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Chet

Label: Riverside
Released: 2007
Track listing: Alone Together; How High the Moon; It Never Entered My Mind; 'Tis Autumn; If You Could See Me Now; September Song; You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To; Time On My Hands; You and the Night and the Music; Early Morning Mood.

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Orrin Keepnews' Collection

by Marc Medwin
October 7, 2007

"Listen," Orrin Keepnews' no-nonsense delivery tempered by a smile. “I'm 84 years old. I'll take my legacies where I can get them," referring to the Keepnews Collection, a series launched this year by Concord Records. An astonishing study in longevity and ingenuity, the multiple facets and accomplishments of Keepnews' career as label maverick, writer ...

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Article: Album Review

Chet Baker: Chet

by Matt Leskovic
July 29, 2007

With his striking good looks, withdrawn stage presence, and reserved improvisational approach, trumpeter Chet Baker embodied everything that was “cool about jazz in the 1950s. He was peerless when it came to playing ballads, using simplistic phrasing and a tone that was at once unassuming, fragile, stirring, and sexy. His experience as a singer ...

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Time After Time

Featuring the music of Chet Baker
Duration: 6:41
July 19, 2007

Chet Baker sings and plays "Time After Time". He is accompanied by Rene Urtreger on piano in this 1964 performance.

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Chet Baker: Chet

by Samuel Chell
July 13, 2007

A popular 1959 release by Chet Baker, this Riverside Keepnews Collection issue captures the gifted but troubled trumpeter at his best. It might even qualify as Baker's most satisfying and representative recording. Although Baker's reputation as a singer has steadily risen, those who tend to dismiss his androgynous vocals as secondary to his trumpet ...

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