Chet Baker Warming up / Practicing / Soundcheck / Rehearsal of Polkadots and Moonbeams

Chet Baker Warming up / Practicing / Soundcheck / Rehearsal of Polkadots and Moonbeams

[@blow-by-blow-trumpet]

Very cool. This is pure gold. It's always seemed ridiculous to me when people say Chet knew nothing about music theory or even keys. He was a military bandsman for about 3 years and studied at least a year of music theory at college for goodness sake. I've played in brass bands with ex-military bandsmen and I can tell you they have been put through their paces.

[@IndianOutlaw1870]

Russ Freeman played with him for years and said Chet played by ear.

[@wckoek]

​@@IndianOutlaw1870there are many players who play by ear but doesn't mean they don't know theory or sightreading at all. Maybe his sightreading is not that good compared to say classical orchestral player and find it faster and easier by ear. He definitely have his own way on structuring things as this recording suggests

[@AntilopeDisecado]

This is amazing, thanks!!

[@persevere4]

Most enjoyable thank you.

[@cel0331]

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