Chet Baker - Compact Jazz: Chet Baker (1992/2018)

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Title: Compact Jazz: Chet Baker
Year Of Release: 1992/2018
Label: Verve Label Group
Genre: Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:06:26
Total Size: 153 mb | 373 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Summertime
02. The Girl From Greenland
03. Anticipated Blues
04. Chet
05. I'll Remember April (Instrumental)
06. Everytime We Say Goodbye
07. Stan Getz & Chet Baker - Half-Breed Apache
08. That Ole Devil Called Love
09. Don't Explain
10. Baby Breeze
11. This Is The Thing
12. Pamela's Passion
13. Comin' Down
14. I Wish You Love
15. The Touch Of Your Lips

Chet Baker's entry in the Compact Jazz series is essentially an odyssey between two continents, chronicling his wanderings through Europe and America over the span of a decade. The disc begins with some of his 1955 Paris sessions, and then skips over to Baden-Baden for an eerie duo encounter with pop singer/guitarist Caterina Valente that is rhythmically close to a premonition of bossa nova. On to Chicago in 1958, where Chet communes and races with Stan Getz for 15 often thrilling minutes on "Halfbreed Apache." Two New York tracks from 1965 catch Chet nonchalantly blowing at ballad tempo with a section of reeds and rhythm section. Finally the disc backtracks a year with four tracks from a New York sextet and quartet (whose personnel includes the young Bob James or Hal Galper on piano) where Chet is in prime bop form; no limp tones here. Although these are not his most famous sessions, you'll get a better impression of Chet's work here than with some other single-disc samplers that come to mind.