Chet Baker: Live At Ronnie Scott's, London Chet Baker Musicians: Chet Baker: trumpet, vocals Elvis Costello: vocals Van Morrison: vocals Tracklist: 1. Ellen David 2. Just Friends 3. Shifting Down 4. Send In the Clowns (With Van Morrison) 5. If I Should Lose You 6. My Ideal 7. Love For Sale 8. The Very Thought Of You (With Elvis Costello) 9. You Don't Know What Love Is (With Elvis Costello) 10. I'm A Fool To Want You (With Elvis Costello) In the early 1950s, trumpeter-vocalist Chet Baker was the "James Dean of jazz." Blessed with good looks and a lyrical and lean trumpet style, Baker arrived on the scene in California at the age of 22, when the great alto saxophonist Charlie Parker invited him to work in his band. Decades later, Baker got involved in drugs, had run-ins with the law, and became a poster boy for the image of the doped-out jazz fiend. This 1986 film, shot two years before Baker fell to his death from a hotel in Amsterdam, captures the painful pathos and poetry o! f his art in an intimate set at Ronnie Scott's famed jazz club in London. With a breathy, walking-on-eggshells trumpet tone similar to the sound of Miles Davis, and an achy, whisper-toned vocal style, the weathered and weary Baker delivers piercing takes on a number of standards and jazz classics, including "Just Friends," "My Ideal," and "Shifting Down." Punk rock icon Elvis Costello joins Baker on blue-embered renditions of "The Very Thought of You" and "You Don't Know What Love Is." Not to be ...
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