Chet Baker - The Essential: Chet Baker Plays

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Album Details

Title: The Essential: Chet Baker Plays
Artist: Chet Baker
Release Date: 6/3/2003
Label: EMI Music Distribution
Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, Instrumental
UPCs: 024358179263, 724358217926, 0724358217957, 766482093748
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Cool, West Coast Jazz
Moods: Atmospheric, Intimate, Melancholy, Relaxed, Dreamy, Elegant, Gentle, Reserved, Restrained, Somber, Sophisticated, Stylish, Autumnal, Laid-Back/Mellow, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Romantic, Sweet, Sensual
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Members Wishing: 0
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

Carson City Stage
Imagination
All the Things You Are
Bea's Flat
Happy Little Sunbeam
Pro Defunctus
Moonlight Becomes You
Stella By Starlight
Darn That Dream
Sweet Lorraine [Live]
Minor Yours [Live]
C.T.A.
To Mickey's Memory
Jumpin' Off a Clef

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
2003	CD	EMI Music Distribution	582179
2003	CD	EMI Music Distribution	582179

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Album Review

The Essential: Chet Baker Plays is a track-for-track reissue of the 1992 compilation The Best of Chet Baker Plays. In either case, the title is somewhat misleading. Rather than simply featuring the "essential" or "best" Baker tracks from his entire catalog, it features the tracks the trumpeter recorded under his own name during the '50s -- often with superb pianist Russ Freeman. Therefore, such classic cuts as "My Funny Valentine" recorded with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet are not included here -- go to Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker for that. While The Essential: Chet Baker Plays is a solid single-disc overview, including tracks culled from such classic albums as Jazz at Ann Arbor, Grey December, and Playboys, it does not include any of Baker's iconic vocal recordings, and given the stellar quality of these albums, fans would do well to seek out the reissues. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
Chet Baker	Vocals, Trumpet
Michael Cuscuna	Compilation
Mitchell Feldman	Liner Notes
Richard Boc	Producer