Shine

Description

Chet Baker, creator of a unique and personal poetics, was an interpreter who did not wallow in his own torments, but who also knew how to take less introspective paths, notably a swing of exceptional finesse and vivacity. Chet Baker's music possessed its own characteristics. Inspired by bebop in the fast pieces, he deployed in his solos that complexity and that pulsation so characteristic of this style. He distinguished himself from it by the soft timbre of his trumpet, which rarely indulged in the typical flights of the boppers, and especially by the insistent use of pauses. These precisely constituted one of the foundations of his musical language. His performances unfolded in a continuous interplay of sound and silence - elements that held equal importance for him - of inspirations and expirations. Recorded live on December 9, 1987 in Ferrara.