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Autumn Leaves - Chet Baker & Paul Desmond
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1 Autumn Leaves  
2 She Was Too Good To Me  
3 Funk In Deep Freeze  
4 Tangerine  
5 With A Song In My Heart  
6 What'll I Do  
7 It's You Or No One  
8 My Future Just Passed  
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Chet Baker's She Was Too Good To Me, is definitely a keeper. The 'Autumn Leaves' cut is top notch and his playing overall is a demonstration of his best. This Baker compilation from CTI Records is much appreciated from this listener. It's a CD that I intend to wear out a few times through the years. This CD review only missed the five stars because it had one too many vocal cuts - just never could get into Chet Baker's voice, unless it was sandwiched within extended trumpet/flugelhorn work.

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  • 'Chet Baker Sings.' The 1954 album whose drowsy vocals brought the trumpeter mainstream popularity / Jazz Journal
    Posted At: December 4, 2022 12:00 AM
    Yet another incarnation of the 1954 album whose drowsy, cautious vocals brought actual trumpeter Baker mainstream popularityChet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was marred by drug addict...
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  • When Chet Baker stepped up to the microphone for the first time, his life and career took a momentous turn / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At: March 1, 2020 12:00 AM

    Revealing his unique vocal style, ‘Chet Baker Sings' transformed the poster boy of West Coast "cool jazz" into a bona fide pop idol. If Chesney Henry Baker, Jr, had never recorded a vocal album and just focused on playing the trumpet, he would still be regarded as a major star. But when he stepped up to the microphone to record his vocals for the first time, on Monday, 15 February 1954, at Capi...
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  • JazzTimes 10 greatest jazz - pop performances
    Posted At: August 19, 2018 12:00 AM

    The presence of jazz players on non-jazz records constitutes a long tradition in American popular music, but it may have hit its peak in the '70s and '80s with baby-boomer rockers and pop stars looking to jazzers to enhance, or even legitimize, their recordings. During that boom in the record industry, jazz musicians who formerly would have been touring with Art Blakey or Betty Carter were taking high-pa...
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  • Chet Baker's 'She Was Too Good To Me' is definitely a keeper
    Posted At: August 12, 2013 12:00 AM

    Chet Baker's She Was Too Good To Me is definitely a keeper. The 'Autumn Leaves' cut is top notch and his playing overall is a demonstration of his best. This Baker compilation from CTI Records is much appreciated from this listener. It's a CD that I intend to wear out a few times through the years. This CD review only missed the five stars because it had one too many vocal cuts - jus...
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