Chet Baker - Legendary Recordings: Chet Baker '2022
Artist | Chet Baker Related artists |
Album name | Legendary Recordings: Chet Baker |
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Date | 2022 |
Genre | Jazz |
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Media | CD |
Size | 739 MB |
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Tracklist: 01. My Funny Valentine 02. When Your Lover Has Gone 03. Darn That Dream 04. That Old Feeling 05. Sweet Sue, Just You 06. It's Always You (Vocal Version) 07. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) 08. This Is Always (Remastered 2004) 09. Oh, You Crazy Moon 10. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) (Vocal Version) 11. Time After Time (Vocal Version) 12. Embraceable You 13. Let Me Be Loved (Remastered 2000 / Vocal Version) 14. The Thrill Is Gone (Vocal Version) 15. The Touch Of Your Lips 16. Look For The Silver Lining (Vocal Version) 17. Happy Little Sunbeam 18. Bea's Flat 19. Bockhanal (Remastered 2004) 20. No Ties (12" LP Take) 21. You're My Thrill 22. There Will Never Be Another You (Vocal Version) 23. I Wish You Love 24. Don't Explain 25. Baby Breeze 26. Trav'lin' Light 27. I Remember You (Remastered 2004) 28. But Not For Me (Vocal Version) 29. Crazy She Calls Me 30. I Fall In Love Too Easily 31. Spinning Wheel 32. A Foggy Day 33. Everything Depends On You 34. That Ole Devil Called Love 35. Easy Living 36. Bernie's Tune (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953) 37. Tommyhawk 38. Mean To Me 39. I Wish I Knew (Remastered 2004) 40. Stella By Starlight (Remaster/2004) 41. Halema 42. One With One 43. Born To Be Blue 44. Let Me Be Loved (Remastered 2000) 45. You're Mine, You! 46. Dinah 47. My Funny Valentine (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles, CA., 1953)  moreBaker's father, Chesney Henry Baker,Sr., was a guitarist who was forced to turn to other work during the Depression; his mother, Vera (Moser) Baker, worked in a perfumery. The family moved from Oklahoma to Glendale, CA, in 1940. As a child, Baker sang at amateur competitions and in a church choir. Before his adolescence, his father brought home a trombone for him, then replaced it with a trumpet when the larger instrument proved too much for him. He had his first formal training in music in junior high and later at Glendale High School, but would play largely by ear for the rest of his life. In 1946, when he was only 16 years old, he dropped out of high school and his parents signed papers allowing him to enlist in the army; he was sent to Berlin, Germany, where he played in the 298th Army Band. After his discharge in 1948, he enrolled at El Camino College in Los Angeles, where he studied theory and harmony while playing in jazz clubs, but he quit college in the middle of his second year. He re-enlisted in the army in 1950 and became a member of the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco. But he also began sitting in at clubs in the city and he finally obtained a second discharge to become a professional jazz musician. Baker 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 Chet Baker - Legendary Recordings.rar - 739.0 MB
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- 1983 Mr. B
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- 2005 The Early Years [2]
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- 2005 Jazz Moods - Cool
- 2004 Easy To Love
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- 2000 In Paris (A Selection Of The Legendary Barclay Sessions 1955-1956)
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- 1999 The Gold Collection - Classic Performances
- 1999 Romance
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- 1997 White Blues
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- 1995 Young Chet
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- 1994 My Funny Valentine
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- 1992 Grey December
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- 1991 Live At The Trade Winds 1952
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- 1989 Let's Get Lost (The Best Of Chet Baker Sings)
- 1989 Inspired By The Motion Picture ''Let's Get Lost''
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- 1988 Chet In Paris Volume 1
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Live album
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- 1978 Love For Sale: Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club
- 1959 In Milan 1959
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Soundtrack
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