Essential Standards: Chet Baker

Essential Standards: Chet Baker

Chet Baker has become almost synonymous with dark, smoky rooms and candlelit romance, and this compilation of his late-’50s and early-’60s recordings for Riverside Records shows why. A paragon of West Coast cool, Baker infuses tracks like “Have You Met Miss Jones” and “Alone Together” with time-stoppingly lush melodies and, of course, his trumpet’s unmistakable crystalline tone. The tropical-flavored “Old Devil Moon” and shuffling standard “It Could Happen to You” become oases of melodic beauty when Baker enters with his horn’s intoxicating voice.

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