Torino 1959, Stuttgart 1988
This DVD release from Impro-Jazz features two concerts, one from Chet's early years, and one from his last years. We start with a kinescope of a 1959 gig in Torino featuring Lars Gullin on sax. Chet looks high, and the sunglasses are an obvious clue to his condition. However, he sounds good, and the band swings with three long tunes.

Next we get to see perhaps his last professionally videotaped concert, recorded about 6 weeks before his death. Chet's hair is long, and he's wearing an awful-looking white linen suit. However, his playing is quite good. He even gets up and noodles on the piano during "Portrait in Black and White".  At the start of "Almost Blue", Chet shout at one of the sound men about the equipment. Not Chet's best filmed performance from his later years (that would be the Tokyo concert from the year prior), but one to seek out to get one last glimpse of Chet before his horn was silenced forever.

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