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~ Almost blue
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~ All...
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I'm sorry.
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[man 2] No, Chet, it's OK.
You were fine
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[vocalizing]
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~ I love you
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[man 1] No, no, it's not like that.
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- [man 2 strums guitar and hums]
- [man 1 strums guitar and hums]
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[man 1] Those chords
are in the first measure.
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[instrument thumping]
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[man 1 laughs]
What's the problem here?
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Jesus.
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A lot of fucking attitudes
going on here.
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Don't let me get one. One, two, three...
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[screaming]
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Touch light, man, touch light.
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[humming]
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Dizzy Gillespie, man.
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Dizzy Gillespie was bad.
He was so bad.
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- [man] Who?
- Dizzy Gillespie.
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When I was a little kid
he was my favourite trumpet player.
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I ever tell you that story?
I loved Dizzy 'cause I played trumpet.
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Dizzy Gillespie was my favourite guy
in the whole world.
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I went to go see him play,
and I snuck backstage.
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And he came up to me and put his arm
around me and hugged me close
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for like 15 minutes
and just talked to me.
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[woman] Chetjust did
a gig in your town.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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- He's got a double bill.
- Let's see a jump. Let's see a jump.
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- [man] Oh, dude.
- [woman] Whoo!
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[laughter]
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- [guitar playing]
- [man] Oh, bud.
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Wait a minute.
You can't go hatless.
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There you go, partner.
What do you think?
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- [trumpet playing]
- [man] Once all together like this.
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Together with the legs up. Ready?
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[woman speaking Italian]
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Christano, Christano.
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[man mumbling]
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Where the hell is this studio?
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[man] Everybody has a story
about Chet Baker.
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I can't forget the first time
I ever saw him.
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It was in New York City,
a long time ago, in the winter.
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It was snowing a lot and I was
crossing the street in front of Tiffany,
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at 57th and 5th.
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He was in an old Chevy convertible
with the top down.
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He was stopped at a red light,
and the snow was falling all over.
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His hair was all slicked down.
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He was listening to Zoot Sims
on the car radio.
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Oh, Cherry, he could have cared less
about the snow, just the jazz.
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[Cherry laughing] He was bad,
he was trouble and he was beautifuI.
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- [woman 2] Do you find life boring?
- Uh...
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Under some circumstance
it can be very boring.
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Most of the time.
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And for a lot of people,
it can be very boring.
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Very boring.
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Being hungry, being cold...
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- Have you experienced that?
- Oh, yeah.
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Not too long ago. You never have?
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- No.
- Huh.
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How fortunate you are.
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[man] Where in the hell are we?
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[~ Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost]
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[man] I've loved these photographs
for so many years.
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He was only about 16
when he cut this album.
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He's checking out this girI here.
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[woman] The girI?
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[man] He was copied a lotjust like
James Dean was copied a lot
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by every young actor.
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And I think that musicians
copied him a great deaI.
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- Is this Russ?
- Russ Freeman.
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That's Red Mitchell on bass.
That's Johnny MandeI, the arranger.
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- Yeah, that's right.
- Bob NeaI on drums.
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Carson Smith.
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What recording session was this from?
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That was the first set of Baker
and Strings for Columbia Records.
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That's Zoot Sims, the great Zoot.
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That's the old Chippany Club.
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That's Charlie Parker
when Charlie Parker was in town.
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The legend and he chose Chet
to play with him.
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[woman] How did Chet
get to play with Charlie Parker?
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[man] Charlie Parker heard him playing
somewhere and said, "I like that kid".
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Legend was that Charlie Parker called
Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, said,
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"There's a white kid out here giving you
trouble. You better watch out".
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[all chuckle]
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Dick Bock was a young record producer.
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He was recording Chet,
and so I showed him the pictures,
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and he hired me to come
and start photographing.
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It was Chet Baker's first recording
session, I believe it was his first,
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I was photographing him. The
strongest thing I remember about Chet
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was that I was attracted to him
photographically and the camera was too.
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And Chetjust drew like a magnet,
like he was...
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He loved the camera,
but he was very unpretentious.
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He didn't know he was doing it.
At least it seemed that way.
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I kept taking pictures of him and
forgetting about the rest of the band.
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I had to cover the whole thing,
and later that night in the darkroom...
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Remember, I'm a young guy
trying to be a photographer.
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The film was developed
and I was making enlargements.
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The images were coming through,
developing through.
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I remember having a very strong feeling,
for the first time,
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of what photogenic meant,
or what star quality meant or charisma.
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That was a new word in the mid-50's.
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I thought, "This guy's got all that
stuff and I discovered him".
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[laughing] Photographically.
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Well, he always had
wonderfuI looking ladies with him.
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[laughing]
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He always drove wonderfuI cars,
even when he couldn't afford them.
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And he usually had
his dog there, too, wonderfuI dog,
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sitting in the recording studio,
which was unique.
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You know how it is when you're young.
You think you hear new music,
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or you find a new artist
and you discovered them.
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[~ Chet Baker: I Remember You]
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[woman speaking Italian]
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[up-tempo music plays]
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[up-tempo music continues]
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[music stops]
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[man] I was supposed
to play football in Oklahoma.
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[man 2]
I was supposed to pick up the horn.
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What I'm trippin' is that you came
from Oklahoma and you play horn.
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- [man] It doesn't stack up.
- [Baker] It doesn't fit together.
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- [man] You got some musicaI family?
- [Baker] My father was a musician.
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- Did he teach you how to play?
- [Baker] He didn't teach me.
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- You taught yourself?
- [Baker] Pretty much.
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You failed your course
on chord progression?
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[indistinct]
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- Keep swingin'.
- I just made a claim on the pattern.
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[man] That's an alternative.
That's not it.
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- [laughing]
- Is this in tune?
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[piano playing]
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You want to take a take on this?
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[man] Sure.
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Do you like that delivery?
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- [man 2] It's nice. It's good.
- All right.
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You guys about ready yet? OK. Chetty?
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- [man] Let's do it.
- Don't forget the "do wah's".
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- All right, here we go.
- [man] I'll wait for you.
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- Three and...
- Wait a minute.
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Um, let's take... let's just do it.
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- You want to rehearse the intro again?
- I think I got it.
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OK.
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- Three...
- Whenever you're ready, then.
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- [man] OK, we're ready.
- Are we rolling in the booth?
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Yes, we are.
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- Go ahead.
- Hold on a second, wait.
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- Are they rolling?
- Yes.
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- OK, let's go.
- Three, and...
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...four and...
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~ Imagination
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~ Is funny
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~ It makes a cloudy day sunny
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~ Makes a bee think of honey
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~ Just as I
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~ Think of you
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[man] Meeting Chet Baker
probably changed my life forever.
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I was going to college at the time
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and I was promoting a jazz night
at the Haig Club,
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a little club off of Wilshire Boulevard.
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One night Chet Baker dropped in.
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Gerry Mulligan was the
saxophone player that evening.
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They hadn't really met.
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I think Chet was playing
with Charlie Parker at the Tiffany Club,
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which is about four blocks away.
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And he just... At the end of the
engagement at that night, at Tiffany,
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he just came and sat in,
and it was so fresh and so naturaI.
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The naturaI talent. It started
to change the whole picture there.
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In fact, the next week
I hired Chet and Gerry to play together.
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By the third week they had booked
Red Norvo's trio into the club,
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and Red didn't have a piano.
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He played with TaI Farlow
and Charlie Mingus on bass and guitar.
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He said, "I don't want the piano
on the stage. Store it somewhere".
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There was no place. The Haig
was so small. It held 52 people.
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The owner, John Bennett,
put it in his apartment.
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Gerry said, "It makes no difference.
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I can play just as well
without a piano".
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So the Gerry Mulligan quartet was born.
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~ Imagination is silly
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[Bock] Days of hearing
Chet and Gerry at the Haig
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were probably some of the greatest
experiences I've ever had in jazz.
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I've been producing jazz records
for 40 years now,
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and I've produced
some of the greatest musicians,
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but I think Chet is
one of the most unique players.
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And I got him
at the best time in his life.
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He was just a kid. He was 23 years,
22 years of age, just out of the Army.
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He hadn't had junk yet.
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He was smoking some pot,
but he hadn't gotten into a habit.
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So I got the best years and some
of the best music that he ever played.
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And it was a thrill.
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It wasn't long before Chet
really went past Gerry, in a sense.
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He was becoming so bright
in what he was doing
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that he had to have his own thing.
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And then it caused difficulty,
because Gerry resented the fact
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that Chet was no longer
gonna be a sideman...
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[indistinct]
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...which broke up probably one
of the bestjazz quartets of the day.
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At his best I don't think anybody played
any better than Chet Baker on trumpet.
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It sounded to me
like he was the history ofjazz.
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There was Louis Armstrong,
there was Bix Beiderbecke
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and there was Bunny Berigan,
all rolled into one.
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He had that spark that Bunny had
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and the IyricaI quality
that Bix Beiderbecke had,
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yet Chet was always fresh and new.
He never really played cliches.
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Sign the back of Imagination.
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- [Baker humming]
- [laughter]
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[man] I've never heard
anybody sing so soft.
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[man 2] He sings soft,
but it keeps going.
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Itjust keeps going and going
and stays the same.
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[man 1] It sounds like the horn.
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[man 2] Like what he played
at the end of that one song. OK.
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[tape rewinds]
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You're not gonna let me carry your horn?
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- No.
- Come on, Chet.
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Could be a world champion
by the end of year.
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[Chet] You're not gonna come over
and have enchilada, tostada..
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- [man] Step aside, please.
- [Baker] Don't change your hair for me.
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Not if you care for me.
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- [applause]
- Stay, little funny Valentine. Stay.
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[drum roll]
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[~ Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine]
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[Claxton] I must say, the other night
when you brought me in
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I hadn't seen him
for at least 15 or 20 years.
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I was shocked. I was just stunned that
I didn't know it was the same person
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because he's changed so much.
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It made me very sad, actually.
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But the moment he talked and sang,
and, of course, played his trumpet,
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itjust all came back
as sort of a wonderfuI image again.
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Then I just forgot about the age
and the change of his looks.
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'Cause he sounded so boyish.
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I was the same old thing again.
It was wonderfuI.
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He said,
"Goodbye, Bill. Great seeing you",
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He just kept looking at me
and I thought,
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"It's probably gonna be
the last time I see him".
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It was a very sad feeling.
I hope it's not true.
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Now, after all these years,
I don't know what he must think.
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I hope it makes him happy.
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- [man] You looking for your lighter?
- Yeah.
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I'm always looking for my lighter.
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I got it. That's not mine.
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[up-tempo music plays]
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Good evening, folks.
This is Douglas Dumbrill.
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Forget the ice cubes, gang,
we've really got a cooI show today. Boo.
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Let's see, who are our guests?
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Look at that.
That's Miss Better Posture.
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- And we also have Mr Bad Posture.
- [laughter]
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No, we have marvellous musicians,
Murray McKekrin and Chet Baker.
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We're going to bring out now one of
the best trumpet players in the world.
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He's been with us recently.
I can't find information about him,
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but I don't need it.
He's one of my favourite musicians.
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He plays very definitely jazz trumpet,
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and yet there's something extremely
IyricaI and even somewhat romantic
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about his tone and his style of playing.
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Let's welcome a great talent,
Mr Chet Baker. Here he is.
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[applause]
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~ Lately
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~ You've been so forgetful
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~ A kind of a stop and go
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~ Forgetfulness
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~ That bothers me
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~ Kisses
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~ I once had a knack for
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[man] It was 1946
and I was 15 years old.
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Hirsch brought Chetty over to my house,
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and my mother made bacon
and lettuce and tomato sandwiches.
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Chetty ate his and then he took mine.
264
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And he kept eating. He was reaI hungry.
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My mother said,
"That guy is really hungry".
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He kept eating,
and she used to like to bake a lot then.
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She'd bake cakes
and he ate all the cake, too.
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So he was hungry. He was very thin,
though. He was a good-looking kid.
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He played the trumpet.
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Anyway, we were doing a job
at the Miramar HoteI in Santa Barbara
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with this little band.
And Bill Perkins was up there.
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His mother was rich and she had
a house in the hills in Santa Barbara.
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So, after the job,
we went up to his house.
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How slick Chetty was, you know.
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Finally I had Ann Jasmine in the
bedroom, and I was in bed with her.
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Then I turned around, for some reason,
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and when I turned back,
Chetty was fucking her.
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They were going
and she was saying, "Oh, Jack".
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She thought I was fucking her,
it was Chetty that was fucking her.
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This is how fast he was,
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and ever since then
Ann has really liked me a lot.
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~ You wish you had tried much less
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~ Forgetfulness
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~ You'll be upset
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~ Forgetful
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~ Won't be able to forget
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[woman] Between being an actress
and being a singer,
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I was a camera girI and I did it in L.A.
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I did it at the Ambassador HoteI.
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The Coconut Grove. I was
the only girI that worked in the place,
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and it was a very plush, nice job.
292
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Across the street one way
was my father's club,
293
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The Tiffany, and across the street
the other way was the Haig,
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where Chet Baker was playing.
295
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And we cared for each other very much.
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We used to spend a lot of time driving.
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I never heard Chet sing at that time.
298
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He would only sing in the car.
299
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But we managed to be
on Pacific Coast Highway a lot.
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He wouldn't drink coffee.
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He didn't smoke cigarettes.
302
00:23:46,141 --> 00:23:48,935
We did smoke grass,
but we all felt that,
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that was a really healthy thing to do.
304
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That was the naturaI high.
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We would go skiing, boating,
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and we were very, uh...
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...in touch with nature,
in touch with life.
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Before the sixties,
when it got to be everybody's religion.
309
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And we sure knew how to get lost.
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We got lost on the sailboat
in Balboa Bay, and we loved it.
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I wasn't even aware
of Dizzy Gillespie...
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Roy Eldridge and Charlie Shavers...
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00:24:39,982 --> 00:24:44,778
...untiI three years later, actually,
314
00:24:44,861 --> 00:24:48,281
when I was in the Army in Berlin
315
00:24:49,365 --> 00:24:54,328
and I heard my first...
I heard on a V-disc,
316
00:24:54,412 --> 00:24:57,456
what they called a V-disc,
over the Armed Forces Network.
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They started playing
a lot of Stan Kenton,
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00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:08,508
and Woody Herman
and then, uh, Dizzy Gillespie
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and Charlie Parker.
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00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:17,016
And, uh, man,
that was a rude awakening,
321
00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:19,059
let me tell you.
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00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:26,524
From Harry James to Dizzy Gillespie
is kind of a big jump.
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00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:32,697
I was playing every night.
Someplace there was a session...
324
00:25:33,447 --> 00:25:38,702
...in L.A. and I met Dexter,
and Tony Poindexter,
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00:25:38,786 --> 00:25:42,497
and, uh, Wardell Gray...
326
00:25:46,876 --> 00:25:52,214
Frank Morgan, who has just
been playing in New York recently.
327
00:25:53,549 --> 00:25:58,345
And Hampton Hawes
and Shelly Manne and Shorty Rogers,
328
00:25:58,429 --> 00:26:01,848
Jack Sheldon and the Candoli Brothers,
329
00:26:01,932 --> 00:26:06,811
Frank Rosolino, and Pete Christlieb...
330
00:26:07,604 --> 00:26:10,731
...Bill Holbrook and Jack Montrose
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00:26:10,815 --> 00:26:13,526
and all those west coast cats.
332
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And Russ Freeman.
333
00:26:18,947 --> 00:26:20,365
Then I got a job.
334
00:26:20,449 --> 00:26:24,911
One of my firstjobs
was with Vito Musso.
335
00:26:26,121 --> 00:26:31,626
You probably don't remember him,
but he made one record
336
00:26:31,709 --> 00:26:35,045
of Come Back to Sorrento
when he was with Stan Kenton.
337
00:26:35,129 --> 00:26:40,926
It was such a big hit
that he was able to, you know,
338
00:26:42,052 --> 00:26:46,389
be booked and have his own group
and traveI around.
339
00:26:46,473 --> 00:26:50,309
And, uh, the drummer got me on the band.
340
00:26:50,393 --> 00:26:53,771
So he had a very hip rhythm section.
341
00:26:54,438 --> 00:26:57,983
He'd get up there and play...
[humming]
342
00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:03,780
[whimpering]
343
00:27:03,863 --> 00:27:07,617
[man] My name is Hersh HameI
and I'm a bass violin player.
344
00:27:08,534 --> 00:27:14,165
I've been in Los Angeles
many years playing, since 1949.
345
00:27:14,248 --> 00:27:17,251
And one of the things
about Chet, at the time,
346
00:27:17,334 --> 00:27:22,005
was that he wasn't so interested
in playing the be-bop riffs,
347
00:27:22,089 --> 00:27:27,844
that were popular at the time,
as he was playing pretty tunes
348
00:27:27,927 --> 00:27:31,764
like Zing Goes the Strings
to your Heart,
349
00:27:31,847 --> 00:27:34,975
Make Believe,
The Way you Look Tonight.
350
00:27:35,017 --> 00:27:40,355
At the time there was a lot of talk
about west coastjazz,
351
00:27:40,439 --> 00:27:43,817
or "cooI jazz" as some of the New York
352
00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:46,986
or Eastern musicians used to call it.
353
00:27:47,070 --> 00:27:50,990
And they sort of
put our style of music down
354
00:27:51,073 --> 00:27:53,159
out here in Los Angeles.
355
00:27:54,034 --> 00:27:58,163
I really don't think
that they understood that
356
00:27:58,247 --> 00:28:02,000
musicians like Chet Baker
and Art Pepper
357
00:28:02,042 --> 00:28:05,420
were really products
of their environment.
358
00:28:05,503 --> 00:28:09,674
The sun and the beach
and the warmth and the romanticism.
359
00:28:09,757 --> 00:28:14,553
Chet's kind of playing
was just indigenous to jazz
360
00:28:14,637 --> 00:28:18,307
as The Beach Boys were,
later on, to rock and roll.
361
00:28:20,225 --> 00:28:22,936
[woman] I loved Chet
long before I met him,
362
00:28:23,019 --> 00:28:25,980
because he personified,
for me... [laughing]
363
00:28:27,732 --> 00:28:30,109
- I can't do it.
- [man] It's OK.
364
00:28:31,068 --> 00:28:32,570
All right. [clears throat]
365
00:28:32,653 --> 00:28:34,989
I loved Chet way before I met him
366
00:28:35,072 --> 00:28:38,534
because, for me,
he personified the very thing
367
00:28:38,617 --> 00:28:43,079
that gave meaning to my life,
and that is jazz.
368
00:28:44,164 --> 00:28:47,792
I was playing drums in a little pizza
place and he walked in one night...
369
00:28:48,751 --> 00:28:50,837
...with his trumpet. I knew it was Chet.
370
00:28:51,587 --> 00:28:55,716
And he looked like a Greek god to me.
371
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,845
And I fell in love with him immediately.
372
00:28:59,928 --> 00:29:01,430
[Chet Baker singing]
373
00:29:01,513 --> 00:29:05,100
He was very gentle,
very sweet, very charming.
374
00:29:05,266 --> 00:29:08,353
I guess that's what it was,
the mystique about him.
375
00:29:08,353 --> 00:29:11,772
The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
kind of scenario.
376
00:29:11,898 --> 00:29:13,691
Shortly before my mother died,
377
00:29:14,525 --> 00:29:18,654
Chet was doing his number
about having to get high.
378
00:29:18,737 --> 00:29:21,198
I finally got some money
out of my brother.
379
00:29:21,281 --> 00:29:24,951
I had left the home by that time.
I couldn't take any more.
380
00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:28,371
So, I went to a women's shelter
to get away from it.
381
00:29:28,454 --> 00:29:34,210
I spoke to my brother on the phone.
He said, "Well, I told Chet to leave.
382
00:29:34,293 --> 00:29:36,920
He's full of shit.
I never want to see him again".
383
00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:40,549
Because Chet cons people.
384
00:29:40,632 --> 00:29:46,346
He has this ability
to elicit sympathy from people.
385
00:29:46,429 --> 00:29:48,973
And it's all a big act.
386
00:29:49,932 --> 00:29:52,476
He came to my brother,
and put his arms around him:
387
00:29:52,518 --> 00:29:55,854
"Oh, I can't make it.
388
00:29:57,064 --> 00:29:59,358
I wait every morning
for the sun to come up.
389
00:29:59,441 --> 00:30:02,486
It's agonising and I'm hurting so bad".
390
00:30:02,527 --> 00:30:06,531
My brother fell for it
and gave him $50 so he could go cop.
391
00:30:08,199 --> 00:30:10,785
After that he realised
that he was being conned
392
00:30:10,868 --> 00:30:14,580
because Chet said,
"How was I? Was I pretty good?
393
00:30:14,663 --> 00:30:16,540
I should have been an actor".
394
00:30:16,624 --> 00:30:21,294
So you really never know
when Chet is being sincere.
395
00:31:03,959 --> 00:31:08,796
~ Why the gods above me
396
00:31:10,882 --> 00:31:15,511
~ Who must be in the know
397
00:31:18,097 --> 00:31:23,935
~ Think so little of me
398
00:31:26,396 --> 00:31:31,108
~ They permit you to go
399
00:31:34,862 --> 00:31:40,450
~ When you're near
there's such an air
400
00:31:41,451 --> 00:31:42,744
~ Of spring
401
00:31:44,371 --> 00:31:45,622
[scatting]
402
00:31:47,665 --> 00:31:49,834
~ About it
403
00:31:49,917 --> 00:31:53,671
~ I can hear
404
00:31:53,754 --> 00:31:56,924
~ A lark
405
00:31:58,550 --> 00:32:04,514
~ Somewhere begin to sing about it
406
00:32:06,683 --> 00:32:12,021
~ There's no love song finer
407
00:32:14,607 --> 00:32:18,527
~ But how strange the change
408
00:32:18,610 --> 00:32:22,489
~ From major to minor
409
00:32:24,032 --> 00:32:27,160
~ Every time
410
00:32:28,244 --> 00:32:32,957
~ We say goodbye
411
00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:15,621
He played reaI good trumpet.
He didn't know what note he was hitting.
412
00:33:15,704 --> 00:33:19,666
He would just press the valves down,
and it was reaI easy for him to play.
413
00:33:19,750 --> 00:33:22,752
I hated this
because I played the trumpet too,
414
00:33:22,836 --> 00:33:25,088
and it was reaI hard for me to play.
415
00:33:25,171 --> 00:33:27,882
Every day I had to practice,
all day long.
416
00:33:27,966 --> 00:33:30,593
Practice scales,
practice the Arbans book.
417
00:33:30,676 --> 00:33:32,345
Chetty never practiced at all.
418
00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:34,555
He just could play,
and he knew every song.
419
00:33:34,638 --> 00:33:37,599
He could just play any tune
and he knew the melody,
420
00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:39,726
and he could play jazz to it.
421
00:33:39,810 --> 00:33:41,686
And he always knew where he was.
422
00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:44,981
It was reaI hard for me.
I never knew where I was.
423
00:33:45,065 --> 00:33:47,400
I'd always forget what bar we were in.
424
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:50,486
In fact, where are we now?
425
00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:52,905
[humming]
426
00:33:55,699 --> 00:33:59,453
My mother bought me
a Steinway piano for $3,000
427
00:33:59,494 --> 00:34:03,540
and Chet couldn't understand why
I got a Steinway piano instead of a car.
428
00:34:03,623 --> 00:34:06,918
'Cause he really couldn't think
about having to work at music.
429
00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:08,670
It was just easy for him.
430
00:34:09,337 --> 00:34:13,049
Everything came easy for Chetty.
He was just a naturaI musician.
431
00:34:13,132 --> 00:34:18,011
~ Somewhere begin to sing about it
432
00:34:20,806 --> 00:34:25,810
~ There's no love song finer
433
00:34:28,021 --> 00:34:31,899
~ But how strange
434
00:34:31,983 --> 00:34:36,695
~ The change from major to minor
435
00:34:38,655 --> 00:34:41,992
~ Every time
436
00:34:44,327 --> 00:34:47,539
~ We say goodbye
437
00:35:05,972 --> 00:35:08,766
- [man] You sounded great.
- [man 2] Yeah, that was it.
438
00:35:08,850 --> 00:35:11,143
- [man 1] You hear that?
- Yeah.
439
00:35:13,896 --> 00:35:16,523
But anyway, you can't play it for him.
440
00:35:16,607 --> 00:35:18,984
You gotta...
441
00:35:19,067 --> 00:35:21,486
[indistinct]
442
00:35:25,407 --> 00:35:26,699
[woman] Hey, Chet.
443
00:35:26,783 --> 00:35:29,452
- Would you like a glass of wine?
- Yeah.
444
00:35:34,165 --> 00:35:36,500
Somebody put that down there.
445
00:35:38,418 --> 00:35:42,589
[woman] I wanted to ask you about the
psychiatric ward and the questionnaires,
446
00:35:42,672 --> 00:35:45,675
and how you manipulated your way
out of the Army.
447
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:53,349
Well, before I got transferred I made up
my mind I wanted to get out of the Army.
448
00:35:54,058 --> 00:35:56,518
So I started seeing
the post psychiatrist...
449
00:35:58,437 --> 00:36:00,480
...and complaining about...
450
00:36:01,523 --> 00:36:06,736
...not being able to go down
to the latrine in the morning...
451
00:36:08,529 --> 00:36:13,492
...and do my business
while sitting alongside 12 other guys
452
00:36:13,534 --> 00:36:16,537
just talking and
reading newspapers and smoking.
453
00:36:17,705 --> 00:36:23,460
And I started going across the street
in a clump of bushes.
454
00:36:25,503 --> 00:36:30,424
I told him that. He checked
all that out, found out it was true,
455
00:36:30,508 --> 00:36:32,426
and that helped a great deaI.
456
00:36:32,510 --> 00:36:36,388
That and the multiple answer
questionnaires that they give you
457
00:36:36,472 --> 00:36:39,975
to ask if you want to be a mechanic
458
00:36:40,058 --> 00:36:43,895
or a florist or work
for the forestry department.
459
00:36:43,979 --> 00:36:48,232
I would always pick
the most feminine one.
460
00:36:49,984 --> 00:36:53,112
And I told them I smoked marijuana,
461
00:36:53,195 --> 00:36:56,198
you know, that I played bebop.
462
00:36:56,282 --> 00:36:59,368
Then I got transferred
out to the middle of the desert.
463
00:36:59,451 --> 00:37:01,828
I stayed there a few months
and went AWOL.
464
00:37:01,912 --> 00:37:06,583
I turned myself back in to this
post psychiatrist in San Francisco,
465
00:37:06,666 --> 00:37:08,710
who accompanied me to the MP's.
466
00:37:08,793 --> 00:37:13,339
And I got sent to the stockade.
I stayed there for a few days.
467
00:37:13,422 --> 00:37:17,343
To get high in the stockades,
these guys were sniffing fumes
468
00:37:17,426 --> 00:37:21,805
from a rag stuffed
in an Army truck gasoline tank.
469
00:37:21,930 --> 00:37:24,474
I saw that and I said,
"I gotta get out of here".
470
00:37:25,558 --> 00:37:28,186
You know, there's got to be
a better way.
471
00:37:29,062 --> 00:37:32,857
So, I kind of put myself in a trance
472
00:37:32,982 --> 00:37:38,070
and nobody could get through to me
for hours on end, you know.
473
00:37:38,153 --> 00:37:41,531
I'd just sit there,
staring out into the distance.
474
00:37:41,615 --> 00:37:45,994
They gave me a secanoI
and put me in a private cell that night.
475
00:37:46,035 --> 00:37:50,164
And the next day I was transferred
to the neuropsychiatry ward.
476
00:37:50,248 --> 00:37:55,669
So, it was kind of tricky business,
trying to keep from
477
00:37:55,753 --> 00:37:59,673
getting the shock treatment,
478
00:37:59,756 --> 00:38:02,425
and at the same time,
getting what I wanted,
479
00:38:02,509 --> 00:38:04,511
which was out of the Army.
480
00:38:09,807 --> 00:38:12,601
[fanfare]
481
00:38:28,449 --> 00:38:32,036
It isn't much, but it's
Rigsy's best. Don't swallow it.
482
00:38:33,037 --> 00:38:36,665
[Baker] We had a good time out in
the desert there for about three months.
483
00:38:36,749 --> 00:38:41,044
Everyone was getting loaded.
Grass was $30 a kilo.
484
00:38:42,087 --> 00:38:47,050
After three months
I decided it was time to leave,
485
00:38:47,133 --> 00:38:49,052
so I went AWOL.
486
00:38:49,844 --> 00:38:53,097
I had such an influence on the band
487
00:38:53,180 --> 00:38:56,058
that the day after I went AWOL
half the band went AWOL.
488
00:38:57,643 --> 00:39:00,020
And the bandleader flipped out.
489
00:39:02,230 --> 00:39:04,482
What's the matter?
Am I bringing you down?
490
00:39:04,566 --> 00:39:06,067
Smile.
491
00:39:06,151 --> 00:39:07,860
Doesn't move you, huh?
492
00:39:10,113 --> 00:39:11,822
Well, try this one, pres.
493
00:39:12,823 --> 00:39:15,284
[upbeat loud tune]
494
00:39:15,367 --> 00:39:17,995
- I'll stuff acorns...
- Take it easy, take it easy.
495
00:39:18,078 --> 00:39:19,830
What if he was a drummer?
496
00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:25,460
[Baker] But, nevertheless,
I was discharged three weeks later.
497
00:39:25,543 --> 00:39:28,546
A generaI discharge
under honourable conditions.
498
00:39:28,630 --> 00:39:30,756
"Unadaptable to Army life".
499
00:39:34,718 --> 00:39:38,639
[~ Chet Baker: My Ideal]
500
00:39:39,681 --> 00:39:44,102
[woman] His father wanted him
to be just a naturaI musician,
501
00:39:44,185 --> 00:39:47,647
but his father really held reins on him.
502
00:39:48,606 --> 00:39:52,985
I don't think they were so close.
I think he was closer to me.
503
00:39:53,069 --> 00:39:55,988
He was just exactly like his father.
504
00:39:56,905 --> 00:40:00,200
We lived in Oklahoma City
with his aunt and uncle.
505
00:40:00,909 --> 00:40:06,664
They had a radio and we only had popular
music on for one hour in the day.
506
00:40:06,748 --> 00:40:12,545
And when it was on,
he would climb up on the stooI
507
00:40:12,628 --> 00:40:15,589
and just sit there
for one hour and listen.
508
00:40:15,673 --> 00:40:21,053
When it was through playing,
he would just climb down...
509
00:40:22,679 --> 00:40:26,683
...be reaI quiet for a while,
then start playing.
510
00:40:26,766 --> 00:40:32,104
And he learned songs by memory
when he was that young.
511
00:40:32,188 --> 00:40:36,150
Yes, he didn't get a trumpet
untiI he was about 11.
512
00:40:36,233 --> 00:40:40,112
And his father bought it at a pawn shop
and he just brought it home,
513
00:40:40,195 --> 00:40:43,114
sat it down and didn't say,
"Chet, this is yours".
514
00:40:43,198 --> 00:40:48,953
So Chetjust took it and started
practicing and listening to records.
515
00:40:48,995 --> 00:40:52,832
And in two weeks he was picking out
516
00:40:52,915 --> 00:40:56,335
The Two O'Clock Jump by Harry James.
517
00:40:56,418 --> 00:40:58,462
My father had been a musician.
518
00:40:58,545 --> 00:41:03,883
And, unfortunately, when I was born
in '29 it was the Depression.
519
00:41:04,926 --> 00:41:08,346
He had to give up playing
because nobody had any money
520
00:41:08,429 --> 00:41:12,266
to go out and listen to music
or go dancing or anything like that,
521
00:41:12,350 --> 00:41:15,936
in Oklahoma, anyway, in those years.
522
00:41:16,979 --> 00:41:22,109
So, later on, in California,
he gave me a trombone
523
00:41:22,192 --> 00:41:24,486
because Jack Teagarden
was his favourite.
524
00:41:25,570 --> 00:41:29,782
I tried to play it,
but it was so clumsy and so big for me.
525
00:41:29,866 --> 00:41:33,536
I couldn't reach the bottom positions
and the mouthpiece was too big.
526
00:41:33,619 --> 00:41:36,872
So he took it away
and brought home a trumpet
527
00:41:36,955 --> 00:41:39,499
after about three weeks.
528
00:41:39,583 --> 00:41:45,422
It was kind ofjust love at first sight,
and I've been playing it ever since.
529
00:41:46,589 --> 00:41:51,344
Well, he was ditching schooI and I
just knew he was gonna get into trouble.
530
00:41:51,427 --> 00:41:55,097
So we just signed him up for the Army.
531
00:41:56,932 --> 00:42:01,186
And then when he went to
El Camino College he played in the band,
532
00:42:01,269 --> 00:42:06,399
but his band master said that
he would never make it as a musician
533
00:42:06,483 --> 00:42:09,694
because he kept
putting in things, you know.
534
00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:11,612
He'd put in little riffs.
535
00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:16,450
And the first time that Chet played
a concert, he got a telegram from him.
536
00:42:16,533 --> 00:42:19,161
- [man] What did he say?
- Well, congratulations.
537
00:42:19,244 --> 00:42:22,956
I never thought
you'd make it. [chuckles]
538
00:42:24,374 --> 00:42:27,377
[Baker] Then I got my firstjob
with Charlie Parker.
539
00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:29,796
And my second was with Stan Getz.
540
00:42:29,879 --> 00:42:31,714
My third was with Gerry Mulligan.
541
00:42:31,797 --> 00:42:35,009
And we formed a group
that became very famous.
542
00:42:36,010 --> 00:42:38,804
We were together 11 months,
actually, in a club.
543
00:42:38,887 --> 00:42:43,558
I made severaI recordings
which became very popular.
544
00:42:44,351 --> 00:42:49,022
We both won the polls, Gerry as the
number one baritone saxophone player,
545
00:42:49,105 --> 00:42:53,484
and myself as the number one
jazz trumpet player.
546
00:42:53,567 --> 00:42:58,030
That was both in 1954 and '55
by Down Beat and Metronome.
547
00:42:58,113 --> 00:43:00,198
The critics and the popular...
548
00:43:01,116 --> 00:43:04,828
...where all the people vote
for their favourite instrumentalist.
549
00:43:04,911 --> 00:43:09,499
And even tied Nat King Cole in 1954
550
00:43:09,582 --> 00:43:12,251
in the male vocalist category.
551
00:43:12,335 --> 00:43:16,964
Which was incredible, because I had
never even been on the thing before.
552
00:43:17,006 --> 00:43:20,550
[man] Vera, Chet became
a famous musician.
553
00:43:22,010 --> 00:43:26,806
And he won all those awards,
but did he disappoint you as a son?
554
00:43:33,020 --> 00:43:36,565
Yes. Mm-hmm. Yes.
555
00:43:40,694 --> 00:43:42,654
But...
556
00:43:42,737 --> 00:43:44,781
...let's don't go into that.
557
00:43:44,864 --> 00:43:47,033
[Chet Baker singing]
558
00:44:12,306 --> 00:44:14,975
[man] I first came across him
when I was 16 years old
559
00:44:15,017 --> 00:44:18,270
playing in a high schooI
dance band in Oregon.
560
00:44:18,353 --> 00:44:23,275
And we'd just discovered Charlie Parker.
and read Young Man With a Horn.
561
00:44:24,109 --> 00:44:26,361
Chet was the young man
with a horn in a way.
562
00:44:26,444 --> 00:44:29,489
From Here to Eternity had come out
a couple of years before,
563
00:44:29,572 --> 00:44:32,992
and there's a touch of
Robert E. Lee Prewitt in there, as well.
564
00:44:33,034 --> 00:44:35,911
And this was the Eisenhower era.
565
00:44:35,995 --> 00:44:38,997
There weren't that many anti-sociaI,
566
00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:42,209
slightly anti-sociaI role models
to look up to.
567
00:44:42,292 --> 00:44:46,045
And when the first Chet Baker albums
on Pacific Jazz came out,
568
00:44:46,713 --> 00:44:50,383
here was this incredible, fluent music.
569
00:44:50,466 --> 00:44:52,802
And we all wondered where it came from.
570
00:44:52,885 --> 00:44:55,596
There was a channeI of a danger
that he communicated
571
00:44:55,679 --> 00:44:58,682
in the way that James Dean did,
on a more underground leveI.
572
00:44:58,765 --> 00:45:00,559
And he looked like kind of a bad boy.
573
00:45:00,642 --> 00:45:03,562
At that time it wasn't
an underground culture so much,
574
00:45:03,645 --> 00:45:05,313
but that's all we had to go for.
575
00:45:05,397 --> 00:45:08,775
Finally Hollywood picked up on the
image and decided to make a film
576
00:45:08,858 --> 00:45:11,194
on the early life of Chet Baker
starring Chet.
577
00:45:11,277 --> 00:45:16,031
But Chet got busted and went to Europe,
so they changed the story a little bit
578
00:45:16,115 --> 00:45:18,408
and put Robert Wagner
and Natalie Wood in it
579
00:45:18,492 --> 00:45:20,994
and called it
All the Fine Young Cannibals.
580
00:45:21,078 --> 00:45:24,039
A whole lot of people
were just obsessed with Chet Baker.
581
00:45:24,122 --> 00:45:29,460
Jazz musicians then had names like
Bach and Lockjaw and Peanuts and Dizzy.
582
00:45:29,544 --> 00:45:32,338
He was just named Chet,
which is sort of a soft sound.
583
00:45:32,421 --> 00:45:34,381
Americans' role models of the time
584
00:45:34,465 --> 00:45:37,760
were more like
a football fullback or halfback.
585
00:45:37,843 --> 00:45:41,638
That's why Chet, you see him on this...
I don't know how old he was there,
586
00:45:41,722 --> 00:45:44,599
but that's about what he looked like
during this period.
587
00:45:44,683 --> 00:45:46,392
He looked about 21 or 22.
588
00:45:46,392 --> 00:45:49,729
The way he played,
what he looked like, his name,
589
00:45:49,937 --> 00:45:51,606
everything all went together.
590
00:45:51,606 --> 00:45:55,234
Sometimes you see jazz musicians
who are wonderfuI, but the visuaI image
591
00:45:55,317 --> 00:45:57,569
doesn't have much to do
with the way they play.
592
00:45:57,653 --> 00:46:00,072
With Chet it was all of a piece.
593
00:46:18,881 --> 00:46:20,507
He affected a lot of us this way.
594
00:46:20,590 --> 00:46:23,301
We used to, absolutely,
with bated breath
595
00:46:23,385 --> 00:46:25,595
wait for the new albums to come out.
596
00:46:25,678 --> 00:46:28,514
He's a reaI incredible originaI.
597
00:46:29,724 --> 00:46:32,810
Even the movie continued
to embellish the romantic myth
598
00:46:32,893 --> 00:46:34,728
of the jazz trumpet player,
599
00:46:34,812 --> 00:46:37,231
but it was an
internationaI group of people.
600
00:46:37,314 --> 00:46:41,985
And jazz was the cement
601
00:46:42,068 --> 00:46:44,988
that really kept
that whole lifestyle going.
602
00:46:46,281 --> 00:46:48,032
When you see movies about the 50's
603
00:46:48,116 --> 00:46:52,828
everybody thinks it was about
Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens
604
00:46:52,912 --> 00:46:56,332
and stuff like that,
but people that I knew in the 50's,
605
00:46:56,415 --> 00:46:59,626
I mean, they had a record collection.
It was partly eclectic.
606
00:46:59,710 --> 00:47:01,628
There'd be a Frank Sinatra record,
607
00:47:01,711 --> 00:47:04,839
there'd be West Side Story,
some shows, but it was jazz.
608
00:47:04,923 --> 00:47:07,550
I didn't know anybody
who had a Buddy Holly record.
609
00:47:07,634 --> 00:47:12,680
And I was a teenager in the 50's.
I spent my whole teens in the 50's.
610
00:47:12,763 --> 00:47:14,974
[jazz music playing]
611
00:47:20,479 --> 00:47:23,315
I hung out with
a lot ofjazz musicians in Paris.
612
00:47:23,398 --> 00:47:24,691
Everybody came through.
613
00:47:24,774 --> 00:47:28,736
Bud Powell was at the Louisiana HoteI,
Dexter Gordon at the CrystaI HoteI.
614
00:47:28,820 --> 00:47:31,239
Johnny Griffin, Art Taylor, Duke Jordan,
615
00:47:31,322 --> 00:47:34,366
Allen Eager was there.
He wasn't playing but he was there.
616
00:47:34,450 --> 00:47:36,493
Lucky Thompson.
Itjust goes on and on.
617
00:47:36,535 --> 00:47:39,204
Sidney Bechet had just died
when I arrived in Paris.
618
00:47:39,288 --> 00:47:40,747
All kinds of generations.
619
00:47:40,831 --> 00:47:45,001
I was living in a hoteI
that was called The Beat HoteI in 1960.
620
00:47:45,085 --> 00:47:46,669
Number nine Git-le-Coeur,
621
00:47:46,753 --> 00:47:50,006
Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs
were living in that hoteI.
622
00:47:50,089 --> 00:47:52,091
Jack Kerouac had just gone out the door.
623
00:47:52,174 --> 00:47:54,927
There was a little street
called the "Rue de la Huchette".
624
00:47:55,010 --> 00:47:58,263
And I was walking down this street
and I heard this sound.
625
00:47:58,347 --> 00:48:03,018
I looked at this picture on a wall
and there was this picture of Chet.
626
00:48:03,101 --> 00:48:06,479
I walked through the door.
It was called the Chat Qui Peche,
627
00:48:06,521 --> 00:48:08,398
which means "the cat who fishes".
628
00:48:08,481 --> 00:48:12,860
And it was built above
a Roman vault of a cellar.
629
00:48:12,943 --> 00:48:18,031
I went down and I knew every groove
of every Chet Baker record.
630
00:48:18,115 --> 00:48:20,117
I knew what he sounded like in my sleep.
631
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:25,538
Nothing on record even began to approach
what he really sounded like live.
632
00:48:25,622 --> 00:48:29,667
I had hoped and prayed
that somebody somewhere
633
00:48:29,751 --> 00:48:32,503
could have recorded
the way he was playing.
634
00:48:32,545 --> 00:48:35,130
He was 29 years old,
he was in the peak of his form,
635
00:48:35,214 --> 00:48:38,217
and playing so fast and so clean.
636
00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:41,470
I went down to the Chat Qui Peche
and I was sitting there
637
00:48:41,511 --> 00:48:44,723
and this French girI
sat down next to me.
638
00:48:44,806 --> 00:48:49,477
He was playing and I turned to her
to say something
639
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,439
and she said, "Don't talk to me.
I'm in love with Chet Baker".
640
00:48:53,481 --> 00:48:55,691
And I said, "So am I".
641
00:48:55,774 --> 00:48:57,776
[scatting]
642
00:49:02,614 --> 00:49:05,033
It's hard, having
just seen 'Round Midnight.
643
00:49:05,116 --> 00:49:07,285
I later lived in the Louisiana HoteI.
644
00:49:07,368 --> 00:49:10,705
But I asked Bud Powell's wife,
Buttercup, about it.
645
00:49:10,788 --> 00:49:14,416
"How does Bud look so good?
He seems to be preserved".
646
00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:18,754
And she said, "Don't worry, baby,
the deterioration's on the inside".
647
00:49:19,630 --> 00:49:21,631
[scatting]
648
00:49:32,266 --> 00:49:33,434
[woman] Thank you.
649
00:49:34,268 --> 00:49:37,813
The smoke builds a stairway
for you to descend
650
00:49:39,606 --> 00:49:44,027
You come to my arms
May this bliss never end
651
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:49,115
Awake or asleep
every memory I'll keep
652
00:49:49,198 --> 00:49:51,867
When I'm deep in a dream of you
653
00:49:55,788 --> 00:49:57,831
Nice words, uh-huh.
654
00:49:59,917 --> 00:50:02,794
Then from the ceiling
soft music comes stealing
655
00:50:02,878 --> 00:50:05,505
We glide in a lovers' refrain
656
00:50:07,632 --> 00:50:11,052
You're so appealing
that I'm soon revealing
657
00:50:11,135 --> 00:50:14,180
My love for you over again
658
00:50:16,473 --> 00:50:19,434
Cigarette burns me
I wake with a start
659
00:50:19,518 --> 00:50:22,854
My hand isn't hurt
but there's pain in my heart
660
00:50:24,272 --> 00:50:27,150
But we'll love anew
just as we used to do
661
00:50:27,233 --> 00:50:30,403
When I'm deep in a dream of you
662
00:50:31,153 --> 00:50:33,697
- [jazz music plays]
- [indistinct chattering]
663
00:50:38,702 --> 00:50:42,747
[man] When I was a kid I always
used to listen to your records.
664
00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:45,000
That's how I learned to play, man.
665
00:50:45,083 --> 00:50:47,377
What do you think of that Cadillac?
666
00:50:47,460 --> 00:50:49,170
You interested in Caddies?
667
00:50:49,253 --> 00:50:52,506
I saw you had one, too.
I've got a '69 gold convertible Caddy.
668
00:50:52,590 --> 00:50:55,551
- It's bad, man.
- [Baker] This is a '59.
669
00:50:55,634 --> 00:50:58,428
[man] When they were cooI.
Mine's when they started
670
00:50:58,512 --> 00:50:59,930
getting really big and ugly.
671
00:51:00,013 --> 00:51:04,225
Wait a minute. There's no bigger
or uglier Cadillac than a...
672
00:51:04,309 --> 00:51:07,812
Really? It looked like it was you,
though. It was a pink one.
673
00:51:07,895 --> 00:51:11,482
- Get comfortable and just float around.
- [laughter]
674
00:51:14,318 --> 00:51:18,572
[man] People always told me
that Chet Baker liked to float around.
675
00:51:18,655 --> 00:51:20,615
You like to float around a little bit?
676
00:51:20,699 --> 00:51:25,620
As high as I can get off the ground.
677
00:51:25,703 --> 00:51:27,956
One time... I was playing trumpet...
678
00:51:28,039 --> 00:51:29,207
[laughter]
679
00:51:29,290 --> 00:51:33,711
Someone told me, "Well, Chet Baker
plays a lot like Miles Davis".
680
00:51:33,794 --> 00:51:37,548
- What do you think about that?
- Well, they can say that.
681
00:51:38,715 --> 00:51:41,927
- Does it hurt your feelings?
- People that don't...
682
00:51:43,887 --> 00:51:49,517
...have enough ears to be able to tell
the difference between Miles and me
683
00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:55,022
and Miles and Clifford Brown
or Miles and Dizzy Gillespie
684
00:51:55,105 --> 00:51:59,484
or Lee Morgan... I just played
with Dizzy day before yesterday.
685
00:51:59,526 --> 00:52:02,112
Lee Morgan got shot
on the bandstand, didn't he?
686
00:52:02,195 --> 00:52:04,072
- Lee Morgan, yeah.
- Yeah.
687
00:52:04,155 --> 00:52:06,324
- Shit.
- His wife shot him.
688
00:52:06,407 --> 00:52:09,911
[laughing] Ouch!
689
00:52:11,829 --> 00:52:13,956
[man] You ever been married, Chet?
690
00:52:14,039 --> 00:52:18,293
- Yeah.
- [laughter]
691
00:52:18,377 --> 00:52:21,129
- But not shot.
- Really?
692
00:52:21,213 --> 00:52:24,591
[man] Clifford Brown died in a car
accident when he was 24, right?
693
00:52:24,674 --> 00:52:29,387
He did all those great recordings
in a two year span then he dies.
694
00:52:29,470 --> 00:52:32,264
- Yes, he did.
- Know that song, Joy Spring?
695
00:52:32,348 --> 00:52:34,433
- Clifford Brown?
- [scats]
696
00:52:40,230 --> 00:52:43,942
[man scatting]
697
00:52:44,025 --> 00:52:46,444
[both scatting]
698
00:52:50,656 --> 00:52:54,952
- [cheering]
- [man] All right!
699
00:52:55,035 --> 00:52:57,996
You said you weren't
gonna sing for us there, bud.
700
00:53:03,627 --> 00:53:05,378
[whistling]
701
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,519
[man] I can see any of these girls in
that grey Jaguar convertible of yours,
702
00:53:22,602 --> 00:53:25,647
travelling around the country
with that big collie dog.
703
00:53:25,730 --> 00:53:28,941
[Baker] I don't think
I know them, but...
704
00:53:30,485 --> 00:53:32,528
Incredibly it turned out differently.
705
00:53:32,611 --> 00:53:34,446
[~ Chet Baker: She Was Too Good to Me]
706
00:53:36,573 --> 00:53:37,991
[woman] They're great.
707
00:53:38,075 --> 00:53:41,078
[Baker] They're nice looking ladies.
708
00:53:43,163 --> 00:53:45,540
- [woman] SurreaI.
- [Baker] I like to look.
709
00:53:45,623 --> 00:53:48,001
The guy's a good photographer,
all right.
710
00:53:50,128 --> 00:53:52,588
[man] He took Marilyn Monroe's
first pictures.
711
00:53:52,672 --> 00:53:55,382
- I think he was in love with her.
- [woman] BeautifuI.
712
00:53:55,466 --> 00:53:58,385
So these were the girls
that were around in the 50's.
713
00:53:58,469 --> 00:54:00,971
Does that look like one of your exes?
714
00:54:01,054 --> 00:54:02,681
[laughter]
715
00:54:02,889 --> 00:54:05,558
[Baker] Well, there are
a couple of photographs
716
00:54:05,558 --> 00:54:11,063
of different women that I've known
on some of the albums.
717
00:54:11,063 --> 00:54:14,483
[woman] Who's that black girI
in the empty room? Maybe not black.
718
00:54:14,567 --> 00:54:18,904
She's not black,
she's um, Pakistani, East Indian.
719
00:54:18,987 --> 00:54:22,532
- Is she one of your wives?
- It was my second wife.
720
00:54:22,616 --> 00:54:24,117
Halema.
721
00:54:25,660 --> 00:54:27,161
BeautifuI lady.
722
00:54:28,329 --> 00:54:30,081
[man] Yeah, she's so pretty.
723
00:54:42,717 --> 00:54:45,845
- How many times were you married?
- Three.
724
00:54:47,013 --> 00:54:48,556
Who was your first wife?
725
00:54:52,393 --> 00:54:54,603
Her name was Charlaine.
726
00:54:54,687 --> 00:54:59,900
She was from Compton, Lynwood area.
727
00:55:01,234 --> 00:55:04,404
[sighing]
728
00:55:04,487 --> 00:55:08,950
Then Halema and then,
I'm still married...
729
00:55:11,744 --> 00:55:17,249
...to an English girI I met in Italy...
730
00:55:19,209 --> 00:55:21,128
...in 1959.
731
00:55:22,838 --> 00:55:25,006
[woman] A French girI in New York.
732
00:55:25,090 --> 00:55:28,426
It's always an English girI in Italy,
a French girI in New York.
733
00:55:35,849 --> 00:55:40,520
Do you remember any day that was
kind of like the best day of your life?
734
00:55:40,604 --> 00:55:42,606
Oh, my goodness.
735
00:55:49,904 --> 00:55:54,992
Maybe the day I got my Alpha Romeo SS.
736
00:55:57,202 --> 00:55:59,830
That was a nice day.
I had a lot of fun that day.
737
00:56:02,916 --> 00:56:04,834
[woman] You drive it 90 miles an hour?
738
00:56:06,336 --> 00:56:08,504
Uh, it would... it would run along.
739
00:56:08,588 --> 00:56:13,676
It was only 1300 cc, but it would
run along at 125 miles an hour.
740
00:56:13,759 --> 00:56:17,179
But it was just so low
off of the ground.
741
00:56:17,262 --> 00:56:19,681
It made it seem
like you were really flying.
742
00:56:23,059 --> 00:56:24,477
Nice car.
743
00:56:29,148 --> 00:56:31,817
[woman] Maybe you can
tell me about the time
744
00:56:31,901 --> 00:56:34,278
when you had
your unfortunate encounter
745
00:56:34,361 --> 00:56:37,781
and your teeth knocked out
and how you survived.
746
00:56:37,865 --> 00:56:41,326
[Baker] 1968. It is a long time ago.
747
00:56:41,410 --> 00:56:43,662
[woman] Yep. Almost 20 years.
748
00:56:44,621 --> 00:56:48,458
It's the story everyone gets wrong,
so this is your chance to put it right.
749
00:56:48,541 --> 00:56:53,671
I used to go to this hoteI
in the Fillmore to cop every day.
750
00:56:53,921 --> 00:56:59,927
I was working in Sausalito
at the Trident.
751
00:57:01,887 --> 00:57:06,224
And I used to use the stairway.
I'd go up to the second floor.
752
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:12,688
This one day I went in and I looked up
and there was a guy up there
753
00:57:12,772 --> 00:57:18,443
that I'd seen
in the connections apartment.
754
00:57:18,527 --> 00:57:22,614
And I had the feeling
that he was gonna try to rip me off.
755
00:57:23,865 --> 00:57:26,409
So, I just put my hand in my pocket,
756
00:57:27,285 --> 00:57:30,121
as if I had a gun,
and I kept on walking up the stairs.
757
00:57:30,204 --> 00:57:31,831
And he backed off.
758
00:57:31,914 --> 00:57:33,999
But the next day, when I came down,
759
00:57:34,083 --> 00:57:38,462
he had these five young black cats
waiting for me.
760
00:57:42,257 --> 00:57:46,594
- And look what happened.
- [woman] They knocked your teeth out?
761
00:57:46,678 --> 00:57:50,932
Well, the guy walked up to me
and asked me what time it was.
762
00:57:51,015 --> 00:57:55,811
Well, he cold-cocked me,
and I went down into the street
763
00:57:55,894 --> 00:57:58,105
then I jumped up and we fought.
764
00:57:58,188 --> 00:58:02,192
They were all around me,
and I ran and we'd fight and I'd run.
765
00:58:04,986 --> 00:58:07,614
I even jumped into a car, at one point,
766
00:58:07,697 --> 00:58:10,658
with four older white guys,
about 30 years old.
767
00:58:11,659 --> 00:58:14,995
And they were all around the car,
"Get out of that man's car.
768
00:58:15,037 --> 00:58:17,081
He don't want you in his car".
769
00:58:18,207 --> 00:58:20,751
And they pushed me back out
in the street again.
770
00:58:21,585 --> 00:58:24,004
All they had to do was drive off.
771
00:58:25,380 --> 00:58:27,382
So it started all over again.
772
00:58:29,967 --> 00:58:34,013
And then two guys, two older black guys,
773
00:58:34,054 --> 00:58:36,473
threw a broadside
in the middle of the street.
774
00:58:36,557 --> 00:58:39,851
They looked like
they could have been detectives.
775
00:58:40,936 --> 00:58:44,314
When they did, these guys backed off
and they snatched me in the car
776
00:58:44,397 --> 00:58:45,982
and took me to the hospitaI.
777
00:58:47,984 --> 00:58:49,318
Yeah.
778
00:58:49,402 --> 00:58:52,697
[woman] Did you have to get your
whole jaw rewired and everything?
779
00:58:52,780 --> 00:58:56,867
No, but my mouth had been damaged
780
00:58:56,950 --> 00:59:02,330
to the point where the best thing to do
was to take them all out.
781
00:59:02,414 --> 00:59:04,749
I didn't have good teeth anyway.
782
00:59:04,833 --> 00:59:08,670
[woman] Did you already know that you
were determined that you'd play again?
783
00:59:08,753 --> 00:59:14,008
It took me about six months
to make up my mind
784
00:59:14,091 --> 00:59:18,262
to even try to find a way
to play with dentures.
785
00:59:24,351 --> 00:59:27,604
But I'd played 25 years
with just one front tooth.
786
00:59:27,687 --> 00:59:29,022
[woman] Oh... wow.
787
00:59:35,611 --> 00:59:38,530
And how did you survive
during that three year period?
788
00:59:38,614 --> 00:59:43,743
Well, a lot of things.
I worked in a gas station...
789
00:59:45,036 --> 00:59:49,040
...for awhile, from 7.00 in the morning
untiI 11.00 at night.
790
00:59:49,123 --> 00:59:54,378
That was about the hardest one.
791
00:59:54,461 --> 00:59:57,005
- [woman] Pumping gas?
- [Baker] Mm-hmm. Sure.
792
00:59:57,047 --> 01:00:00,258
- Did anyone recognise you?
- No, not really.
793
01:00:00,342 --> 01:00:03,428
- And you had no teeth?
- [chuckles]
794
01:00:03,511 --> 01:00:05,972
No, I had dentures. I had teeth.
795
01:00:06,014 --> 01:00:11,435
Before I played in front of a New York
audience it took me three years.
796
01:00:11,519 --> 01:00:13,771
It was Dizzy that got me the job.
797
01:00:13,854 --> 01:00:16,732
He made a phone call in New York,
798
01:00:16,815 --> 01:00:20,777
and came back a few minutes later.
He said,
799
01:00:20,861 --> 01:00:26,491
"I got you three weeks work
at the Half Note in New York".
800
01:00:26,574 --> 01:00:31,078
[chuckles] So that was nice.
801
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,539
[woman] So that was do or die,
you're on again?
802
01:00:33,581 --> 01:00:36,208
And everybody was wondering
if you could play, right?
803
01:00:36,292 --> 01:00:37,292
Yeah.
804
01:00:41,588 --> 01:00:43,840
[~ Chet Baker:
Everything Happens to Me]
805
01:00:55,559 --> 01:00:57,311
[laughing]
806
01:02:49,872 --> 01:02:53,793
[Vavra] As I told you, the first minute
I saw him I was in love with him.
807
01:02:53,876 --> 01:02:56,587
[woman] You said he
looked like a Greek god?
808
01:02:56,670 --> 01:02:58,505
[Vavra] Yes, exactly. Well, he did.
809
01:02:58,547 --> 01:03:00,257
And he still does.
810
01:03:00,340 --> 01:03:04,010
Of course, there's always a huge scene
whenever we split up.
811
01:03:04,094 --> 01:03:05,387
It's very volatile.
812
01:03:05,470 --> 01:03:10,308
Screaming and yelling and throwing
things out into the parking lot.
813
01:03:10,391 --> 01:03:12,768
Then we get back together, but...
814
01:03:12,852 --> 01:03:16,772
I went up to San Francisco
where he was playing a gig,
815
01:03:16,855 --> 01:03:20,150
and I was so happy to see him,
but he was very aloof.
816
01:03:20,233 --> 01:03:23,737
He was pleasant,
"How are you doing? You look great".
817
01:03:24,404 --> 01:03:29,492
But I, I just wanted him again.
I wanted to hold him and love him.
818
01:03:30,326 --> 01:03:33,370
So down in the dressing room
I said, "Is it OK"?
819
01:03:33,454 --> 01:03:34,830
He said, "What"?
820
01:03:34,914 --> 01:03:37,124
"Can I hold you for a minute"?
821
01:03:37,207 --> 01:03:38,876
He said, "I don't see why not".
822
01:03:38,959 --> 01:03:42,087
So, I embraced him
and I just broke down and I said,
823
01:03:42,170 --> 01:03:46,216
"Chet, how do you stop loving somebody"?
824
01:03:47,592 --> 01:03:50,386
I just kept saying it
over and over again.
825
01:03:50,469 --> 01:03:55,391
I asked him if we could meet tomorrow
somewhere. I wanted to talk with him.
826
01:03:55,474 --> 01:03:57,226
Just be with him for awhile.
827
01:03:57,309 --> 01:04:02,522
He said, "Sure, meet me in front of... "
I can't remember now where it was.
828
01:04:02,606 --> 01:04:06,317
So, I drove up there.
I waited six hours. He never showed up.
829
01:04:06,401 --> 01:04:09,070
It was really devastating.
830
01:04:09,153 --> 01:04:14,658
That was 1977,
and I saw him again in September, 1982.
831
01:04:14,742 --> 01:04:17,369
Well, the story was
he had broken up with Ruth,
832
01:04:17,453 --> 01:04:20,330
and he came back to see me,
to be with me.
833
01:04:20,414 --> 01:04:24,709
But he was very unhappy,
very distraught.
834
01:04:24,793 --> 01:04:29,172
But I was joyfuI. I was so joyfuI
I didn't see his pain right away.
835
01:04:29,255 --> 01:04:31,757
[Chet Baker singing]
836
01:04:43,351 --> 01:04:48,231
[Vavra] Sometimes during recording
sessions, especially the vocals,
837
01:04:48,314 --> 01:04:51,817
he was having some particular
problem with rhythm
838
01:04:51,901 --> 01:04:54,445
or he couldn't fit the words
with the rhythm
839
01:04:54,487 --> 01:04:57,031
so I kind of
went over it with him like this.
840
01:04:57,114 --> 01:05:01,451
I'd snap my fingers and he said,
"Yeah, OK. All right".
841
01:05:01,493 --> 01:05:04,871
And he even remarked
one night in a club...
842
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:09,292
I was sitting next to him
and he said, "This is Diane,
843
01:05:09,375 --> 01:05:13,838
and I love to have her with me
at recording sessions
844
01:05:13,921 --> 01:05:15,965
because she helps me with the tunes".
845
01:05:16,048 --> 01:05:17,800
[laughs]
846
01:05:21,303 --> 01:05:24,723
My son found out
there were some violent things going on,
847
01:05:24,806 --> 01:05:26,391
that Chet was hitting me.
848
01:05:26,474 --> 01:05:30,353
And he had an occasion to talk to him
on the telephone
849
01:05:30,436 --> 01:05:35,065
when Chet was at the airport,
and, um, and he said to Chet,
850
01:05:35,149 --> 01:05:38,944
"If you ever touch my mother again
I will beat the hell out of you".
851
01:05:40,028 --> 01:05:42,322
Chet was loaded on SeconaI,
852
01:05:42,405 --> 01:05:46,326
so he was not very coherent.
But I could hear him say,
853
01:05:46,409 --> 01:05:49,954
"Oh, you little punk,
your life isn't going anywhere".
854
01:05:50,037 --> 01:05:54,917
~ The touch of your hand
855
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,086
~ Is like heaven
856
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:05,802
~ A heaven that I've never known
857
01:06:08,763 --> 01:06:11,349
~ The blush of your cheek
858
01:06:13,142 --> 01:06:17,104
~ Whenever I speak
859
01:06:18,147 --> 01:06:23,610
~ Tells me that you are my own
860
01:06:26,154 --> 01:06:30,741
[Vavra] So it's a no-win situation
with a junkie.
861
01:06:30,825 --> 01:06:34,995
I know that term is derogatory.
I don't mean to be derogatory,
862
01:06:35,079 --> 01:06:38,790
but it's a no-win situation
with a drug abuser. How's that, better?
863
01:06:38,874 --> 01:06:40,417
[laughing]
864
01:06:41,793 --> 01:06:43,670
[man] Remember what Chet said to me
865
01:06:43,753 --> 01:06:47,048
when we took that photograph
at the Whippoorwill in New York City?
866
01:06:47,131 --> 01:06:48,132
No.
867
01:06:48,216 --> 01:06:50,968
"I'd like to have
a photograph of Diane".
868
01:06:51,052 --> 01:06:52,720
- Really?
- Yeah.
869
01:06:55,973 --> 01:06:57,516
That's nice.
870
01:06:57,599 --> 01:06:59,226
That's very nice.
871
01:07:00,936 --> 01:07:03,772
You really can't rely on Chet.
872
01:07:03,855 --> 01:07:06,441
If you know that,
then you can pull through.
873
01:07:06,483 --> 01:07:10,403
[scatting]
874
01:07:12,988 --> 01:07:18,619
[Baker] We had a party
at my house in L.A. one evening.
875
01:07:20,245 --> 01:07:22,706
All the guys in the band
and their wives
876
01:07:22,789 --> 01:07:26,209
and some other people.
We were talking and drinking.
877
01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:29,629
Listening to music.
878
01:07:29,712 --> 01:07:33,132
And about 45 minutes goes by,
879
01:07:33,215 --> 01:07:37,177
and I realised we hadn't seen
a friend of mine in a long time.
880
01:07:39,096 --> 01:07:44,684
So, I had to push open the door.
881
01:07:45,810 --> 01:07:49,188
The guy had slumped down in the corner
882
01:07:49,272 --> 01:07:53,484
with the spike still in his arm.
It was a bright blue colour.
883
01:07:53,567 --> 01:07:57,446
When I say blue, I mean blue.
884
01:07:57,488 --> 01:08:00,615
He hadn't taken a breath in a long time.
885
01:08:00,699 --> 01:08:02,951
[chattering indistinctly]
886
01:08:03,034 --> 01:08:06,162
So we started putting
cold compresses on his neck...
887
01:08:06,246 --> 01:08:09,916
[speaking Italian]
888
01:08:09,999 --> 01:08:12,293
...and artificiaI respiration.
889
01:08:12,376 --> 01:08:17,005
And we did that
890
01:08:17,089 --> 01:08:21,093
for over 30 minutes...
891
01:08:22,511 --> 01:08:26,556
...before he finally made a sound.
892
01:08:26,639 --> 01:08:29,517
You know, like...
[imitates gasping sound]
893
01:08:30,726 --> 01:08:32,728
One of those kind of sounds.
894
01:08:33,771 --> 01:08:37,733
And, uh, ten minutes later
895
01:08:37,816 --> 01:08:41,445
we had him finally coming around
896
01:08:41,486 --> 01:08:44,572
and, uh...
897
01:08:46,824 --> 01:08:49,952
...he said...
898
01:08:51,412 --> 01:08:54,248
..."You guys messed up my high".
899
01:08:59,294 --> 01:09:03,256
Well, you know,
he was kind of out there.
900
01:09:04,174 --> 01:09:07,510
He didn't know what he was saying,
I guess. He was really loaded.
901
01:09:07,594 --> 01:09:12,306
He almost...
He almost died that day.
902
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:16,810
- [laughing]
- [Baker] Not getting me out there.
903
01:09:17,394 --> 01:09:21,481
- [woman] He can use that as a mirror.
- Which one?
904
01:09:21,523 --> 01:09:25,402
Oh, that's right, this big reflection.
I don't mean to walk away from you.
905
01:09:25,485 --> 01:09:28,905
- You want me not to walk away? OK.
- [man] Come back.
906
01:09:28,988 --> 01:09:30,948
- All right.
- [man] Let's do it, babe.
907
01:09:31,032 --> 01:09:34,702
I'd rather try it open if you could
work it out. That'd be a lot easier.
908
01:09:34,785 --> 01:09:36,787
- [man] Yeah.
- OK. OK.
909
01:09:36,870 --> 01:09:38,580
[piano playing]
910
01:09:39,665 --> 01:09:43,710
[Young] ~ You were my adored one
911
01:09:45,003 --> 01:09:49,507
~ Then you became the bored one
912
01:09:50,424 --> 01:09:53,844
~ And I was like a toy
913
01:09:53,928 --> 01:09:56,221
- [Young] To dress Chet.
- [woman] Oh, yes.
914
01:09:56,305 --> 01:09:57,806
[Young] This is fun.
915
01:09:57,890 --> 01:10:02,435
That brings to mind, I think, the best
comment he ever made about clothes.
916
01:10:02,477 --> 01:10:04,813
Though there were two, really.
917
01:10:04,896 --> 01:10:08,941
"Listen, Ruth, I'm not up there to win
any beauty contests", the first one.
918
01:10:09,025 --> 01:10:12,778
And all I was talking about was
a shower and a comb through the hair.
919
01:10:12,862 --> 01:10:14,280
The other one was,
920
01:10:14,363 --> 01:10:16,490
the fact that once, finally knowing
921
01:10:16,573 --> 01:10:19,201
that I really did
have his best interest at heart,
922
01:10:19,284 --> 01:10:25,206
which I don't think he was used to
in anybody, ever, at any time.
923
01:10:25,290 --> 01:10:29,252
Talked about, orjust asked me, finally,
924
01:10:29,335 --> 01:10:32,296
turned around and said,
"Hey, does this look OK"?
925
01:10:33,631 --> 01:10:37,342
- I said, "No, that stinks".
- He said, "Well, it's red. It's red".
926
01:10:37,426 --> 01:10:42,097
It was like, this hideous burgundy
with a pair of red pants.
927
01:10:42,139 --> 01:10:45,850
Which, in his mind, as long as
it came from the red family it worked.
928
01:10:46,434 --> 01:10:49,270
[playing piano]
929
01:10:51,314 --> 01:10:53,524
~ Listen to them play our song
930
01:10:53,607 --> 01:10:57,403
~ How it shocks my poor brain
with that electric refrain
931
01:10:57,486 --> 01:10:58,946
~ I get a-buzzin'
932
01:10:58,987 --> 01:11:02,073
[Young]
Chet did not discourage me to sing.
933
01:11:02,157 --> 01:11:05,076
He wasn't supportive of it.
There's a big difference.
934
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:10,081
But it depends where
your own self-confidence is.
935
01:11:10,164 --> 01:11:11,874
And I didn't have that.
936
01:11:11,958 --> 01:11:16,295
He thrived on that as much as I'm sure
he thrives much more so on Diane
937
01:11:16,378 --> 01:11:21,007
or on past people, CaroI, Halema
and the rest of them.
938
01:11:21,049 --> 01:11:25,970
And so, I'm just lucky
that those years that I did spend
939
01:11:26,012 --> 01:11:30,308
weren't fruitless, finally.
940
01:11:30,391 --> 01:11:34,603
Because my ears were open,
my heart was open, my head was open.
941
01:11:34,687 --> 01:11:38,232
More than that... Well, my legs
were open, too, once in a while.
942
01:11:38,315 --> 01:11:39,650
You know.
943
01:11:39,733 --> 01:11:43,028
In your case it was only the music?
What else was there about me?
944
01:11:43,111 --> 01:11:47,156
For me it was only the music.
And it was back to the fascination.
945
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:50,993
There was a personality. It was somebody
I had a tremendous regard for.
946
01:11:51,035 --> 01:11:53,287
It would be like living with Picasso.
947
01:11:53,370 --> 01:11:56,040
I mean, if you appreciate art,
you appreciate it!
948
01:11:56,123 --> 01:12:00,293
And, to me, that was
the closest that I ever got
949
01:12:00,377 --> 01:12:04,673
to something that I hailed as being from
my personaI point of view, greatness.
950
01:12:04,756 --> 01:12:09,594
Which anybody who has
any sensibility for creative means
951
01:12:09,677 --> 01:12:12,013
wants to be connected to.
952
01:12:12,054 --> 01:12:15,933
It was getting as close as I could
to my own element.
953
01:12:16,975 --> 01:12:21,521
[woman] Did you have income of your own,
or did you have to depend upon him?
954
01:12:21,605 --> 01:12:24,649
When I was about 21
I got a chunk of money.
955
01:12:25,608 --> 01:12:27,986
And when I met him
I was only 22, remember.
956
01:12:28,069 --> 01:12:32,073
So, I'm not a frivolous broad
thatjust goes getting rid of stuff.
957
01:12:32,156 --> 01:12:36,577
I had enough of an amount left.
958
01:12:36,660 --> 01:12:39,746
And I suppose that's part
of what Chet must have zeroed into
959
01:12:39,830 --> 01:12:43,458
with his kind of ability
to know those things.
960
01:12:43,541 --> 01:12:48,713
But, systematically, he ended up
draining me out of that completely.
961
01:12:48,796 --> 01:12:50,756
I'm sure he knows that, too.
962
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:55,177
You know, I've never felt that
those things even out very easily
963
01:12:55,261 --> 01:12:57,763
in a relationship.
964
01:12:57,846 --> 01:13:00,307
I didn't want to make it
an announcement to him,
965
01:13:00,390 --> 01:13:04,102
even though I didn't realise
the kind of neurotic idiot he was
966
01:13:04,185 --> 01:13:06,229
that had this dependency on anything.
967
01:13:06,312 --> 01:13:08,898
Whatever.
It's not even about heroin, per say.
968
01:13:08,981 --> 01:13:12,902
Whatever. You know, what's mine is mine
and what's yours is yours.
969
01:13:12,985 --> 01:13:16,947
That kind of deaI.
And he did support me, I must say...
970
01:13:17,573 --> 01:13:21,284
...as best he could, but
he was very arrogant about that.
971
01:13:21,368 --> 01:13:24,537
~ I must confess it leaves me a mess
972
01:13:24,621 --> 01:13:27,332
[man] Chet told us a story.
973
01:13:27,415 --> 01:13:30,751
A terrible story about
how he got his teeth knocked out.
974
01:13:30,835 --> 01:13:32,753
[Young] Mmm. Mm-hmm.
975
01:13:32,837 --> 01:13:36,006
- It's terrible, isn't it?
- [man] What's your version?
976
01:13:36,090 --> 01:13:41,011
In my opinion, the story he's handed out
over that incident is quite false.
977
01:13:41,094 --> 01:13:43,054
No, that's not the truth.
978
01:13:43,138 --> 01:13:46,849
That's Chet Baker in his...
979
01:13:47,934 --> 01:13:49,894
...in his typicaI way
980
01:13:51,354 --> 01:13:56,942
of gaining the sympathy for himself.
981
01:13:56,984 --> 01:14:00,737
Well, let's put it this way.
He ran into the wrong person.
982
01:14:00,821 --> 01:14:04,616
Somebody just decided, "I don't
give a fuck if you are Chet Baker".
983
01:14:05,617 --> 01:14:09,245
And yes, his teeth were definitely
knocked out of his head.
984
01:14:09,328 --> 01:14:14,375
Somebody went for him, but not
for the reasons that he describes.
985
01:14:14,458 --> 01:14:16,960
Really, what had happened in truth was,
986
01:14:17,002 --> 01:14:22,883
that somebody kicked his arse
for his manipulating way,
987
01:14:22,966 --> 01:14:27,637
only figuring out, I guess, at the end,
what's the best way to get this guy:
988
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:31,349
"He's a trumpet player. His mouth
is the most important thing to him.
989
01:14:31,432 --> 01:14:32,683
Let's go for it".
990
01:14:32,808 --> 01:14:36,937
So whatever these five black cats are
that he had described,
991
01:14:36,979 --> 01:14:39,022
I'm sure, as to the ones who jumped him.
992
01:14:39,106 --> 01:14:42,609
No, they didn'tjump him because
he had a wad of money anywhere.
993
01:14:42,692 --> 01:14:44,736
All that's a bunch of shit.
994
01:14:44,819 --> 01:14:46,487
What happened is,
995
01:14:46,571 --> 01:14:51,117
that somebody sent those guys out
996
01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:53,869
to do a job and they did it.
997
01:14:53,953 --> 01:14:55,955
And he paid dearly for it.
998
01:14:58,499 --> 01:15:02,669
~ Do you know
999
01:15:02,752 --> 01:15:06,673
~ How lost our pain
1000
01:15:06,756 --> 01:15:09,592
[Young] One by one they were pulled.
Did he tell you that?
1001
01:15:10,468 --> 01:15:13,345
Because of the beating
that he got to his face,
1002
01:15:13,429 --> 01:15:15,889
he had to eventually
go and see a dentist,
1003
01:15:15,973 --> 01:15:19,017
because there were just like
stubbles of teeth left.
1004
01:15:19,101 --> 01:15:22,687
And every one was pulled, one at a time.
1005
01:15:22,771 --> 01:15:25,857
And that's why
he glorifies this incident.
1006
01:15:25,940 --> 01:15:28,735
Just the way I did, "One at a time".
1007
01:15:28,818 --> 01:15:33,030
And then his overuse in this story
1008
01:15:33,114 --> 01:15:35,199
is, to me, even more obvious,
1009
01:15:35,282 --> 01:15:39,077
because Chet is such a manipulator.
1010
01:15:39,161 --> 01:15:40,746
He loves to gain the sympathy
1011
01:15:40,829 --> 01:15:43,832
out of all these horrendous things
that happen to him.
1012
01:15:44,958 --> 01:15:48,628
And then you get a new set
of works here. For him it was nothing.
1013
01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:52,423
Because those stupid teeth
are still in his head 25 years later.
1014
01:15:52,506 --> 01:15:54,550
I used to glue them back together.
1015
01:15:55,593 --> 01:16:00,263
~ With sleepless eyes
1016
01:16:01,098 --> 01:16:04,267
~ How could you know
1017
01:16:04,351 --> 01:16:07,228
~ What love is
1018
01:16:08,813 --> 01:16:12,733
~ What love is
1019
01:16:13,984 --> 01:16:18,030
~ What love is ~
1020
01:16:22,492 --> 01:16:25,370
I got arrested because...
1021
01:16:26,621 --> 01:16:28,956
Actually, because of the newspapers.
1022
01:16:30,541 --> 01:16:32,668
Uh... in Lucca.
1023
01:16:34,086 --> 01:16:38,006
Because, at the time,
I was living in a clinic...
1024
01:16:39,424 --> 01:16:40,759
...in Lucca.
1025
01:16:41,718 --> 01:16:44,846
And my doctor would
take me to work at night...
1026
01:16:46,264 --> 01:16:50,393
...and stay there and
bring me back to the clinic.
1027
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:57,149
So, I was under a controlled cheer.
1028
01:16:58,108 --> 01:17:03,571
And one day I had to go to Verragio...
1029
01:17:04,989 --> 01:17:07,242
...in the daytime,
and he couldn't get away.
1030
01:17:07,325 --> 01:17:11,662
So, I rented a car and
he gave me my medicine for the day.
1031
01:17:12,705 --> 01:17:17,751
On the way over to Verragio from Lucca
1032
01:17:17,835 --> 01:17:20,087
I stopped in a gas station...
1033
01:17:21,004 --> 01:17:23,965
...to make an injection
and I was in there quite a while.
1034
01:17:24,007 --> 01:17:29,178
I had just finished and I cleaned up
and was getting ready to leave.
1035
01:17:30,012 --> 01:17:32,890
There was a knock on the door,
and it was the police.
1036
01:17:34,099 --> 01:17:38,687
And they asked me
if I would come with them,
1037
01:17:38,770 --> 01:17:41,189
and they took me to the police station,
1038
01:17:41,273 --> 01:17:46,444
they called my doctor and he came
to the police station and got me
1039
01:17:46,528 --> 01:17:48,196
and took me back to the clinic.
1040
01:17:50,323 --> 01:17:52,950
The next day,
when the newspaper came out,
1041
01:17:52,992 --> 01:17:56,370
it said that
I had been found unconscious
1042
01:17:56,453 --> 01:17:59,665
in the toilet of a gas station.
1043
01:18:00,165 --> 01:18:02,667
That the police
had to break in the door...
1044
01:18:02,751 --> 01:18:04,044
[clears throat]
1045
01:18:04,127 --> 01:18:06,379
That the room was covered in blood.
1046
01:18:07,338 --> 01:18:12,635
I mean, completely ridiculous...
1047
01:18:13,594 --> 01:18:14,720
...story.
1048
01:18:14,803 --> 01:18:18,015
So, naturally,
the city attorney, I guess,
1049
01:18:18,056 --> 01:18:21,059
the district attorney,
started a big investigation.
1050
01:18:21,143 --> 01:18:24,104
He arrested two doctors,
he arrested my wife.
1051
01:18:24,187 --> 01:18:27,273
He arrested the man
that ran the hoteI where I lived.
1052
01:18:27,357 --> 01:18:31,152
He arrested a friend of mine who
was visiting Italy, who was an attorney.
1053
01:18:31,235 --> 01:18:34,071
He went to Milano
to get my wife, Halema,
1054
01:18:34,155 --> 01:18:38,867
and told her he just wanted her to
come back to Lucca to sign a statement.
1055
01:18:38,951 --> 01:18:43,079
Once he got her in his district
he took her passport and arrested her.
1056
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:45,790
Can you believe that?
1057
01:18:46,416 --> 01:18:49,252
I went to Florence for an appeaI.
1058
01:18:49,335 --> 01:18:53,798
And had three months taken off
so I only did 15 months.
1059
01:18:53,881 --> 01:18:56,675
But during that time I played a lot,
1060
01:18:57,676 --> 01:19:00,929
thought a lot
about getting the hell out of there.
1061
01:19:01,847 --> 01:19:04,682
[man] Ruth, you said
that Chet signed this paper to you
1062
01:19:04,682 --> 01:19:06,559
- to make a film on his life...
- Mm-hmm.
1063
01:19:06,684 --> 01:19:08,061
...or do a book on his life.
1064
01:19:08,144 --> 01:19:12,565
I would reserve the rights of anything
that ever would be approached to him.
1065
01:19:14,984 --> 01:19:18,278
[man] He signed the same paper for me.
1066
01:19:19,154 --> 01:19:20,405
Uh-huh?
1067
01:19:23,283 --> 01:19:25,618
So then we have a lot in common.
1068
01:19:26,578 --> 01:19:29,247
[~ Ruth Young and Chet Baker:
Autumn Leaves]
1069
01:19:46,095 --> 01:19:50,057
[Baker sings]
1070
01:19:55,646 --> 01:19:59,399
[Young] When I first met Chet,
he was very unhealthy.
1071
01:20:00,692 --> 01:20:05,405
And a lot more vulnerable
than he ultimately became
1072
01:20:06,614 --> 01:20:09,200
because he was on the rebound
of his own career.
1073
01:20:09,283 --> 01:20:11,827
He was on the outs
trying to get back in.
1074
01:20:13,037 --> 01:20:15,873
And he was a lot nicer.
1075
01:20:15,956 --> 01:20:18,000
A lot more fun to be around.
1076
01:20:18,083 --> 01:20:20,335
If you can even say such a thing.
1077
01:20:21,586 --> 01:20:25,215
But it was because
of his insecurity of himself
1078
01:20:25,298 --> 01:20:27,216
that things were quite different.
1079
01:20:27,300 --> 01:20:31,095
I was raised
in a show business background.
1080
01:20:31,178 --> 01:20:33,514
And it was motion pictures.
1081
01:20:33,597 --> 01:20:36,767
And it was only
classicaI and jazz music in the house.
1082
01:20:37,476 --> 01:20:41,354
At that time Jane Russell was
a very, very dear friend of the family.
1083
01:20:41,438 --> 01:20:44,941
She's sort of
a technicaI godmother, I suppose.
1084
01:20:45,024 --> 01:20:47,610
And she and my mother and my father
1085
01:20:47,694 --> 01:20:51,530
and Marilyn, who was involved
in some projects with my father,
1086
01:20:51,614 --> 01:20:53,741
used to go and hang out
and listen to music.
1087
01:20:53,824 --> 01:20:56,285
It was really, mostly,
because of Gerry Mulligan
1088
01:20:56,368 --> 01:20:58,495
more than it was
because of Chet Baker.
1089
01:20:58,579 --> 01:21:02,499
But, of course, they ended up
falling madly in love with him
1090
01:21:02,582 --> 01:21:03,917
as everybody does,
1091
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,378
and my mother eventually
kept handing me record after record.
1092
01:21:07,462 --> 01:21:12,800
But it was a composite of Sinatra
and the old singers, too.
1093
01:21:12,883 --> 01:21:15,552
Anita O'Day, whom I adored.
1094
01:21:15,636 --> 01:21:19,973
And Peggy Lee and Julie London
and Chris Connor and June Christy.
1095
01:21:20,057 --> 01:21:24,144
By the time I was seven I used to love
to dance to Frank Sinatra records.
1096
01:21:24,227 --> 01:21:27,480
And that's when
I had these little dreams of singing.
1097
01:21:27,563 --> 01:21:30,775
And that's how
it all started for me, I suppose,
1098
01:21:30,858 --> 01:21:34,528
because it was
my mother's reaction to this guy
1099
01:21:34,612 --> 01:21:38,490
that stuck with her so terrifically
that she just turned it over to me.
1100
01:21:38,574 --> 01:21:43,453
So it started a long time ago.
It's so funny how things turn around.
1101
01:21:43,495 --> 01:21:46,873
And I did end up,
finally, running into Chet.
1102
01:21:46,956 --> 01:21:48,833
I met him at the Half Note.
1103
01:21:48,916 --> 01:21:52,878
I pass by this place and I see
Chet Baker stuff in the window,
1104
01:21:52,962 --> 01:21:54,672
name-wise, featuring him.
1105
01:21:54,755 --> 01:21:59,217
And that's all I need at this moment,
is to see this.
1106
01:21:59,301 --> 01:22:02,262
Eventually, in he walked
and headed for the bandstand.
1107
01:22:02,345 --> 01:22:05,223
And nothing was said,
but we glanced at each other.
1108
01:22:05,890 --> 01:22:09,435
Then I watched him
throughout his performance.
1109
01:22:10,436 --> 01:22:14,815
And he was gaunt in here,
terribly, terribly.
1110
01:22:14,899 --> 01:22:17,693
And he was wearing
that red and burgundy combination
1111
01:22:17,776 --> 01:22:20,904
that he thought was such a big hit,
which was wild.
1112
01:22:20,987 --> 01:22:24,657
With a pair of cowboy boots.
He looked absolutely horrible.
1113
01:22:25,492 --> 01:22:27,285
But still, he was charming.
1114
01:22:27,368 --> 01:22:30,663
It was still my hero
walking into the room.
1115
01:22:30,746 --> 01:22:33,499
So, I listened and I watched
and it was great.
1116
01:22:33,541 --> 01:22:35,876
I just had to thank him.
I said something like,
1117
01:22:35,959 --> 01:22:38,587
"I gotta tell you,
it's really great to see you.
1118
01:22:38,670 --> 01:22:41,965
I think you're doing a hell of a job".
'Cause he sounded like shit.
1119
01:22:42,048 --> 01:22:45,885
He was trying so hard.
And that was what was so endearing,
1120
01:22:45,969 --> 01:22:49,347
to see this man
completely reveaI himself,
1121
01:22:49,430 --> 01:22:52,141
to look so horrible,
to sound so terrible,
1122
01:22:52,183 --> 01:22:55,769
but to be standing there
and trying again.
1123
01:22:55,853 --> 01:22:59,356
And that's what was
the moment that I connected with.
1124
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:02,943
So, he said, "That's really
nice to hear", and all this stuff.
1125
01:23:03,026 --> 01:23:04,611
It was reaI cute, then he said,
1126
01:23:04,694 --> 01:23:06,738
"Well, don't be a stranger".
1127
01:23:06,821 --> 01:23:09,323
So, I went back the next night
and that was it.
1128
01:23:11,075 --> 01:23:14,662
Then we just started hanging out,
permanently, from that time.
1129
01:23:14,745 --> 01:23:18,415
So, it took like, exactly
about 20 seconds to get hooked.
1130
01:23:20,500 --> 01:23:21,918
~ Daydream
1131
01:23:23,420 --> 01:23:28,216
~ Don't break my reverie
1132
01:23:31,719 --> 01:23:35,180
~ Until I find
1133
01:23:35,264 --> 01:23:37,808
~ That she
1134
01:23:40,477 --> 01:23:42,312
~ Is daydreaming
1135
01:23:42,395 --> 01:23:47,692
~ Just like
1136
01:23:49,485 --> 01:23:53,697
~ Me ~
1137
01:23:57,993 --> 01:24:01,079
- [indistinct chattering]
- [jazz music plays]
1138
01:24:01,163 --> 01:24:03,081
[phone ringing]
1139
01:24:08,669 --> 01:24:09,921
Hello.
1140
01:24:10,755 --> 01:24:12,757
[phone continues ringing]
1141
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:14,466
Adriano.
1142
01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:17,886
[phone ringing]
1143
01:24:21,556 --> 01:24:23,975
[singing in Italian]
1144
01:24:24,059 --> 01:24:25,477
[speaking Italian]
1145
01:24:33,734 --> 01:24:35,569
[man speaking Italian]
1146
01:24:39,656 --> 01:24:41,450
[laughing]
1147
01:24:44,661 --> 01:24:46,120
[coughing]
1148
01:24:46,371 --> 01:24:49,916
- [groaning]
- Get down!
1149
01:24:49,999 --> 01:24:51,959
[man laughing]
1150
01:24:54,503 --> 01:24:56,296
[V. Baker] Take my place.
1151
01:24:57,714 --> 01:24:59,424
Come on, let's see some action.
1152
01:24:59,508 --> 01:25:04,054
[man] We'd come out to Oklahoma.
It's so important for all of us
1153
01:25:04,137 --> 01:25:07,515
because we see these photographs of him
from a long time ago
1154
01:25:07,557 --> 01:25:08,808
that Bill Claxton took
1155
01:25:08,850 --> 01:25:12,228
and we see your son, PauI,
looking so much like he did
1156
01:25:12,311 --> 01:25:13,687
when he was really young.
1157
01:25:13,771 --> 01:25:15,689
And that's why we keep saying to you,
1158
01:25:15,773 --> 01:25:19,484
"Is there a story? Is there
something romantic that happened
1159
01:25:19,568 --> 01:25:21,194
that you could share with us
1160
01:25:21,278 --> 01:25:25,323
that would make us be able
to feeI and be at that time".
1161
01:25:26,282 --> 01:25:29,452
I don't know.
Over the years I've...
1162
01:25:33,038 --> 01:25:35,040
I can't think of anything.
1163
01:25:36,083 --> 01:25:39,044
I met Chet in Italy in 1960.
1164
01:25:39,127 --> 01:25:41,838
I'd gone there to work
with the Shirley Bassey Show.
1165
01:25:41,922 --> 01:25:45,633
There were a bunch of kids in the show
that were going every night to see him.
1166
01:25:45,717 --> 01:25:48,845
They kept saying, "You've got
to come down and see Chet Baker".
1167
01:25:48,928 --> 01:25:51,264
I go, "Who's Chet Baker"?
I never heard of him.
1168
01:25:51,347 --> 01:25:53,099
The Friday night I finally gave in.
1169
01:25:53,182 --> 01:25:55,809
I thought, I'll go,
then they won't keep bugging me.
1170
01:25:55,893 --> 01:25:59,021
So, I did.
And when I first saw Chet
1171
01:25:59,104 --> 01:26:02,524
I couldn't believe it was the person
that they'd been talking about.
1172
01:26:02,607 --> 01:26:05,193
No way.
They were telling me all this stuff
1173
01:26:05,276 --> 01:26:09,280
about drugs and being busted
and going to jaiI.
1174
01:26:09,363 --> 01:26:12,783
And he'd been married twice,
and he sounded like a reaI character.
1175
01:26:12,867 --> 01:26:16,245
When I saw him he looked so young
and he was good-looking.
1176
01:26:16,328 --> 01:26:18,372
And he could play.
1177
01:26:18,455 --> 01:26:22,375
[Baker] Well, I was working,
actually, in a little club in Milano.
1178
01:26:22,459 --> 01:26:25,336
And I had been there severaI months.
1179
01:26:25,420 --> 01:26:27,171
And a big show came through town,
1180
01:26:27,255 --> 01:26:31,300
one part of which
was announced by a German girI,
1181
01:26:31,384 --> 01:26:37,389
another by an Italian,
and CaroI had the English part.
1182
01:26:38,307 --> 01:26:43,478
One of those circus type things with
girls running around, skimpily clad
1183
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:47,607
in furry garments.
1184
01:26:47,690 --> 01:26:50,526
You know, with long tails.
1185
01:26:50,610 --> 01:26:56,198
Other girls with hip boots,
shiny patent...
1186
01:26:56,281 --> 01:26:58,992
With cracking whips...
1187
01:26:59,076 --> 01:27:02,370
Take all these furry things
running about.
1188
01:27:03,371 --> 01:27:05,832
[C. Baker]
Before Chet I dated Terrence Stamp.
1189
01:27:05,915 --> 01:27:08,668
About nine months
I dated him on and off.
1190
01:27:08,751 --> 01:27:10,836
He was living with MichaeI Caine then
1191
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:14,757
in an apartment on Wimpole Street.
They had a lot of fun up there.
1192
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:19,469
Meanwhile, I went to Italy, so
after I met Chet I didn't ever go back,
1193
01:27:19,594 --> 01:27:21,972
so I didn't ever see Terry again.
1194
01:27:22,138 --> 01:27:25,391
We had a great time, at first,
especially in Rome. I love Rome.
1195
01:27:26,226 --> 01:27:29,604
We had a great time. We were chased
around by the paparazzi a lot.
1196
01:27:29,770 --> 01:27:33,065
You know, they'd be waiting
outside the hoteI, in the bushes.
1197
01:27:33,149 --> 01:27:35,776
That really got on our nerves
1198
01:27:35,859 --> 01:27:39,321
because we had two rooms at this hoteI
1199
01:27:39,404 --> 01:27:41,781
for appearance's sake
and for my parents.
1200
01:27:41,865 --> 01:27:44,451
They were always on my back, you know.
1201
01:27:44,534 --> 01:27:48,204
Chet had all these troubles
in Italy, so he was newsworthy.
1202
01:27:48,287 --> 01:27:50,998
Chet enjoyed going out. [laughing]
1203
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:53,918
He'd bust on me,
"That dress in the picture is shaking.
1204
01:27:54,001 --> 01:27:55,127
The zipper went out".
1205
01:27:55,210 --> 01:27:58,130
I gained some weight while I was there,
we ate so much.
1206
01:27:58,213 --> 01:28:01,842
Yeah, we used to do
a lot of restaurant scenes then.
1207
01:28:01,925 --> 01:28:05,053
[man] Wasn't Chet separated from Halema
and with you
1208
01:28:05,136 --> 01:28:06,804
when he went to gaoI in Italy?
1209
01:28:06,888 --> 01:28:09,056
- [C. Baker] When he did the 16 months?
- Yeah.
1210
01:28:09,140 --> 01:28:11,684
[C. Baker] Yeah, I was with him
before it happened.
1211
01:28:11,767 --> 01:28:16,980
And I waited for him,
and I went back to Lucca and stayed.
1212
01:28:17,815 --> 01:28:21,526
And it was great, I mean,
nobody could do enough for him.
1213
01:28:21,610 --> 01:28:25,822
It was like he was a hero now that
he'd done 16 months, you know, in jaiI
1214
01:28:25,905 --> 01:28:28,658
- and gone through all this.
- Shut up.
1215
01:28:28,741 --> 01:28:32,787
[C. Baker] They fell over themselves
to do things. He had so much work.
1216
01:28:33,996 --> 01:28:37,291
He was being photographed all the time.
You know how it is.
1217
01:28:37,374 --> 01:28:39,001
[yawning]
1218
01:28:40,419 --> 01:28:43,004
Why did you wake me up,
you crazy old man?
1219
01:28:43,088 --> 01:28:45,048
Excuse me.
1220
01:28:45,131 --> 01:28:46,716
- The coronet.
- Thank you.
1221
01:28:46,799 --> 01:28:50,469
[C. Baker] I lost it when I met Chet.
I just forgot everything, you know.
1222
01:28:50,553 --> 01:28:53,806
It surprises me that I did that,
now when I think about it.
1223
01:28:53,889 --> 01:28:58,852
I didn't think about where it was
gonna end. I met Chet, and that was it.
1224
01:28:58,936 --> 01:29:01,021
I just took off with him.
1225
01:29:02,898 --> 01:29:06,192
[man] How do you feeI when he leaves
and he doesn't say goodbye?
1226
01:29:06,276 --> 01:29:10,821
He just leaves as he comes, which is OK.
It's always a bit of a surprise,
1227
01:29:10,905 --> 01:29:14,491
when you plan dinner or something
and you've just been to the market.
1228
01:29:14,575 --> 01:29:18,370
Spend a few bucks for groceries and
you come home and he's gone, you know.
1229
01:29:18,453 --> 01:29:20,664
What are I gonna do
with all this food now?
1230
01:29:22,582 --> 01:29:25,794
We had to go on welfare for awhile
because he couldn't work.
1231
01:29:25,877 --> 01:29:29,922
Meanwhile, he got his dentures fixed
1232
01:29:30,006 --> 01:29:33,092
and picked up his horn
to start practising again.
1233
01:29:33,175 --> 01:29:37,554
He couldn't make a sound. Not a sound.
1234
01:29:38,639 --> 01:29:41,516
And he didn't think
he was gonna be able to play again.
1235
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:46,312
He really didn't, but when we moved back
to New York in '73,
1236
01:29:47,146 --> 01:29:49,440
things started to happen
for Chet slowly.
1237
01:29:49,524 --> 01:29:52,234
He worked at a nightclub
for nine months, Strikers.
1238
01:29:52,318 --> 01:29:55,070
The business did good
and then he got other offers.
1239
01:29:55,154 --> 01:29:58,824
Carnegie Hall, and he wanted
to go back to Europe very much.
1240
01:29:58,907 --> 01:30:02,994
But he couldn't. He wasn't allowed
into Germany or Italy or England.
1241
01:30:03,078 --> 01:30:06,122
And those were places
where he had a lot of work,
1242
01:30:06,206 --> 01:30:08,166
so he wasn't moving around too much.
1243
01:30:08,249 --> 01:30:12,420
Then he found out he could
go back to Europe, from about '75 on.
1244
01:30:12,503 --> 01:30:14,213
And spending all that time away.
1245
01:30:14,296 --> 01:30:17,758
I guess that's when the marriage
really started to disintegrate.
1246
01:30:19,259 --> 01:30:22,053
[man] CaroI, when Dean
had his accident...
1247
01:30:22,137 --> 01:30:24,556
- [C. Baker] Do I have to?
- You don't have to.
1248
01:30:24,639 --> 01:30:26,933
Are you gonna use it?
I mean, you know...
1249
01:30:26,975 --> 01:30:29,018
Don't if you feeI funny about it.
1250
01:30:29,102 --> 01:30:31,604
When Dean was run down
by a drunk driver...
1251
01:30:33,731 --> 01:30:35,190
.. I flew up to Tulsa.
1252
01:30:35,274 --> 01:30:37,985
I called Chet in Europe severaI times.
1253
01:30:38,026 --> 01:30:40,654
I know he got the message
that Dean was badly hurt.
1254
01:30:40,737 --> 01:30:42,405
I wanted him to call home.
1255
01:30:42,489 --> 01:30:45,366
I needed a little support
at that time, moraI support.
1256
01:30:45,450 --> 01:30:47,160
But he never did call.
1257
01:30:47,994 --> 01:30:49,328
Or write.
1258
01:30:49,412 --> 01:30:53,332
I thought he didn't get the message, but
I did find out he did get the message,
1259
01:30:53,415 --> 01:30:56,585
so I don't know whether it was just
he couldn't deaI with it,
1260
01:30:56,668 --> 01:30:58,337
and that's why.
1261
01:30:58,420 --> 01:31:04,092
But it would have been nice
if he had called.
1262
01:31:04,843 --> 01:31:07,011
I know Dean would have liked it.
1263
01:31:07,845 --> 01:31:10,431
- But he didn't.
- [man] Who was with him at that time?
1264
01:31:10,514 --> 01:31:12,516
- Do I have to talk about that?
- No.
1265
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,562
[C.Baker] I don't?
I'd rather not. [laughs]
1266
01:31:16,645 --> 01:31:18,021
Doesn't matter, really.
1267
01:31:18,105 --> 01:31:20,816
Everybody else says,
"You met Ruth Young?
1268
01:31:20,899 --> 01:31:23,360
You mean you interviewed that bitch"?
1269
01:31:23,443 --> 01:31:25,278
You edit that out.
1270
01:31:26,279 --> 01:31:29,157
That was his downfall, let me tell you.
1271
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:31,158
You're not gonna put any of this on.
1272
01:31:31,242 --> 01:31:33,119
That was his downfall, Ruth Young.
1273
01:31:33,202 --> 01:31:35,329
That's when Chet changed.
1274
01:31:35,412 --> 01:31:38,999
I didn't want to talk about that,
but since you say you've met her...
1275
01:31:41,710 --> 01:31:43,962
...that was when
he started taking drugs.
1276
01:31:44,004 --> 01:31:47,632
She was a very,
very destructive force in his life.
1277
01:31:47,715 --> 01:31:52,053
[Young] Really, in truth,
the first one was a maniac.
1278
01:31:52,136 --> 01:31:56,890
The second one, Halema was supposedly,
this is his description,
1279
01:31:56,974 --> 01:31:58,684
was frigid.
1280
01:31:58,767 --> 01:32:01,311
CaroI was a virgin.
She never knew anybody.
1281
01:32:01,394 --> 01:32:04,272
Now, can you imagine that?
From the time you're 19.
1282
01:32:04,356 --> 01:32:07,442
She's now 45.
She's been separated from him.
1283
01:32:07,525 --> 01:32:10,278
He rejected, abandoned
and deserted her 20 years ago
1284
01:32:10,361 --> 01:32:14,323
and she still says, "Hello, don't tell
him we want anything,
1285
01:32:14,406 --> 01:32:17,284
we just like to see him
once in a while".
1286
01:32:17,367 --> 01:32:21,079
So it's like one is the crazy,
two is the frigid,
1287
01:32:21,163 --> 01:32:23,290
three is the Virgin Mary,
then I come...
1288
01:32:23,373 --> 01:32:27,001
No, then Diane is... I don't know
what category we can put her in.
1289
01:32:27,085 --> 01:32:31,547
She would find it more scintillating
that you skip all of this seriousness
1290
01:32:31,631 --> 01:32:36,010
and just roll out the cameras for them
in a bedroom. I'd love that, you know?
1291
01:32:36,051 --> 01:32:38,220
~ For heaven's sake
1292
01:32:38,303 --> 01:32:41,223
~ Let's fall in love
1293
01:32:42,515 --> 01:32:45,018
~ It's no mistake
1294
01:32:45,101 --> 01:32:48,062
~ To call it love
1295
01:32:50,022 --> 01:32:55,486
~ An angel's holding hands with me
1296
01:32:55,569 --> 01:32:57,362
I went over there to visit Dad once.
1297
01:32:57,446 --> 01:33:00,699
I didn't know he'd left town yet.
I thought he was still there.
1298
01:33:00,782 --> 01:33:03,493
I knocked on the door
and knocked, there was no answer.
1299
01:33:03,576 --> 01:33:06,913
I looked through the window
and couldn't see anybody in there.
1300
01:33:06,996 --> 01:33:10,333
The window was cracked,
it was about three, four inches opened.
1301
01:33:10,416 --> 01:33:14,753
I tried the gate and the gate was open,
unlocked and everything.
1302
01:33:14,837 --> 01:33:18,215
I just went in
and got some of my dad's awards
1303
01:33:18,298 --> 01:33:20,425
and some of his records and stuff.
1304
01:33:20,509 --> 01:33:22,969
She didn't want Ruth
to have them in the event...
1305
01:33:23,011 --> 01:33:25,096
Mainly stuff that belonged to him,
1306
01:33:25,180 --> 01:33:27,307
but I also go her back
1307
01:33:27,390 --> 01:33:30,977
for a few things that
she'd said to me and done to me, too.
1308
01:33:31,018 --> 01:33:33,771
And I don't feeI guilty
about a bit of it, either.
1309
01:33:33,854 --> 01:33:35,689
[man] How'd you get back at her?
1310
01:33:35,773 --> 01:33:38,692
Well, when I went to Europe with her,
1311
01:33:38,775 --> 01:33:42,696
I knew what meant the most to her,
like herjewellery and stuff like that.
1312
01:33:42,779 --> 01:33:45,990
I knew what meant the most to her,
and what would hurt the most,
1313
01:33:46,074 --> 01:33:48,076
and what she'd had the longest.
1314
01:33:48,159 --> 01:33:51,037
So, I knew where
herjewellery was and everything,
1315
01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:54,540
and she had some sexy clothes
I liked, too.
1316
01:33:54,623 --> 01:33:56,875
I was about 14 at the time, you know.
1317
01:33:56,959 --> 01:34:01,713
She had these sexy clothes.
I think I got a nice slip,
1318
01:34:01,796 --> 01:34:03,757
and a silk skirt, you know.
1319
01:34:04,632 --> 01:34:07,844
I got all herjewellery. I was...
1320
01:34:07,927 --> 01:34:10,304
That was the only way
I could get her back
1321
01:34:10,388 --> 01:34:14,141
for anything that she'd ever
done to me that bothered me.
1322
01:34:14,225 --> 01:34:16,560
[man] Missy, what'd you do
with the jewellery?
1323
01:34:16,643 --> 01:34:20,439
[Missy] I hawked it.
All of it, for $90.
1324
01:34:20,522 --> 01:34:22,649
She had some pretty black suede heels
1325
01:34:22,732 --> 01:34:25,318
that were about
three and a half inches tall.
1326
01:34:25,401 --> 01:34:27,695
Couldn't even walk in these shoes.
1327
01:34:27,779 --> 01:34:29,614
Couldn't even walk in them.
1328
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:40,248
~ There's a line
between love and fascination
1329
01:34:40,665 --> 01:34:45,170
~ It's hard to see
on an evening such as this
1330
01:34:45,253 --> 01:34:49,549
~ For they both have
the very same sensation
1331
01:34:50,174 --> 01:34:54,678
~ When you're lost
in the magic of his kiss
1332
01:34:55,346 --> 01:34:58,849
Something like that. That end thing
might not have been right.
1333
01:34:58,932 --> 01:35:00,017
But that's it.
1334
01:35:00,100 --> 01:35:02,018
Yes, love and fascination.
1335
01:35:02,102 --> 01:35:04,938
You said it, baby. [laughing]
1336
01:35:04,979 --> 01:35:07,857
Because that's the stuff, fascination,
1337
01:35:07,940 --> 01:35:11,610
which is the old black magic and the...
It's all connected.
1338
01:35:11,694 --> 01:35:13,487
That's mystique.
1339
01:35:14,655 --> 01:35:17,616
But that isn't necessarily reaI.
1340
01:35:17,699 --> 01:35:20,369
And that's what takes
a long time to figure out,
1341
01:35:20,452 --> 01:35:23,413
to separate one's gift from one's self.
1342
01:35:25,999 --> 01:35:30,294
[~ Chet Baker: Blame It On My Youth]
1343
01:37:07,842 --> 01:37:09,927
[man] Do your children know your music?
1344
01:37:10,011 --> 01:37:14,515
They're not really into music,
any of them that way, you know.
1345
01:37:20,020 --> 01:37:23,189
Although my oldest boy
1346
01:37:23,273 --> 01:37:27,902
by my second marriage, Halema...
1347
01:37:31,530 --> 01:37:34,408
He's supposed to have
a very, very nice voice.
1348
01:37:35,326 --> 01:37:37,828
- And, uh...
- Which boy is that?
1349
01:37:37,911 --> 01:37:43,917
He was born in 1957
by my second wife, Halema.
1350
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:46,044
Halema Alli.
1351
01:37:46,127 --> 01:37:50,923
She was half Pakistani
and half Indian, East Indian.
1352
01:37:51,007 --> 01:37:52,466
[man] What's his name, Chet?
1353
01:37:52,508 --> 01:37:56,762
His name is Chesney Aftab Baker.
1354
01:37:56,845 --> 01:38:01,141
Aftab means "the son" in Indian.
1355
01:38:01,892 --> 01:38:05,061
I wrote a nice lullaby.
It's kind of pretty.
1356
01:38:06,646 --> 01:38:09,232
[humming lullaby]
1357
01:38:35,297 --> 01:38:37,674
[band playing lullaby]
1358
01:38:54,148 --> 01:38:58,443
[Baker] Most of the time he's travelling
around, doing some kind of work
1359
01:38:58,485 --> 01:39:03,531
for a couple of months here,
then going on to something else.
1360
01:39:03,615 --> 01:39:08,494
He doesn't know what he wants to do yet.
1361
01:39:08,536 --> 01:39:09,912
None of them do.
1362
01:39:09,996 --> 01:39:15,250
[Baker singing lullaby
in foreign language]
1363
01:39:18,545 --> 01:39:22,132
[man] PauI, do you see
your brother, Chesney, a lot?
1364
01:39:23,174 --> 01:39:27,011
About every year.
He comes through here with a new car
1365
01:39:27,095 --> 01:39:29,889
and with somebody else
I haven't met before.
1366
01:39:29,972 --> 01:39:33,434
- [Missy] A dog he's picked up.
- That he's picked up hitchhiking.
1367
01:39:34,810 --> 01:39:39,314
He's a nomad. He travels all the time.
He never settles down.
1368
01:39:40,816 --> 01:39:43,985
- One place to another.
- [Missy] Carefree.
1369
01:39:44,069 --> 01:39:46,988
He always just misses out
on seeing his dad, though.
1370
01:39:47,071 --> 01:39:50,366
He always manages to come down,
doesn't he, a week or two after.
1371
01:39:50,449 --> 01:39:54,370
When he finds out Chet has been
and gone he's always kind of upset.
1372
01:39:54,453 --> 01:39:55,954
Always misses out seeing him.
1373
01:39:56,038 --> 01:39:58,332
Wonder how long it's been
since he's seen Dad.
1374
01:39:58,415 --> 01:40:00,500
Chet never lets anyone know he's coming.
1375
01:40:00,542 --> 01:40:03,878
[V. Baker] He's crazy about pets.
He always has about three dogs.
1376
01:40:03,962 --> 01:40:06,381
[C. Baker] He picks them up
on the highway.
1377
01:40:06,464 --> 01:40:09,342
- [V. Baker] I think so.
- He's worked at different things.
1378
01:40:13,262 --> 01:40:16,932
I just tried to instiI in them...
1379
01:40:18,892 --> 01:40:20,602
...that, um...
1380
01:40:22,938 --> 01:40:28,776
...a good way to go, in this life,
is to find something
1381
01:40:29,986 --> 01:40:32,363
that you really enjoy doing.
1382
01:40:33,864 --> 01:40:36,367
And then learn to do it
better than anybody.
1383
01:40:39,244 --> 01:40:41,413
And you won't have any problems.
1384
01:40:41,496 --> 01:40:43,873
- [C.Baker laughs]
- [PauI] I love you, Dad.
1385
01:40:43,957 --> 01:40:46,626
Stay in touch.
Don't be such a stranger.
1386
01:40:46,709 --> 01:40:48,961
Quit screwing around. [laughing]
1387
01:40:49,837 --> 01:40:52,506
[man] We could use
some financiaI help, Dad.
1388
01:40:54,091 --> 01:40:55,926
[PauI] I think that ought to hit him.
1389
01:41:01,681 --> 01:41:03,141
[laughing]
1390
01:41:03,224 --> 01:41:05,477
[car door slams]
1391
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:07,353
[laughing]
1392
01:41:10,565 --> 01:41:12,566
[indistinct chattering]
1393
01:41:17,154 --> 01:41:19,573
[woman singing in Italian]
1394
01:41:31,208 --> 01:41:34,169
[Baker] In this last 57 years
1395
01:41:34,253 --> 01:41:38,131
I must have lived severaI lifetimes.
1396
01:41:38,215 --> 01:41:43,511
I have a lot...
a lot of things to try yet.
1397
01:41:45,388 --> 01:41:47,390
I want to get this house
1398
01:41:47,432 --> 01:41:51,977
and have access to a piano,
which I've never had before,
1399
01:41:52,061 --> 01:41:54,480
and write some tunes.
1400
01:41:55,606 --> 01:41:58,775
And, uh...
1401
01:41:58,859 --> 01:42:03,238
Well, you know,
I've recorded over 900 tunes now.
1402
01:42:04,155 --> 01:42:06,783
They do have a kind of feeling
1403
01:42:06,866 --> 01:42:10,411
of bringing back certain moments
from the past.
1404
01:42:12,329 --> 01:42:16,208
Things that were played, things
that were said by different people.
1405
01:42:16,291 --> 01:42:18,627
A lot of which aren't here anymore.
1406
01:42:18,710 --> 01:42:23,631
So many of my friends have died
in the last ten years.
1407
01:42:24,591 --> 01:42:27,635
I guess beginning with about the time
Bill Evans went.
1408
01:42:28,803 --> 01:42:31,847
Well, before that, Al Haig...
1409
01:42:33,557 --> 01:42:36,560
...who was, I think,
only 50 years old, something like that.
1410
01:42:36,643 --> 01:42:40,105
Then PauI Desmond and Joe Farrell.
1411
01:42:42,315 --> 01:42:46,861
Sonny Stit, Art Pepper.
1412
01:42:47,904 --> 01:42:49,864
Zoot is gone.
1413
01:42:54,451 --> 01:42:56,662
[man] What's your
favourite kind of high?
1414
01:42:57,496 --> 01:42:59,998
Oh... golly.
1415
01:43:01,625 --> 01:43:04,627
The kind of high
that scares other people to death.
1416
01:43:04,711 --> 01:43:05,962
Yeah.
1417
01:43:09,215 --> 01:43:10,508
[man] What's that?
1418
01:43:10,550 --> 01:43:14,803
Oh, I guess they call it a speedball.
1419
01:43:20,267 --> 01:43:23,812
It's a mixture of cocaine and heroin.
1420
01:43:27,273 --> 01:43:30,193
If you've got the right mixture...
1421
01:43:32,403 --> 01:43:35,698
...um... not too much coke, you know,
1422
01:43:35,781 --> 01:43:40,243
because that first rush of coke...
1423
01:43:43,913 --> 01:43:47,542
...is, um... a devastating...
1424
01:43:48,418 --> 01:43:49,585
...feeling.
1425
01:43:50,461 --> 01:43:52,588
I mean, scary, you know.
1426
01:43:52,671 --> 01:43:54,131
[up-tempo jazz playing]
1427
01:43:54,215 --> 01:43:57,176
[Baker] We're gonna rehearse
from about 4.00 till 6.00
1428
01:43:57,217 --> 01:43:59,928
or 4.30 till 7.00 or something.
1429
01:44:02,013 --> 01:44:06,517
I want to take Diane
shopping before that.
1430
01:44:07,810 --> 01:44:09,979
[woman] What are you
gonna buy, clothes?
1431
01:44:10,104 --> 01:44:14,900
Well, I want to get her a little camera.
1432
01:44:14,984 --> 01:44:19,655
You know, not expensive. Something...
1433
01:44:20,864 --> 01:44:24,617
All those photographers following
that chick with the swimsuit.
1434
01:44:24,701 --> 01:44:26,202
[woman] See that girI?
1435
01:44:26,286 --> 01:44:28,955
What do you think, hot?
You like 'em big?
1436
01:44:28,996 --> 01:44:31,791
Hey, can't she get enough at the hoteI?
1437
01:44:31,874 --> 01:44:35,210
- You fiend.
- [laughter]
1438
01:44:35,294 --> 01:44:38,046
- [Baker] I'll drink to that.
- [woman] I'll drink to that.
1439
01:44:38,130 --> 01:44:42,384
- ... song coming up.
- [woman clapping] All right!
1440
01:44:43,385 --> 01:44:47,305
[Baker] Bring about
18 chocolate cream pies.
1441
01:44:47,388 --> 01:44:50,141
- [man] Hit me in the face with one?
- [Baker] No, anybody.
1442
01:44:50,224 --> 01:44:54,520
Just kind of start a small riot.
Why don't you serenade me?
1443
01:44:54,603 --> 01:44:56,397
[indistinct chatter]
1444
01:45:00,734 --> 01:45:02,652
[playing guitar]
1445
01:45:04,946 --> 01:45:08,116
[man] How can we run out of bread?
We've only been here one hour.
1446
01:45:08,199 --> 01:45:10,826
[Baker] Bread and butter and champagne.
1447
01:45:10,910 --> 01:45:12,953
Bread and butter and champagne.
1448
01:45:18,625 --> 01:45:22,295
[Baker] ~ Just friends
1449
01:45:22,379 --> 01:45:24,714
~ But not like before
1450
01:45:24,798 --> 01:45:27,842
~ To think of what we've been
1451
01:45:29,552 --> 01:45:31,887
~ Not to kiss again
1452
01:45:33,556 --> 01:45:38,143
~ Seems like pretending
1453
01:45:40,937 --> 01:45:43,732
~ It isn't the ending
1454
01:45:44,357 --> 01:45:47,735
~ Just friends
Lovers no more
1455
01:45:49,820 --> 01:45:54,575
~ Just friends
But not like before
1456
01:45:54,658 --> 01:45:57,786
~ To think of what we've been
1457
01:45:57,870 --> 01:46:02,040
~ And not to kiss again
Seems like pretending
1458
01:46:02,123 --> 01:46:05,293
~ It isn't the ending
1459
01:46:05,376 --> 01:46:09,630
~ Two friends drifting apart
1460
01:46:10,673 --> 01:46:15,135
~ Two friends, but one broken heart
1461
01:46:15,219 --> 01:46:18,430
~ We love, we laugh, we cry
1462
01:46:18,513 --> 01:46:22,934
~ Suddenly love died
The story ended
1463
01:46:23,018 --> 01:46:25,770
~ But we're just friends
1464
01:46:36,613 --> 01:46:40,409
~ Two friends drifting apart
1465
01:46:41,868 --> 01:46:46,247
~ Two friends
But one broken heart
1466
01:46:46,331 --> 01:46:49,167
~ We loved, we laughed, we cried
1467
01:46:49,250 --> 01:46:53,504
~ Suddenly love died
The story ended
1468
01:46:53,587 --> 01:46:56,507
~ But we're just friends ~
1469
01:46:59,051 --> 01:47:00,927
[loud chattering]
1470
01:47:05,431 --> 01:47:07,975
[applause]
1471
01:47:13,814 --> 01:47:15,774
[woman] Chet, sing us another song.
1472
01:47:16,984 --> 01:47:20,821
So many people here never heard you
before, and will never hear you again.
1473
01:47:20,904 --> 01:47:22,906
- Oh.
- And it's so beautifuI.
1474
01:47:22,989 --> 01:47:25,325
- Well...
- Please, Chet.
1475
01:47:25,408 --> 01:47:28,703
- I'm not dead yet.
- [indistinct chattering]
1476
01:47:31,247 --> 01:47:32,957
[man] So how's it going, Chet?
1477
01:47:32,998 --> 01:47:38,212
It's going OK. People couldn't
care less about the music.
1478
01:47:38,295 --> 01:47:42,173
- No.
- [man] It sounds pretty good.
1479
01:47:44,634 --> 01:47:47,011
They're still applauding
after each number.
1480
01:47:47,053 --> 01:47:48,554
No, no.
1481
01:47:51,307 --> 01:47:55,644
Compared to the...
Compared to the New Morning in Paris,
1482
01:47:55,728 --> 01:48:00,107
which holds almost this many people.
1483
01:48:01,316 --> 01:48:03,276
And you can hear a pin drop...
1484
01:48:04,819 --> 01:48:06,904
...when we play, you know.
1485
01:48:11,367 --> 01:48:12,993
That's the difference.
1486
01:48:14,203 --> 01:48:16,497
[man] Well, this is a festivaI crowd.
1487
01:48:16,580 --> 01:48:20,834
Yeah. It's the worst possible crowd
you can play for.
1488
01:48:20,917 --> 01:48:24,087
- It's possible you want to play?
- Try and get the crowd back.
1489
01:48:24,170 --> 01:48:25,672
Uh-huh.
1490
01:48:26,714 --> 01:48:30,301
I need some cigarettes.
I gotta get some cigarettes somewhere.
1491
01:48:30,384 --> 01:48:32,678
[cheering]
1492
01:48:32,762 --> 01:48:35,931
We've come to that time in the evening
1493
01:48:36,015 --> 01:48:38,016
when there's not much time left.
1494
01:48:39,976 --> 01:48:43,063
The tune is called Almost Blue,
1495
01:48:43,146 --> 01:48:46,274
and we'd appreciate it
if you could kind of...
1496
01:48:47,734 --> 01:48:51,779
...try to be quiet, because
it's that kind of tune, you know.
1497
01:49:13,299 --> 01:49:15,634
~ Almost blue
1498
01:49:17,636 --> 01:49:23,308
~ Almost doing things
we used to do
1499
01:49:27,645 --> 01:49:30,898
~ There's a girl here
1500
01:49:31,857 --> 01:49:36,278
~ And she's almost you
1501
01:49:38,488 --> 01:49:41,074
~ Almost
1502
01:49:44,244 --> 01:49:48,331
~ All the things
1503
01:49:48,414 --> 01:49:52,585
~ You promised with your eyes
1504
01:49:52,668 --> 01:49:56,755
~ I see in hers too
1505
01:49:59,049 --> 01:50:04,512
~ Now your eyes are red
1506
01:50:06,097 --> 01:50:09,183
~ From cryin'
1507
01:50:12,686 --> 01:50:16,607
~ Almost blue
1508
01:50:22,195 --> 01:50:26,241
~ Flirting with this disaster
1509
01:50:26,324 --> 01:50:28,993
~ Became me
1510
01:50:32,038 --> 01:50:36,417
~ It named me as a fool
1511
01:50:36,500 --> 01:50:40,420
~ Who only aimed to be
1512
01:50:41,505 --> 01:50:44,883
~ Almost blue
1513
01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:53,516
~ Almost touching it
will almost do
1514
01:50:58,228 --> 01:51:02,107
~ There's a part of me
1515
01:51:02,190 --> 01:51:08,154
~ That's always true
1516
01:51:09,113 --> 01:51:12,533
~ Always
1517
01:51:12,616 --> 01:51:18,038
~ All the things
1518
01:51:20,123 --> 01:51:24,878
~ That you promised with your eyes
1519
01:51:24,961 --> 01:51:29,048
~ I see in hers too
1520
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:36,680
~ Now your eyes are red
1521
01:51:37,931 --> 01:51:40,642
~ From crying
1522
01:51:43,561 --> 01:51:46,731
~ Almost you
1523
01:51:51,277 --> 01:51:54,905
~ Almost me
1524
01:51:58,283 --> 01:52:02,662
~ Almost
1525
01:52:02,746 --> 01:52:05,540
~ Blue ~
1526
01:52:13,005 --> 01:52:16,008
- Thank you.
- [cheering]
1527
01:52:16,008 --> 01:52:17,759
Thank you.
1528
01:52:26,100 --> 01:52:29,061
[man] Now, Chet, you've run out
of your Methadone.
1529
01:52:29,061 --> 01:52:31,981
We've made arrangements
with your doctor in Amsterdam
1530
01:52:32,064 --> 01:52:33,482
to get you some more.
1531
01:52:34,316 --> 01:52:38,070
You're feeling sick and desperate
these last couple of days.
1532
01:52:40,697 --> 01:52:42,991
But it's been so painfuI
to see you like this.
1533
01:52:46,869 --> 01:52:52,875
Well, Bruce, you want me to leveI
with you and tell you the truth.
1534
01:52:54,043 --> 01:52:57,880
But in doing that it only creates pain
on your part, you know.
1535
01:52:57,963 --> 01:53:00,048
And, uh...
1536
01:53:00,966 --> 01:53:06,971
...uh, this is a big drag,
and completely unnecessary.
1537
01:53:08,431 --> 01:53:10,808
Because, uh...
1538
01:53:15,354 --> 01:53:17,856
...I am 57 years old.
1539
01:53:18,649 --> 01:53:20,901
And, you know, uh...
1540
01:53:24,446 --> 01:53:27,490
...there's just no other way I could...
1541
01:53:28,825 --> 01:53:31,243
...get through these last five days.
1542
01:53:33,287 --> 01:53:34,955
There was no other way.
1543
01:53:35,039 --> 01:53:40,502
Now you've set this thing up.
1544
01:53:40,585 --> 01:53:42,254
But that's...
1545
01:53:43,630 --> 01:53:47,675
I didn't know that would be possible.
I hope everything will be all right.
1546
01:53:52,972 --> 01:53:54,598
[Weber] One more thing, Chet.
1547
01:53:56,016 --> 01:53:59,186
Will you look back on this film,
in years to come,
1548
01:53:59,269 --> 01:54:02,522
and think of it as good times?
1549
01:54:07,485 --> 01:54:11,113
How the hell else
could I see it, Bruce?
1550
01:54:12,281 --> 01:54:14,575
How the hell else could I see it?
1551
01:54:16,160 --> 01:54:19,287
Santa Monica, that scene.
1552
01:54:20,288 --> 01:54:22,249
And that hoteI.
1553
01:54:24,292 --> 01:54:26,461
And the bar and the bump cars.
1554
01:54:26,502 --> 01:54:28,004
And the...
1555
01:54:28,838 --> 01:54:33,801
In the studio, on the beach...
1556
01:54:35,636 --> 01:54:39,431
It was so beautifuI, all those things.
1557
01:54:40,974 --> 01:54:42,726
It was a dream, you know.
1558
01:54:46,229 --> 01:54:48,439
Things like that don't happen.
1559
01:54:53,194 --> 01:54:55,112
Just to very few.
1560
01:55:17,049 --> 01:55:19,217
[man speaking Italian]
1561
01:55:19,301 --> 01:55:21,469
[woman speaking Italian]
1562
01:55:33,647 --> 01:55:38,068
~ Arrivederci
1563
01:55:39,027 --> 01:55:44,199
~ Wipe off that tear as I whisper
1564
01:55:44,282 --> 01:55:46,743
~ Till we meet again
1565
01:55:48,578 --> 01:55:52,331
~ Arrivederci
1566
01:55:54,625 --> 01:55:59,296
~ Though it's goodbye forever
1567
01:56:00,297 --> 01:56:03,300
~ Let's pretend
1568
01:56:05,844 --> 01:56:10,181
~ We dared love to catch us
1569
01:56:10,264 --> 01:56:15,144
~ And always laughed
1570
01:56:15,227 --> 01:56:17,604
~ At romancing
1571
01:56:18,647 --> 01:56:22,943
~ Now we must realise we're...
1572
01:56:23,026 --> 01:56:25,195
[speaking Italian]
1573
01:56:47,298 --> 01:56:51,677
~ Our sunny days are over
1574
01:56:52,970 --> 01:56:57,015
~ Now is the time
1575
01:56:57,099 --> 01:56:59,142
~ To part
1576
01:56:59,226 --> 01:57:02,062
~ Kiss me again
1577
01:57:02,145 --> 01:57:04,606
~ For the last time
1578
01:57:05,273 --> 01:57:09,569
~ Darling, forgive me for getting
1579
01:57:10,570 --> 01:57:15,491
~ I'm stepping out from your life
1580
01:57:17,201 --> 01:57:20,912
~ Arrivederci
1581
01:57:29,504 --> 01:57:32,840
[playing trumpet]
1582
01:58:22,969 --> 01:58:27,515
~ Arrivederci
1583
01:58:28,099 --> 01:58:33,437
~ We knew it was not forever
1584
01:58:33,479 --> 01:58:37,024
~ From the very start
1585
01:58:37,107 --> 01:58:41,444
~ Arrivederci
1586
01:58:42,862 --> 01:58:46,908
~ Our sunny days are over
1587
01:58:47,825 --> 01:58:52,371
~ Now's the time to part
1588
01:58:54,123 --> 01:58:59,795
~ Kiss me again for the last time
1589
01:59:00,796 --> 01:59:04,591
~ Darling, forgive me, forget me
1590
01:59:05,967 --> 01:59:10,596
~ I'm stepping out from your life
1591
01:59:12,139 --> 01:59:16,518
~ Arrivederci
1592
01:59:22,190 --> 01:59:26,736
~ Aah ~
1593
01:59:30,740 --> 01:59:33,242
[birds chirping]
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