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The recording originated on April 28, 1988, at the Funkhaus Hannover with Chet Baker (trumpet).

For this live concert, Baker was accompanied by numerous musicians: Walter Norris (piano), John Schroder (guitar), Herb Geller (alto saxophone), Lucas Lindholm (double bass), Aage Tanggaard (drums), the NDR-Bigband and the Rundfunk Orchester Hannover des NDR.

Chet Baker's 'trumpet voice' bears the traces of his life. With enormous energy and vulnerability, he had fought his way 'through his life'. Humiliated, persecuted, imprisoned.

Chet Baker had many personal problems: drugs, arrests, financial hardship.

Despite his 'vulnerable soul' and the traumas, his music remained untouched by all his suffering – his music still feels extraordinary and unique today.

« Back then, Chet Baker still resembled the images associated with his early successes. 'The smart guy with the longing gaze, a kind of James Dean of jazz music. A musician discovered not only by the jazz magazine 'Down Beat', but also by 'Playboy' » – quoted by Bert Noglik in the 'JAZZ-Zeitung'.

Kurt Giese – editor, producer and recording supervisor of the NDR Big Band – wrote after the concert about the recording of Hannover released by Matthias Winckelmann on Enja Records:

« Chet Baker's last great concert appears like the testament of a man whom the gods must have loved very much. They gave him so much talent, and punished him so severely with his life. »

Two weeks after this concert – on May 13, 1988 – Chet Baker died in Amsterdam.