Regarding Getz-Baker tour in Sweden...
reading notes from cd booklet....words from pianist Jim McNeely...
’What aggravated the G.-B. relationship was what might be described as conflict of addictions. G.at the time was drinking heavily and B.was using heroin’....’Stan had a attitude about Chet’s using drugs.Perhaps if they had been doing the same substance they might have got along better together’...’everybody liked him (Chet) and enyojed his music, but because of Stan’s inflexible attitude, there wasn’t the kind of interplay that I had hopped for when I first heard about the tour. The two of them were in different zones and there was no real empathy’....’about halfway the tour Getz told to organisers ’either he goes or I go’....etc.
Interesting read, but also somehow sad. Aldo Getz was drug user himself, by looking at him at the beginning of that video, he does not seem to have the looks or the moves of someone doing heroin (at the time), so I guess the story is pretty much true...and Zoot Simms might have been closer to truth than we think...he (Getz) probbably was ’great bunch of guys...
reading notes from cd booklet....words from pianist Jim McNeely...
’What aggravated the G.-B. relationship was what might be described as conflict of addictions. G.at the time was drinking heavily and B.was using heroin’....’Stan had a attitude about Chet’s using drugs.Perhaps if they had been doing the same substance they might have got along better together’...’everybody liked him (Chet) and enyojed his music, but because of Stan’s inflexible attitude, there wasn’t the kind of interplay that I had hopped for when I first heard about the tour. The two of them were in different zones and there was no real empathy’....’about halfway the tour Getz told to organisers ’either he goes or I go’....etc.
Interesting read, but also somehow sad. Aldo Getz was drug user himself, by looking at him at the beginning of that video, he does not seem to have the looks or the moves of someone doing heroin (at the time), so I guess the story is pretty much true...and Zoot Simms might have been closer to truth than we think...he (Getz) probbably was ’great bunch of guys...