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Verve Jazz Masters 32

Chet Baker (Trumpet/Vocals/Composer)
1 disc

1. There's a Small Hotel
2. Oh, You Crazy Moon
3. Dinah
4. These Foolish Things
5. How Deep Is the Ocean?
6. How About You?
7. There Is No Greater Love
8. I'll Remember April
9. You're Mine, You
10. Mean to Me
11. Don't Explain
12. Summertime
13. Everything Happens to Me
14. All the Things You Are
15. You Can't Go Home Again
16. Once in a While
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 516939
Credits

Producer
Engineer
Personnel includes: Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet, flute); Jimmy Mundy (arranger); Jean Aldegon, Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Armand Migiani (tenor saxophone); Benny Vasseur (trombone); William Boucaya (bassoon); Leon Cohen, Henry Freeman, Wilfred Holcombe, Selden Powell, Alan Ross (winds); Rene Urtreger, Hank Jones, Raymond Fol (piano); Kenny Barron (electric piano); Kenny Burrell, Everett Barksdale (guitar); Richard Davis, Ron Carter, Jimmy Bond, Benoit Quersin (bass); Nils-Bertil Dahlander, Tony Williams, Jean-Louis Viale, Connie Kay (drums).
Producers include: Don Sebesky, Luchi De Jesus.
Recorded between 1955 & 1977. Includes liner notes by Harold Danko.
Personnel: Chet Baker (vocals, flute, trumpet); Everett Barksdale, Kenny Burrell (guitar); Henry Freeman, Lon Cohen, Alan Ross (woodwinds); Jean Aldegon, Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Armand Migiani, Bobby Jaspar (tenor saxophone); William Boucaya (baritone saxophone); Benny Vasseur (trombone); Grard Gustin, Hank Jones , Raymond Fol, Ren Urtreger (piano); Don Sebesky, Kenny Barron (electric piano); Connie Kay, Jean-Louis Viale, Bert Dahlander, Tony Williams (drums).
Liner Note Author: Harold Danko.
Recording information: New York, NY (10/24/1955-05/??/1977); Studio Path Magellan, Paris, France (10/24/1955-05/??/1977).
Photographer: Herman Leonard.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Nichell Delvaille; Peter Pullman.
Arrangers: Don Sebesky; Jimmy Mundy.
This compilation is meant to serve as an introduction to Chet Baker's music and spans three decades with tracks from the mid '50s recorded in Paris, and tracks from the mid '60s and late '70s recorded in New York City. Baker's trumpet playing is clear, spacey, and lyrical, with long melodic lines. His later tone became breathier and more emotionally charged, yet retained subtlety.
Baker sings on five of these tracks. His vocals are simple and stick to the melody with just the subtlest variation. They are delivered in straight tones barely above a whisper. High points include a heartbreaking version of Don Sebesky's "You Can't Go Home Again" with quartet and strings, nine of Baker's classic Paris 1955 Barclay sessions, and a stark and sultry vocal and guitar arrangement of "You're Mine, You!" with Kenny Burrell.