Bienvenidos Amar es compartir. Y mientras tanto la disfrutes. Sainte Colombe. Mi lista de blogs. Jazz en la Web. Archivos Clasicos. Alia Vox. Blogger Musical basic library. Musikalische Opfer. Alio Modo. La peau douce. He hit the right mood and, during recordings, was very concentrated and serious. I like your tunes and your playing and you're a good driver and a good guy to hang out with.
Of course I was overwhelmed, happy and excited. When we recorded "Why Shouldn't You Cry", the piece did not have a title. I'd only just completed it and had not yet copied out the changes in Bb. I got the melody. If you have the melody you can also master the form and the harmonies, and you don't have to churn out notes according to the dictates of a bunch of harmonic symbols.
After we had recorded the piece our girlfriends and the manager sat in the control room crying. They were so moved by the recording but a little embarrassed, too, that we had caught them in such a vulnerable state. Whereupon we both said, "Why shouldn't you cry? The engineer-owner of the studio hadn't shown up yet so we sat outside waiting for him to arrive.
Chet struck me as a rather quiet person, at any rate he didn't say much. He did have some music with him, though. I remember suggesting "Autumn In New York". I think he chose the rest of the tunes. Chet was having trouble with his chops although it turned out to be a pretty good session. He called me about a month later and asked if I would come to Paris and play with him.
We did two weeks at the Club St-Germain. The first few days were pretty much like the record date as far as Chet was concerned. Then suddenly one night his chops were fine and he played like a whirlwind, fast long lines with that perfect timing he had.
It scared me a bit. I remember thinking, This guy's a giant. I had been told that Chet could be very difficult to work with but, that evening, everything fell into place from the very first note that we played, and I enjoyed it immensely.
Later, I had some not so nice experiences with Chet, partly caused by his self-destructive habits, sometimes resulting in him not showing up at concerts, sometimes resulting in performances that did not come up to his normal artistic level.
Anyway, he always managed to get a lot of atmosphere and feeling into his music, no matter the circumstances, and for me it was a great learning experience. Looking back, it is easier to remember the good than the bad times, and I am proud to have been one of his sidemen.
In the car we used to sing together, all the time. And, of course, the seriousness of his music: every note is weighted, chattiness has no place in his language, everything is reduced to the essential, and that, too, has been considered carefully. Naturally, I also have a lot of memories on the personal level, after all we worked together for more than ten years.
For me he was, quite literally, an outstanding person; he avoided the beaten track, he didn't care about outmoded rules. And he had a generosity, a humanity about him which existed independently from the person that life had treated so badly. He had, in spite of all that, retained a kind of naivety. Sometimes he appeared to me like a medieval knight, with his incredible sense of justice and honor, his amazement at the fact that there were people who were ripping him off.
Year: Tracks: 14 Bitrate: MP3 Year: Tracks: 15 Bitrate: MP3 The Complete Legendary Session. Year: Tracks: 28 Bitrate: MP3 Year: Tracks: 16 Bitrate: MP3 You don't know what love is. Year: Tracks: 60 Bitrate: MP3 My Funny Valentine.
Year: Tracks: 9 Bitrate: MP3 Chet in Chicago the Legacy Vol. Year: Tracks: 22 Bitrate: MP3 Let's Get Lost. Year: Tracks: 10 Bitrate: MP3 Chet Remastered.
Year: Tracks: 12 Bitrate: MP3 Year: Tracks: 5 Bitrate: MP3 Chet Baker - Live In Chateauvallon. Oh You Crazy Moon single. Year: Tracks: 20 Bitrate: MP3 Le Poete Du Jazz.
Chet Baker Sings. Hazy Hugs. West Coast Live. Les Incontournables. Year: Tracks: 8 Bitrate: MP3 Quartet Russ Freeman Chet Baker. As Times Goes By. Time After Time. The Heart Of The Ballad. The Last Great Concert Vol. Little girl blue. The Great Last Concert Vol. A Night At The Shalimar single. Welcome Back. Chet Baker In Tokyo - Four. Chet Baker In Tokyo - Memories. Tropical Storm single.
Silent Nights. Live at Ronnie Scott's - featuring Van Morrison. When Sunny Gets Blue. Year: Tracks: 4 Bitrate: MP3 In Bologna. Symphonically single. I Remeber You. Blues For A Reason. Line For Lyons Live - Stockholm.
Year: Tracks: 3 Bitrate: MP3 Live At New Morning. Year: Tracks: 23 Bitrate: MP3 The Stockholm Concerts 3CD. The Stockholm Concerts. Live in Sweden with Ake Johansson Trio.
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