Stan Getz, Chet Baker - Stan Getz & Chet Baker: The Stockholm Concerts (1998)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Anouncement by Bo Stenhammar (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)
02. Stablemates (Live (Stockholm, Sweden))
03. We'll Be Together Again (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)
04. On The Up And Up (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)
05. How Long Has This Been Going On (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)
06. O Grande Amor (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)
07. Just Friends (Live At Södra Teatern, Stockholm / 1983)

CD2
01. My Funny Valentine
02. Sipping At Bell's
03. Stella By Starlight (Live)
04. Airegin (Pt. 1)
05. The Baggage Room Blues
06. We'll Be Together Again
07. I'll Remember April

CD3
01. Anouncement
02. Just Friends
03. My Funny Valentine
04. Sippin At Bell's
05. Blood Count
06. Milestones
07. Airegin (Pt. 2)
08. Dear Old Stockholm
09. Line For Lyons

According to this set's annotator, Mike Hennessey, and Stan Getz's biographer, Donald Maggin, the circumstances surrounding the making of these 1983 recordings was unpleasant in the extreme. For various reasons, Getz was unhappy to be concertizing with Baker and forced him out before the 35-date tour was halfway finished. Before Baker left, however, the men played a pair of concerts in Stockholm, which were fortunately recorded for posterity. Fortunately not because Getz and Baker shared any special rapport that led to a classic performance, but because the resulting album gives listeners another example of how wonderful a player Chet Baker was, even after years of drug addiction and general dissolution. Getz is his typical self -- lyrical, facile almost to the point of glibness, but musical nevertheless. Baker, on the other hand, is as he ever was -- one of the most spontaneously creative, emotionally compelling voices in jazz. The band is good if unspectacular; drummer Victor Lewis was a particularly nice choice in that he could drive a band like this without overwhelming the rather brittle lead voices. And Getz is excellent; if you're a Getz fan, he's in fine form here, so you won't be disappointed. Baker, on the other hand, is superb; it's his inimitable musicality that ultimately makes this rather pricey three-disc set a bargain.

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