For Instruments in Bb. Chet Baker's trumpet solo from a live recording in Belgium 1964. Saxophone - Jacques Pelzer Piano - Rene Urtreger Double Bass - Luigi Trussardi Drums - Franco Manzecchi
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Very fine playing. I like his use of different scales (natural minor rather than dorian, harmonic minor). The imperfections make the art - Chagall dried his works outdoors and some still have dried bird poop on them. For me this is sensitive and melodic, uncluttered and in some ways more difficult than the soloist playing a million notes - if you choose a clunker it really shows. Thanks again for the clip.
Lots of players did similar things. If they play out of tune slightly it is more noticeable and they stand out. Jackie McClean played quite sharp for a similar reason
if your cheek muscles are working properly, it's possible to keep your cheeks in place. I play horn, which is more demanding on air than trumpet. Fortissimo accents make it difficult to keep cheeks in place, but it's doable. Puffing your cheeks out makes it harder to control your tone and tuning. I'd guess Chet did this as a creative choice, to get an airier tone.
why is his intonation so tense? is it because of the flugel hes using or is it just poor embouchure, because he sounds really pinched and tired throughout the entire solo, and in the bottom register the sound is insubstantial and spread really broadly. Was this a purposeful style or was it just a bad day for him, if someone qualified could answer :)
I think he was just tired or started cold. Anyway there's plenty of recordings from him where you would think he was struggling and then he suddenly pops out an amazing phrase doubling the time. He was one of a kind and he had his own unhortodox style.
Your profile pic makes me think you're into drum corp. The great brass players don't like sounding like robots. Unfortunately, modern brass playing emphasizes a uniform, robotic sound, especially in corp and marching. There is a lot more to making music. Listen to Conrad, Bunny, Clark Terry, Chet, Miles. They all have very different sounds. Oh, and cocaine. I'm not idolizing them, so yeah. Cocaine.
@@AncientRe yeah i marched drum corps this past season for pacific crest, and my director marched as well so im definitely lacking when it comes to a more individualistic style of playing haha. Thanks for the advice!
@@Salieri211is that part of why he puffs his cheeks out, to maintain a sort of stable structure to his embouchure with missing teeth, and why the tone sounds resultingly tense??
@@georgeschaut2178theres a video from the same performance that shows he was already missing teeth ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bMNdLIQU0rI.htmlsi=3TVP_gPVamRwn-q7
Yeah, I wish he played like a robot like everyone else. It really worked against him. Everyone knew Chet Baker, obviously because of his bad playing. I would much rather blend in sounding like a midi file, like you!
@@daka9730 Chet Baker's valving combinations tell us that the first note played in his solo can't be a Bb, it has to be a B. The recording is in Em (concert Dm) but just slightly flat, which is why it sounds kind of like Ebm
