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Chet Baker: Chet Baker and Strings
by C. Michael Bailey
With Strings. I have been listening to a several recordings of Jazz artists performing with a string section, including: Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy 814 642), Charlie Parker with Strings (Verve 314 523), Art Pepper's Winter Moon (OJC 677), Wynton Marsalis' Midnight Blues: Standard Time Volume 5 (Columbia 68921), and most recently, Chet Baker and Strings (Columbia Legacy 65562). I am enamored with all of these discs. Some of them have stood the test of time, some have not. They ...
Continue ReadingChet Baker: Master Of Jazz: Chet Baker Sings
by AAJ Staff
Ornette Coleman's insights are well worth paying attention to, and he certainly hit the nail on the head when discussing Chet Baker's singing. To paraphrase Coleman, Baker may not have had much of a voice, but that didn't stop him from grabbing you with it emotionally. As a singer, Baker didn't have had the range of Mel Torme or Billy Eckstine -- but he had a soulfulness, a vulnerability that could send chills up your spine. And there's no shortage ...
Continue ReadingChet Baker: Songs For Lovers
by AAJ Staff
The title sums it up quite well-- Songs For Lovers focuses on young Chet Baker at his most lyrical and romantic. Spanning 1953-1957, this collection takes us back to the Miles Davis-influenced trumpeter's youth and his years with Pacific Jazz--a label for which he often excelled. On “Come Rain or Come Shine," “That Old Feeling" and “There's A Lull In My Life," we're reminded that while Baker the vocalist may not have had the world's greatest range, he was hardly ...
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