Chet Baker

This affecting anthology draws on recordings made at various venues around the world by record producer and Chet Baker devotee Ernie Garside during the latter stages of the Jazz vocalist and trumpeter’s ultimately tragic career. Baker’s death in a fall from an Amsterdam hotel window in 1988 robbed the genre of one of its’ most distinctive talents at the age of just 59 and some fine examples of his work are gathered together here, including an eloquent 1987 interpretation of Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue.

TRACKS:

• 01. My Funny Valentine (1959)
• 02. Mr. B (France 1975)
• 03. There Will Be Another You (France 1975)
• 04- Dees Dilemma (Holland 1975)
• 05. She Was Too Good For Me (New York 1975)
• 06. Love For Sale (France 1978)
• 07. Just Friends (The Netherland 1980)
• 08. But Not For Me (with Stan Gets, Norway 1983)
• 09. Almost Blue (Tokyo 1987)
• 10. Portrait Of Black and White (Stuttgart 1988)