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 | Chet Baker: The Early Years (CD: Proper, 4 CDs)
A primary exponent of the West Coast sound during the 1950s, Chet Baker matched this achievement with a secondary career as a singer, achieving considerable fame and success. However, it was as a jazz trumpeter that he first made his name, winning his first Downbeat poll in 1948 and then making the key recordings that launched the West Coast movement, with the Lighthouse Allstars and then Gerry Mulligan. This 4CD set includes tracks that illustrate the meteoric rise to fame that Baker experienced from 1952 through to 1954 - from when the Mulligan quartet was in full flight to his first vocal and orchestrated recordings. This is one of the first Properbox sets to be issued in new slimline packaging - half the thickness of the original sets but with all the same information and produced to the same exceptional quality. (Proper Records)
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Chet Baker: Young Chet (CD: Proper)
Taking his initial inspiration from Miles Davis' trumpet style, Chet Baker went on to become a pin-up hero as well as a highly respected player and singer. These 25 tracks, all dating from 1953 and recorded with other members of the West Coast "Cool School", such as Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne have all the elements of his style in place and the 8 page booklet with photographs tell the story of this great player. (Proper Records)
Price: £6.99
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 | Chet Baker: & Strings (CD: Columbia)
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Chet Baker: The Original Quartet, Sextet & Septet With Russ Freeman- Complete 1953-1954 Studio Recordings (CD: Definitive, 2 CDs)
Price: £16.99
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 | Chet Baker: Ensemble & Sextet (CD: Fresh Sound)
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Chet Baker: Deep In A Dream (CD: Pacific)
Price: £8.99
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 | Chet Baker Ensemble (CD: Pacific)
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Chet Baker: Sings And Plays (CD: Pacific)
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 | Chet Baker Big Band (CD: Pacific)
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Chet Baker Sextet (CD: Pacific)
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 | Chet Baker: The Best Of Chet Baker Plays (CD: Pacific)
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Chet Baker: Embraceable You (CD: Pacific)
Newly released, Chet Baker’s final Pacific Jazz session from December, 1957 features his trumpet and voice on 13 lovely ballads with spare accompaniment from just guitar and bass. (Blue Note Records)
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 | Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine (CD: Pacific)
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Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture Of Health (CD: Pacific)
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 | Chet Baker & Bud Shank: Theme Music From 'The James Dean Story' (CD: Pacific)
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Chet Baker: Chet Baker Sings (CD: Pacific- US Import)
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 | Chet Baker: Chet Baker And Crew (CD: Pacific)
The "crew," including Phil Urso, tenor-sax, and pianist Bobby Timmons, are cover-featured in William Claxton's photo of open sailboat, with Baker blowing ethereal Gabriel's horn from rigging. Recommended earlier Chet Baker (1956), playing a sample of lightly-swinging West Coast jazz, with its usual emphasis on musicianship, ensemble organization and arrangement. For those who view Baker as a vocalist, repertoire here is almost all instrumental. (Andrew Clark, editor. Riffs & Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology. Continuum Publishing.)
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Chet Baker & Dick Twardzik: The Complete 1955 Holland Concerts (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
These recordings, thought lost for many years, are of the first European concerts given by the Chet Baker quartet in Holland with the brilliant pianist Dick Twardzik, who died in Paris from a drug overdose a few days after these recordings were made, at the age of 24. Included as a bonus, two tracks from the next concert by the same group in Mainz, Germany, September 21, 1955. (Discovery Records)
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 | Chet Baker: Live In Copenhagen 1955 (CD: RLR Records)
This edition presents Chet Baker’s long unavailable 1955 Copenhagen Concert, on which he is backed by European musicians. It was recorded during his first European tour and shortly after the tragic death of his pianist Dick Twardzik from a heroin overdose. No vocals are performed on this set, probably because the band was a quintet with a tenor sax added instead of the usual quartet.There are 10 rare bonus tracks : performances taken from TV broadcasts made between 1954 and 1956, mainly in the States. This is all that remains from those TV appearances, since no footage has ever surfaced. Since these tracks come from many different sources, sound quality varies from show to show, but has been improved as far as possible. (Discovery Records)
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Chet Baker Quartet: Koln Concert (CD: RLR Records)
The lost 1955 concert. Previously unissued in any form.
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 | Chet Baker: In New York (CD: Riverside- US Import)
The undeniably erratic early career of Chet Baker involved roller-coaster extremes and musical paradoxes. In the Fifties, his sound and approach were often compared to Miles Davis, although his greatest successes came in a West Coast setting, began in Gerry Mulligan's cool, piano-less quartet, and often emphasized ballads and soft-toned vocals. But this album shows Baker in a unique direct assault in Davis territory: recorded in New York; including a couple of tunes associated with Miles; and above all with a driving East Coast supporting cast made up of tough-tenor Johnny Griffin, bebop veteran Al Haig, and frequent Davis colleagues Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. (Fantasy, Inc.)
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Chet Baker: In Milan (CD: Jazzland- US Import)
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 | Chet Baker: With Fifty Italian Strings (CD: Jazzland- US Import)
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Chet Baker: The Complete Milan Sessions (CD: Solar, 2 CDs)
The complete studio recordings made by the great Chet Baker in Milan, Italy, in 1959. This music is compiled here on one set for the first time ever, and is presented in the order in which it was recorded. As a bonus, this disc adds music made by Chet in Italy during the same period for film soundtracks.Chet Baker had a long and complicated relationship with Italy. It was a country where he was both imprisoned and adored. His first visit there took place in 1955, during his first successful European tour. It was during this tour that the quartet's pianist, the talented Dick Twardzik, tragically died in Paris from a heroin overdose. Baker was devastated, and following Twardzik's death – for which he felt some level of responsibility – the trumpeter submerged himself in the drug world and in a self destructive spiral which would last for the rest of his life. (Discovery Records)
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 | Chet Baker: Chet (CD: Riverside Keepnews Collection)
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Chet Baker: Chet (Vinyl LP: Disconforme)
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140g pressing.
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Chet Baker: Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe (CD: Riverside- US Import)
Prompted by the vast success of Shelly Manne's jazz version of the My Fair Lady score, many a late-Fifties jazz performer took a crack at Broadway show tunes. This album looked to three musicals by the writers of My Fair Lady, with varying results. But the lyrical Chet Baker trumpet style fits most of the material quite well, and there is an unusually able group of players surrounding him–in particular, Bill Evans, Zoot Sims, and Pepper Adams. At its best, this set offers some of the most impressive work of Baker's somewhat erratic Riverside period. (Fantasy, Inc.)
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 | Chet Baker & Miles Davis: Complete Performances With The Lighthouse All-Stars (CD: Jazz Factory)
Price: £10.99
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Chet Baker & Bill Evans: The Complete Legendary Sessions (CD: American Jazz Classics)
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 | Chet Baker: Live In Sweden with Ake Johansson Trio (CD: Dragon)
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Chet Baker: Quartet featuring Russ Freeman (CD: Pacific- US Import)
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 | Chet Baker: Californian Jam Sessions (CD: Definitive)
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Chet Baker: Milestones (CD: Candid)
This 1978 collection, originally released on the Choice label, shows Baker at the top of his game during what many critics see as Baker’s most mature and rewarding phase of his career. Already loved all over the world for his soft, husky tone, short neat, melodic phrases and calm, agile execution, Chet was ranked among the worlds greatest trumpeters. (Proper Music)
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 | Chet Baker Quartet: Live At The Subway Club (CD: Jazz Row, 2 CDs)
A relaxed performance from Chet Baker’s final years for the first time ever on CD - recorded on March 22, 1980 at the Subway Club in Cologne (Köln), Germany. He is heard here in an intimate quartet setting with superb accompaniment by Nicola Stilo on flute. As a bonus track, this edition includes a rare version of Victor Feldman-Miles Davis’ “Seven Steps to Heaven” (which was one of only two readings of the tune in Baker’s discography), recorded in performance at Corto Maltese, in Ostia, Italy. (Discovery Records)
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Chet Baker Trio: Estate (CD: Gambit)
This release contains Chet Baker’s complete September 1983 studio date in Brussels - with a trio, featuring guitarist Philip Catherine and bassist Jean-Louis Rassinfosse. There is also a bonus track by the same trio performing a live, 10-minute plus version of Baker’s celebrated ‘hit’, “My Funny Valentine” in Europe, in the Spring of 1985. (Discovery Records)
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 | Chet Baker: The Touch Of Your Lips (CD: Steeplechase)
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Chet Baker: Peace (CD: Enja)
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