[RoosterRedux]

Here's another jazz genius, similar to Bill:

Chet Baker - Leaving

[left that other site]

Thank You!

😊

[OldCountryBoy]

Evans and Baker shared a demon.

Both were so smooth and pure.

[dfwgator]

Chet had it all: Looks, Voice and Playing ability. Should have been one of the biggest stars ever.

[4Runner]

Chet Baker's life was a real tragedy. Drugs. Women. Drugs. A very talented but very tortured soul.

Not at all like Bill Evans, whose wife committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a subway train after she learned Evans had walked out on her.

Musical and artistic geniuses a lot of times inhabit very terrible spaces.

As someone once said, "You need a strong stomach if you're going to be in the kitchen watching how the sausage gets made".

[Mariner]

Two very sad junkie stories in one thread.