He played fast on a few early to mid 60s albums

And he played very fast in the 1980s too. Check out his many versions of Leaving, which start out very slow and then get very fast halfway in. He was very fast in a great version of Love Vibrations too. And on Arborway in Tokyo. There are many examples of Chet playing very fast, extremely subtle pieces. But yes, the emotion and restraint are always there.

Talent travail surtout 😅

Michel Grailler piano

Chet was fine singer and musician long before drug addiction damaged him. He did take drugs early in his career but it didn’t seem to affect his music. I like him because of his music, what he did personally has little or relevance to me as I did not know him personally.

If drugs killed his singing voice then you'd enjoy his early vocal work? from the 50s and early 60s

Beverly, your thought is typical of an ignorant woman, but you aren't alone there as that is most typical. You look at the world around you purely from the perspective of what you feel is a man's purpose, which you feel is to be there for women. If women were more intelligent, which they aren't, they'd understand how serving women is not the purpose of a man's life. A man doesn't sit in the nest and wait for everything to be brought to him, things, feelings, an emotional tampon, he's has to go out in the world and struggle through it. Not that women don't either but men always do it alone whereas women always get a helping hand in EVERYTHING they do. You call him selfish without even knowing his reasons. I'll teach you. Most users of drugs use to escape temporarily from emotional pain. You don't know his history. Besides that you don't understand the pressures placed on men as all you've ever been used to is to have people there to bail you out. Don't be an ignorant female ignorant of the lives of men sat there in your comfortable little nest built and paid for by some man or other all your pointless life.

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