The Very Best of Chet Baker [EMI]

by Chet Baker

Overview

Pacific Jazz's The Very Best of Chet Baker compiles many of iconic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's superb tracks he recorded for the label in the '50s. Included are such classic cuts as his vocal version of "My Funny Valentine," "Time After Time," "The Thrill Is Gone," and others. One would be hard pressed to call this a definitive "best-of" in that no cuts Baker recorded while with saxophonist Gerry Mulligan appear here. Nonetheless, as an introduction to the trumpeter's own quartet work this is fine. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	05/24/2005
Label:	Blue Note / Pacific Jazz/Emi
UPC:	0724347738425
Rank:	99823

Tracks

1. My Funny Valentine
2. Happy Little Sunbeam
3. The Thrill Is Gone
4. Bockhanal
5. This Is Always
6. The Half Dozens
7. Time After Time
8. Taboo
9. Let's Get Lost
10. Love Nest
11. But Not for Me
12. Picture of Heath

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chet Baker   Primary Artist,Vocals,Trumpet
Art Pepper   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Sax (Alto)
Russ Freeman   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Piano
Stan Getz   Primary Artist
Bob Brookmeyer   Guest Artist,Trombone (Valve)
Carl Perkins   Guest Artist,Piano
Bobby Timmons   Guest Artist,Piano
Curtis Counce   Bass
Eleanor Slatkin   Cello
Shelly Manne   Drums
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Leroy Vinnegar   Bass
Jimmy Bond   Bass
Red Mitchell   Bass
Bob Gordon   Sax (Baritone)
Larance Marable   Drums
Corky Hale   Harp
Larry Bunker   Drums
Ray Kramer   Cello
Carson Smith   Bass
Peter Littman   Drums
Bob Neel   Drums
Joe Mondragon   Bass
Phil Urso   Sax (Tenor)
Kurt Reher   Cello
Bud Shank   Flute,Sax (Baritone)
Herb Geller   Sax (Alto),Sax (Tenor)
Jack Montrose   Sax (Tenor)

Technical Credits

Michael Cuscuna   Compilation Producer,Reissue Producer
Richard Bock   Audio Production,Original Session Producer
Donald Elfman   Liner Notes
Mack Gordon   Composer
Sidney Keith Russell   Composer
M. Gordon   Composer
Karen Thomas   Package Design
Gordon H. Jee   Creative Director
Louis Hirsch   Composer
Ernesto Lecuona   Composer
Frank Loesser   Composer
Russ Freeman   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Marty Paich   Arranger
Harry Warren   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
Carole Reiff   Photography
Bill Holman   Composer
Kurt Lundvall   Mastering
Jimmy Heath   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
Jule Styne   Composer
Ray Henderson   Composer
Otto Harbach   Composer
Al Stillman   Composer
Margarita Lecuona   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Jack Montrose   Arranger,Composer