Alessandro Denci Niccolai, Chet Baker
"I known in Torino, my city [...]. Every time I was living in my friend's house Mondini [...] and then I went to see him. I spent the whole day, I had just started playing the trumpet, Chet and gave me advice. He was very generous [...]».
"Years later I happened to play with him. I lived in New York ten years, and there rincontrai Chet that he was back playing after long years of silence. I went to see him, we played together for a time shared the same manager.
"We were not friends, but somehow there was a relationship that lasted a long time. Then it was one of my myths. When he played he always managed to give the enormous emotions, even when it was in the form or when the band was not much [...]. But he was so strong in this poem , give this time to play was something so innate that even if he had not wanted would still existed. This was the great thing in his life, while the rest appeared to be a total disaster, I would say at all levels. "
«[...] lived a relationship with music encompassing . I remember once we were in Finland, and was depressissimo, was really bad and said he just could no longer live. "But then he went on stage and played absolutely wonderful. "He had this good fortune, which is also the ours, because the emotions that gave us Chet are unique. Listening to his music very often, I listen to them and his many records almost every day. "
"For example I love the album as a trio with Philip Catherine ☛ called Chet's Choice, where there are moments of incredibly unique."
«[...] I remember the first time I heard Chet play. It was in Turin, I think in '59. It was a very bad situation for him, he had a group that had picked up in France, and after playing a Dixieland group, which was the attraction of the evening. So when Chet began his set, three-quarters of the people went away, and being there was tremendous emotion. not infatuation, it's a feeling that was repeated over the years, a cool thing that happens when you are faced someone who really has something special to say .
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