DESCRIPTION This beautiful 7CD clamshell boxset contains Chet Baker’s complete Timeless Records album collection with the 7 albums in seperate wallet sleeves with a 16 page booklet with photo’s and linernotes.

Chet Baker’s first Timeless recording was actually as a featured sideman on a date led by pianist Kirk Lightsey, performing “Ray’s Idea” and “Everything Happens To Me” (which he also sings effectively).

His Mr. B album finds the trumpeter making such songs as Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance,” Horace Silver’s “Strollin’,” and Sam Rivers’ “Beatrice” sound as if they were written for him. While Mr. B. is an instrumental set.

Chet Baker Sings Again has Baker singing and playing eight standards including “My Funny Valentine” which had been his trademark song ever since his days with Gerry Mulligan.

Baker always enjoyed the versatile and tasteful playing of guitarist Philip Catherine. They recorded several memorable trio albums together but There’ll Never Be Another You, made in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1985, was their only duet set.

Cool Cat and As Time Goes By are both from the trumpeter’s extended recording sessions of Dec. 17-18, 1986. Pianist Harold Danko, bassist Jon Burr, and drummer Ben Riley were not only subtle accompanists but they pushed the trumpeter a bit and the result is some of his finest playing from this period.

The final Chet Baker album on Timeless, Live In Rosenheim from April 17, 1988, was the last time that he recorded with a small group. Baker, who takes a vocal on “I’m A Fool To Want You” and plays piano on “Portrait In Black And White,” shows that he was still an impressive trumpeter this late in his career.

Just 26 days later Chet Baker was gone. Despite that, his recordings and his musical legacy live on. CD1: Everything Happens To Me
Ray's Ideas
Everything Happens To Me
Girl With The Purple Eyes
Speak No Evil
Inner Urge
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
CD2: Mr. B
Dolphin Dance
Ellen And David
Strollin'
In Your Own Sweet Way
Mister B.
Beatrice
White Blues
Father X-Mas
CD3: Live In Rosenheim
Funk In Deep Freeze
I'm A Fool To Want You
Portrait In Black And White
In A Sentimantal Mood
If I Should Lose You
Arborway
CD4: Sings Again
All Of You
Body And Soul
Look For The Silver Lining
I Can't Get Started
My Funny Valentine
Alone Together
Someone To Watch Over Me
How Deep Is The Ocean
CD5: As Time Goes By (Love Songs)
You And The Night And The Music
As Time Goes By
My Melancholy Baby
I Am A Fool To Want You
When She Smiles
Sea Breeze
You Have Been Here All Along
Angel Eyes
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Round Midnight
CD6: Cool Cat
Swift Shifting
Round Midnight
Caravelle
For All We Know
Blue Moon
My Foolish Heart
CD7: There’ll Never Be Another You
Beatrice
There'll Never Be Another You
Leaving
My Foolish Heart

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