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The Last Great Concert
By Chet Baker
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1: All Blues, My Funny Valentine, Well You Needn't, Summertime, In Your Own Sweet Way, Django, I Fall in Love Too Easily. Dis 2: Look for the silver Lining, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Conception, there's a Small Hotel, Sippin' at Bells, Tenderly, My Funny Valentine (reprise)
Chet Baker: The Last Great Concert
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Chet Baker had his ups and downs. The ups: his groundbreaking work with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet in the early to mid-fifties, followed by dozens of great early recordings under his own name. The downs: his long term involvement with drugs, which took him out of the picture for a stretch in the ...
G.Org: A New Kind of Blue
by John Kelman
Paying homage can be risky business, especially when the source is as seminal as Miles Davis' classic Kind of Blue. Comparisons are not just begged, they're expected. And how can anyone hope to capture the same magic? Or the confluence of events that put Davis, Julian “Cannonball" Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers ...
Chet Baker: Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
by Jack Bowers
There’s some nice blowing on this CD reissue of an album recorded in 1959 by trumpeter Chet Baker and a star-studded supporting cast, but it’s far too sporadic, flutist Herbie Mann’s arrangements are generally uninspiring, and the session is on the whole rather lackluster. In searching for reasons, one that quickly arises is that Baker's celebrated ...
Chet Baker: Plays The Best of Lerner & Loewe
by David Rickert
Shelly Manne’s album of tunes from My Fair Lady was a huge success, and thus it was a natural move to follow it with other swingin’ Broadway records. Chet Baker was an obvious fit for this type of project, an artist whose handsomeness and fragile playing pegged him as a boyishly romantic interpreter of songs. He ...
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin
by C. Michael Bailey
Deep In A Dream James Gavin Alfred A. Knopf 2002, 430 pages ISBN: 0-679-44287-1 The Heart of Darkness or Die Leiden des jurgen Chet Baker Early in James Gavin's finely crafted biography of the brilliant and troubled trumpeter Chet Baker, the author quotes long-time Baker associate Enrico Pieranunzi ...
Looking for Chet Baker
by Bob Jacobson
Looking for Chet Baker Bill Moody Walker & Co ISBN: 0802733689 Jazz pianist Evan Horne is at it again. An ex-girlfriend says it best: “You and dead jazz musicians. Just can't resist, huh?" From the title it's obvious whose death Horne is investigating this time. In the past ...
As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
by Victor L. Schermer
As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir By Chet Baker St. Martin's Press, 1997 0312167970 Baker, Chet - Chesney Henry Baker. Born Yale, Oklahoma, December 23, 1929. Died Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 13, 1988. Trumpeter and singer.Chet Baker was both an original jazz artist and a ...
Chet Baker Sings , Plays Live At The Keystone Korner
By Chet Baker
Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2003
The Legacy - Vol. 4 - Oh You Crazy Moon
By Chet Baker
Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2003
