LET'S GET LOST - ( Perdiamoci ) - 1988 - Chet Baker - Directed by Bruce Weber

[Jesse_James]

...A Precious Document this of Bruce Weber, that reveals The soul of this Extraordinary and Inimitable Artist, to a few months after his absurd death occurred in May of 1988, a very special Soul , which make in contrasts his incomparable talent and a great inner fragility equally unique, extremely and deep-rooted .

...For those who do not know him, Chet Baker was (and still is) one of the most Great, the Greatest Jazz trumpet player in the World, and one of the main members of the so-called Cool Jazz, in the golden years (50/60 ) was by far the best and with his performances she could outshine even as sacred Monster like Miles Davis - Louis Armstrong - Dizzy Gillespie, etc... , and has worked and knew precisely the Greatest, as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie etc ... and Charlie Parker that choosing to play in his band, he later said to his colleagues, "beware of this white boy, he has a great talent and he will hear very often from now on ...".

...In addition to the trumpet, very soon also became vocalist/singer, with a very soft voice , romantic, melancholic at times (of course depending on the characteristic of his performance), especially in the last years of his life, always in the golden years, with His extraordinary voice, even managed to equalize the incomparable Nat King Cole.


...A big great talent we said, so much so that in 11 years when he was given the first Trumpet (from his father, a former Musician Guitarist) after a while he was already able to replicate perfectly the Greatest Classics of the Great Composers, had music in their blood, many of his friends and colleagues argued often with more than a hint of envy, while that for them to succeed in their art necessarily had to practice constantly, for him instead not, for Chet Backer was all very easy, instinctive, genuine, and everything came from the depths of his heart, his soul, his infinite Passion .

...Like all the Greatest, he soon "surrendered" and fell into the tunnel of heroin addiction, which has led many legal problems as well as physical (as a result of "aggression" never clearly elucidated, are extracted to him all his teeth and he had to learn to play again with dentures, a very difficult thing), even and especially here with us in Italy where he resided for a long time and worked with our Greatest Artists of the Age, as well as in many Italian Films .

...Besides it had ( had, up to the end of his days, despite everything) so many Beautiful Women, since himself was very beautiful, in more besides the beauty, it possessed a bewitching magnetic character, united to an extreme gentleness in the ways to do and to speak, and this happened also live in his performances .

...And in fact, it was his Photography on one of his LPs to attract the attention of Director Weber (at the time he was just a child), until they met again in 1986 and Bruce Weber offered him to shoot this documentary that traces to broadly throughout his Magnificent and Amazing career , so its Superb Music, as well as his character, his life, his friends, his colleagues, the great characters (of the Music, but not only) known to him, its loves, his family, his children, in short, an extremely Document Deep and Detailed, to the Entire Existence of Chet Backer .

...The last 10/15 minutes in particular of this splendid documentary, are truly Unique and are Touching Beauty , then if you get the chance to see it, you'll understand why .


...The BD Disc...:


...This is one of those moments in which I personally do not feel like a series C users here in Italy, at least for this "small" niche home video on Blu-ray Disc, of our "market", and that's because We are currently the only ones in the world to have this gorgeous document, just Restored in 2013 for his 25 years, Beautifully Transferred in BD, and it surprises me however, just because one such initiative has gone inexplicably muted and certainly has not had the publicity it deserves (I myself discovered by accident ...), and this especially abroad because here on BluRay.Com if you put the title in search, is not present and has not been included either in the Database , as research is void, and this is in my opinion a real shame, beyond the presence of the original English track, even more so because in this case (as the Extraordinary Release STUDIO 4K) is an exclusive Release WHOLE Italian .

...Regarding the quality of the Transfer is really not much to say, because as I said, we have a brand new Master just restored and impeccably Transferred on BD, in fact the BD-50-GB are bitarte average really high and constant (I also saw a peak of 40 / 43 Mbps) on 34/36 Mbps, also the B/N more "recent" Bruce Weber alternates with that of archive footage in 8mm, so the shot is Physiologically discontinuous , it is of course quite normal, as is normal (especially in certain clips sequences) from the heavy and dense Film/grain - but always extremely pleasant and Cinema/Like - that often characterizes the Image Video .

...On the audio front, we have two Lossless tracks in both Original English Language , and specifically a DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO 2.0 which travels at 1.7 Mbps and a 2.0 LPCM in traveling at about 2.3 Mbps, and it is the latter in LPCM that stands out (as well as the most bitrate) with an Excellent Quality, both in dialogue and in Live Performance by Chet Backer and other Artists .

...There are of course the Italian subtitles , but they are optional and removable .

...How Extra, we have a very interesting Making-Of , but I have not watched yet, and of course I will not fail to comment later .

...And finally, although less important, the packaging of the BD Edition published by Italian Label LUCKY RED, is really well done, a nice slip/cover with the fluorescent title in relief, and a booklet of many pages (with photos etc ...) present inside the Edition .


...Concluding...:


...An Amazingly Precious and Moving Work , the Homage of a talented Photographer/Director, regarding Life and Art of the Immense Chet Baker, all in Italian BD's Edition really well done .

...I strongly and warmly recommend buying this BD ,to Everybody, and therefore not only to the lovers of the Jazz and the Music in general .