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| The Best of [Riverside] |
| Chet Baker |
| első megjelenés éve: 1959 |
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| 1. | My Funny Valentine
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| 2. | Moonlight In Vermont
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| 3. | More I See You, The
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| 4. | Old Devil Moon
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| 5. | Do It The Hard Way
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| 6. | Fair Weather
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| 7. | Solar
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| 8. | Soft Winds
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| 9. | If You Could See Me Now
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| 10. | How High The Moon
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| 11. | It Never Entered My Mind
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| 12. | September Song
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| 13. | Thank Heaven For Little Girls
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| 14. | I Talk To The Trees
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| 15. | On The Street Where You Live
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Jazz
Cool
West Coast Jazz
Vocal Jazz
Recorded: Sep 1952-Jul 21, 1959
Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Herbie Mann (flute); Johnny Griffin, Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone); Gerry Mulligan, Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone); Kenny Drew, Al Haig, Bill Evans (piano); Earl May, Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Carson Smith (double bass); Chico Hamilton, Clifford Jarvis, Connie Kay, Philly Joe Jones (drums)
The Chet Baker volume in Fantasy's Best Of series covers only a relatively tiny portion of his lifespan, yet it does capture the self-destructive trumpeter/singer at two crucial times -- when the jazz world was his oyster, and one of his many attempts to regain his old appeal. Orrin Keepnews, the co-head of the Riverside operation, selects the material and writes the notes, working in chronological order. You don't have to read between the lines of Keepnews' carefully-chosen words to realize that he and the unreliable Baker weren't exactly the best of chums, and that only the passage of time allowed Keepnews to reach some kind of objectivity about their sessions. The first two choices lie somewhere outside the time frame of the bulk of the collection -- Chet as featured member of the 1952-53 Gerry Mulligan Quartet, playing his signature tune "My Funny Valentine" along with "Moonlight in Vermont." From there, Keepnews jumps to Baker's brief period as a Riverside headliner -- from August 1958 to July 1959 -- starting with three vocals of three standards. Baker's boyish pop-styled singing voice is an acquired taste; either the newcomer will find him bland and immature or oddly appealing as a 1950s iconic symbol of a time long gone. The remainder of the collection finds Baker only on his horn in strikingly inconsistent form -- sometimes short on stamina, sometimes nailing a difficult passage or two, often effective at ballad tempos -- fronting teams of first-rate jazz talent. But you can't lose with a rhythm section containing Miles Davis' team of Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, and the likes of Pepper Adams, Bill Evans, Herbie Mann and Zoot Sims are worthwhile foils for the former wunderkind.
---Richard S. Ginell, allmusic
Liner Note Author: Orrin Keepnews. |
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