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Chet Baker - Chet Baker: Hits and Rarities '2022

Chet Baker: Hits and Rarities
ArtistChet Baker Related artists
Album name Chet Baker: Hits and Rarities
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Date 2022
GenreJazz
Play time 5:41:03
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 1.68 GB / 798 MB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Embraceable You
02. Let Me Be Loved (Remastered 2000 / Vocal Version)
03. My Funny Valentine
04. Sweet Sue, Just You
05. There Is No Greater Love
06. Time After Time (Vocal Version)
07. The Thrill Is Gone (Vocal Version)
08. The Touch Of Your Lips
09. Look For The Silver Lining (Vocal Version)
10. Happy Little Sunbeam
11. Bea's Flat
12. My Funny Valentine (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953)
13. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) (Vocal Version)
14. Bockhanal (Remastered 2004)
15. No Ties (12" LP Take)
16. When Your Lover Has Gone
17. You're My Thrill
18. A Taste Of Honey
19. That Old Feeling
20. There Will Never Be Another You (Vocal Version)
21. I Wish You Love
22. Baby Breeze
23. Trav'lin' Light
24. Dinah
25. You're Mine, You!
26. I Remember You (Remastered 2004)
27. This Is Always (Remastered 2004)
28. But Not For Me (Vocal Version)
29. Crazy She Calls Me
30. Easy Living
31. I Fall In Love Too Easily
32. Spinning Wheel
33. Don't Explain
34. Darn That Dream
35. A Foggy Day
36. Everything Depends On You
37. That Ole Devil Called Love
38. Bernie's Tune (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953)
39. Tommyhawk
40. Oh, You Crazy Moon
41. It's Always You (Vocal Version)
42. Let's Get Lost
43. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
44. Mean To Me
45. I Wish I Knew (Remastered 2004)
46. Stella By Starlight (Remaster/2004)
47. Halema
48. One With One
49. Born To Be Blue
50. Let Me Be Loved (Remastered 2000)
51. The Best Thing For You (Album Version)
52. A Minor Benign (Remaster/2004)
53. Love Nest (1997 Remaster)
54. Comin' Down
55. Exitus (Instrumental / Quintet Version)
56. My Ideal (Vocal Version)
57. I've Never Been In Love Before (Vocal Version)
58. Yesterdays (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953)
59. How About You?
60. Think Beautiful
61. If You Could See Me Now
62. Summer Sketch (1997 Remaster)
63. Lush Life
64. This Is The Thing
65. You Don't Know What Love Is (Remastered 2004)
66. Carson City Stage (Live At Santa Cruz Civic Auditoruim, 1954 / Remastered
2001)
67. Say When (1997 Remaster)
68. Maid In Mexico (Live At Carlton Theater, Los Angeles, CA., 1953 / Remastered
2000)
69. C.T.A.
70. To Mickey's Memory
71. The Route
72. This Time The Dream's On Me (Live At Carlton Theater, Los Angeles, CA., 1953
/ Remastered 2000)
73. An Afternoon At Home (1997 Remaster)
74. All The Things You Are (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953)
75. Line For Lyons
76. Pamela's Passion (\)
77. Lucius Lu
78. Once In A While
79. How Deep Is The Ocean?
80. All The Things You Are
81. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You/You've Changed
82. You Can't Go Home Again
83. Amblin' (1997 Remaster)
84. Jordu
85. For Miles And Miles


 moreBaker initially played in Vido Musso's band, then with Stan Getz. (The
first recording featuring Baker is a performance of "Out of Nowhere" that comes
from a tape of a jam session made on March 24, 1952, and was released on the
Fresh Sound Records LP Live at the Trade Winds.) His break came quickly, when,
in the spring of 1952, he was chosen at an audition to play a series of West
Coast dates with Charlie Parker, making his debut with the famed saxophonist at
the Tiffany Club in Los Angeles on May 29, 1952. That summer, he began playing
in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, a group featuring only baritone sax, trumpet,
bass, and drums -- no piano -- that attracted attention during an engagement at
the Haig nightclub and through recordings on the newly formed Pacific Jazz
Records (later known as World Pacific Records), beginning with the 10" LP Gerry
Mulligan Quartet, which featured Baker's famous rendition of "My Funny
Valentine."

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet lasted for less than a year, folding when its leader
went to jail on a drug charge in June 1953. Baker went solo, forming his own
quartet, which initially featured Russ Freeman on piano, Red Mitchell on bass,
and Bobby White on drums, and making his first recording as leader for Pacific
Jazz on July 24, 1953. Baker was hailed by fans and critics and he won a number
of polls in the next few years. In 1954, Pacific Jazz released Chet Baker Sings,
an album that increased his popularity but alienated traditional jazz fans; he
would continue to sing for the rest of his career. Acknowledging his chiseled
good looks, nearby Hollywood came calling and he made his acting debut in the
film Hell's Horizon, released in the fall of 1955. But he declined an offer of a
studio contract and toured Europe from September 1955 to April 1956. When he
returned to the U.S., he formed a quintet that featured saxophonist Phil Urso
and pianist Bobby Timmons. Contrary to his reputation for relaxed, laid-back
playing, Baker turned to more of a bop style with this group, which recorded the
album Chet Baker & Crew for Pacific Jazz in July 1956.

Baker toured the U.S. in February 1957 with the Birdland All-Stars and took a
group to Europe later that year. He returned to Europe to stay in 1959, settling
in Italy, where he acted in the film Urlatori Alla Sbarra. Hollywood, meanwhile,
had not entirely given up on him, at least as a source of inspiration, and in
1960, a fictionalized film biography of his life, All the Fine Young Cannibals,
appeared with Robert Wagner in the starring role of Chad Bixby.

Baker had become addicted to heroin in the 1950s and had been incarcerated
briefly on several occasions, but his drug habit only began to interfere with
his career significantly in the 1960s. He was arrested in Italy in the summer of
1960 and spent almost a year and a half in jail. He celebrated his release by
recording Chet Is Back! for RCA in February 1962. (It has since been reissued as
The Italian Sessions and as Somewhere Over the Rainbow.) Later in the year, he
was arrested in West Germany and expelled to Switzerland, then France, later
moving to England in August 1962 to appear as himself in the film The Stolen
Hours, which was released in 1963. He was deported from England to France
because of a drug offense in March 1963. He lived in Paris and performed there
and in Spain over the next year, but after being arrested again in West Germany,
he was deported back to the U.S. He returned to America after five years in
Europe on March 3, 1964, and played primarily in New York and Los Angeles during
the mid-'60s, having switched temporarily from trumpet to flügelhorn. In the
summer of 1966, he suffered a severe beating in San Francisco that was related
to his drug addiction. The incident is usually misdated and frequently
exaggerated in accounts of his life, often due to his own unreliable testimony.
It is said, for example, that all his teeth were knocked out, which is not the
case, though one tooth was broken and the general deterioration of his teeth led
to his being fitted with dentures in the late '60s, forcing him to retrain his
embouchure. The beating was not the cause of the decline in his career during
this period, but it is emblematic of that decline. By the end of the '60s, he
was recording and performing only infrequently and he stopped playing completely
in the early '70s.

Regaining some control over his life by taking methadone to control his heroin
addiction (though he remained an addict), Baker eventually mounted a comeback
that culminated in a prominent New York club engagement in November 1973 and a
reunion concert with Gerry Mulligan at Carnegie Hall in November 1974 that was
recorded and released by Epic Records. By the mid-'70s, Baker was able to return
to Europe and he spent the rest of his life performing there primarily, with
occasional trips to Japan and periods back in the U.S., though he had no
permanent residence. He attracted the attention of rock musicians, with whom he
occasionally performed, for example adding trumpet to Elvis Costello's recording
of his anti-Falklands War song "Shipbuilding" in 1983. In 1987, photographer and
filmmaker Bruce Weber undertook a documentary film about Baker. The following
year, Baker died in a fall from a hotel window in Amsterdam after taking heroin
and cocaine. Weber's film, Let's Get Lost, premiered in September 1988 to
critical acclaim and earned an Academy Award nomination. In 1997, Baker's
unfinished autobiography was published under the title As Though I Had Wings:
The Lost Memoir and the book was optioned by Miramax for a film adaptation.

Baker's drug addiction caused him to lead a disorganized and peripatetic life,
his constant need for cash requiring him to accept many ill-advised recording
offers, while his undependability prevented him from making long-term
commitments to record labels. As a result, his discography is extensive and
wildly uneven. ~ William Ruhlmann
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