@@aleixpizasureda8067 as accurately as chet baker? You can definitely imitate the timbre of instruments to varying degrees, but chet baker is well known for his scat singing. He does it well and that's the point.
I had the honor of hearing him play live in Vancouver B.C. around the same time this video was made. He opened the show with Just Friends and it was a magical evening. While hanging out after with the local musicians who backed him up for the performance, he bashed his head really hard on a basement pole, playing Ping Pong. Who knows how much alcohol or other drugs had been consumed at that point, but for a few brief moments while Chet was out cold, they thought they might have killed him.
I cannot thank RU-vid enough of creating the possibility to release these gems to us. These two musicians, as we say in India, take us towards a God. Thanks so much nilsjoela
Chet is a musician who transcend time, is a musician who has the sound in itself, innovative, highly sensitive and competent. Stan is also the same level. Jazz geniuses that we will always miss and leave huge miss.
I'm a parisian. French. Great jazz music amateur. This guy is, for me, one of the greatest jazz player in the whole world. He's a genius. So sensitive. So great. So genious.
Just friends, lovers no more, just friends, but not like before to think of what we've been, and not to kiss again seems like pretending it isn't the ending. Two friends, drifting apart, two friends, and one broken heart We loved, we laughed, we cried, and suddenly love died the story ends and we're just friends.
Chet is of course entirely magic on this - see how his trumpet solo repeats some of his scatting - but don't forget that George Mraz swings his ass off here very seriously
It's weird; I've heard this album countless times, but this is the first time I have seen the video. I didn't even know it existed.. my imagination was quite different heheh. Wonderful.
I have heard the word 'gifted' all my life. Most of the time, I'm not even sure if it exists, except in the realm of ideas. Artists have to spend hours and years honing their craft, no matter how much natural talent they seem to have. But for Chet Baker, though he did spend hours and years honing the craft of his art, there was that 'certain something' that defies definition. The man WAS music. And when he played, sang, or did that marvelous scat singing that he did, something in it reached deeply into the soul of the listener. RIP, Chet. Your music is still touching people. And thank you, nilsjoela for posting this!
Actually, Chet was such a natural, his buddy, the recently deceased trumpet giant Jack Sheldon recounts a story about Chet: Sheldon is at home, shedding for hours on end, he hears a honk from downstairs. There's Chet, in his red sports car, sunroof open, calling on Jack to quit practicing and come on down, let's go to town, have a good time. Jack always said how much harder he had to work, while everything just seemed to come easy to Chet. Both astounding players. May they rest in peace btw I saw Jack Sheldon play (and sing) in L.A. in 2005...mind blowing
Recorded: Stockholm, Sweden, February 18, 1983 Personnel: Stan Getz - Tenor Sax Chet Baker - Trumpet *Rhythm Section sits out: Jim McNeely - Piano George Mraz - Bass Victor Lewis - Drums
Jim McNeely...wasn't that Adam Neely's composition teacher at Berklee or Manhattan School of Music or somewhere? It's cool to see him as a session player and not just as a teacher.
@@VerticalWit Paul Desmond isn't as powerful, but just as melodic. Jim Hall too, I think Bill Evans packs the punch and articulation that Chet has, also occassionally Wes Montgomery, although it may just be due to his constant swing.
Thanks to the Swedish TV 2. I love it when Chet Baker "play" voice trumpet and then his real trumpet. And again weaves tones along with Stan Getz sax. Just love it!
Chet Baker.........................words fail me. Just Beautiful, the both of them, piano guy too. **Let's Get Lost** 1988 (finished just before Baker died) is absolutely great. Saw it in NYC when it premiered there fall 1988.
This is awesome, but this tune was most definitely not written by Bill Watrous! The tune was written by John Klenner in 1931 and lyrics by Sam Lewis. Watrous did write a different tune called 'Just Fiends' But that was far more recent!Great post though:)
@@mehermusic2154 it means even such a good looking/famous musician like chet baker was rejected by some girls (i'd guess he is assuming this based off of the lyrics)
I`m always on the edge of my chair when Chet sings because he`s all over the place in his phrasing and timing. But just gotta love the guy and his trumpet.
I Just love this performace. The way Stan looks at Chet when he has done his part of solo is something Getz to have acceptable standard for his and this standard.
I attended Jack Sheldon's funeral last Friday and one of the eulogists talked about a recording session where everyone thought they nailed it. All except for Jack. "Chet would have been much smoother," was Jack's comment.
David, I still have an autographed picture of Jack Sheldon sitting on a pile of worn out shoes! I wrote a fan letter to him after his comedy TV program got cancelled. It was called "Run, Buddy, Run!" I was in third grade at the time and didn't even know that he was a great trumpet player. Made the connection some years later when I saw him on the Merv Griffin show. Pretty sure that he was good friends with Chet.
An acrimonious "tête-à-tête" about music such as this, or for that matter about Music in general, is oxymoronic--not to mention juvenile--in my book. Thanks for posting this!
Great stuff - love Chet's singing here. Great ideas and intonation. I suppose this is why he always sounds like he's singing with his trumpet. On the "spat" with Getz, first I didn't think the playing with Stan was out of order at all. I thought they were playing good counter lines to one another. Sounded fine to my ears. However, When I looked at the start again, it seems after Stan looks at Chet and calls "Just Friends - You ready?" while he's counting it off Chet says something like "You're doing alright" and Stan says "Thank you" - in the middle of his counting. That could have pissed him off a bit. Also I don't think his trumpet at the end is any more obtrusive than Stan's sax while he's singing. But hey, that's only my opinion! I actually like the subscript of a rift between them - spices it all up a bit!
Chet Baker é a expressão máxima do que a musica pode realizar através do homem que não reprime seus sentimentos, antes, faz explodir em cada batida do coração e em cada acorde como se estes fossem a verdadeira sede da alma, que flui esvaindo-se através dos dedos e fôlego do artista.
Said a philospher to a street sweeper, "I pity you. Yours is a hard and dirty task.". . . And the street sweeper said, "Thank you, sir. But tell me what is your task?" And the philospher answered saying, "I study man's mind, his deeds and his desires." . . Then the street sweeper went on with his sweeping and said with a smile, "I pity you too."
