Chet Baker In Tokyo (CD)

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• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: August 13, 1996
• Label: Evidence
• UPC: 730182215823
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105795358
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Personnel: Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet); Harold Danko (piano); Hein Van Der Geyn (bass); John Engels (drums).

Recorded live at Hitomi-Kinen-Kodo, Tokyo, Japan on June 14, 1987. Includes liner notes by Francis Davis.

While Chet Baker was not known as an extraordinary technician (his best solos were memorable for their lyricism and melodic organization, not their speed or use of high range on the trumpet), he was a consummate improviser, capable of besting many of his contemporaries. This said, it's extraordinary how spry and technically proficient Baker's playing is here.

Only one year before his death, the trumpeter plays with great confidence and poise. On tunes such as "For Minors Only," "Four," and "Seven Steps to Heaven," Baker proves that he--despite his drug addiction--can still play uptempo tunes as well as any of his generation. He also performs haunting versions of "My Funny Valentine" and the Elvis Costello ballad, "Almost Blue"; both compositions became trademarks for Baker, representing respectively the beginning and the end of his career. Most of all, though, his playing on this double CD makes this Chet Baker's best recorded live performance of the '80s.

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