Chet Baker

This collection presents, for the first time ever on CD, a relaxed performance from Chet Baker's final years. He is heard playing in a jazz club in Cologne, Germany, in the company of three other American musicians: Jon Eardley on flugelhorn, saxophonist Bob Mover, and pianist Dennis Luxion. German bassist Rocky Knauer completes the group, to which drummer Burkhart Ruckert is added on a few tracks. These sets include Baker's only known version of Jon Eardley's Belle Meade, as well as readings of tunes rarely recorded by the trumpeter, such as Luxion's Prayer for the Newborn and Jimmy Heath's Resonant Emotions.

PERSONNEL:

• Chet Baker - trumpet, vocal
• Jon Eardley - flugelhorn
• Bob Mover - alto & soprano sax
• Dennis Luxion - piano
• Rocky Knauer - bass
• Burkhard Ruckert - drums

Live at the Salt Peanuts Club, Cologne, Germany. May 23 & 24, 1984

TRACKS:

• 01. Prayer For The Newborn
• 02. My Ideal
• 03. Lady Bird
• 04. Resonant Emotions
• 05. Ray's Idea
• 06. My Funny Valentine
• 07. If I Should Lose You
• 08. 'Round Midnight
• 09. Beatric