Time: 57:20
Size: 131.2 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz
Year: 1962/1994
Art: Front
[ 6:23] 1. Milestones
[ 6:38] 2. Deep In A Dream
[13:06] 3. Once Upon A Summertime
[ 7:16] 4. Mister B.
[ 5:41] 5. I Waited For You
[10:49] 6. Stella By Starlight
[ 7:24] 7. Witchcraft
Despite his handicaps, Baker retained his compelling, moody performance style and had a consistent audience. Later based overseas, he produced a number of albums on European labels. In the last ten years of his life, he preferred playing in small clubs with trios and quartets, but managed a few concert appearances in New York, San Francisco and Tokyo for packed houses. One haunting Tokyo performance from June of 1987, less than a year before his death, is captured on the album Chet Baker in Tokyo, which includes an unforgettable version of “Stella By Starlight.”
On May 13, 1988, after three failed marriages and an erratic career, Chet Baker was found dead on a sidewalk two stories below his room at an Amsterdam hotel. The autopsy revealed the presence of narcotics but concluded nothing about the cause of the fall.
Even in decline, Baker maintained his mastery of midrange improvisations, many of which have been resurrected today by an obsessive coterie of fans, who post rare live performances on YouTube and MySpace. A subject of documentaries and several books, including Bruce Weber’s Let’s Get Lost and an incomplete autobiography, As Though I Had Wings, he was voted into the Down Beat’s Jazz Hall of Fame one year after his death.
Alto Saxophone – Glauco Masetti; Bass – Franco Cerri; Drums – Gianni Cazzola; Guitar – René Thomas; Trumpet – Chet Baker
On May 13, 1988, after three failed marriages and an erratic career, Chet Baker was found dead on a sidewalk two stories below his room at an Amsterdam hotel. The autopsy revealed the presence of narcotics but concluded nothing about the cause of the fall.
Even in decline, Baker maintained his mastery of midrange improvisations, many of which have been resurrected today by an obsessive coterie of fans, who post rare live performances on YouTube and MySpace. A subject of documentaries and several books, including Bruce Weber’s Let’s Get Lost and an incomplete autobiography, As Though I Had Wings, he was voted into the Down Beat’s Jazz Hall of Fame one year after his death.
Alto Saxophone – Glauco Masetti; Bass – Franco Cerri; Drums – Gianni Cazzola; Guitar – René Thomas; Trumpet – Chet Baker
Stella By Starlight
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