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Chet Baker For Café Après-Midi

By Chet Baker

Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2004

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Sings And Plays

By Chet Baker

Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2004

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Plays The Best of Lerner & Loewe

By Chet Baker

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Facce 2. I Could Have Danced All Night 3. The Heather On the Hill 4. On the Street Where You Live 5. Almost Like Being in Love 6. Thank Heaven For the Little Girls 7. I Talk To the Trees 8. Show Me.

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Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

By Chet Baker

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: I

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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)

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Jazz Ballads [2-CD set]

By Various Artists

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004

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Chet Baker: The Last Great Concert

Read "The Last Great Concert" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

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 ...

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G.Org: A New Kind of Blue

Read "A New Kind of Blue" reviewed by John Kelman

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 ...

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Chet Baker: Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

Read "Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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 ...

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Chet Baker: Plays The Best of Lerner & Loewe

Read "Plays The Best of Lerner & Loewe" reviewed by David Rickert

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 ...


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