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Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman
(Blue Note, 1953)

Isn't It Romantic (Hart/Rodgers) / The Lamp Is Low / This Time The Dream's On Me (Arlen/Mercer) / Maid In Mexico / (Freeman) Russ Job (Freeman) / Imagination (Burke/Van Heusen) / Long Ago & Far Away (10' LP Take) (Gershwin/Kern) / Long Ago & Far Away (12' LP Take) (Gershwin/Kern) / Carson City Stage (Smith) / Easy To Love (Porter) / Batter Up (Freeman) / No Ties (10' LP Take) / No Ties (12' LP Take) / All The Things You Are / The Thrill Is Gone (10' LP Take) / The Thrill Is Gone (12' LP Take) / Band Aid / Beas's Flat (Freeman) / Moon Love (10' LP Take) / Moon Love (12' LP Take) / Happy Little Sunbeam (Freeman) / Happy Little Sunbeam (Alt. Take) (Freeman) / I Fall In Love To Easily / Winter Wonderland (78 Take) / Winter Wonderland (LP Take) /

Chet Baker's trumpet solo on "Bea's Flat" (PDF/55Kb)

Chet Baker's trumpet solo on "Happy Little Sunbeam" (PDF/55Kb)

Fair Weather (Golson) / Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Burke/VanHeusen) / Hotel 49 (Marshall) / Solar (Davis) / Blue Thoughts (Golson) / When Lights Are Low (Carter/Williams) / Soft Winds (Goodman/Henderson)

Chet Baker's trumpet solo on "Solar" (PDF/82Kb)

Chet Baker: The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/1965
(Roulette, 1964)
Baker's first American release upon returning from Europe in the early sixties finds him with refreshed chops and a new axe -- the flugelhorn. The front line is filled out by Phil Urso on tenor sax, and the session features several compositions and arrangements by Tadd Dameron. This recording, along with the Prestige sessions that immediately followed, were some of Baker's last significant recordings before 1970.

Soultrane / Walkin' / Tadd's Delight / Whatever Possessed Me / Retsim B / Gnid / Ann, Wonderful One / Mating Call / Margerine / Flight to Jordan

Chet Baker's flugelhorn solo on "Tadd's Delight" (PDF/67KB)

Chet Baker: Lonely Star
(Prestige)
One of three CDs comprising the output of the Chet Baker Quintet on the Prestige label, featuring Baker on flugelhorn, George Coleman on tenor sax, Kirk Lightsey on piano, Herman Wright on bass, and Roy Brooks on drums.

Grade 'A' Gravy (Bruce) / Serenity (Bruce) / Fine And Dandy (Jones/Swift) / Have You Met Miss Jones? (Hart/Rodgers) / Rearin' Back (Carpenter) / So Easy (Dameron) / Madison Avenue (Bruce) / Lonely Star (Bruce) / Wee, Too (Bruce) / Tan Gaugin (Bruce)

Chet Baker's trumpet solo on "Fine And Dandy" (PDF/55Kb)

Chet Baker's solo on "Have You Met Miss Jones" (PDF/56Kb)

Jim Hall: Concierto
(CTI/Sony-Columbia, 1975)
One of Baker's 'comeback' albums in the American market, this time as a sideman to guitarist Jim Hall with Sir Roland Hanna (piano), Ron Carter (bass), Steve Gadd (drums), and Paul Desmond (alto sax). This album is considered by some to be the best of the CTI label's recording catalog.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Porter) / Two's Blues (Hall) / The Answer Is Yes (Hall) / Concierto de Aranjuez (Rodrigo) / Rock Skippin' (Ellington/Strayhorn) / Unfinished Business (Carter/Hall) / You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To [Alt. take] (Porter) / The Answer Is Yes [Alt. take] (Hall) / Rock Skippin' [Alt. take] (Ellington/Strayhorn) /

Chet Baker's solo on "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" (PDF/87Kb), transcribed by Michael Pettersen (website).

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