.

    • @meisterlymanu5214
      @meisterlymanu5214 2 роки тому

      its a good version, but i feel it needs more emotion. Judy Dench's version is deemed the best.

  • @bernhard1954
    @bernhard1954 3 роки тому +3

    One of the greatest.

  • @alvinop1
    @alvinop1 3 роки тому +2

    Tragic life and fantastic music...love the music

  • @imbees2
    @imbees2 4 роки тому +3

    I hear you. This is a good Chet showcase.

  • @behzadasgharpour661
    @behzadasgharpour661 3 роки тому +1

    .........RIP DEAR MASTER......UR TONE........UR TONE IS NEVER ENDING STORY.......

  • @BelaDuka
    @BelaDuka 5 років тому +4

    Thanks for Sharing

  • @kensterknig177
    @kensterknig177 6 місяців тому

    Saw him at Ronnie Scotts in London 30+ years ago- the Embodiment of Soulful Jazz

  • @shizyninjarocks
    @shizyninjarocks 8 років тому +12

    Damn, I wish he finished that book.

  • @fab-mh7vz
    @fab-mh7vz 3 роки тому +1

    The one, the only! Every note is a blessing, and thinking how he suffered to offer us these pure moments of magic. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"! So long Chet!

    • @Manumanu-ul1qd
      @Manumanu-ul1qd 3 роки тому

      Yes, it's good to know that he suffered. It's actually hilariously funny. And to think that he jumped out of a window to top it off: what a character! :)

  • @mhgraet
    @mhgraet 2 роки тому +3

    "You don't know what love is" at 49:30 (Elvis Costello-vocals)... so sublime, great standard, beautifully interpreted. Wish I was at this concert.

  • @Tanstaafl1976
    @Tanstaafl1976 Рік тому

    Re Chet's last statement at the end of this vid, CHET was unbelievable in so many ways, but first and foremost he was an unbelievably talented musician whose trumpet playing and soloing was always so beautifully melodic and soulful.