Chet baker documentary let's get lost book

As exlove diane vavra says, you cant really rely on chet. The movie lets get lost has been resurrected and remastered for the bluray format, and sony decided to release a remastered version in its k2 hdcd format. Lets get lost by bruce weber bruce weber, paul baker, dick. With chet baker, carol baker, vera baker, paul baker. The title is derived from a song by jimmy mchugh and frank loesser from the 1943 film happy go lucky which baker recorded for pacific records.

Jun 06, 2008 watch the trailer for chet baker documentary let s get lost. James gavins book about chet baker, the jazz singer and trumpeter who first gained fame in the early fifties and who, only a few years later and for the rest of his life. Particular trakcs to look out for are my funny valentine, find the silver lining, lets get lost and the thrill is gone. Liam payne lyric video song let s get lost alternate take remastered 2004. All our physical stores and our online store are temporarily closed. 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. This disc includes music used in lets get lost 1989, the bruce weber directed biopic centering on the tragic life and times of the west coast cool jazz icon chet baker trumpetvocal. Chet baker sings and plays from the film lets get lost. 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. He didnt have a great range or even read msuic well he was through. Solar music rights management, emi music publishing, bmi broadcast music inc. Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict chet baker. Webers film, lets get lost, premiered in september 1988 to critical acclaim and earned an academy award nomination.

Lets get lost the best of chet baker sings discogs. Lets get lost chet baker documental subtitulado youtube. December 23, 1929 may, 1988 was an american jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist. You could turn off the sound and just watch the images. Let s get lost, an oscarnominated documentary about jazz trumpeter chet baker. Bruce webers lets get lost international documentary. The lost memoir and the book was optioned by miramax for a film adaptation. Although frank strazzeri piano, john leftwich bass, and ralph penland drums had. Let s get lost 1988 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Filmmaker bruce weber was still in post production on his chet baker documentary lets get lost when he got the news that the jazz trumpeter had fallen to his death from a hotel window in amsterdam. As was the case during many of bakers final sessions, the artist performs with a makeshift combo of relative unknowns. Nov 16, 20 and this year, one of his most powerful and beguiling features lets get lost celebrates its 25th anniversary. Documentary on the making of chet baker let s get lost the is a community guidelines protected video.

I hadnt seen lets get lost since it first came out, in 1988, and what i remembered, mostly, was the downbeat glory of the movies textures. In lets get lost his intonation sounds just kind of flat and weird but in a way that totally, totally wins me over. Bruce webers documentary on jazz artist chet baker was. Baker s life was troubled his drug addiction is legendary, and ultimately caused his death, directly or indirectly, as the individual chooses to view the events. Lets get lost is an american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. Let s get lost is a penetrating oscarnominated documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter chet baker 19291988. Then i ehard all the great american songbook stuff ell here i am 6000 jazz cd and lps latter. You may be prompted to give your permission before you are allowed to view it. Oct 11, 2019 following his death, the film lets get lost was released on april 21, 1989, and would go on to receive an academy award nomination for best documentary feature. One of my favourite voices of all time, and his trumpet playing is wonderfully complimentary to his voice. A late career surge, aided by elvis costello and bruce webers 1989 documentary film lets get lost, put the illfated chet baker back on the musical map for new generations. Cd, comp capitol records, pacific jazz, pacific jazz.

Chet baker everything happens to me video from lets. The jazz musician chet baker, who wanders through the documentary lets get lost with the eerie deliberateness of a somnambulist, appears to be a. For anyone interested in this record, the k2 remaster is clearly worth the extrabucks. Bought this 30 years ago by mistake after seeing the lets get lost movie i wanted to her the elvis costello ballad he did in movie. Baker, chet lets get lost original soundtrack 1988. An academy awardnominated 1988 documentary about baker, lets get lost, portrays him as a cultural icon of the 1950s, but juxtaposes this with his later image as a drug addict. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family associates. Baker continued to feature in elvis costellos songs. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile. Jan 17, 2020 rumors that jazz legend chet baker was murdered started shortly after his death. Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter chet baker, the filmmaker bruce weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. In 1997, bakers unfinished autobiography was published under the title as though i had wings. This album consists of the tracks baker recorded especially for the bruce weber documentary let s get lost a retrospective of the life of the great horn player and vocalist. May, 2020 hes been the subject of two films 2015s born to be blue, in which ethan hawke played baker.

I recently watched the documentary let s get lost, and i have become fascinated by chet baker. Bakers casual lifetime habit of letting down anyone near him. Of the many contrasts in bruce webers haunting jazz documentary, the first you notice is also the most heartbreaking. Chet baker chet baker sings and plays from the film let. Its tough about the ugly facts of chet bakers life as a liar, user, and junkie. Baker was photographed by william claxton for his book young chet. Lets get lost could have so easily been done badly. In other words, for those unsuspecting, this is music that is simply a ripoff. Produced for television in the netherlands in the early. Chet baker s performances from the bruce weber documentary let s get lost, a bittersweet film highlighting the earlycareer highs and lateinlife lows of one of jazz s sweetest, smokiest crooners and trumpet players.

Jun 12, 2002 let s get lost was not released until after baker s death, but it is one of the reasons baker is remembered better today than many of his more accomplished peers from the west coast jazz school. Documentary on the making of chet baker lets get lost. A reimagining of jazz legend chet bakers musical comeback in the late 60s. Lets get lost was not released until after bakers death, but it is one of the reasons baker is remembered better today than many of his more accomplished peers from the west coast jazz school. Intense fandom doesnt often make for objectivity, and the tragicartistgonetoseed narrative is so, so tired. By the time lets get lost first emerged in 1989, hed accrued a new generation of admirers for whom the legend of bakers turbulent rise and fall only added to his cult appeal. He later recorded a song for lets get lost, a documentary about his life. Getting lost, like getting gone real gone became part of jazzhipster lingo and directorphotographer bruce weber borrowed it for the title of a sortof documentary about trumpetersinger chet baker in 1988, during the last year of the legends life. Music let s 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.

Watching lets get lost, shot in a liquid blackandwhite, we are lost in a monotonal, gorgeously shot reverie about chet baker, the jazz trumpeter whose alabastersmooth, pretty face and. 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 lets get lost, a song by beck and bat for lashes from the twilight saga. Lets get lost chet baker documentary by bruce weber 120 min there will never be another you a remembrance of chet baker by bruce weber see also. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals chet baker sings, it could happen to you. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from baker s earlier life and some modernday performances. Lets get lost lost in each others arms lets get lost let them send out alarms and though theyll think us rather rude lets tell the world were in that crazy.

With ethan hawke, carmen ejogo, callum keith rennie, tony nappo. Lets get lost a documentary, completed only two months before his accidental death in amsterdam, of the legendary jazz trumpeter and occasional singer, chet baker. Liam payne lyric video song lets get lost alternate take remastered 2004. Soundtrack to the critically acclaimed 1988 documentary on the life of the tragic jazz trumpetervocalist. Let s get lost could have so easily been done badly.

Let s get lost, a valentine to trumpeter and singer chet baker by bruce weber, was first released in 1988. Chet baker lets get lost documentary festival archive. 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. A group of baker fans, ranging from exassociates to exwives and children, talk about the man. Documentary on the making of chet baker lets get lost the is a community guidelines protected video. Weber found the perfect subject in baker, a remarkably photogenic figure. Anonymous this documentary about jazz trumpetersinger chet baker intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of west coast cool, and from his last years. Webers gift for gorgeous black and white photography made him famous.

A reimagining of jazz legend chet baker s musical comeback in the late 60s. Cool jazzs tortured king drugs, abuse marked trumpeters. Let s get lost is an american documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter chet baker written and directed by bruce weber. It retains the darkness and the sadness of the overall session. Fascinating series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, interspersed with film from bakers earlier life and some modernday performances. Three friends, steffen, thomas and mogens spend a lot of time together in julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. After a generous amount of screen time devoted to baker s american career, from his days with charlie bird parker and gerry mulligan to the formation of his own combo, the film dwells upon baker s lengthy tenure in europe. Very rare video and much better treatment of chet baker as far as his trumpet playing and innate and natural talent than was lets get lost.

Chet baker 19291988 once said, i dont know whether im a trumpet player who sings, or a singer who plays the trumpet. Chet s voice is smooth, calm, innocent, wise, supremely joyful and heartbreakingly sad all at the same time. Lets get lost is a threelayer exercise in betrayal. Let s get lost 1989 is a documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter, vocalist, drug addict chet baker, dead at 58 in amsterdam. Bruce webers documentary on jazz artist chet baker was nominated for an academy award. Bakers life was troubled his drug addiction is legendary, and ultimately caused his death, directly or. 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. With sidse babett knudsen, bjarne henriksen, nicolaj kopernikus, troels lyby. Still this and john coltranejohn hartman are my two go male vocal lps out of the hundreds i own.

Rumors that jazz legend chet baker was murdered started shortly after his death. This album consists of the tracks baker recorded especially for the bruce weber documentary lets get lost a retrospective of the life of the great horn player and vocalist. Like anyone discovering a new artist, im not entirely sure where to begin. The conflict in deep in a dream stems from my being a giant chet baker fan.

Since its release in 1989 lets get lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late chet baker. Chet baker, carol baker, vera baker, paul baker, dean baker, missy baker, dick bock, william claxton, hersh hamel, chris isaak. Sam pollard is an accomplished feature film and television video editor and documentary producerdirector whose work spans almost 30 years. 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 trumpeter. In 1983, elvis costello played with baker on his song shipbuilding, from punch the clock album. Lets get lost chet baker documentary by bruce weber 120 min. Lets get lost, an oscarnominated documentary about jazz trumpeter chet baker. And every time i hear baker sing and play you go to my head or anything else on trumpet, the experience of seeing lets get lost comes back to me as one of those seminal moments in my life.