CHET BAKER SINGS AND PLAYS on PACIFIC JAZZ WEST COAST COOL JAZZ NICE 1964
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Here is an EXCELLENT! copy of the LP from CHET BAKER titled SINGS AND PLAYS WITH BUD SHANK, RUSS FREEMAN AND STRINGS. It is an US pressing on the PACIFIC JAZZ label, with the catalog #PJ-1202 in MONO sound. This LP was originally released in 1964. The “MICROGROOVE” vinyl is in NEAR MINT MINUS / EXCELLENT PLUS! condition, shiny and black with a few non-sounding light marks and should have excellent playback. The original cardboard cover is in EXCELLENT! condition with a dot sticker with tape top right, small paper rub top center back and corner and edge wear. It is an EXCELLENT! copy of this LP from CHET BAKER for you to own. It is an opportunity to purchase this LP in this condition. It’s a true gem for the COOL / WEST COAST JAZZ collector! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!
Music Review from AllMusic.com by Matt Collar
With the growing popularity of Chet Baker's first vocal album, Chet Baker Sings, Pacific Jazz producer Richard Bock wanted to capitalize on both facets of his young star's abilities. Hence, the trumpeter turned vocalist entered the studio in 1955 with both his quartet featuring pianist Russ Freeman and an expanded sextet including bassist Red Mitchell, Bud Shank on flute, and various string players. The resulting album, Chet Baker Sings and Plays, helped set in stone the image of Baker as the jazz world's matinee idol and icon of '50s West Coast cool. His laid-back style -- a mix of '30s crooner and Miles Davis' nonet recordings -- appealed in its immediacy to a jazz public tiring of the hyper, athletic musicality of bebop. Similarly, his plaintive, warm trumpet sound was the more sensitive antidote to such brassy kings as Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. Others artists had performed many of these standards before, but as with "My Funny Valentine" on Chet Baker Sings, tracks like "Let's Get Lost," "Long Ago and Far Away," and "Just Friends" became definitively associated with Baker for the rest of his career. Chet Baker Sings and Chet Baker Sings and Plays are not only the two most important albums of Baker's career, but are classics of jazz.
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