Chet Baker - The Complete Timeless Records Albums Collection - 7CD Clamshell Box (Holland - Import, Boxed Set, Clamshell Packaging)

Chet Baker - The Complete Timeless Records Albums Collection - 7CD Clamshell Box (Holland - Import, Boxed Set, Clamshell Packaging)

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This beautiful 7CD clamshell boxset contains Chet Baker's complete Timeless Records album collection with the 7 albums in separate wallet sleeves with a 16-page booklet with photos and liner notes. Chet Baker's first Timeless recording was actually as a featured sideman on a date led by pianist Kirk Lightsey, performing "Ray's Idea" and "Everything Happens To Me" (which he also sings effectively). His Mr. B album finds the trumpeter making such songs as Hancock's "Dolphin Dance, " Horace Silver's "Strollin', " and Sam Rivers' "Beatrice" sound as if they were written for him. While Mr. B. is an instrumental set, Chet Baker Sings Again has Baker singing and playing eight standards including "My Funny Valentine" which had been his trademark song ever since his days with Gerry Mulligan. Baker always enjoyed the versatile and tasteful playing of guitarist Philip Catherine. They recorded several memorable trio albums together but There'll Never Be Another You, made in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1985, was their only duet set. Cool Cat and As Time Goes By are both from the trumpeter's extended recording sessions of Dec. 17-18, 1986. Pianist Harold Danko, bassist Jon Burr, and drummer Ben Riley were not only subtle accompanists, but they pushed the trumpeter a bit and the result is some of his finest playing from this period. The final Chet Baker album on Timeless, Live In Rosenheim from April 17, 1988, was the last time that he recorded with a small group. Baker, who takes a vocal on "I'm A Fool To Want You" and plays piano on "Portrait In Black And White, " shows that he was still an impressive trumpeter this late in his career. Just 26 days later Chet Baker was gone. Despite that, his recordings and his musical legacy live on.

Label: Music on CD
UPC: 8718627237595
Release Date: February 21, 2025

Track List

  1. Ray's Ideas
  2. Everything Happens to Me
  3. Girl with the Purple Eyes
  4. Speak No Evil
  5. Inner Urge
  6. Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
  7. Dolphin Dance
  8. Ellen and David
  9. Strollin'
  10. In Your Own Sweet Way
  11. Mister B
  12. Beatrice
  13. White Blues
  14. Father X-Mas
  15. Funk in Deep Freeze
  16. I'm a Fool to Want You
  17. Portrait in Black and White
  18. In a Sentimantal Mood
  19. If I Should Lose You
  20. Arborway
  21. All of You
  22. Body and Soul
  23. Look for the Silver Lining
  24. I Can't Get Started
  25. My Funny Valentine
  26. Alone Together
  27. Someone to Watch Over Me
  28. How Deep Is the Ocean
  29. You and the Night and the Music
  30. As Time Goes By
  31. My Melancholy Baby
  32. I Am a Fool to Want You
  33. When She Smiles
  34. Sea Breeze
  35. You Have Been Here All Along
  36. Angel Eyes
  37. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
  38. Round Midnight
  39. Swift Shifting
  40. Round Midnight
  41. Caravelle
  42. For All We Know
  43. Blue Moon
  44. My Foolish Heart
  45. Beatrice
  46. There'll Never Be Another You
  47. Leaving
  48. My Foolish Heart