Blood, Chet And Tears (Remastered) Chet Baker

• 1 Easy Come, Easy Go 02:51
• 2 Sugar, Sugar 02:52
• 3 Something 03:20
• 4 Spinning Wheel 03:16
• 5 Vehicle 02:44
• 6 The Letter 03:34
• 7 And When I Die 02:57
• 8 Come Saturday Morning 02:48
• 9 Evil Ways 03:35
• 10 You've Made Me So Very Happy 03:40
• Total Runtime 31:37

Info for Blood, Chet And Tears (Remastered)

Dieses Album ist ein Pop-Jazz-Meilenstein! Chet Baker spielt und singt Rock-Songs der späten 60er Jahre! Als Verve dieses Album 1970 veröffentlichte, waren die Jazz-Kritiker „not amused“: „Evil Ways“ von Santana, „Spinning Wheel“ von Blood, Sweat & Tears, „Something“ von den Beatles wollte man damals von Chet Baker nicht hören. Heute kann man diese Aufnahme mit einer groovenden Bigband aus exquisiten LA-Musikern nicht nur als Kuriosität im Katalog der Jazzlegende hören, sondern auch als hippes Kleinod aus einer Zeit des musikalischen Umbruchs.

Chet Baker, Trompete, Gesang
Tony Terran, Trompete
Ray Triscari, Trompete
Ollie Mitchell, Trompete
Miles Anderson, Posaune
Dick Hyde, Posaune
George Roberts, Bassposaune
Plas Johnson, Tenorsaxophon
Buddy Collette, Blattrohrblattinstrumente
Larry Knechtel, Keyboards
Al Casey, Gitarre
Mike Deasy, Gitarre
Joe Pass, Gitarre
Tommy Tedesco, Gitarre
Joe Osborn, E-Bass
Ray Pohlman, E-Bass
Hal Blaine, Schlagzeug
Gary Coleman, Percussion
The Sid Sharp Strings
Jerry Styner, Dirigent

Aufgenommen am 6. Juli 1970 in den Sunwest Recording Studios, Hollywood, Kalifornien

Digital remastered

Chet Baker Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker encountered jazz when playing with Army bands where he quickly developed his distinctive style. A short stint with Charlie Parker (1952) was followed by a long association with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. The pianoless quartet performed and recorded with great success - immediate fame came to Chet Baker and his cool, subdued style. His lyricism became typically associated with West Coast jazz and found many followers around the world. Baker led his own groups after leaving Mulligan for many years in both the US and Europe. His career became somewhat erratic in the sixties when he lived and worked mostly in Europe.

In the seventies he began his comeback and his very unique talent as a vocalist and instrumentalist soon put him back on the major concert stages. Excellent albums were done during the last ten years of his life which were maybe less perfect than his early West Coast work in the technical sense but showed a depth of feeling and intensity rarely heard. Luckily his last concert was recorded: it is one of the finest of his career (The Last Concert ENJ-6074 22). Chet Baker was very involved with the production of the concert, choose the music well in advance which was arranged for an ensemble consisting of a regular bigband, a symphony orchestra and a jazz quintet. He was very happy that he could finally record and perform under the best of circumstances. That night's version of My Funny Valentine,a song he had performed uncountable times before will stand out for all times as an absolute masterpiece of vocal jazz.

Dec. 23, 1929 (Yale, Oklahoma) - May 13, 1988 (Amsterdam).

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