There are seven cuts of a very smooth, very cool trio with Chet Baker on YouTube. Perhaps the coolest example to whet your appetitie is
Love for Sale [ 2 / 7 ] - Chet Baker.
Let me know what you think, please.
Chet is almost always cool. There are a shitload of albums out there that either star or feature him. He really had a turbulent life and it ended badly and early, but the music he produced was some of the best of West Coast Jazz, along with the likes of Gerry Mulligan and Art Pepper.
Chet=cool. I should have submitted his “Almost blue”, written by (of all people) Elvis Costello to the “saddest songs” thread.
Love Chet Baker – one of the great melodic players. I don’t generally say that in public to musicians, cause of the image of him being a wannabe teen idol, but he was an exceptional player who, generally, surrounded himself exceptional musicians in “his” bands.
“Thrill Is Gone” (maybe off a live bootleg maybe when he had Hal Galper on piano in his outfit) is probably my favorite. Why do people insist it’s the same tune as the BB King one? Maybe technically they are, but they are just completely different songs IMO and shouldn’t be even thought of in the same sentence, even though BB King’s version kills as well.
If you’ve listened to those YouTube clips of Chet’s that I pointed to, you’ll have heard the piano work of Michel Graillier whom I hadn’t heard to know it before yesterday. If you’re as impressed as I am, you ought to be moved by [PIANO] Michel graillier - Aicha which has become something I’m listening to over and over.
Does it remind you of some other piece?
It took several replays for the sound of Frank SINATRA - You Are There (Reprise® Recordings) to make it into my consciousness, but I’m pretty sure that’s what I was trying to identify.