DESCRIPTION This box with 10 CDs is a real goody for those with Ma taste for jazz. It comprises altogether 17 original LPs made by the legendary trumpeter who could also sing with great feeling. Chet Baker’s fans reckon him among creators of a trumpet playing style that was more restrained, lyrical and distinguished by a typical
coolness inspired by Miles Davis.
At the age of ten he was given a slide trombone by his father that he exchanged for a trumpet, to be like his idol Harry James. In a very short time Baker taught himself to play simple swing tunes and showed he was also a talented improviser. He became well-known as a trumpeter in Gerry Mulligan’s quartet. He was co- writer alongside Mulligan of the popular hit single “My funny Valentine”.
Parallel to his popularity however, grew also his addiction to drugs and he had to endure a two-year stretch in jail. After making it through a long and difficult period he played better than ever before and made his best records, in 1978 in Europe, for several different labels. A further high point was a successful tour in Japan.
But despite success the life of this brilliant musician ended tragically. In 1988 he fell from the window of a hotel room in Amsterdam. It still remains unclear whether it was an accident that happened under the influence of drugs, or a case of suicide. CD 1
Grey December (Campo)
I Wish I Knew (Warren/Gordon)
Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin/Gershwin)
This Is Always (Warren/Gordon)
Headline (Montrose)
Ergo (Montrose)
Bockhanal (Montrose)
A Dandy Line (Montrose)
Pro Defunctus (Montrose)
Little Old Lady (Carmichael)
Moonlight Becomes You (Burke/Van Heusen)
Goodbye (Jenkins)
Long Ago and Far Away (Rainger/Robbin)
Happy Little Sunbeam (Freeman)
Moon Love (Kern/Grossmith/Wodehouse)
Bea's Flat (Freeman)
No Ties (Freeman)
Band Aid (Freeman)
The Thrill Is Gone (DeSylva/Brown/Henderson)
All the Things You Are (Kern)
CD 2
You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul)
I'm Thru With Love (Livingston/Kahn/Malneck)
Love Walked In (Gershwin/Gershwin)
You Better Go Now (Reichner/Graham)
I Married an Angel (Rodgers/Hart)
Love (Martin/Blane)
I Love You (Porter)
What a Diff'rence a Day Made (Grever/Adams)
Why Shouldn't I (Porter)
A Little Duet For Zoot and Chet (Montrose)
The Wind (Freeman)
Trickleydidlier (Rogers)
Let's Get Lost (Loesser/McHugh)
This Is Always (Warren/Gordon)
Long Ago and Far Away (Rainger/Robbin)
Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin/Gershwin)
Just Friends (Klenner/Lewis)
I Wish I Knew (Warren/Gordon)
Daybreak (Grofe/Adamson)
You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul)
Grey December (Campo)
I Remember You (Mercer/Schertzinger)
CD 3
That Old Feeling (Brown/Fain)
It's Always You (Van Heusen/Burke)
Like Someone In Love (Van Heusen/Burke)
My Ideal (Robin/Chase/Whiting)
I've Never Been In Love before (Loesser)
My Buddy (Kahn/Donaldson)
But Not For Me (Gershwin/Gershwin)
Time After Time (Kahn/Styne)
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Carmichael)
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers/Hart)
There Will Never Be Another You (Warren/Gordon)
The Thrill Is Gone (Brown/Henderson)
I Fall In Love Too Easily (Kahn/Styne)
Look for the Silver Lining (DeSylva/Kern)
CD 4
Love Nest (Hirsch/Harbach)
Fan Tan (Freeman)
Summer Sketch (Freeman)
An Afternoon at Home (Freeman)
Say When (Freeman)
Lush Life (Strayhorn)
Amblin' (Freeman)
Hugo Hurwhey (Freeman)
For Minors Only (Heath)
Minor Yours (Pepper)
Resonant Emotions (Heath)
Tynan Time (Pepper)
Picture of Heath (Heath)
For Miles and Miles (Heath)
C. T. A. (Heath)
Little Girl (Henry/Hyde) Listen CD 10 #9
CD 5
Jimmy's Theme (Stevens)
The Search (Stevens)
Lost Love (Stevens)
People (Stevens)
The Movie Star (Stevens)
Fairmont, Indiana (Stevens)
Rebel at Work (Stevens)
Success and Then What (Stevens)
Let Me Be Loved (Livingston/Evans)
Hollywood (Stevens)
Let Me Be Loved (Vocal) (Livingston/Evans)
CD 6
Do It the Hard Way (Rodgers/Hart)
I'm Old Fashioned (Kern/Mercer)
You're Driving Me Crazy (Donaldson)
It Could Happen To You (Burke/Van Heusen)
My Heart Stood Still (Rodgers/Hart)
The More I See You (Warren/Gordon)
Everything Happens To Me (Dennis/Adair)
Dancing On the Ceiling (Rodgers/Hart)
How Long Has This Been Going On (Gershwin/Gershwin)
Old Devil Moon (Lane/Harburg)
I Should Care (Cahn/Stordahl/Weston)
The Song Is You (Hammerstein II/Kern)
Goodbye (Jenkins)
Angel Eyes (Brent/Dennis)
Forgetful (Handy/Segal)
Violets for Your Furs (XXXXXXXXXXX)
When I Fall in Love (Heyman/Young)
Autumn in New York (Duke)
Street of Dreams (Lewis/Young)
Deep in a Dream (DeLange Van Heusen)
CD 7
The Half Dozens (Holman)
I'm Glad There Is You (Dorsey/Madeira)
Stella by Starlight (Washington/Young)
Tommyhawk (Mandel)
Little Man You've Had a Busy Day (Hofman/Wayne/Sigler)
Dot's Groovy (Montrose)
A Minor Benign (Zieff)
Ponder (Zieff)
Twenties Late (Zieff)
X (Zieff)
All or Nothing at All (Lawrence/Altman)
Crazy She Calls Me (Russell/Sigman)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fields/Kern)
This Is Always (Gordon/Warren)
When the Sun Comes Out (Koehler/Arlen)
What Is There To Say (Harburg/Duke)
Everything I've Got Belongs To You (Rodgers/Hart)
We Could Make Such Beautiful Music (Sour/Manners)
It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
Yesterdays (Harbach/Kern)
CD 8
Fair Weather (Golson)
Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Van Heusen/Burke)
Hotel 49 (Marshall)
Solar (Davis)
Blue Thoughts (Golson)
When Lights Are Low (Carter/Williamson)
Alone Together (Dietz/Schwartz)
How High the Moon (Hamilton/Lewis)
It Never Entered My Mind (Rodgers/Hart)
'Tis Autumn (Nemo)
If You Could See Me Now (Dameron)
September Song (Anderson/Weill)
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home to (Porter)
Time on My Hands (Adamson/Gordon/Youmans)
You and the Night and the Music (Dietz&Schwartz)
CD 9
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Lerner/Loewe)
I Could Have Danced All Night (Lerner/Loewe)
The Heather on the Hill (Lerner/Loewe)
On the Street Where You Live (Lerner/Loewe)
Almost Like Being In Love (Lerner/Loewe)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls (Lerner/Loewe)
I Talk To the Trees (Lerner/Loewe)
Show Me (Lerner/Loewe)
Lady Bird (Dameron/Parker)
Cheryl Blues (Parker)
Tune up (Davis)
Line for Lyons (Mulligan)
Pent Up House (Rollins)
Look for the Silver Lining (DeSylva/Kern)
Indian Summer (Herbert)
My Old Flame (Johnson/Coslow)
CD 10
Well You Needn't (Monk)
These Foolish Things (Strachey/Link/Marwell)
Barbados (Parker)
Star Eyes (Raye/DePaul)
Over the Rainbow (Arlen)
Pent Up House (Rollins)
Ballaqta In Forma Di Blues (Tommasi)
Blues in the Closet (Pettiford)
Little Girl (Henry/Hyde) Details see CD 4 #16
Time on My Hands (Adamson/Gordon/Youmans)
You and the Night and the Music (Dietz&Schwartz)
Show Me (Lerner/Loewe)

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