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Chet For Lovers

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. There Is No Greater Love, 2. These Foolish things (Remind Me of You), 3. You're Mine You, 4. Alone Together, 5. The Touch of Your Lips, 6. Tenderly, 7. Everything Depends on You, 8. Autumn in New York, 9. Easy Living, 10. You Go to my Head, 11. Born to be Blue, 12. Crazy She Calls Me, 13. Everything Happens to Me, 14. That Ole Devil Called Love.

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Chet Baker: Chet For Lovers

Read "Chet For Lovers" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
October 15, 2003

Of course the title of this newest entry in Verve's “For Lovers" series is redundant. What did trumpeter Chet Baker ever record that wasn't directed to lovers, particularly the jaded variety? This is simply a finely honed compilation of fourteen Baker tunes spaning the fifties and sixties. Crucial are the Paris sessions from 1955, arguably the ...

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Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine

by Trevor MacLaren
May 8, 2003

Chet BakerMy Funny ValentineBlue Note1953 Soft, delicate and serene, Chet Baker's voice is one of jazz's overlooked talents. Every serious jazz fan is well aware of his trumpet playing, both solo and with Gerry Mulligan's Quartet. His legendary style on the instrument helped establish his standing as one ...

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Chet Baker: But Not For Me

Read "But Not For Me" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 2, 2003

It was easy to fall in and out of love with Chet Baker. The trumpeter and vocalist was indeed a devil with an angel’s face. His doleful approach to music drew listeners into his darkness for a brief stay at his melancholy hotel. Baker’s drug abuse eventually--it took a while--destroyed his talents. In between his dark ...

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Chet Baker: It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings

Read "It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
January 25, 2003

Chet Baker had a distinctive trumpet style that even Miles admired, but many may not know he was also quite accomplished as a singer. Judging by the cover (Baker’s good looks were always prominently featured on his releases), the A&R people at Riverside saw an opportunity to market Baker as a romantic crooner along the lines ...

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Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine

Read "My Funny Valentine" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

Sure, it may not be the most upbeat, dance through the sprinkler album on earth, but when the temperature rises, we all need a disc to help us cool off. This is the coolest of the cool! With his matinee idol looks, smoky voice and smokier horn, Chet Baker was the Caucasian lothario voice of a ...

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Chet Baker: The Definitive Chet Baker

Read "The Definitive Chet Baker" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 17, 2003

From bebop to blues, Chet Baker was one of the most diverse, accomplished and undersung heroes of the Jazz Age. Though his personal life may have been of questionable virtue, his trumpet and vocal stylings were unmatched. He brought together all sorts of stlyes and all sorts of music fans. On this latest celebration of this ...

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