The Chet Baker Room

December 23 1929 may 13 1988 was an american jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

The chet baker room.

I ve listened to chet baker for a long time. Album the touch of your lips. There are several albums titled chet baker sings but this pacific jazz recording is the original and arguably the best. Blue room chet baker.

Chet loved to tell the cinderella story of how charlie parker was auditioning trumpeters in la in 1952 and had picked him out of a roomful of eager young hopefuls thereby anointing him. There was speculation that it was a drug deal gone bad but there was no evidence to back up this claim. Provided to youtube by dreyfus jazz blue room chet baker two a day 1980 francis dreyfus music sarl a bmg company auto generated by youtube. We ll have a blue room a new room for two room where every day s a holyday because you re married to me not like a ballroom.

50 videos play all mix blue room richard rodgers 1926 chet baker tenor sax youtube blue room rodgers and hart collectif paris swing feat. Giacomo smith from london duration. There were lots of other aspects of chet baker that needed space such as his music. From the early stuff in paris 1955 barclay records to all the great pacific jazz recordings with russ freeman et al that helped define the west coast sound so beautifully photographed and chronicled by the great william claxton.

Highlights chet s indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two quartet line ups on a set of classic standards. Chet baker was found dead on the street in front of his amsterdam hotel on may 13 1988 having apparently fallen from his second floor hotel room with cocaine and heroin found in his room and in his body. These jazz classics have a display at the wonderful living in a modern way. For the first time in 60 years this definitive edition is pristinely cut from the original masters.

This new lp reissue of wolfgang lackerschmid and chet baker s ballads for two comes at a perfect time for my reviewing schedule. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s particularly for albums featuring his vocals chet baker sings it could happen to you. Born in 1929 in oklahoma the legendary trumpeter and singer chet baker came to a tragic end in amsterdam in 1988 having fallen from the window of his second storey room at the hotel prins hendrik. The sound quality a very clean wet and open capture of lackerschmid s vibes and baker s trumpet from 1979 is good enough for evaluating new equipment in the main system such as the thorens td 1601 turntable arm and goldring ethos cartridge that s just.