Chet Baker, misjudged?

[Holy Ghost]

Love Chet Baker. Anybody seen this?

 

 

 

 

[Gheorghe]

On 5.2.2022 at 10:28 AM, Holy Ghost said:

Love Chet Baker. Anybody seen this?

 

 

 

 

I saw the whole video, I think it was a DVD that combined this old concert and a newer one from 1987.

[Holy Ghost]

I love Chet, and my wife loves Chet too. We have a love song by Chet!

Listening to now:

Love this record, but the real spoiler is the one for her:

 

Thank you Chet!

Edited July 19 by Holy Ghost

[sgcim]

Mike Alterman, a pianist that I worked with for five years in a band, spent eight months on the road with Chet Baker in the early 60s, and was so traumatized by the experience that he never said a word about it in all the time I knew him.  I'd meet Mike occasionally after the time we worked together in that band, and he'd talk about the time he spent in the Woody Herman Band (he can be heard on the WH album "East Meets West" playing a long solo on a blues), the time he was fired by our current prez for asking for a raise in his solo piano gig in Trump Towers (Trump heard him playing some show tunes and said to Mike, "I like that!", so he figured it was a good time to ask DT for a raise- wrong), but he went to the grave a few years ago without saying a word about his eight months with Chet on the road, at least to me.

RIP, Mike.

[Holy Ghost]

Guess I'm glad I didn't have to work with him, but what did Chet do that was so bad to mess up your friend from ever talking about it, like forever?

[sgcim]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

Guess I'm glad I didn't have to work with him, but what did Chet do that was so bad to mess up your friend from ever talking about it, like forever?

Whatever it was, it died with him. 

I remember reading an interview with Don Friedman, who had worked with Chet in the past, and the interviewer said something about seeing Chet play recently, and Don interrupted him and said, "Wait, you're saying that Chet is still alive?!"

The interviewer answered in the affirmative, and Don still didn't believe him. Don then went on to describe how Chet would drive them from gig to gig, going over 100 MPH through residential neighborhoods, day or night. He said the time he spent playing in Chet's quartet was a living hell.

That's all I remember, but it must have been something like that that made my friend quit after eight months...