Jazz Icons - Chet Baker: Live in '64 and '79 (2006)

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Jazz Icons - Chet Baker: Live in '64 and '79 (2006)

DVD-9 | Runtime: 71 min. | 4,99 Gb | Copy: Untouched

Video: MPEG Video at 7 983 Kbps, 720 x 480 (1.333) at 29.970 fps | Audio: PCM 2 channels at 1

 

536 Kbps, 48.0 KHz Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | Label: TDK

 

 

Chet Baker features two concerts by the foremost interpreter of the West Coast school of

 

cool jazz.

 

Filmed in Europe 15 years apart, these two shows seen together provide an overview of Baker’s

 

illustrious career. The first show is a haunting 1964 performance in a Belgian TV studio with a quartet

 

including long-time sidemen saxophonist Jacques Pelzer and French pianist Rene Urtreger. Songs

 

include the Miles Davis classic, “So What,” and the jazz standard “Time After Time” (a very rare

 

rendition featuring Chet’s “Cool” vocal style.) The soulful1979 set from Norway, with a trio featuring

 

vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid, highlights the growth and maturity of this troubled but

 

inspiring artist.

 

In the summer of 1963, Baker pawned his trumpet for dope money. When a French musician came

 

to his aid by loaning him a flugelhorn, Baker found himself enamored with the mellower sound of the

 

slightly larger instrument and ended up playing it for years. It is the wider belled flugelhorn that Baker

 

is playing in the thirty-plus-minute program from Belgian television included on this DVD.

 

The quartet he chose to play with—Belgian alto saxophonist and flautist Jacques Pelzer, the French

 

pianist Rene Urtreger and the Italian battery of Luigi Trussardi on bass and Franco Manzecchi on

 

drums—was superb. Pelzer was a part-time musician and full-time drug store owner who became

 

one of Baker’s closest friends, playing with him in countless shows as early as 1962 and continuing

 

through at least the late 1970s. The classically trained Urtreger had toured with Miles Davis in 1956

 

and 1957 and played on Davis’ French recording Ascenceur pour L’Echafaud. He played with Baker

 

as early as June 1963.

 

Over the course of his career, Urtreger also accompanied such visiting jazz luminaries as Don Byas,

 

Buck Clayton, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Lee Konitz. Trussardi and Manzecchi were also first

 

call accompanists for many visiting American musicians, collectively and singly gigging and/or

 

recording with Eric Dolphy, Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Hank Mobley, Teddy Wilson and

 

France’s own Stéphane Grappelli.

 

While the set is short, the five songs the Chet Baker Quintet performed that night in Brussels cover a

 

lot of ground. On the opener, “Bye Bye Blackbird,” Baker’s tone is both strong and airy at the same

 

time. Notice the way he draws emotion out of his mostly mid-register lines by inflecting pitches

 

slightly flat. Also note the contrapuntal long notes played by Baker under Pelzer’s solo and the

 

counterpoint woven by Pelzer at the end while Baker restates the head.

 

The highlight of the set and perhaps of this whole DVD is the drummer-less quartet’s near-fifteen-

 

minute version of Cole Porter’s “Love For Sale.” Baker had recorded the tune in 1977 in a funk

 

version with Michael Brecker, John Scofield, and Tony Williams on the LP You Can’t Go Home

 

Again. Here Baker unleashes all the stops, demonstrating a tremendous sense of time and mastery of

 

breath while Rassinfosse plays a tension-inducing call and response bass ostinato. In many respects,

 

this performance represents a rocking aesthetic that is diametrically opposed to Baker’s usual cool.

 

It burns from beginning to end and like all great performances leaves you wanting more.

 

Taken together, these two shows, filmed fifteen years apart present Baker playing in very different

 

contexts. Given his loss of teeth following his 1966 beating and his crippling drug addiction that

 

dominated the majority of his waking hours in that fifteen year interval, it is remarkable how

 

consistent his overall aesthetic is. This is chamber jazz at its most delicate, relying on a refined sense

 

of dynamics, melodic invention, counterpoint and, most importantly, emotional vulnerability. As a

 

whole, it contains all the reasons why, despite his personal problems, Chet Baker remains one of the

 

finest soloists and vocalists in the history of jazz.

 

Artists:

- Chet Baker: Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Vocals

- Jacques Pelzer (guest): Alto Sax, Flute

- René Urtreger (guest): Piano

- Luigi Trussardi (guest): Bass

- Franco Manzecchi (guest): Drums

- Wolfgang Lackerschmid (guest): Vibraphone

- Michel Graillie (guest): Piano

- Jean Louis Rassinfoss (guest): Bass

 

Tracklist:

Belgium 1964

01. Bye Bye Blackbird [9:11]

02. Isn't It Romantic [4:41]

03. Airegin [5:02]

04. Time After Time [6:44]

05. So What [5:56]

 

Norway 1979

06. Interview [2:46]

07. Blue Train [1:33]

08. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise [12:30]

09. Five Years Ago [5:01]

10. Love for Sale [16:14]

11. Credits [1:39]

 

Features:

- Direct Scene Access

- Interactive Menu

 

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[macinc]

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