Chet
by Chet Baker
- Type: Album
- Released: 1959
- Label: Riverside
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:01
- Community rating: 4.03/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Connie Kay, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A quintessential cool jazz ballad album, 'Chet' finds the trumpeter's lyrical and melancholic style at the forefront of an all-star cast. The session's moody, introspective atmosphere is defined by Baker's tender, minimalist phrasing, the lush, dark textures of the other horns, and the supremely sensitive piano work of Bill Evans, creating a rich harmonic cushion for this iconic cool jazz recording.
Genres
Descriptors: soulful, storytelling, piercing, melodic, dreams
Tracklist
- Alone Together (6:52)
- How High the Moon (3:36)
- It Never Entered My Mind (4:41)
- 'Tis Autumn (5:18)
- If You Could See Me Now (5:17)
- September Song (3:05)
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (4:33)
- Time on My Hands (4:33)
- You and the Night and the Music (4:06)
Credits
- Chet Baker - primary artist, trumpet
- Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
- Paul Chambers - bass
- Melvin Sokolsky - cover
- Paul Bacon - cover, cover [cover produced and designed by], design/illustration
- Harris Lewine - cover [cover produced and designed by], design/illustration
- Ken Braren - cover [cover produced and designed by], design/illustration
- "Philly" Joe Jones - drums
- Connie Kay - drums
- Jack Higgins - engineer
- Herbie Mann - flute
- Kenny Burrell - guitar
- Lawrence N. Shustak - photography by [back-liner photos]
- Bill Evans - piano
- Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
- Larence Nathan Shustak - photography