Chet Baker Live @ Ronnie Scott's 

Very cool! Moments like that stay with you forever.

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.

Wonderful story💞

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

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

Guys are amazing, thanks for providing names

Gracias!!!

where and when was this concert?

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

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.😮😢😢

Thank you so much for doing this.

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

'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"......

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.

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

At time's it does seem so

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

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.

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

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

Nice read!

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

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

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.

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

experts 😂😂

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

@@ScreaminJames I agree! Always skip those.

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

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

Do you still have the menu?

@@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.

@@jamesfrance9715 beautiful 🤩

@@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.

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.......

assholes are everywhere.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

​@@rochjanssens214 🙏❤️🌍🕊🎵🎶

Was, he fell out a window in Amsterdam :(

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

Paul Oughton s. Agree

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...

You are stupid. Help yourself.

@@olaandersson3599 lol😂funny bro

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

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.

​@@luke125was he a nonce?

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

it brings me to tears too

He looks like he was getting in to meth!

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

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

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

yes he is

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

@@konradherrmann3213 🍀Let's get lost 🍀

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

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

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

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

What an apt description,

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

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

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

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.

That's years of smack, for ya.

The best documentary on Jazz!

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!

@@trevor_mounts_music hey there, thanks a lot man!

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

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

touche

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(^_^)

That ain't right,

amen to that....

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

sorry Blood, Sweat and Tears

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

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

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

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 RU-vid. 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.

Ah, I really like his singing!

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.

robert knight yes

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.

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

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.

Thank you for the recommendations.

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

sunnyinsalalah I found the movie very depressing and contrived

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.

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

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

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

Absolutely correct, so damn good

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...

Well said 🔥

FOR "VIRUS", READ; GOVERNMENT!

wut welcome to music guitar guy

I hope you'll never way out.

+Achiel Feyaerts Thanks!

thank you

wow what a line up

And Michel Graillier, piano? Why forget him ???

thank you kind sir

I believe you..........❤

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

petterk1945 Not the greatest but certainly great

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

@@ralex3697 Who is the greatest?

I just love You Chet!

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