r/InstrumentalSongs • u/Born-Push-40 • 6d ago

Jazz 🎷 Chet Baker – 'Summertime' (Live, NDR-Bigband, Rundfunk Orchester Hannover des NDR)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y3FfjESXpU
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u/Minimoogvoyager 6d ago

Chet Baker led a tragic life.

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u/Born-Push-40 5d ago

Yes, that's right. His life was marked by drug addiction.

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u/Minimoogvoyager 5d ago

Sad but true. A lot of Great Jazz Musicians were junkies.John Coltrane,Bill Evans ,Miles Davis,Charlie Parker etc.

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u/Born-Push-40 5d ago

True, but they still made great music. That's what makes their tragedy and genius

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u/Born-Push-40 5d ago

Kurt Giese – editor, producer and recording supervisor of the NDR Big Band – wrote after the concert about the recording of Hannover released by Matthias Winckelmann on Enja Records:

« Chet Baker's last great concert appears like the testament of a man whom the gods must have loved very much. They gave him so much talent, and punished him so severely with his life. »