Chet Baker

This release presents the complete original album Chet: The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker (Riverside RLP12-299), featuring one of Baker’s very few collaborations with painist Bill Evans. Although Baker and Evans were both highly lyrical and introspective players who could have made a marvelous team, they only recorded together on a couple of occasions. Their third and last session together have been added here as a bonus, as well as a beautiful Baker rendition of “Almost Like Being in Love” from the same period.

PERSONNEL:

Chet Baker (tp), Herbie Mann (fl), Pepper Adams (bs),
Kenny Burrell (g, on 3 & 6 only), Bill Evans (p),
Paul Chambers (b), Connie Kay (d), Philly Joe Jones (d, on 4, 8-9)
New York, December 30, 1958 & January 19, 1959.

[11-15] Bonus tracks:
(11-14) Herbie Mann (fl), Zoot Sims (as, ts), Pepper Adams (bs),
Bill Evans (p), Earl May (b), Clifford Jarv is (d). New York, July 22, 1959
(15) Same personnel as 11-14 except Bob Corwin (p) replaces Bill Evans.
New York, July 21, 1959

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

Tracks:

01. Alone Together
02. How High the Moon
03. It Never Entered My Mind
04. ‘Tis Autumn
05. If You Could See Me Now
06. September Song
07. You’d Be So Nice to Come Hom
08. Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)
09. You and the Night and the Music
10. Early Morning Mood
11. Show Me
12. I Talk to the Trees
13. Thanks Heaven For Little Girls
14. I Could Have Danced all Night
15. Almost Like Being In Love

TOTAL TIME: 76:36