Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed. Provided to youtube by universal music group let s get lost chet baker let s get lost. Chet baker my one and only love such a velvet toneimpecable sense of timethe sinatra of trumpet. Chet baker one night in tokyo 1987 remastered 2007 19 download. Studio album 37 compilation 8 live 5 sings and plays with bud shank, russ freeman and strings. Music lets get lost song, a classic jazz song by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser from the 1943 film happy go lucky, recorded by chet baker and others. The subject is chet baker, a jazz trumpeter and singer whose airy stylings on both instruments, not to mention his classic good looks, personified a 1950s west coast cool school. Let s get lost could have so easily been done badly. The movie let s get lost has been resurrected and remastered for the blu. His voice isnt quite as soft and papery as it used to be, but the image like every shot of baker in bruce weber s let s get lost is about the face, not so much the music. Chet baker sings and plays from the film let s get lost chet baker vocal 1989. Intense fandom doesnt often make for objectivity, and the tragicartistgonetoseed narrative is so, so tired. The film uses excerpts from italian b movies, rare performance footage and candid interviews with baker, musicians, friends, battling exwives and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life.
The song was written for the 1943 film youth on parade and topped the charts that year via the. But its perfect for what remains bruce webers best film, 1990s lets get lost. Chet baker chet baker sings and plays from the film lets. One has to remember that when the movie came out, chet baker had literally become a ghost, floating from cheap hotel to small concert in europe or wherever some agent could find a date for him. Immagini tratte dal film documentario let s get lost perdiamoci scritto e diretto da bruce weber, basato sulla vita del jazzista chet baker. Let s defrost into a romantic mist let s get crossed off everybody elses listit would be fun to celebrate this night we found each.
The title is derived from the song lets get lost by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser from the 1943 film happy go lucky, which baker recorded for pacific records. But theres a more complex elegiac resonance to bruce webers music documentary that is. Let s get lost, bruce webers haunting documentary about legendary jazz musician chet baker, first came out in 1989 and hasnt been easy to catch since. Chet baker sings and plays from the film lets get lost. Very nice for candlelight dinners with that special person, or just to listen by your lonesome after a long workweek with a tall glass of wine for the perfect destressor cd. Chet baker everything happens to me video from lets. Lets get lost is a 1988 american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by. Watch the video for let s get lost from chet baker s the best of chet baker sings for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict chet baker. Loesser who wrote let s get lost for dick powells last musical picture, true to life in 1943. Let s get lost 1988 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Il film offre uno spaccato altamente poetico, ma al tempo stesso realistico, dellesistenza del grande trombettista, talento naturale unico, in grado di suonare. Let s get lost 1989 is a documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter, vocalist, drug addict chet baker, dead at 58 in amsterdam.
Check out chet baker sings and plays from the film lets get lost by chet baker on amazon music. Chet baker everything happens to me video from lets get. Let s get lost similarly skips along on jimmy mchughs jazzy and wistful tune. Performed by chet baker with ennio morricone, his orchestra and the swingers choir. Although not the most uplifting film it is a great chronicle of his life and the music provides an often poignant soundtrack to the events in his life. Oct 02, 2011 winner of the 1989 critics prize at the venice film festival and nominated for an academy award, lets get lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a. Mar, 2008 chet baker, 58, is recording jimmy van heusen and johnny burke s imagination. For anyone interested in this record, the k2 remaster is clearly worth the extrabuck s. Sings and plays from the film let s get lost, an album by chet baker.
The best of chet baker sings by chet baker on amazon music. Chet baker lets get lost the jazzomat research project. Written by alessandro maffei as maffei and chet baker as baker bmg ariola records s. Find chet baker discography, albums and singles on allmusic. With chet baker, carol baker, vera baker, paul baker.
Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from baker s earlier life and some modernday performances. In other words, for those unsuspecting, this is music that is simply a ripoff. Its tough about the ugly facts of chet baker s life as a liar, user, and junkie. In the film lets get lost, baker said an acquaintance attempted to rob him but backed off, only to return the next night with a group of.
An academy awardnominated 1988 documentary about baker, let s get lost, portrays him as a cultural icon of the 1950s, but juxtaposes this with his later image. This collection, featuring tracks cut during chet baker s peak years, illustrates that whatever the critics argued about in their various discourses regarding his vocal delivery, there could be. The movie let s get lost has been resurrected and remastered for the bluray format, and sony decided to release a remastered version in its k2 hdcd format. Let s get lost is a 1988 american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. May, 20 lets get lost was shot in 1987 and its release the following year, to a rapturous audience and critical response, was undeniably leant immense poignancy by the death of its subject, jazz legend chet baker, a couple of months before the premiere. Chet baker, carol baker, vera baker, paul baker, dean baker, missy baker, dick bock, william claxton, hersh hamel, chris isaak, lisa marie. Chet baker sings and plays from the film lets get lost genre. Chet baker one night in tokyo 1987 remastered 2007 19.
Chet baker sings and plays from the film lets get lost discogs. At the very end of bruce webers seductive, unsettling lets get lost, the movie s subject, the semilegendary cooljazz trumpeter and singer chet baker, looks back on the shooting of. This superb documentary originally made in 1988 deals with the legendary chet baker, a musician who was hailed as a genius for his trumpet playing when he started. The title is derived from the song let s get lost by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser from the 1943 film happy go lucky, which baker recorded for pacific records. Baker was photographed by william claxton for his book young chet.
Archival footage of the jazz trumpeter and singer chet baker in lets get lost, a documentary of his life shot by bruce weber in 1987. Let s get lost lost in each other s arms let s get lost let them send out alarms and though theyll think us rather rude let s tell the world were in that crazy. Another great cool jazz collection from chet baker, i put this right up there with chet baker sings. Bought the cd many years ago but felt it was time to relive the film. Dec 05, 2017 this collection, featuring tracks cut during chet bakers peak years, illustrates that whatever the critics argued about in their various discourses regarding his vocal delivery, there could be. Solar music rights management, emi music publishing, bmi broadcast music inc. Vimeo is an amazing video service for original creative work, but its also a company with real human employees. Lets get lost is a 1988 american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. Chet baker chet baker sings and plays from the film let s get lost chet baker. Download chet baker mp3 songs and albums music downloads. Let s get lost by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser paramount music corporation under license from capitol special markets.
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Chet baker chet baker sings and plays from the film let. Jun 03, 2007 the jazz musician chet baker, who wanders through the documentary lets get lost with the eerie deliberateness of a somnambulist, appears to be a man who knows a thing or two about dreams. The film is about american jazz musician chet baker, portrayed by hawke. Song information for let s get lost chet baker on allmusic. Song information for lets get lost chet baker on allmusic. Chet baker vocals, trumpet, frank strazzeri piano, john leftwich bass, steve backer director, bruce weber executive producer, photography, nan bush executive producer, joseph s. Lets get lost the best of chet baker sings discogs.
Bruce webers documentary on jazz artist chet baker was nominated for an academy award. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from bakers earlier life and some modernday performances. Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter chet baker, the filmmaker bruce weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film follows baker and his music over the years and includes musicians from the early west coast movement, and his family and friends commenting on what it was like to hang out with the great jazz. By the time weber got round to him, however, decades of drug.
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