Jazz / West Coast Jazz; Cool
Recorded between 1955 & 1965
Chet Baker - vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn
Leon Cohen, Henry Freeman, Wilford Holcombe, Seldon Powell, Alan Ross - reeds
Gerard Gustin, Raymond Fol, Bob James, Hank Jones, Bobby Scott - piano
Kenny Burrell, Everett Barksdale - guitar
Jimmy Bond, Benoit Quersin, Michael Fleming, Richard Davis - bass
Connie Kay, Bert Dahlander, Charlie Rice, Jean Louis Viale - drums
Chet Baker may have been a master of cool jazz, but he was never too col to acknowledge both the joy and the pain of romance. The breathy tone of his trumpet was the very essence of intimacy; when he put down his trumpet and sang, he could express in just a few words what it meant to be hurt yet still in love.
On these fourteen classic love songs, the mood ranges from the ecstasy of "You Go To My Head" to the melancholy of "Born to Be Blue," but the sound and the feeling remain hauntingly consistent: pure Chet Baker.
Includes liner notes by Al Young. |
